Category: ROH

Former ROH TV Champion Punishment Martinez Reportedly Done With The Company, Heading To WWE

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At the Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view, Punishment Martinez successfully defended the Ring of Honor Television Championship, defeating Chris Sabin in the process. Martinez continued to attack Sabin after the match, until Jeff Cobb made the save. Cobb then laid out Martinez with a swinging suplex, before heading to the back.

During last night’s Death Before Dishonor TV tapings, Punishment Martinez defended the title yet again, this time against Jeff Cobb. Martinez dropped the ROH Television Championship to Cobb, and according to F4WOnline, Martinez has reportedly worked his final match for the promotion.

It is also being reported that the former Ring of Honor Television Champion is heading to the WWE.

Martinez trained at the Monster Factory, and has been competing in Ring of Honor since 2015. The wrestler won the Survival of the Fittest tournament in 2017, and unsuccessfully challenged for the NEVER Openweight Championship last year. Martinez won his first championship in Ring of Honor back in June this year, defeating Silas Young to become the new Ring of Honor Television Champion.

Source: WrestlingINC

Tenille Dashwood Injured, Shoulder Surgery Required

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Tenille Dashwood will be out of action until further notice, as she announced during a Ring of Honor TV taping on Saturday that she’s in need of shoulder surgery.

Dashwood explained during the announcement that she’s been been wrestling on a bad shoulder for six months and now surgery is required. Dashwood also revealed that in addition to an injured shoulder, she has an autoimmune disease and a skin condition.

According to PWInsider, the injury is legitimate and not an angle.

No word at this point on how long Tenille will be out of action.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

ROH Death Before Dishonor 9/28/18 Results

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Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs. Kenny King – Winner: Kenny King 

ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. The Addiction – Winners: The Briscoes

ROH Women of Honor Championship: (C) Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood – Winner: Sumie Sakai 

ROH World Television Championship: (C) Punishment Martinez vs. Chris Sabin – Winner: Punishment Martinez

Tables Match: Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young – Winners: Bully Ray and Silas Young

Bully powerbombed Cabana through a table, Cabana eliminated. Bully crashed through a table and eliminated. Young crushed Gordon with a clothesline who went crashing down to the floor. Young sat a table up in the ring and sent Gordon back in. Reversals near the table, a referee bump. Spear by Gordon, 450 splash on Young through the table, but the referee is still out. Bully got up, knocked down Gordon, put him on the wrecked table and moved Young off it. Referee woke up, sees where Gordon is and called the match.

Bullet Club (Cody, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page & Marty Scurll) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Chuckie T, Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii, & Rocky Romero) – Winners: Bullet Club

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay – Winner: Jay Lethal

ROH Death Before Dishonor 9/28/18

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Death Before Dishonor will be live from the Orleans Arena 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT via traditional PPV, Fite.tv, and ROH HonorClub.

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay

ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. The Addiction

Bullet Club (Cody, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page & Marty Scurll) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Chuckie T, Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii, & Rocky Romero)

ROH Women of Honor Championship: (C) Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood

ROH World Television Championship: (C) Punishment Martinez vs. Chris Sabin

Tables Match: Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young

Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs. Kenny King

Details On Cody Rhodes’ First NWA Title Defense

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Last night the National Wrestling Alliance announced via Twitter that champion Cody Rhodes will be making his first defense of the NWA heavyweight championship at the Ring of Honor event on September 29th. His opponent will be Willie Mack, best known for his work on Lucha Underground and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

This announcement comes nearly a week after the NWA announced a title rematch for former champion Nick Aldis, who earned another opportunity at the American Nightmare after defeating Doug Williams in a #1 contenders match at Wrestling MediaCon. Cody won the NWA title from Nick Aldis earlier this month at his self-produced ALL IN event from the Sears Centre in Illinois. Prior to that, Aldis held the belt for an astounding 266 days and at one point defended it 20 times over the course of 60 days, concluding with a victory over Colt Cabana in China.

Aldis will presumably take on the winner of Cody and The Mack.

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Source: WrestlingINC

Cody Rhodes Discusses What He Would Do Differently For “All In 2”

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Recently on The Jim Ross Report, WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross caught up with the newly crowned NWA World’s Heavyweight Champion, Cody. Among many other pro wrestling topics, ‘The Grandson Of A Plumber’ talked about his role at All In and what he learned from his experience, planning a sequel to the wildly successful indie show, and the future of the NWA’s top prize.

According to Cody, he produced the second half of All In and was in charge of timing the show.

“I didn’t get a chance to sleep [after All In] and I went right to gorilla [position] after my match and I directed and timed the last half of the show.” Cody admitted, “I’m not the best timer judging by the main event time. I’m learning! But I didn’t get that moment to… I didn’t get many moments. It was just happening so fast.”

During the interview, Cody hinted at planning another All In and noted that he learned a lot about time management [except for timing pro wrestling matches].

“Well, maybe we already started planning [laughs].” Cody added, “I kept writing these lists. And my dad was a big list guy and I have become a big list guy too. I kept writing these lists of these are the things to do to make sure you’re in peak condition, and also make sure you’re in peak mental state, and make sure you paid this guy and talked to this guy. I also learned I wanted to do every single thing with this show. I wanted to do payroll; I wanted to know elements of production; I wanted to know how many chairs were in the union catering room.

“Just, next time, I don’t need to know all that stuff. I also learned you are only as good as the team around you and we’ve discovered some new teammates over the course of [All In] weekend.”

With respect to the future of the NWA title, Cody claimed that he would like to continue on the NWA’s tradition of having a traveling champion.

“Well, I want to continue the path of the traveling champion.” Cody continued, “that’s kind of what I grew up on, the type of [pro] wrestling I like. Even though it’s a generation prior to me, when I look back at what [Ric] Flair was able to do, what Jack Brisco was able to do, their date book alone, and not just, ‘oh, I did it,’ but I did it and it was the best thing of the night. Like, I did it with consistency, but it rubs some people the wrong way and that’s fine. I think most people enjoy it.

“I don’t really believe in the politics of wrestling anymore. I understand if this isn’t your company’s title, but if you’re asking me to come wrestle for your company, I’m wearing the damn title. There’s no [way around that], right? It takes an organization, it does, to facilitate and get that ring set up. And it takes a crew to tighten those ropes, but a big focus [at All In] was ‘this is a wrestling show by wrestlers.’ And yeah, there [are] some things we could have learned from a company standpoint, an organizational standpoint, but that’s how I go into everything I do. When I go to Long Beach [California for NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed] to wrestle Juice Robinson for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, I’ll be wearing this too. I’m taking it everywhere I go and I’m excited to do that.”

Source: WrestlingINC and The Jim Ross Report

“All In” Results 9/1/18

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Cody Rhodes and The Young Buck come out to welcome the crowd. The shot T-shirts into the crowd and Road Warrior Animal came out on a motorcycle

(Zero Hour) The Briscoes vs. SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) – Winners: SoCal Uncensored

(Zero Hour) The Over Budget Battle Royal (Winner gets ROH Title shot later in the show): Jordynne Grace, Moose, Rocky Romero, Colt Cabana, Ethan Page, Brian Cage, Billy Gunn, Austin Gunn, Jimmy Jacobs, Marko Stunt, Brandon Cutler, Hurricane Shane Helms, Tommy Dreamer, Bully Ray, Cheeseburger, Punishment Martinez, Chico (I’m not sure I listed all of the competitors) –

Bully thought he had won but forgot about Chico who he put through a table at start of match, Chico comes and and eliminates Bully for the win. Chico unmasked and it was Flip Gordon.

Winner: Flip Gordon

MJF vs. Matt Cross –Winner: Matt Cross

Stephen Amell w/Arrow co-star, Jason Saggo vs. Christopher Daniels (Jerry Lynn is the referee) – Winner: Christopher Daniels

Madison Rayne vs. Tessa Blanchard vs. Britt Baker vs. Chelsea Green – Winner: Tessa Blanchard

NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship: (C) Nick Aldis w/Tim Storm, Jeff Jarrett, Shawn Daivari, and others vs. Cody Rhodes  w/the Nightmare Family (Tommy Dreamer, DDP, Glacier, Pharaoh, and other family members) – Winner and new NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion: Cody Rhodes

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Chicago Street Fight:  Hangman Adam Page vs. Joey Janela (with Penelope Ford) – Winner: Hangman Page

Post-match, a video is shown of Joey Ryan “rising” up. A bunch of druid like dudes (dressed like…well, you can imagine) walk out to the stage. Joey Ryan’s music hits and he heads out to the ring as Page watches on. Ryan poses for the crowd, puts on some baby oil. Page can’t believe Ryan is alive, Ryan drops Page and he ends up being carried to the back by Ryan’s phallic druids.

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal as Black Machismo w/Lanny Poffo vs. Flip Gordon w/Brandi Rhodes – Winner: Jay Lethal

Post-match, Brandi checks on Flip. lethal puts his hands out and Flip shakes it, but holds on and then gives him a hug. From the back runs Bully Ray and hits a double clothesline. He then swings a chain at Flip over and over. Lanny gets into the ring and Bully just kicks him between the legs. Bully grabs a table and brings it into the ring. Out from the back comes Colt Cabana who spears and swings away on Bully. Lethal, Flip and Colt triple powerbomb Bully through a table.

Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr. – Winner: Kenny Omega

Post-match, the lights went out, and when they came back on Pentagon Jr. attacked Omega but it wasn’t Pentagon it was Chris Jericho in disguise. Jericho said he will see Omega at the Jericho cruise and he leaves through the crowd. Jericho then shows up and pops Don Callis.

Kazuchika Okada vs. Marty Scurll – Winner: Kazuchika Okada

Rey Mysterio, Bandido & Fenix vs. The Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi – Winners: The Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi

“All In” Card 9/1/18

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“All In” will take place Saturday Night from the Sears Centre in Chicago, Illinois.

You can watch the show on traditional PPV, Fite.tv, or ROH HonorClub. All In: Zero Hour will air exclusively on WGN America at 7pm ET with the main card beginning at 8pm ET. NJPW World will be airing All In sometime after the live broadcast.

Rey Mysterio, Bandido & Fenix vs. The Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi

Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon Jr.

NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship: (C) Nick Aldis vs. Cody Rhodes

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Winner of The Over Budget Battle Royal

Kazuchika Okada vs. Marty Scurll

Chicago Street Fight: Adam Page vs. Joey Janela (with Penelope Ford)

Stephen Amell vs. Christopher Daniels

Madison Rayne vs. Tessa Blanchard vs. Britt Baker vs. Chelsea Green

(Zero Hour) The Briscoes vs. Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky

(Zero Hour) The Over Budget Battle Royal (Winner gets ROH Title shot later in the show): Jordynne Grace, Moose, Rocky Romero, Colt Cabana, Ethan Page, Brian Cage, Billy Gunn, Jimmy Jacobs, Marko Stunt, Brandon Cutler, and TBA

 

Top 10 wrestlers revealed for the upcoming annual Pro Wrestling Illustrated “PWI 500” list

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On this week’s episode of Jim Ross’s Ross Report podcast, Pro Wrestling Illustrated Senior Editor Dan Murphy was on the show and revealed the top 10 wrestlers for the annual “PWI 500” list of wrestlers that the magazine puts out every year.

The list is as follows:

1. Kenny Omega
2. AJ Styles
3. Kazuchika Okada
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Seth Rollins
6. Braun Strowman
7. Roman Reigns
8. Cody
9. Tetsuya Naito
10. The Miz

The annual issue will be released in September.

Source: WrestleView

NJPW Announced Plans For Airing ‘All In’ On NJPW World

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NJPW announced shortly after “All In” airs this Saturday, NJPW World will have it available for subscribers, but no word on how quickly it will be up on the service. “All In” will be live through traditional PPV, Fite.tv, and ROH’s HonorClub. We will have complete live coverage of the show beginning at 7pm ET on Saturday.