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Attendance was over 1000 which was slightly less than the February show. Crowd was super hot all night long with more women and way more Afro Americans than I’ve ever seen at an ROH event.
Pre-show: P Dog (Mike Posey) with the Get Along Gang (CB Suave & Marko Polo & Raphael King & Devyn Nicole & Nina Monet & Merica) defeated Slim J in 5:30 with the help of massive outside interference by GAG. Slim popped the crowd with his corkscrew plancha.
Ring announcer Scarlett Bordeaux introduced the broadcast team of Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino.
(1)Cedric Alexander pinned Corey Hollis in 11:25. Match started with Hollis as the heel, but Alexander started acting like a real dick to turn the crowd against him. Hollis had Alexander pinned after a standing sliced bread but Alexander had his foot on the ropes. Alexander won it with the Lumbar Check. Hollis sustained a nasty cut under his right eye and was on the receiving end of a big round of applause for his effort.
(2) Kingdom (Michael Bennett & Matt Taven with Maria Kanellis) defeated Will Ferrara & Watanabe in 8:20. Not much competition for Kingdom who appeared to be totally in their comfort zone. They destroyed Ferrara and eventually pinned him with a stuff piledriver.
(3) Michael Elgin defeated Adam Page (with BJ Whitmer) via count out at 13:55. Big pop for Elgin in the afterglow of his stellar performance at the G1. Whitmer said that as result of Corino trying to choke him to death, ROH was an unsafe work environment so Sinclair had hired personal security for him. Page said Elgin wasn’t worth his time because he wasn’t Jay Briscoe and headed to the back, but Elgin’s comments alluding to extracurricular activities with BJ in the shower lured him back to the ring. Spot of the match saw Page reverse Elgin’s super powerbomb with a huracanrana followed by a standing SSP for a near fall. Elgin hit a deadlift falcon arrow for a near fall, then the buckle bomb, but Whitmer pulled Page out of the ring.
Postmatch – Elgin took his frustrations out on Whitmer’s security (indy wrestlers Fred Yehi, Brian Blaze, and Jeremy Foster and Elijah Evans) with two rounds of powerbombs for a huge “Michael Elgin†chant. Elgin’s ability to connect with the crowd has never been better.
(4) War Machine (Hansen & Rowe) defeated ACH & Matt Sydal in 15:40. Just as one would expect, it was all about the power of War Machine against the aerial attack of ACH and Sydal with both teams shining at what they do best. Hansen kicked out of Sydal’s SSP and War Machine killed Sydal dead with Fallout.
After the intermission, P Dog came back to the ring with GAG to do his ridiculous rap. Elgin mercifully ended that nonsense with a round of powerbombs on the male member of Posey’s gang. Nicole got in Elgin’s face so he gave her one as well.
(5) Mark Briscoe pinned Romantic Touch with the Froggy Bow in around 8 minutes. Romantic Touch subbed for Cliff Compton.
Kevin Kelly introduced Stevie Richards to a “BWO†chant and a much bigger response than I expected. Richards said if he had his way, he would have competed in ROH years ago. Richards was listing off ROH’s top stars until he was interrupted by the one star he hadn’t mentioned. Jay Lethal said he had never been so disrespected in his life. Richards said he was getting to Lethal. Lethal told Richards to get out of his ring. A pull apart ensued drawing the usual “let them fight†chant.
(6) Roderick Strong defeated Caprice Coleman in 14:12. A fine technical match with both men giving max effort and hitting all of their signature moves. Strong kicked out of A Thief in the Night and pinned Coleman after hitting the double knee gutbuster and the the Sick Kick.
(7) Jay Briscoe vs. Moose (with Stokely Hathaway) was a no contest at 3:15. Split crowd with dueling chants of “Moose†and “Man Upâ€. Really good stuff while it lasted, and the crowd was pissed when Page and Alexander attacked them. Hathaway did mic work leading to a “we smell p**sy†chant leading to…
(8) Briscoe & Moose defeated Alexander & Page in 10 minutes. A chaotic brawl that had the crowd rocking. Jay was cut over the right eye. Moose did a Doomsday Device variation on a petrified Page. In the end, Moose speared Alexander and Jay then pinned him with the J Driller.
Postmatch – Whitmer baited Corino on the mic. Corino got in the ring. Whitmer (still recovering from surgery for a torn ACL) begged off. The crowd chanted for Corino. (9) ReDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) & Adam Cole defeated Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) & Jay Lethal (with a smoking hot Taeler Hendrix) in 18:34. Hendrix was awesome at ringside. OK, I’m biased but she was still great. A surprising amount of comedy and it was all very entertaining. They did the old armbar routine with Kazarian and Lethal unknowingly pumphandling the hell out Daniels’ arm. The crowd ate it up. Daniels and Lethal nailed O’Reilly with a BME/top rope elbow combo for a killer false finish. ReDRagon and Cole locked Addiction and Lethal in a triple submission. A train of big moves left all 6 men down in the ring. Lethal screwed up and hit the Lethal Injection on Kazarian, who was then pinned with Chasing the Dragon. A very satisfying main event.
NOTES: Compton was at the building but was not able to wrestler due to suffering a seizure…Bill Behrens was helping out backstage…Georgia wrestlers Dany Only and Kameron Kade were part of Whitmer’s security for his second appearance…A slew of folks familiar to Georgia wrestling fans were in the house including manager Jeff G. Bailey, “Crying Wrestling Fan†Dave Wills, AWE promoter Josh Wheeler, videographer/manager Allan Barrie, ring announcer Scott Hensley, and wrestlers Ethan Case, Geter, Washington Bullets, Johnny Danger, Devlin Valek, Chase Brown, Dark Mon, Stitch Osiris and Juan Delgado.
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