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TV Title Match/Baltimore Street Fight: Punishment Martinez vs Hangman Adam Page
They start brawling during introductions, and Page gets Martinez to the floor and wipes him out with a dive. Page rams Martinez back and forth into the barricades, then Martinez nails Page as he goes under the ring for a table. Page brings a chair into the ring and whips it at Martinez, smashing into his face, then he wedges it in the corner and rams Martinez into it, then goes and gets that table, leaning it against a ringpost and coming off the apron and misses the shooting star press. Martinez picks Page up and powerbombs him onto the ring apron, then tries to chokeslam Page onto the barricade, but misses and drops Page right onto the floor. Martinez dumps Page back into the ring and brings another chair in with him, knocking Page right back out to the floor with it. Martinez picks Page up and starts running, nearly propelling Page through the barricade. Martinez sets up a chair platform and tries to chokeslam him onto the chairs, but Page escapes and starts firing back on the champion. he rams Page into the corner of the barricade and tries a Yakuza kick, but Page moves and Martinez winds up hung up on the barricade. He tries to climb over, but Page superplexes Martinez onto the floor, then they go back into the ring where Martinez turns Page inside out with a hard clothesline. Martinez gets a chair and goes for a Tombstone onto the chair, but Page reverses and hits the cradle Tombstone onto the chair for a very close 2. They wind up on the apron where Martinez curb stomps Page's face right into the apron, then zip ties his wrists together. Page tries to grab the chair, but Martinez stops that with a kick to the face and then stomps Page's face into the chair and covers for a very close 2. Martinez gets another table from under the ring, sets it up, and tries for a chokeslam, but Page spits in Martinez' face and ducks a charge, sending Martinez to the floor. Page breaks the zip ties, then goes to the floor and spears Martinez through the first table that was against the ringpost. Page goes to the top rope and moonsaults onto Martinez, then they head back inside and...Page takes too long playing to the fans and gets bicycle kicked off the apron and onto the chair platform Martinez set up before. Martinez starts to go back in, but then changes his mind and grabs a bag out from under the ring. He pours the bag out, and it contains...thumbtacks! I wish I could describe the look on Page's face as he watched those get poured out, but he blocks the attempted powerbomb and backdrops Martinez onto the tacks. Page picks Martinez up and goes for the Rite of Passage, but Martinez blocks and chokeslams Page through the table. He falls on top and the referee counts 3.
Winner: Punishment Martinez
Ian points out that Martinez had his shoulders down during the pinfall as well, so this might lead to a rematch, but as far as this match goes, that was one HELL of a hardcore brawl.
World Tag Team Title Match: Jay & Mark Briscoe vs The Young Bucks
The crowd is split right down the middle as Nick and Mark start us off, and almost rightoff the bat all heck breaks loose, with all four men fighting in the ring. Briscoes block a double superkick, and go nose to nose with the Bucks. This turns into a pier six brawl, which the Briscoes handily win, but they hit hte ropes and charge right into a pair of superkicks from the Bucks. Assisted double dropkick sends Mark to the floor, and the Bucks hit the double hiptoss/double dropkick combo on Jay. Jay responds by ripping both of their heads off with clotheslines, and Mark comes in to hit Redneck Boogie on Matt for 2. and Matt gets caught in the wrong part of town, getting mercilessly worked over by the Briscoes. Jay crushes him with a corner clothesline, snapmare, and diving boot for 2. Jay and Matt wind up on the floor and Matt connects with a superkick, but can't make it to his corner, getting dragged back out ot the floor by Jay. Mark goes for a baseball slide, but Matt moves and Mark hits Jay. Matt hits a twisting stunner off the apron on Mark, then gets back in the ring and tags Nick in, and Nick immediately takes the Briscoes out with a dive from the floor before cleaning house on both Briscoes with a flurry of past paced kicks, superkicks, and eniguiris. Matt is back up, and the battle continues on the floor. Nick takes Jay back in the ring and drills him with a running kneelift in the corner, but Mark comes out of nowhere with a rear naked choke, then passes him off to Jay, who drills Nick with a hard clothesline before hitting a blockbuster off the apron on Matt. Mark hits Froggy Bow, but Nick is out at 2. Briscoes go for a top rope Redneck Boogie, but Matt drags Jay to the floor and Nick hits a super Frankensteiner on Mark. Nick tags Matt, who comes in with clotheslines for Mark, but Jay is right back in and nailing Matt. Matt takes out both Briscoes with a double clothesline, but runs right into a death valley driver from Jay. Bucks come back with superkicks, Briscoes fire back with superkicks of their own, Bucks respond in kind, Briscoes flatten them with lariats, and Jay hits Matt with a Jay Driller, and Nick breaks it up at THE last second. Briscoes go for the Doomsday Device on Matt, but Nick hits Mark with a springboard Ace Crusher as Matt victory rolls Jay for 2. Jay fights off both Bucks by himself, but they turn it around on Jay and give him the Doomsday Device for 2. Bucks hit More Bang For Your Buck, but Mark breaks it up by giving the referee Froggy Bow before he can count 3. Mark gets a chair, but the Bucks superkick it into his face and knock him to the floor. Bucks go for the Meltzer Driver on Jay, and the ref comes to just in time to count 2 as Mark breaks it up at 2. Now the Bucks go for a Meltzer Driver on a chair, but Mark has another chair and just WINGS it at Nick's face, knocking him off the apron. Jay hits a Jay Driller on Matt onto the chair, but somehow Matt gets out at 2. Briscoes hit a top rope Redneck Boogie, and that's finally enough to put Matt away for 3.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
This was just an unbelievably hard fought match, easily the best thing on the show so far. The Briscoes put the boots to the Bucks after the match, and SoCal Uncensored runs in after the match and act like they're going to join in on the fun, but they lay the Briscoes out instead. They have a tense standoff with the Briscoes, who head to the back and leave the Bucks alone for their own tense standoff with SCU, who also leave without incident.
And with that...IT'S MAIN EVENT TIME!
ROH World Title Match: Dalton Castle vs Cody vs Marty Scurll
Dalton is heavily bandaged up, and Cody and Scurll quickly toss him to the floor. Castle reverses a whip and sends Cody into the barricade, then hits a spinning headscissors on Scurll. He sends Scurll back into the ring and gets a waistlock takedown for 2. We see that NWA Champion Nick Aldis is at ringside watching as Castle dodges a springboard dropkick from Cody, who connects with Scurll instead. Cody hits Castle with a Flatliner and does a double bicep pose (as Gary Strydom, according to Ian), and Scurll gives Castle a superkick and tornado DDTs Cody on the floor. Scurll sends Cody back into the ring, and Cody begs off, causing Scurll to hesitate. Cody takes the opening to dish out some chops to Scurll, who responds in kind. Scurll unloads with a series of forearms, but Cody hits a release vertical suplex before finding himself on the receiving end of some punches from Castle, who then takes turns hitting kneelifts on Scurll and Cody. Castle goes for a big boot on Cody, who catches his boot and drops him on his face. Castle looks like he's REALLY struggling out there. Castle knocks Cody off the top rope and drills him with a running boot, and hits a super butterfly suplex for 2. Castle goes for an armbar on Cody, but Scurll comes in from behind and gets the crossface chickenwing on Castle. Cody gets a figure four on Castle's other end, and Cody pulls Marty off of Castle, who rolls out to the floor again while Cody and Scurll go at it. Scurll dodges an armdrag, but Cody hits a DDT for a couple of 2 counts. Scurll hangs Cody in the corner and sets up for Shattered Dreams, but Brandi gets on the apron to distract everyone and allow Cody to kick Scurll low and small package him for 2. Marty goes to the fingers and we go snap, and Scurll steals Cody's ring! Castle suddenly comes in out of nowhere and hits Bangarang on Scurll, but Aldis jumps up and pulls the ref out of the ring before the 3 count. The Boys try to intervene, but Aldis brutally swats them away, and Cody takes Aldis out with a dive, but Scurll smashes Castle in the face with the belt and makes a cover, but both Cody and Brandi pull the referee out of the ring. The ref kicks Aldis, Brandi, and the Boys out of ringside as all three actual participants wind up back in the ring, they trade rollups for 2, then they trade punches in the middle of the ring, Castle knocks Cody to the floor, Scurll and Castle knock each other out, and everyone's down. Cody is up first and has powder in his hands, but Scurll knocks the powder into Cody's face, then Cody gives Scurll CrossRhodes, Castle dumps Cody to the floor and covers Scurll for 2. Castle goes for Bangarang again, Scurll counters to a rollup for 2, then goes right into the crossface chickenwing. He has him trapped right in the middle of the ring, but Cody is in and goes for CrossRhodes, Scurll reverses to one of his own, Castle hits Scurll with Bangarang again, and the champion retains.
Winner: Dalton Castle
Well, that was a bit unexpected! Dalton was obviously WELL below 100% here, but they did a great job working around it, and we finish so close to the end of their time that we pretty much wrap up the show right there.
This was easily the best ROH show I've seen in years, and they just KILLED it in the last four or five matches. Everyone worked hard, some people worked hurt, and they told great storylines throughout. This was everything an ROH show should be, and if you didn't see it live, sign up for Honor Club and watch the replay. If you like the kind of stuff you see on NXT TakeOver, this was that level of quality.
And with that, I'm done...thanks for following PWInsider.com's live coverage of Best In The World 2018, and have a great night!
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