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ROH Pure Champion Jonathan Gresham vs. Dak Draper
They locked up and Draper had control thanks to his size. Gresham kept trying to figure out the riddle of the Sphinx but Draper kept him at bay and reversed and countered his takedowns. Gresham was tied up but grabbed the ropes to break it.
Rope Breaks: Draper: 3, Gresham: 2
Draper locked in an inverted bearhug and squeezed and squeezed, trying to force the air out of him. Gresham finally grabbed the ropes again
Rope Breaks: Draper: 3, Gresham: 1
Gresham finally exploded with offense, kicking and attacking Draper. He nailed a standing quebrada into the ring. He worked over the leg but Draper rolled oiut of the submission attempt. Draper nailed a cross bodyblock. Draper fought back but was staggering on his leg from all the beatings. Gresham broke him down to the mat and covered him but Draper used the rope to break the pinfall twice.
Draper grabbed Gresham by the throat but was kicked in the knee and hobbled. Gresham cinched in an anklelock. Draper grabbed the ropes.
No one has any rope breaks left. You can be pinned or submitted in the ropes.
Draper drilled Gresham with a right hand, getting a warning. Gresham was almost counted out on the mat but at 9, Gresham rolled under the ropes. He was almost counted out but Draper asked him if was serious and dragged him to the center of the ring. Draper covered him for a close two count with Gresham hardly getting the shoulder up.
Gresham was out on his feet and was elevated up into a dead-lift superplex. Draper nailed the Doctor Bomb but somehow Gresham kicked up at the last second. Gresham came to life and went for a drop toehold, but instead hyper-extended the knee. Draper came back with a big knee strike. he went for the Magnum but Gresham nailed a rana for a two count. Draper killed him with a big boot and shot him into the buckles.
Draper nailed a sit-down top rope superbomb but somehow Gresham kicked up at the last second. Draper stomped the hell out of Gresham and hung him upside down in a stretch muffler but Draper's knee buckled. Gresham nailed a springboard moonsault and dove through the ropes to the floor, catching Draper with a sleeper on the outside. Draper fought to return to the ring and drove them backwards into the barricade. Gresham held on. As 17, Draper climbed up to the apron and grabbed the ropes but they have no rope breaks left. They ended up back in the ring and Draper finally dropped unconscious, put to sleep.
Your winner and still ROH Pure Champion, Jonathan Gresham!
This was fantastic.
Delirious came out and said something to Rocky Romero. No one knows what it was.
ROH Tag Team Champions Kenny King & Bestia del Ring (substituting for the injured Dragon Lee) vs. ROH TV Champion Tracy Williams & Rhett Titus
Everyone brawled at the bell. The Champions had control early. Bestia nailed a senton for a two count on Rhett. Williams tagged in but tired from earlier, was easy pickings and worked over by King and Bestia. Williams fought back and he and Bestia nailed a double clothesline at the same time. King and Titus made the tag and faced off.
The former All Night Express members faced off and then took it to each other. Titus got the better of the exchange and then hit a monkey flip on Besta. Titus nailed a Stinger Splash on King. Williams locked in a Texas Cloverleaf and refused to let go even when Bestia drilled him. Titus locked in a single-leg Boston Crab. Bestia fought to the ropes.
King and Williams battled. King used an exploder. He locked in a submission but Titus came off the top to break it up. Titus tagged in. King was worked over. King was hit with a piledriver by Williams and locked in a swinging neckbreaker by Titus. Bestia drilled Titus and they battled back and forth with chops. Bestia cut off Titus in the ropes and drilled him with an inverted lungblower off the ropes for a two count. Bestia called for a chair but when Amy brought it to him, the referee took it away.
That allowed Titus to dropkick him into the ropes and cinch in a full nelson. Bestia submitted.
Your winners and new ROH Tag Team Champions, Tracy Williams and Rhett Titus!
Bestia blamed Amy after but King stopped him. He began screaming at her that she let him get beaten by Rhett Titus. He asked why she was even here. She gave him the finger and went to walk off. King apologized to her and brought her back to the center of the ring. He told her, "You are done" and left her to be speared by Bestia.
ROH Champion Rush vs. Jay Lethal
Some solid back and forth wrestling early. They were feeling each other out. Lethal sent Rush to the floor and nailed a kick, then a dive to the outside. The story was that Rush may have hurt his knee. Lethal maintained control but was caught out of nowhere with a leaping knee strike to the jaw. Lethal rolled to the outside. Rush sent him hard into the barricades, then smashed him with a swinging partion of the barriade several times. Rush worked him over and maintained control.
Rush kept kicking away and beating down Lethal in the corner, disrespecting him with kicks to the face. Lethal charged but was hit with an overhead suplex into the buckles. They fired back and forth with big kicks and strikes before KOing each other and being out on the mat. The referee began counting them both down. Lethal nailed an elbow but Rush kicked up. Lethal cinched in the figure four leglock in the center of the ring with Rush battling towards the ropes. He made it and forced a break.
Rush fired back and caught Lethal in the ropes, leaving him hanging. Rush nailed an Alabama Jam on Lethal and covered a close two count. Rush fired away and nailed DDT, then cinched in a calf crusher. Lethal fought his way out and locked on a figure four but Kenny King and Bestia ran out. Lethal called for the Lethal Injection but Bestia nailed him with a chair. The referee was going to call for the bell but remembered what Lethal said and had second thoughts. The Foundation hit ringside and attacked La Faccon and they brawled.
Rush set up for his El Toro finisher but Lethal caught him with a spinebuster. Lethal nailed the Lethal Injection but Rush kicked up at the last second. Rush nailed a Superman Forearm on Lethal. He set up for El Toro and nailed it on Lethal, who rolled to the outside to save himself. Rush went to the floor as Lethal sat up. Rush tossed him back into the ring and placed Lethal back into the corner again. He went for the move again and drilled Lethal. Lethal was pulled to the center of the ring and pinned.
Your winner and still ROH Champion, Rush!
La Faccion beat down Lethal after the match. The Foundation hit the ring to make the save but were overwhelmed and beaten down as ROH went off the air.
Brody King came down and called out Rush and congratulated him for almost making it through a match without his family. King said he has a family of his own now. Out came Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson, who brawled with La Faccion but then took out The Foundation as well. The announcers said a new group had emerged.
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