ROH: Honor vs Evil
Feb 16, 2013
Cincinnati, OH
Estimated Attendance: 450 -500 or 900-1000(PWInsider live reporter) Neither has been confirmed.
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Ring of Honor: Honor vs Evil
February 16, 2013
Location: Cincinnati Masonic Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pre-show notes: Attendance estimate was around 450-500, which for this venue meant that it was nearly at capacity… Before the show started we got the chance to meet Adam Cole, Michael Elgin, Davey Richards, BJ Whitmer and Veda Scott. All five were very cordial in person, and Veda noted that she’d been with Cole early that morning at Sinclair’s newest station, WKRC-TV. (I’d seen it on the ROH twitter feed, but unfortunately wasn’t home to watch the segment.) Also of note, Jay Lethal walked behind the handicapped seats to get backstage, and grabbed my shoulder saying “What’s up, guys?” Very cool dude. There were several cameras set up, as like all ROH house shows, it was being filmed for a DVD release.
1. ROH World Tag Team Champion Jay Briscoe beat QT Marshall. Great opener. Maybe not solid technical wrestling, but it got the crowd hot for what was to come.
2. Jay Lethal beat Tadarius Thomas via pinfall. Now THIS was solid technical wrestling. Straight up. A GREAT match to watch, but hard to follow! Thomas does something called Capoeira, which is a Brazilian martial art. It has to be seen to be believed. Just…wow.
3. ROH World Tag Team Champion Mark Briscoe defeated “Spyder” Nate Webb. I’m not sure what about Webb says “spyder or spider”. Call me crazy. I just don’t get it yet. Not too bad.
4. Roderick Strong beat ACH via pinfall. Pretty sound technical wrestler. I can see why others have raved about him.
5. Charlie Haas beat the holy hell out of Pepper Parks and pinned him. Seriously, this one had me scared for my own safety at two different points. Haas came out and cut a promo on us. Nothing special. At the tail end of the promo, Haas asked, “Who’s Pepper Parks?” Parks responded, “You’re about to find out who Pepper Parks is, you S.O.B,” dove out of the ring onto Haas, then proceeded to throw him into the guardrail…RIGHT in front of where I was sitting with several other wheelchair-bound fans! At the conclusion of the match, Haas asked for his beer. The crewperson next to my area said no to Haas twice. Big mistake. He got beat down and swung into the rail a la Miz on Raw, and then beer poured on him. Luckily, he’s okay as I spotted him watching the main event from behind the curtain.
6. BJ Whitmer beat Kyle O’Reilly via submission. Solid technical match. Crowd was VERY much behind Whitmer here as he is from Cincinnati. Good stuff.
7. S.C.U.M (ROH World Champion Kevin Steen, Jimmy Jacobs & Steve Corino) beat World TV Champion Adam Cole, Davey Richards, & “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin in a Six Man Elimination Tag Match which had no time limit. The eliminations came in this order: Richards, Cole, Jacobs, and Corino, so it all came down to Steen and Elgin. Just a straight up brawl. The refs had a hard time controlling this entire match, and it once again spilled out right in front of us. Cole took one HELL of a nasty bump (I believe it was a piledriver at the hands of Corino, but it was on the other side of the ring so can’t say for sure) and was temporarily pulled out of the match before coming back after Richards’ elimination. Steen won, unfortunately I didn’t see what he won with as I was distracted by Jay Lethal beating the hell out of Corino. Afterward, Jay Lethal was being beaten down, and the Briscoes proceeded to rush the ring and, along with Elgin, clean house on SCUM (pun not intended). (PWP Edit~ Jeremy mentioned that a fan tried to jump the rail. We were then tweeted at by Kevin Steen mentioning that it was possibly a fan with down syndrome. Jeremy and PWP send along our apologies as we meant no disrespect and obviously there was little chance of Jeremy knowing this information from his vantage point) The Briscoes came over afterwards to thank the fans in our section. Very cool dudes, at least in my brief interaction with them.
This is my first time attending an ROH live event. As such, I didn’t know what to expect going in. What I got was a solidly good card, top to bottom with great talent. Could’ve done without the barricade nearly cracking my knees though!
Top 3 Best Pops: BJ Whitmer, the Briscoes the first time each came out, and Nigel McGuinness
Top 3 Most Heat: S.C.U.M., Charlie Haas, QT Marshall
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Quick Results
Jay Briscoe def QT Marshall
Jay Lethal def Tadarius Thomas
Mark Briscoe def Nate Webb via froggy bow
Roderick Strong def ACH with a brainbuster into a backbreaker (ACH was said to be really over)
Charlie Haas def Pepper Parks via blinding him with a beer followed by a roll up. Fans were chanting Shelton’s better at Haas.
BJ Whitmer defeated Kyle O’Reilly via submission
Six Man Elimination Main event:
Adam Cole was struck with a spike piledriver and taken to the back
Kevin Steen elim Davey Richards via package piledriver
Kevin Steen elim a returning Adam Cole with the F5
Michael Elgin elim Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs
Steen def Elgin with a reverse small package and won the match
Post match SCUM hit the ring to attack but the save came from The Briscoes & Jay Lethal
We will be getting an in depth report tomorrow from J.Mos (his nickname) so be sure to check this article out again if you want more details.
Results courtesy Jeremy Moses