{"id":79479,"date":"2019-05-10T00:13:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=79479"},"modified":"2019-05-10T00:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:13:48","slug":"5-9-roh-njpw-war-of-the-worlds-report-in-person-report-on-matt-taven-vs-pco-for-the-world-title-cobb-vs-goto-vs-king-vs-taylor-for-the-tv-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/05\/10\/5-9-roh-njpw-war-of-the-worlds-report-in-person-report-on-matt-taven-vs-pco-for-the-world-title-cobb-vs-goto-vs-king-vs-taylor-for-the-tv-title\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/9 ROH\/NJPW WAR OF THE WORLDS report: In-person report on Matt Taven vs. PCO for the world title, Cobb vs. Goto vs. King vs. Taylor for the TV title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2973470404\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>ROH WAR OF THE WORLDS<br \/>\nMAY 9, 2019<br \/>\nTORONTO, ON AT TED REEVE ARENA<br \/>\nAIRED ON ROH HONOR CLUB<br \/>\nREPORT BY HARLEY R. PAGEOT, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Commentary: Ian Riccaboni, Colt Cabana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dark match saw Shinobi Shadow Squad (Cheeseburger, Eli Isom, &amp; Ryan Nova) go over \u201c#1\u201d Brian Johnson and two others via their tandem finisher Oyasumi in 4:40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) HIKULEO &amp; ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS GUERRILLAS OF DESTINY (Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa) vs. NJPW YOUNG LIONS (Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, &amp; Karl Fredericks)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A whole lot of chops in this one. Hikuleo pinned one of the young lions with a chokeslam bomb to pick up the win.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Bullet Club in 9:58.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: G.O.D. got lots of crowd support. The rookies looked good as usual. Hikuleo getting the pin makes sense as he was pinned by Shane Taylor on last night\u2019s show.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) \u201cBLUE JUSTICE\u201d YUJI NAGATA vs. \u201cTHE LAST REAL TECHNICIAN\u201d SILAS YOUNG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a \u201clast real princess\u201d chant directed at Young because wrestling fans are 20 years behind the curve. Young hit Misery but bumped referee Paul Turner in the process of the airplane spin. Young had a visual three-count on Nagata. When he noticed nobody was counting and Turner was down at ringside he stole the steel chair from ring announcer Bobby Cruise. In the ring Young cracked the chair off the mat and tossed it to Nagata, before dropping to the mat in an effort to frame him \u00e0 la Eddie Guerrero. Nagata looked around. Turner was still out. Nagata opened the chair, placed it around his head, and lay down on the mat as well. Young looked up, saw what was going on, and quickly scrambled to pull the chair off of Nagata\u2019s head. Turner recovered and caught Young in the act. He called for the bell.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-4111518992\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>WINNER: Yuji Nagata in 10:02 via disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>-Young attacked Nagata but Nagata got the upper hand and put Young in an armbar, forcing him to tap.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Some light comedy early in the show. Young loses as a result of his own shenanigans but can spin it to claim he was robbed, getting disqualified for hitting Nagata with a chair when he never did.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) LOS INGOBERNABLES DE JAP\u00d3N (Evil &amp; Sanada) vs. THE KINGDOM (Vinny Marseglia &amp; TK O\u2019Ryan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fairly back and forth. A magic killer to Marseglia ended things.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: L.I.J. in 10:06.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Lots of Sanada chants. Interesting that the first three matches were all right around the ten-minute mark.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Rhett Titus joined commentary for the next match.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-78301470\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>(4) RUSH vs. \u201cDAREWOLF\u201d PJ BLACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black was the first ROH babyface to make an appearance on the main card. Unfortunately he got catcalled with Nexus, Bad News Barrett, and Justin Gabriel chants because wrestling fans are obsessed with things that happened ten years ago. Rush threw Black straight into our guardrail, hard enough that my knees are still rattled four hours later. The Bull\u2019s Horns was enough.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Rush in 6:03.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Black did an amazing sell job. He was chucked into the guardrails at ringside three times and the Bull\u2019s Horns left him hanging half out of the ring by his ankles before Rush pulled him back in for the pin.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Dalton Castle made his entrance looking peak wine mom in a shiny blazer and matching shoes. He said he\u2019d had a bad day. He went out for lunch and only two people recognized him. There was a bone in his boneless chicken. It rained. (True.) But despite all this, he was still thrilled because for the first time ever he was boyless. Everything good in his career he did without The Boys. They weren\u2019t around when he won the world title or the six-man titles. We are witnessing the renaissance of Dalton Castle. He may look like a rainbow but he\u2019s filled with magma.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: The crowd was firmly behind Castle here and why wouldn\u2019t they be? He\u2019s charismatic, funny, and engaging. I have no idea how they intend to get ROH fans to boo him but they\u2019ve got their work cut out for them.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) LIFEBLOOD (Mark Haskins &amp; Tracy Williams) vs. THE BRISCOES (Jay Briscoe &amp; Mark Briscoe)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lifeblood offered the code of honor, even though the Briscoes are allied with Bully Ray, the man who viciously attacked their former stable mate Tenille Dashwood backstage on two occasions. The Briscoes accepted. A Doomsday Device to Williams gave the brothers the win.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS: The Briscoes in 13:16.<\/p>\n<p>-The Briscoes left and Bully Ray walked out with Williams still down in the ring and Haskins out at ringside. Ray heckled them. He said he intends to take out Lifeblood one by one. He\u2019d like to start with Juice Robinson but he\u2019s busy jobbing in Japan. He told David Finlay to hurry up and get healthy so he can beat him like he beat his father. He implied that he slept with Haskins\u2019 wife Vicky, which led to Haskins grabbing a steel chair. Ray pulled his chain off his neck, squared up, and turned tail and left to boos.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: The match was good. Ray is the same shtick over and over.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Intermission<\/p>\n<p>-WOH World Champion Kelly Klein made her entrance. She said she intends to be a fighting champion again and was looking forward to making her first defense in Canada. She asked for the best Toronto had to offer. Fans called for Trish Stratus but instead The Allure\u2019s music hit.<\/p>\n<p>Angelina Love stood on the apron with Mandy Leon and Velvet Sky behind her on the floor. Love said Klein is a deserving champion and applauded her win at <em>G1 Supercard<\/em>. Love said she herself is a former six-time women\u2019s champion (in some other promotion) and she\u2019s also from Toronto. She name-dropped Tim Horton\u2019s and the Toronto Raptors to try to bait the fans into some cheap pops before pulling the rug out by saying she\u2019s actually a permanent United States residents now. She wouldn\u2019t let Klein defend her title against her until they\u2019re back in America. \u201cThere will be no match tonight.\u201d Klein hiptossed her over the ropes and into the ring. Sky and Leon pulled their partner to safety and the heels ran away. Apparently there were no other women in the locker room who wanted to accept Klein\u2019s open challenge so she headed backstage.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: A noteworthy development is that Love was positioned as the leader of the group here and apparently will be the core member going after Klein\u2019s title. Sky supposedly retired from in-ring competition in July 2017 and Leon hasn\u2019t wrestled on an ROH show since March 2018 so it\u2019s actually unclear whether those two will be wrestling at all.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Still blind Kenny King joined commentary for the next match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(6) JAY LETHAL vs. SATOSHI KOJIMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lethal won via Lethal Injection.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Jay Lethal in 14:57.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) JEFF COBB vs. HIROOKI GOTO vs. ROH WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPION BRODY KING vs. SHANE TAYLOR \u2013 ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was originally a non-title match but the championship was put on the line for undisclosed reasons sometime in the past few days. With Goto and Taylor down at ringside Cobb hit Tour Of The Islands on King. He covered but Taylor broke up the pin with a knee to Cobb\u2019s head. Taylor sent Cobb to the floor and scooped up King for Greetings From 216 and the pin.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Shane Taylor in 9:17 to capture the ROH TV title.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Very surprising result but a super memorable moment for the live crowd. The match was a lot of fun and could have beat out the main event for match of the night if it had gone a bit logner. Tonight\u2019s card was interesting in that it was our first real glimpses of King and PCO in singles action in ROH. Taylor has been on a significant upswing these past six months and is a fitting TV champion. Cobb will be owed a rematch, though, since he didn\u2019t factor into the finish and has pinned Taylor twice in the past. In some ways it feels like Cobb\u2019s reign ended too soon as he didn\u2019t have any particularly memorable rivalries during his time. But hopefully this is a sign he\u2019s being sent up the card quickly. With Lethal dropping the world title and Castle turning heel the main event scene could use a new babyface.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A pre-taped promo aired of Matt Taven mocking PCO. PCO had a long entrance involving his creator Destro but it was impossible to tell what was happening in the arena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(8) MATT TAVEN vs. ROH WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPION PCO (w\/ Destro) \u2013 ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crowd was super hot for this one from the start. PCO looked for his top rope moonsault at 4:50, which led to O\u2019Ryan and Marseglia running out for the distraction. As O\u2019Ryan occupied referee Todd Sinclair Marseglia held his ax on the mat, blade up, and Taven threw PCO onto it. PCO rolled to the floor and came up bleeding and holding his eye. Taven continued to gouge the eye (as he had previously suggested PCO\u2019s opponents should do on last night\u2019s show). Taven hit four DDT\u2019s in a row but PCO sat up at 10:20. Taven was laid across the apron and PCO successfully hit his cannonball off the top rope onto him. With his henchmen setting up chairs at ringside for him, Taven hit the Climax to PCO onto one of the opened chairs. PCO made it back onto the apron before getting counted out and Taven dove over him for a sunset flip, powerbombing PCO from off the apron to the floor. Another Climax in the ring but PCO kicked out at 14:30.<\/p>\n<p>Taven connected with Just The Tip (of the knee) twice in succession. PCO blocked a third one and hit a package piledriver. Top rope senton connected but Taven kicked out. PCO followed with his top rope moonsault but couldn\u2019t make the cover at first. He finally rolled Taven over but O\u2019Ryan put Taven\u2019s foot on the bottom rope to break the count. Marseglia grabbed Destro to distract PCO. PCO grabbed Marseglia and looked to powerbomb him through the timekeeper\u2019s table. As he hoisted Marseglia up, though, the horror king\u2019s leg caught the bottom of the table and tipped it. As a result Marseglia landed with the back of his head hitting the table and he and the table slumped to the floor without it breaking. As Sinclair and the fans were distracted by the carnage at ringside O\u2019Ryan gave Taven a purple railroad spike. PCO clubbed O\u2019Ryan off the apron. Taven stabbed him in the eye with the spike. Taven covered. PCO kicked out at 2 and three-quarters. Sinclair called it three.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Matt Taven in 18:10 to retain the world title.<\/p>\n<p>-PCO staggered around ringside and collapsed. Destro helped him to the back.<\/p>\n<p>-Bobby Cruise announced that ROH would return to Toronto for a show at Maple Leaf Gardens on Friday, August 9, the same weekend that WWE is in town for <em>SummerSlam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: So many shenanigans and so much crowd support for the Canadian Frankenstein that the main event flew by. Unfortunately so did the finish. The majority of the live crowd were still focused on the Marseglia mishap and totally missed the spike and what happened in the ring as a result. Sinclair counting three when PCO clearly kicked out also complicated things there and gave the match a weird ending and a sense of things being unresolved. Otherwise a strong show, especially considering the absences of Scurll, Bandido, Gordon, Gresham, the Bouncers, and a women\u2019s match.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Biggest Pops<\/span><br \/>\nPCO<br \/>\nThe Briscoes<br \/>\nJay Lethal<br \/>\nG.O.D.<br \/>\nSanada<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Most Heat<\/span><br \/>\nMatt Taven<br \/>\nShane Taylor<br \/>\nSilas Young<br \/>\nTK &amp; Vinny<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Find Harley on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkinghonor\">@talkinghonor<\/a> and listen to discussions of all things ROH every Wednesday on the PWTorch Dailycast \u201cTalking Honor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3858530574\"><div id=\"pwtor-1182654200\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>ROH WAR OF THE WORLDS MAY 9, 2019 TORONTO, ON AT TED REEVE ARENA AIRED ON ROH HONOR CLUB REPORT BY HARLEY R. 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