Ring of Honor Wrestling #4

-LAST WEEK: Davey Richards successfully defended the Ring of Honor World Championship against Roderick Strong.

-Kevin Kelly & Nigel McGuinness start the show in the ring, and hype this week's "double main event". It's hard to have a double main event when your show only has two matches on it.

-Briscoes wax nostalgic about the time when the All Night Express would be asking for their autographs and offering to carry their bags. The Briscoes say not to think of them as two dumb rednecks.

-The All Night Express talk about how their rivalry with the Briscoes has changed them. Titus wants to put a scar on their heads to match the one they gave him.

-Match 1 to name #1 Contenders for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship: The Briscoe Brothers VS The All Night Express

-Match immediately spills outside. Briscoes work over King, but get taken out by stereo dives from the ANX. Titus gets caught with a big boot/chop block combo, and he becomes the face-in-peril. Titus no-sells a HARD chop and slaps Mark in the face. Jay hits Titus with a clothesline for two. Mark hits a bulldog for two. Mark tries to hurricarana Titus off the top, but ends up getting alley-ooped for snake eyes.

King gets the hot tag, and Kevin Kelly likens him to a "shutdown corner" in football. Now that's just fucking stupid. Briscoes are outside, and King backdrops Titus over the top onto them. King hits Jay with a powerbomb, and Titus follows up with a double knee drop from the top for two. Mark dives off the apron at Titus, which the camera misses. Mark hits a frog splash into an elbow drop off the top onto King, and Jay gets two.

As Mark and Titus look like they're going to spill onto the announce table, Jay kicks King square in the nuts, and rolls him up with a small package for the pin. Titus points out the kick to the nuts and referee Todd Sinclair actually uses his head to figure it out, but he can't call it because he didn't see it. The two teams have to be separated. Match was good, not great.

-Profile on Ring of Honort Tag Team Champions Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team. They should never be allowed to talk, let along have a lengthy video segment about them.

-Jim Cornette says that because the Briscoes cheated, NEITHER team are the number one contenders to the tag titles. Way to negate the point of the last match, guys.

-A look inside "The House of Truth". Nothing of note here.

-That leads into the question of when the Richards/Edwards rematch will happen.

-Match 2: Michael Elgin (w/Truth Martini) VS Eddie Edwards

-Strike exchange proves nothing. Elgin hits a long delayed vertical suplex for two. Elgin wins a chop exchange, but walks into a hurricarana and the Achillies' lock. Edwards hits a Lionsault for two. Elgin catches Edwards, bashes him into two opposite corners, and throws him down for two.

Back from a commercial break, Elgin hits a back breaker and a side slam for two. Elgin no-sells one superkick, but a second slows him down, and Edwards dumps Elgin on his face. Edwards hits a missile dropkick for two. Edwards sends Elgin outside, and hits a suicide dive. Edwards hits an enziguiri, but a clothesline knocks him for a flip, and gets two for Elgin. Out on the apron, Edwards hits a double stomp on Elgin.

Back in, Edwards hits a double stomp to Elgin's back. Elgin comes back with a buckle bomb. Edwards counters the spinning sit-out powerbomb with a roll up for two. Edwards hits the Die Hard (the renamed 2k1 bomb) for the pin. Good, hard fought main event.

-Roderick Strong comes out to get into Edwards' face. Nigel notices that it's three-on-one in the ring, and climbs in to even the odds. Edwards/Nigel face off with the House of Truth as the show ends.

-FINAL THOUGHTS: Not a bad show, but it still has some issues. Still too much time wasting for a one hour show that's supposed to be focused on in ring action. Kevin Kelly should never try to use a football analogy ever again.