{"id":90417,"date":"2019-12-13T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=90417"},"modified":"2019-12-13T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:02:11","slug":"12-13-roh-final-battle-report-live-ongoing-coverage-of-rush-vs-pco-for-the-world-title-the-briscoes-vs-jay-lethal-jonathan-gresham-for-the-tag-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/12\/13\/12-13-roh-final-battle-report-live-ongoing-coverage-of-rush-vs-pco-for-the-world-title-the-briscoes-vs-jay-lethal-jonathan-gresham-for-the-tag-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/13 ROH FINAL BATTLE report: Live ongoing coverage of Rush vs. PCO for the world title, The Briscoes vs. Jay Lethal &amp; Jonathan Gresham for the tag titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-184769231\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><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 FINAL BATTLE<br \/>\nDECEMBER 13, 2019<br \/>\nBALTIMORE, MD AT UMBC EVENT CENTER<br \/>\nAIRED ON ROH HONOR CLUB<br \/>\nREPORT BY HARLEY R. PAGEOT, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Commentary: Ian Riccaboni, Colt Cabana, Caprice Coleman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We opened with a shot of the darkened arena.\u00a0 The commentators weren&#8217;t shown as they welcomed us to the event.\u00a0 Silas Young&#8217;s music hit to start the night despite ROH&#8217;s website promoting that the Marty Scurll tag would start the show.\u00a0 He and Josh Woods entered together to Young&#8217;s music.\u00a0 Dalton Castle was out next with two fake Boys.\u00a0 Joe Hendry was out last.\u00a0 His music played but there was no video on the tron.\u00a0 Castle and some fans in the crowd waved their arms for him.\u00a0 Cabana pointed out that the newly-named Young-Woods combo had matching red &amp; black trunks for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) DALTON CASTLE &amp; JOE HENDRY vs. TWO GUYS, ONE TAG (Silas Young &amp; Josh Woods)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hendry and Young started.\u00a0 Castle and Woods tagged in and went back and forth with mat wrestling until Castle peacocked to throw him off his step.\u00a0 2G1T were able to isolate Castle and tagged in and out on him.\u00a0 Hendry made the hot tag.\u00a0 Young catapulted Woods toward Castle but Castle caught him in Bang-A-Rang position.\u00a0 Woods countered into a two-count.\u00a0 With all four men in the ring it was unclear who was legal.\u00a0 Young catapulted Castle again into a knee strike from Woods.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS: Two Guys, One Tag in 9:16.<\/p>\n<p>-The commentators put over 2G1T going 6-0 and Cabana said it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re more of a legit tag team at this point.\u00a0 The Bouncers were shown watching in the crowd.\u00a0 They ran down Young being garbage but said Woods was alright.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 This was more of your traditional WWE pre-show with two midcard tag teams than what ROH tried the past couple pay-per-views by hooking people with a big match between top stars.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure the complicated dynamics among the two teams would be easily understood by first-time viewers but they showcased Hendry&#8217;s strength and Woods looked good.\u00a0 I have no idea why they&#8217;re wasting Castle.\u00a0 Hopefully he&#8217;s leaving when his contract is up because Castle in NXT could be incredible.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-The commentators ran down the full card.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3158298229\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><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>-Brian Zane was backstage trying to get words with The Allure.\u00a0 Velvet Sky was still absent.\u00a0 He asked Angelina Love if she was afraid of Maria Manic.\u00a0 Love said she&#8217;s been in the business almost 20 years.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a seven-time world champion and isn&#8217;t afraid of &#8220;bigger&#8221; women.\u00a0 Mandy Leon texted through the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 Riccaboni has stressed PCO&#8217;s 51 year-old age multiple times tonight and Love just put over herself as wrestling for 20 years.\u00a0 I know The Rock &#8216;N&#8217; Roll Express just won the NWA tag titles but it&#8217;s an interesting tactic to make the experienced age of the roster a selling point when so many promotions are youth-focused.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-In the arena Alex Shelley made his entrance.\u00a0 He stood on the stage and said Baltimore&#8217;s been an ROH city since the beginning.\u00a0 Shelley said ROH is pro wrestling&#8217;s greatest classroom.\u00a0 Sometimes people leave and sometimes they come back to become teachers.\u00a0 He mentioned Jay Lethal and The Briscoes.\u00a0 Sometimes they don&#8217;t wrestle, though.\u00a0 Sometimes they just work backstage.\u00a0 He brought up Colt Cabana and said he wanted a singles match because they&#8217;ve never faced each other.\u00a0 Cabana looked pleasantly surprised at the broadcast table.\u00a0 He said as the NWA national champion and just coming off a big run in NJPW a little bit of his heart sank not being booked to wrestle tonight.\u00a0 If it was okay with the guys backstage he accepted the challenge.\u00a0 Cabana headed to the back to change.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 I do like how himself Shelley is and how he just speaks and acts how he wants instead of trying to fit a certain mold.\u00a0 It makes his promos stand out but they can also meander a bit too.\u00a0 As he started to speak about people working backstage I had no idea if he was addressing the Joey Mercury situation or if this was going to be another rah-rah &#8220;ROH is amazing&#8221; speech.\u00a0 The crowd seemed equally uncertain as the arena was dead silent until he mentioned Cabana.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A video package recapped the history of Kenny King and Rhett Titus recently as well as their time as The All-Night Express.<\/p>\n<p>-Titus made his entrance first.\u00a0 His wife was in the front row, holding their newborn baby with noise-cancelling headphones.\u00a0 Kenny King&#8217;s music hit but then switched into the old ANX music.\u00a0 King and Amy Rose did the ANX handshake on stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) KENNY KING (w\/Amy Rose) vs. RHETT TITUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They avoided each other&#8217;s signature offense early on, selling how well they know each other.\u00a0 King ran Titus throat-first into the top rope and went to ringside to trash talk his wife.\u00a0 Titus flipped over the ropes and caught King with his legs on the way down.\u00a0 Belly to belly suplex on the floor.\u00a0 They went back into the ring but Titus clotheslined him over the top again.\u00a0 He hugged his baby and told Rose to back up.\u00a0 Suplex to King on the floor.\u00a0 Titus ran into a spinebuster from King that planted him across the edge of the apron.\u00a0 King with an overhead suplex into the corner.\u00a0 Cobra clutch.\u00a0 Titus fired up and put King down with a clothesline.\u00a0 King looked for a superplex but Titus shoved him off and hit a crossbody.\u00a0 King called for a Lethal Injection but Titus blocked it and planted King with his own Royal Flush.\u00a0 King kicked out at two.\u00a0 Titus with two big boots to King in the corner.\u00a0 Rose grabbed his foot.\u00a0 Sinclair admonished her.\u00a0 King kicked Titus between the legs behind the ref&#8217;s back and hit a Royal Flush.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1715487516\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><!-- 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    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hit a suicide dive in the first minute.\u00a0 Cobb with a standing moonsault for a one-count.\u00a0 Maff with a pounce and cannonball in the corner.\u00a0 Cobb with a deadlift suplex while standing on the second turnbuckle.\u00a0 Maff avoided a Tour Of The Islands.\u00a0 They traded headbutts.\u00a0 Clothesline from Cobb.\u00a0 German suplex.\u00a0 Maff with a spear.\u00a0 Ripcord clothesline.\u00a0 Maff called for the burning hammer.\u00a0 Cobb avoided it and hit an overhead suplex.\u00a0 They fought on the second turnbuckle.\u00a0 Thunderclap from Maff.\u00a0 He pulled Cobb off for a burning hammer but Cobb avoided it again and hit a Tour Of The Islands.\u00a0 He dropped his straps and hit a second Tour to seal the deal.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Jeff Cobb in 8:51.<\/p>\n<p>-They exchanged the code of honor to close out the &#8220;not a pre-show&#8221; free first hour.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 The commentators didn&#8217;t hype up Maff&#8217;s age of 43 but you can add him to that list of &#8220;experienced&#8221; talent on the roster now that he&#8217;s re-signed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really not sure why he earned a pay-per-view match when he only returned to ROH last month while people like The Bouncers and PJ Black, who have been working hard all year, sit on the sidelines.\u00a0 For that matter this show probably didn&#8217;t need 11 matches.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still baffled at how underutilized Cobb has been.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A samurai-themed video package played speaking about the code of honor among warriors and juxtaposing it against the ROH heels who don&#8217;t respect the rules.<\/p>\n<p>-Pyro shot off on stage as the cameras tried their best to mask how few people were in attendance.\u00a0 Marty Scurll&#8217;s music lit up the tron.\u00a0 He wore his six-man title over a Villain baseball jersey.\u00a0 (No elaborate costume and entrance this year.)\u00a0 The injured Brody King accompanied Scurll and Gordon before heading to commentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) MEXABLOOD (Bandido &amp; Flamita) vs. VILLAIN ENTERPRISES (Flip Gordon &amp; ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion Marty Scurll)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Code of honor all around.\u00a0 Gordon and Flamita started.\u00a0 Gordon with an eye poke at 4:00.\u00a0 Sunset flip + double-stomp combo from the villains.\u00a0 Scurll stomped on Flamita&#8217;s fingers.\u00a0 Flamita fired up and took both men out.\u00a0 Tag to Bandido.\u00a0 Corkscrew crossbody to Scurll.\u00a0 Running shooting star press.\u00a0 MexaBlood put down Gordon and flossed for some reason.\u00a0 Flamita tried for a springboard splash onto both men at ringside but slipped.\u00a0 Bandido helped him stay steady while the villains waited for him to jump onto them.\u00a0 More tandem offense to Gordon in the ring.\u00a0 Tornado DDT from Scurll to Flamita followed by a superkick from Gordon.\u00a0 Bandido with a Fosbury flop onto both villains.\u00a0 Lots of no-selling and lucha rules (apparently) as the four men hit a series of splashy moves one after another.\u00a0 Sliced bread + powerbomb combo from the villains to Flamita.\u00a0 Flamita and Gordon were apparently legal as Flamita officially tagged out to Bandido.\u00a0 Bandido with the moonsault powerslam to Gordon.\u00a0 Scurll grabbed him from behind for the chicken-wing but Bandido escaped.\u00a0 Flamita with a springboard 450 to Scurll.\u00a0 Ex-knee from Bandido to Gordon.\u00a0 With both villains hanging on the middle rope Flamita hit a 619 to both as Bandido hit a 21plex to both.\u00a0 He pinned Scurll to boos.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS: MexaBlood in 13:51.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 MexaBlood looked good and you know the Young Bucks will come calling the second their contracts run out.\u00a0 I personally don&#8217;t care for all the big spot, big spot, no-selling moments where it&#8217;s clear you&#8217;re watching a choreographed performance and not a fight but I can&#8217;t deny that lots of people do.\u00a0 Still no indication as to how they&#8217;re going to get the six-man title off of Scurll.\u00a0 Nothing they have done with their presentation of him this past month would make you think he&#8217;s on his way out the door but the entire wrestling world would be stunned if he chose to stay with ROH over AEW or NXT.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A video package recapped Vincent Marseglia betraying Matt Taven with new promos mixed in seemingly shot on a farm.\u00a0 (In a real WWE move, Vincent has apparently dropped his last name.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) MATT TAVEN vs. \u201cTHE HORROR KING\u201d VINCENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taven ran to the ring and tackled Vincent.\u00a0 He beat him around ringside and ripped up some mats.\u00a0 Taven backdropped Vincent over the guardrail and into the crowd.\u00a0 Taven ran and hit his Flight Of The Conqueror splash over the guardrail to take out Vincent.\u00a0 &#8220;Fuck him up, Taven, fuck him up&#8221; chant from the crowd.\u00a0 Texas cloverleaf from Taven.\u00a0 On commentary Riccaboni gaslighted us viewers by claiming that Taven was an honorable world champion.\u00a0 (I seem to recall him stabbing PCO in the eye with a railroad spike at one point&#8230;)\u00a0 Taven got dumped to the floor and jammed his knee.\u00a0 Back body drop planted Taven on the apron.\u00a0 A vertical suplex dropped Taven on the exposed concrete.\u00a0 Side Russian leg sweep from Vincent in the ring.\u00a0 They took a long rest period.\u00a0 Flight Of The Conqueror to Vincent at ringside.\u00a0 Top rope frog-splash from Taven to Vincent on the apron.\u00a0 Side Effect from Vincent.\u00a0 Redrum.\u00a0 Taven kicked out.\u00a0 Just The Tip (of the knee) from Taven.\u00a0 Climax but Vincent got his foot under the bottom rope.\u00a0 A second Climax but Vincent kicked out.\u00a0 LOL\u00a0 Taven went under the ring and brought out an ax.\u00a0 He brought it into the ring but Marseglia hit him with sliced bread for the pin.\u00a0 LOL!<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Vincent in 13:33.<\/p>\n<p>-Coleman tried to put over the finish by saying Vincent not getting spooked by the ax was the difference maker.\u00a0 Taven and Vincent went face to face.\u00a0 Bateman showed up and tombstoned Taven.\u00a0 Vincent grabbed a wooden block and smashed Taven&#8217;s ankle with a steel chair while Bateman held him in position.\u00a0 Bateman held up his hand, which was wrapped in a white cloth with a red V written on it.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Lots of similarities to the King-Titus match with the two real life friends working hard to make each other look good.\u00a0 T<\/em><em>he crowd was firmly behind Taven, which is obviously a positive sign.\u00a0 The finish was a joke, though.\u00a0 Vincent was 1-3 in singles matches this year going into this.\u00a0 He was a lower midcarder at best.\u00a0 For him to kick out of two of Taven&#8217;s finishing moves in a row is ridiculous.\u00a0 Even more so when the commentators immediately mention how that move ended Jeff Cobb&#8217;s undefeated streak.\u00a0 Then he pins the former world champion with a basic sliced bread.\u00a0 Good grief.\u00a0 So Vincent&#8217;s getting his own horror-themed stable now.\u00a0 Maybe they can go full Ministry Of Darkness and kidnap and re-brand some jobbers.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A video package recapped the Mark &amp; Vicky Haskins vs. Bully Ray feud.<\/p>\n<p>-Mark Haskins and his wife Vicky entered first.\u00a0 As they were about to enter the ring Bully Ray ran down with a giant piece of wood with barbed wire on it.\u00a0 He hit Mark from behind, then ran it into Vicky.\u00a0 Ray ran Mark head-first into the ring post.\u00a0 Security checked on Vicky (since ROH doesn&#8217;t have medical staff on hand at their live events).\u00a0 Ray kicked two of them and grabbed a chair.\u00a0 He told them to get her out of there and hit Mark with the chair.\u00a0 For reasons unknown the referee called for the bell to start the match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(6) \u201cOVERKILL\u201d MARK HASKINS vs. BULLY RAY \u2013 STREET FIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray stomped away at Haskins.\u00a0 German suplex.\u00a0 Another.\u00a0 Bully <del>Lesnar<\/del> Ray stomped on him again.\u00a0 He pulled a guardrail out from under the ring and slid it in.\u00a0 German suplex to Haskins onto the guardrail.\u00a0 Bully Bomb.\u00a0 Ray found a cheese grater.\u00a0 Enziguiri from Haskins.\u00a0 Ray found a kendo stick and another steel chair.\u00a0 He took a mic and said &#8220;God bless New York City.&#8221;\u00a0 He sat down in the chair and hit Haskins with the stick.\u00a0 He asked Haskins if he saw what he did to his wife and called him a jobber.\u00a0 Haskins said &#8220;Hit me, you pussy.&#8221;\u00a0 Ray hit him.\u00a0 &#8220;Fuck you,&#8221; Haskins responded.\u00a0 Ray hit him again.\u00a0 Haskins stood and gave him the finger.\u00a0 Ray looked for a powerbomb but Haskins countered into a drop toe-hold that sent Ray face-first into the chair.\u00a0 Multiple chair shots to Ray&#8217;s back.\u00a0 A pump-kick sent the chair into Ray&#8217;s face.\u00a0 Haskins brought out a ladder.\u00a0 He set it up in the ring and climbed to the top.\u00a0 Ray tipped it over and Haskins crashed.\u00a0 Ray brought out a table to cheers.\u00a0 He also threw his barbed wire board back into the ring.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re dead now, bitch,&#8221; he said over the mic.\u00a0 Ray laid the barbed wire board across the table and looked to powerbomb Haskins through both.\u00a0 Haskins fought back.\u00a0 He looked for an apparent Frankensteiner but Ray powerbombed him onto the board\/table.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t break.\u00a0 Haskins kicked out at two so Ray clotheslined the referee and dumped him.<\/p>\n<p>Ray set up another table in the ring.\u00a0 He wiped Haskins&#8217; blood on his cheeks and laid Haskins across the table.\u00a0 Vicky returned and hit him in the groin with the cheese grater.\u00a0 (That&#8217;s low blow #2.)\u00a0 &#8220;My balls!&#8221; Ray yelled.\u00a0 She continued to grate his crotch (never mind the fact he wears thick shorts and other padding underneath).\u00a0 They teamed up to toss Ray off the turnbuckle and through the table.\u00a0 Haskins hit a double-stomp.\u00a0 Todd Sinclair chose this exact moment to run down to the ring and count three.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Mark Haskins in 16:29.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: If ever a match called for a &#8220;same old shit&#8221; chant this was it.\u00a0 The guy on the creative team gets the longest match of the night so far but that&#8217;s probably just a coincidence, right?\u00a0 I mean t<\/em><em>hey swore a lot so that&#8217;s how you know this was real.\u00a0 Haskins looked like a loser.\u00a0 ROH looks ridiculous for allowing Ray to attack referees with no consequences.\u00a0 The &#8220;referee shows up at the exact right moment to count three&#8221; motif is eye-rolling.\u00a0 And you have <\/em><em>got to love that ROH won&#8217;t do intergender wrestling but they will let Ray powerbomb Tenille Dashwood through a table and attack Vicky Haskins with a barbed wire board.\u00a0 Because men and women consensually entering into an athletic competition is not cool but a man attacking women from behind is just some good old-fashioned heel heat.\u00a0 I also love the inconsistency of ROH wanting us to boo when Ray accosts security but cheer when Maria Manic does.\u00a0 The only way this could have gotten any worse is if nZo showed up to help Ray win.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) ALEX SHELLEY vs. COLT CABANA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chain wrestling to start.\u00a0 Just as things started to pick up speed Cabana looked for a Superman pin but Shelley countered into a pin of his own out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Alex Shelley in 6:32.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 That was strange. <\/em><em>I have no idea why it was the only match not announced in advance on an 11-match card and Cabana said as recently as this week&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>Art Of Wrestling\u00a0<em>podcast that he didn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;d be doing at\u00a0<\/em>Final Battle<em>.\u00a0 Also his name was on Joey Mercury&#8217;s list of wrestlers expected to be let go from ROH at the end of this year.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to jump to conspiracy theories but he had a very Bret Hart post-Montreal screwjob look on his face after the three-count and that finish seemed completely out of nowhere.\u00a0 Also I would be shocked that he would agree to taking a clean pin the night before he defends the NWA National Championship at their pay-per-view.\u00a0 Just very strange all around.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(8) MARIA MANIC vs. ANGELINA LOVE (w\/Mandy Leon)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manic cut off her own introduction, charging the ring and driving Love into the corner.\u00a0 She grabbed Mandy Leon and pulled her over the top rope, handily taking out both of them simultaneously.\u00a0 Pearl River Plunge to Love.\u00a0 Manic played to the crowd.\u00a0 Leon jumped in with her hairspray but Manic kicked it out of her hands and she scurried off.\u00a0 Love tried for a crossbody but Manic sort of caught her and sort of threw her.\u00a0 Leon tried to get involved again.\u00a0 Manic bodyslammed her on the floor.\u00a0 She press-slammed Love onto the timekeeper&#8217;s table.\u00a0 This one didn&#8217;t break either as Love just hit it and rolled off.\u00a0 Manic took a fan&#8217;s MJF scarf and put it on.\u00a0 Love remained dead as Manic strolled around the ring.\u00a0 Torture rack until Love tapped.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Maria Manic in 6:25.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 Okay, well ROH has to do intergender wrestling now because Manic just destroyed half the division at one time with minimal effort.\u00a0 Love didn&#8217;t get so much as one single kick in.\u00a0 Manic vs. Kelly Klein would have been the next big match if they hadn&#8217;t fired Klein.\u00a0 Where do we go from here?\u00a0 Manic vs. Sumie Sakai?\u00a0 Jenny Rose?\u00a0 Hahaha.\u00a0 Women Of Honor is a joke.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-An ad aired for Shane Taylor Promotions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(9) SHANE TAYLOR (w\/Ron Hunt, Moses, &amp; Kaun) vs. DRAGON LEE \u2013 ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite changing his name to Ryu Lee in NJPW he was still introduced as Dragon Lee here.\u00a0 Taylor was in control out of the gate.\u00a0 He sat Lee in a chair at ringside and hit a running high knee.\u00a0 Guillotine leg drop to Lee draped across the apron.\u00a0 Taylor continued to methodically work over Lee, mixing in some cocky covers.\u00a0 Lee took out Taylor with some flips at 6:00.\u00a0 Lee hit a dropkick in the corner but was unable to lift Taylor for a suplex.\u00a0 Knee strikes from Lee.\u00a0 Double-stomp to Taylor on the apron.\u00a0 Another in the ring.\u00a0 Lee slapped Taylor.\u00a0 Taylor responded and put him down with body shots.\u00a0 Clothesline from Taylor.\u00a0 High knee.\u00a0 Package piledriver.\u00a0 Kick out from Lee.\u00a0 German suplex to Taylor.\u00a0 German suplex to Lee.\u00a0 Taylor went for a Vader bomb but got hung up in the ropes and took another double-stomp.\u00a0 Knee strike from Lee but Taylor kicked out.\u00a0 Welcome To The Land but Lee kicked out at two and a half.\u00a0 Taylor looked shocked that his finishing move was kicked out of by a guy who lost clean to Dalton Castle and Kenny King just a couple months ago.\u00a0 Taylor took a steel chain and wrapped it around his fist.\u00a0 Lee avoided a punch and hit a Canadian Destroyer.\u00a0 Hunt jumped onto the apron.\u00a0 Lee stuffed the chain in his kneepad and hit a knee strike to Taylor.\u00a0 Taylor kicked out at one.\u00a0 Lee wanted a suplex but Taylor sort of just collapsed to the mat instead.\u00a0 He kicked out anyway.\u00a0 Lee kicked Hunt off the apron and dropped his knee pad.\u00a0 Running knee strike to Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Dragon Lee in 14:35 to capture the TV title.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 ROH just can&#8217;t help themselves.\u00a0 If they can&#8217;t do an overbooked finish with a surplus of outside interference and shenanigans they just don&#8217;t know how to end a match.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m a traditionalist but I hate this trend of the supposed babyfaces lowering themselves to the heels&#8217; level by cheating too.\u00a0 Jay Lethal was one of the best faces in wrestling last year because of his refusal to do that, instead determined to beat them anyway and prove you can be a good person and still succeed.\u00a0 Of course he just turned heel too so I guess the moral of the story is that good guys are losers and we should all just do whatever the hell we want.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-PJ Black joined commentary for the tag title match.\u00a0 He said he saw the success Young and Woods were having and was thinking of finding someone from the ROH Dojo to mentor so that they could enter the tag division too.<\/p>\n<p>-Lethal &amp; Gresham made their entrance, followed by The Briscoes.\u00a0 The full Briscoe clan were shown in the crowd including their father.\u00a0 Lethal had a brace on his recently-broken left arm.\u00a0 The two teams milked the crowd response as the clock crossed the three-hour mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(10) THE BRISCOES (Jay Briscoe &amp; Mark Briscoe) vs. JAY LETHAL &amp; JONATHAN GRESHAM \u2013 ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gresham and Mark started.\u00a0 Lethal was aggressive against Jay early on.\u00a0 The teams fought to ringside.\u00a0 Mark used a chair to run and cannonball over the ropes onto both opponents.\u00a0 Suicide dive from Lethal to Mark at 10:00.\u00a0 Gresham wanted a Doomsday Device but Mark saved Jay.\u00a0 The Briscoes hit one of their own on Gresham but Lethal made the save.\u00a0 They worked to isolate Lethal.\u00a0 Gresham made the tag and went Super Sonic.\u00a0 Lethal Injection to Mark.\u00a0 Top rope shooting star press from Gresham.\u00a0 Jay broke up the pin.\u00a0 Gresham worked over Mark&#8217;s leg.\u00a0 Ura nage from Mark.\u00a0 Tags to the Jays at 18:00.\u00a0 They threw hands.\u00a0 Gresham disposed of via a death valley driver.\u00a0 Jay Driller to Lethal.\u00a0 Gresham pulled the ref out to prevent the three.\u00a0 Lethal was dead to the world but woke up seconds later to clock Jay with the tag title behind the ref&#8217;s back.\u00a0 Jay kicked out at 20:00.<\/p>\n<p>Figure four from Lethal to Jay.\u00a0 Gresham with a sleeperhold to Mark at ringside.\u00a0 Mark dropped Gresham back-first onto the apron.\u00a0 A froggy-bow freed his brother from the figure four.\u00a0 The Briscoes called for the end.\u00a0 They set up for another Doomsday Device but Gresham shoved Mark off the top rope and Lethal rolled up Jay with a handful of tights.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS: Lethal &amp; Gresham in 21:56 to capture the tag titles.<\/p>\n<p>-The Briscoe relatives threw garbage into the ring.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 Shenanigans strike again!\u00a0 This was a good match, if not the all-time classic they were aiming for.\u00a0 My same complaints stand as with the MexaBlood match.\u00a0 There were far too many stretches with all four men involved in the action or the teams fighting at ringside for minutes on end without getting counted out.\u00a0 It broke up the flow and hurt the overall story.\u00a0 <\/em><em>Like usual with ROH pay-per-views this match would have had an even bigger impact if there were three matches fewer on the card and it was taking place an hour earlier.\u00a0 The live crowd was engaged but I know I&#8217;m fading on my end and the shenanigans wouldn&#8217;t be so aggravating if this wasn&#8217;t the fifth out of ten matches to involve them.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(11) \u201cEL TORO BLANCO\u201d RUSH vs. ROH WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPION PCO \u2013 ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rush hit PCO on the arm with a chair and then across the head.<\/p>\n<p><del>WINNER: PCO in 1:48 via disqualification.\u00a0 Rush retains the world title.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Never mind, apparently chair shots to the head are legal and sound now.\u00a0 (Concussion policies be damned!)\u00a0 Rush threw PCO into the guardrail and choked him with a camera cable.\u00a0 He did push-ups in the ring to a chorus of boos.\u00a0 (I guess he&#8217;s a heel again?\u00a0 What a mess.)\u00a0 Rush stomped PCo into the corner, could have hit The Bull&#8217;s Horns, but chose not to.\u00a0 Instead he did the tranquilo pose to more boos.\u00a0 Rush got in the fan&#8217;s faces and glared at them.\u00a0 He hopped the guardrail and went into the crowd to pick up a small stepladder.\u00a0 Rush chucked it at PCO in the ring.\u00a0 Rush set up the ladder in one corner and whipped PCO into it.\u00a0 PCO suddenly came to life with a splash and a pop-up powerbomb.\u00a0 Cannonball through the ropes.\u00a0 PCO looked for the cannonball from the top rope onto Rush on the apron but Rush moved and PCO crashed onto the edge of the apron like usual.\u00a0 Rush suplexed PCO onto the timekeeper&#8217;s table.\u00a0 For the third time tonight the table didn&#8217;t break.\u00a0 Rush tipped it over.\u00a0 He dragged PCO up the entrance aisle at 10:00.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the stage was a hearse PCO supposedly drove to the arena.\u00a0 Rush spit on it.\u00a0 Smoke started to come out of the car.\u00a0 Rush hit PCO with a piece of guardrail.\u00a0 He threw PCO onto the stage and cursed in Spanish.\u00a0 Rush threw PCO off the stage and onto a couple guardrails stacked on the concrete floor.\u00a0 Rush headed back to the ring alone.\u00a0 PCO&#8217;s music hit and Destro walked out.\u00a0 Lights began flicker in the hearse while smoke kept pouring out.\u00a0 Destro struggled to pop the hood of the car.\u00a0 He exposed some jumper cable and electrocuted PCO back to life.\u00a0 Rush charged and PCO unloaded with right hands.\u00a0 He chokeslammed Rush onto the hood of the hearse at 15:00.<\/p>\n<p>Leg drop to Rush onto the hood of the hearse.\u00a0 Rush threw PCO off the car with an overhead suplex.\u00a0 PCO swung at Rush with a crowbar.\u00a0 Rush avoided it and PCO smashed some windows.\u00a0 Rush hit PCO with an equipment case.\u00a0 Back at ringside Rush pulled three doors out from under the ring.\u00a0 (Groan.)\u00a0 German suplex to PCO.\u00a0 Knee strike.\u00a0 Rush covered for the first two-count of the match.\u00a0 Top rope senton.\u00a0 PCO kicked out at one.\u00a0 Rush picked up one of the doors and slammed it over PCO&#8217;s head until his head popped through.\u00a0 Rush dropkicked him through the second.\u00a0 PCO speared him through the third at 20:00.<\/p>\n<p>PCOsault landed but Rush kicked out.\u00a0 PCO set up a folding table in the ring.\u00a0 Rush hit him with a chair again.\u00a0 Rush punched out Destro at ringside and threw him into the guardrail.\u00a0 Rush dumped him into the front row.\u00a0 PCO with a chokeslam in the ring.\u00a0 He set Rush on the table and went up top for another PCOsault.\u00a0 It landed and Sinclair counted three.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: PCO in 22:22 to capture the world title.<\/p>\n<p>-PCO bent the crowbar with his hands and wore it like a necklace.\u00a0 Riccaboni said PCO is the oldest world champion in ROH history.\u00a0 Cary Silkin presented him with the title belt.\u00a0 Destro, Brody King, Marty Scurll, and Flip Gordon celebrated with PCO.\u00a0 The show went off the air at 3 hours at 59 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Awful.\u00a0 Just another boring garbage brawl barely one level higher than the Bully Ray nonsense.\u00a0 I<\/em><em>f the plan was for Rush to wrestle the whole match as a heel, why didn&#8217;t they set it up that way beforehand?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t that have been a stronger build?\u00a0 Arrogant heel champion who doesn&#8217;t care about anyone vs. the guy who&#8217;s spent 30+ years trying to win the big one?\u00a0 Why show us Rush celebrating his world title win with his son?\u00a0 Why position him as the babyface in feuds with The Kingdom?\u00a0 For that matter, why wasn&#8217;t this match just made a falls count anywhere match?\u00a0 We&#8217;re led to believe this was booked as a standard singles match and Todd Sinclair just decided on the spot not to count out or disqualify them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just another layer of unnecessary complications and nonsense.\u00a0 But hey, at least we only got two low blows total on the night.\u00a0 Small victories, right?)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Find Harley on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yrechoheart\">@yrechoheart<\/a> and listen to he and Emily Fear talk the week in women\u2019s wrestling every Tuesday on the PWTorch Dailycast \u201cGrit &amp; Glitter.\u201d Also please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/HTJDM87\">vote in their year-end awards<\/a> for your favorite stars and moments in women\u2019s wrestling this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<div 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