A big title change happened Saturday night at ROH‘s TV taping in Virginia … but for those who don’t want to be spoiled, now is your chance to turn back.
SPOILER:
Jay Lethal defeated Dalton Castle, Cody Rhodes and Matt Taven in a four-way match for the Ring of Honor World Championship at the EagleBank Arena to close “Fairfax Excellence.”
The new champ picked up the pinfall victory after hitting a Lethal Injection on Castle.
This is Jay’s second time the ROH World Championship.
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: (C) The Kingdom vs. EVIL. SANADA & BUSHI – Winners: The Kingdom
Flip Gordon vs. Bully Ray – Winner: Flip Gordon via DQ
Post-match, Bully grabs a trash can and a chair, brings them into the ring and swings the chair on Gordon’s leg. From the back is Eli Isom, but he instantly gets dropped and Bully focuses his attention back on Gordon. Cheeseburger gets in there and lands a bunch of forearms, Bully kicks him and lands a big powerbomb to end the fun. Bully gets a table out from under the ring. Todd Sinclair gets in there to stop Bully, but he gets shoved out. Colt Cabana finally decides to leave commentary with a chair to get Bully to stop. Bully flips the table over at Cabana and bails out of the ring. Crowd with a “Colt Cabana!” chant as Bully heads to the back. (transcript via WrestlingINC)
Sumie Sakai, Jenny Rose, Mayu Iwatani & Tenille Dashwood vs. Kelly Klein, Hazuki, Kagetsu & Hana Kimura – Winners: Sumie Sakai, Jenny Rose, Mayu Iwatani & Tenille Dashwood
Kenny King vs. Austin Aries – Winner: Austin Aries
Jay Lethal vs. KUSHIDA – Winner: Jay Lethal
ROH World TV Championship – Baltimore Street Fight: (C) Punishment Martinez vs. Adam Page – Winner: Punishment Martinez
ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. The Young Bucks – Winners: The Briscoes
Post-match, The Briscoes beat up on the Bucks a bit more. SoCal Uncensored run in with with a chair in hand. Initially they look to go after the Bucks, but Daniels then smacks Jay with it and Mark gets dumped out of the ring. (transcript via WrestlingINC)
ROH World Championship: (C) Dalton Castle vs. Cody vs. Marty Scurll – Winner: Dalton Castle
ROH World Championship: (C) Dalton Castle vs. Cody vs. Marty Scurll
ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. The Young Bucks
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: (C) The Kingdom vs. EVIL. SANADA & BUSHI
ROH World TV Championship – Baltimore Street Fight: (C) Punishment Martinez vs. Adam Page
Flip Gordon vs. Bully Ray
Sumie Sakai, Jenny Rose, Mayu Iwatani & Tenille Dashwood vs. Kelly Klein, Hazuki, Kagetsu & Hana Kimura
Jay Lethal vs. KUSHIDA
Kenny King vs. Austin Aries
It looks like WWE may be trying to repair any damage done to their relationship with Madison Square Garden in New York City as Ring of Honor has lost the date for their MSG debut in 2019, according to PWInsider. It was believed that ROH may have debuted at MSG during WrestleMania 35 Week in April 2019 but that was never confirmed.
As we’ve noted, MSG officials recently reached out to wrestling promotions about working together after they were not happy over how WWE had been using the Barclays Center in nearby Brooklyn, and how none of the WrestleMania 35 Week events were booked at MSG. ROH COO Joe Koff spoke to PWInsider today and confirmed that they lost the date after MSG had talks with WWE.
“You know, I’m going to tell you Mike because you are asking. I’m not going to discuss beyond this statement because I am not going to litigate this in the press,” Koff told PWInsider’s Mike Johnson. “We had a deal with [Madison Square] Garden and they then told us they were backing out after communications from the WWE. We are not able to get any other dates in any kind of discussion. I’m expecting that our lawyers will be contacting all the parties involved and the best we can hope is that we can find a resolution, so we can bring the kind of energy and excitement that ROH and our partner New Japan to a bigger audience and to bigger arenas and to the fans of New York City. ”
When asked if there was the possibility of ROH having a date on the books at MSG, Koff responded, “There is no date and the discussion is going to end here on that.”
No word yet on if Mexico’s AAA promotion still has MSG dates booked for this fall. WWE will return to MSG on July 15th with a live event, featuring The Undertaker and Ronda Rousey.
Source: WrestlingINC
WWE’s The New Day appeared alongside Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks in the latest episode of Being The Elite … but if that wasn’t enough to work you into a frenzy, a potential wrestling match between the two teams was also teased.
Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods are involved in a standoff with Omega and The Bucks ahead of their Street Fighter V showdown at EC3 at the top of this week’s show.
The most interesting moment happens at the end of the video, however, as Omega touts his victory over New Day and Nick Jackson questions if there’s something “better” they can defeat them at.
“The fans want it. I know I want it,” Nick tells Kenny and Matt. “We’re three athletes: think about it. We can beat them at something else.”
“It would have to be neutral ground,” Kenny responds.
Matt mentions a wrestling match … but the video ends and we’re left hanging!
It’s worth noting Triple H said last week that WWE would be open to inter-promotional opportunities with other companies. WWE also hyped The Bucks and Omega on their social channels last week. Is this impossible dream match becoming more probable?
Watch the latest episode of Being The Elite below. The match tease happens in the last minute or so.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO Chris Ripley spoke with The Business Journal of Baltimore and revealed that Ring of Honor is set to make their debut at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2019.
No word yet on when the ROH – MSG debut might happen but this comes as the arena has been reaching out to pro wrestling promotions as WWE has not been running the venue consistently, choosing the Barclays Center in Brooklyn instead. MSG has always been seen as a “home arena” for WWE but there was some heat from the venue over WWE not running any of their WrestleMania 35 events there. It’s very possible that ROH could run MSG head-to-head with one of the WWE shows during WrestleMania 35 Week next year.
Mexico’s AAA promotion will debut at The Garden in September, making them the first wrestling promotion in decades to run MSG outside of WWE. It will be interesting to see how these smaller promotions fill The Garden as the arena has a seating capacity of 20,789. The largest crowd ROH has ever done was around 6,000 for a show during WrestleMania 34 Week in New Orleans.
Source: WrestlingINC
On the latest episode of the Killing The Town podcast, hosts Paul Lazenby and Impact Wrestling Vice President discussed IMPACT Wrestling accepting Chris Jericho’s invitation on his cruise in October and possibly challenging ROH. You can listen to the podcast here, below are some highlights courtesy of Wrestling Inc. reader Himanshu D:
“So we’re doing the press conference and Austin Aries is there, Moose, Madison Rayne, Gail Kim, and then Scott D’Amore, Ed Nordholm and myself were up on stage as the executive team and interestingly I figured most of the questions if not all would be about Slammiversary but we did get one question about Sami’s comments, and I guess there were more but after the one person asked then the others kinda let it go but they wanted to talk to me afterwards about it because I kinda hung around and talked to about 50 reporters there. The question was ‘What do you make of Sami’s comments?’ and I hadn’t had a lot of time to think about it because I was just real busy with TV but I basically said, ‘I think for once I kinda find myself agreeing with Sami.’
“I’ve never really talked to Chris about it because I haven’t had time the last few months but it’s like, ‘yeah, why isn’t IMPACT Wrestling on there?’. Forget my nearly 30 year friendship with Jericho, you’ve got Ring Of Honor and no one else and we know that sometimes those guys like to do things on their own and I’m sure there’s a reason for that but that’s not IMPACT’s kinda thing so I was like, ‘yeah that is interesting’ and so I kinda said at the press conference that I felt like maybe there was something to Sami’s comments and we may have to investigate that further and then Ed Nordholm, the president of IMPACT Wrestling, basically just piped up and said, ‘Well I think you guys are being too politically correct here. Yeah Sami’s right, we should be there and by the way we’re going.’ So I don’t know what that means other than I guess IMPACT Wrestling in some form or fashion is going on this cruise as Ed’s the boss and he says we’re going so I don’t know what form that’s gonna take. I assume that means Callihan is going which is disturbing. Just what you didn’t want. He worked himself into a shoot to apparently but with Sami, you shot yourself into a shoot.”
What other talent will be going:
“I don’t know what other talent. We haven’t had discussions about it but I see Jericho’s been tweeting about it. Well I’m used to dealing with Chris so I’m sure that’s gonna be fine. We’re not gonna buy our own cabins.”
The possibility of Impact vs. ROH on the cruise:
“I think, to use Sami’s language, ‘If Chris and Ring Of Honor have the intestinal fortitude to step up and say, ‘Yeah we’ll accept that challenge’, I think it’s what’s best for the Jericho Cruise and it’s definitely what’s best for the fans because you can see people love interpromotional, we’ve been doing Lucha Underground, we’ve got IMPACT vs UK coming up, so we’ve already been doing that stuff, breaking those paradigms of professional wrestling, that whole insular mentality of ‘we only work with who we work with’ etc. I think that we’re in a position now with this where there are some really cool stuff for the fans. IMPACT vs Ring Of Honor could be very interesting and I’ll be interested to have some internal discussions about who we might take on that cruise ’cause I don’t know other than Callihan and who knows whether he’s available or allowed to travel internationally.”
“I think that it’s an interesting thing that it’ll be the first time that you’ve really got Ring Of Honor in kind of the same… very enclosed space, I guess you’d say, with IMPACT Wrestling. Who knows exactly what is gonna happen with that. Should be interesting, we’ll see what happens.”
Source: WrestlingINC
A hurricane is about to roll through ROH events in Texas and Virginia later this month … because Shane Helms will be making his debut for the company.
According to the announcement, Helms’ is set to wrestle on June 15 in San Antonio for ROH State of the Art. He’ll also step in the ring on June 16 in Dallas and on June 30 for a TV taping in Fairfax, VA.
As you may recall, The Hurricane recently made a surprise appearance at the Royal Rumble.
No word on who Helms is scheduled to face-off against, but with a plethora of options we’d like to hear from you. Sound off in the comments below and tell us who you’d like to see him wrestle in ROH.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis appeared at Ring of Honor’s Honor United: London event to challenge Cody Rhodes for a Title vs. Title match at the All In show on September 1 in Chicago. Aldis made the stipulation to Cody he would only face him at All In if he wins back the ROH World Championship from Dalton Castle at the Best in the World pay-per view held in Baltimore on June 29. Cody accepted the challenge.
Sunday, the National Wrestling Alliance released a video featuring the exchange back-and-forth between Cody and Nick Aldis which can be seen below:
Source: WrestleView
ROH announced NWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis will debut at ROH Honor United: Edinburgh against The Young Bucks. Aldis tweeted out that before he signs the dotted line to face Cody Rhodes at All In on September 1, he wanted a match against the Young Bucks and ROH can pick his partner. Aldis did appear in the crowd at ROH Supercard of Honor XII to cheer on Marty Scurll in his title match against Dalton Castle. Earlier this week at the All In press conference, NWA President Billy Corgan made an appearance and Cody announced that he would be challenging for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Source: WrestlingINC
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