Tag: ROH

ROH On New England Sports Network

According to PWInsider, Ring of Honor will air tonight on the New England Sports Network. While it may not be picked up by all NESN’s affiliates, this week’s episode of ROH TV will air at midnight ET. The episode featured the ROH in-ring return of Chris Sabin, as well as Alberto El Patron in action.

ROH has yet to make an official announcement about the airing, so tonight’s episode may not be considered the “official debut” by the company. NESN is available on DirecTV and Dish Network.

Source: WrestlingINC.com

Matches Announced For ROH & NJPW ‘Global Wars’ May 15 & 16

Ring of Honor announced the matches for ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s ‘Global Wars’ that will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 15 & 16. Night 1 on May 15 will be iPPV and Night 2 will be a ROH TV taping.

Global Wars Night 1 on May 15:

ACH VS Shinsuke Nakamura

Moose & Gedo VS Silas Young & Takaaki Watanabe

Chris Sabin VS KUSHIDA

The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/ Maria Kanellis VS Jushin Thunder Liger & Matt Sydal

4 Corners Survival Tag Team Match: RPG Vice (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta) VS The Addiction (Daniels & Kazarian) VS The Decade (Jimmy Jacobs & BJ Whitmer) VS reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish)

Cedric Alexander VS Kazuchika Okada

Michael Elgin VS Hiroshi Tanahashi

ROH World TV Title: (C) Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS Tetsuya Naito

ROH All Stars (The Briscoes, Roderick Strong, Hanson & Raymond Rowe) VS The Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & The Young Bucks)

 

Global Wars Night 2 on May 16

KUSHIDA VS Will Ferrara

Michael Elgin VS Gedo

Jushin Thunder Liger VS Dalton Castle

The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis VS The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)

Tetsuya Naito & Hiroshi Tanahashi VS ACH & Matt Sydal

Shinsuke Nakamura VS Roderick Strong

The Bullet Club (AJ Styles & The Young Bucks) VS RPG Vive (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta) & Kazuchika Okada

Matches Announced For ROH & NJPW ‘War Of The Worlds’ May 12 &13

Ring of Honor announced the matches for ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s ‘War of the Worlds’ event that will take place in the old ECW Arena in Philadelphia on May 12 and 13.

War of the Worlds Night 1 on May 12:

Delirious VS Gedo

Roderick Strong VS KUSHIDA

Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini VS Takaaki Watanabe

Michael Elgin VS Tetsuya Naito

reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) VS Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger

The Addiction (Daniels & Kazarian) VS The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis

AJ Styles VS ????????

The Briscoes VS Kazuchika Okada & Shinsuke Nakamura

 

War of the Worlds Night 2 on May 13:

Adam Page VS Takaaki Watanabe

Michael Elgin VS KUSHIDA

Kyle O’Reilly VS Tetsuya Naito

Roderick Strong VS Hiroshi Tanahashi

The Addiction VS Kazuchika Okada & Gedo

4 Corner Survival Match: Jay Lethal VS Shinsuke Nakamura VS Mark Briscoe VS Jushin Thunder Liger

ROH World Title: (C) Jay Briscoe VS Bobby Fish

The Kingdom (Adam Cole, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) w/Maria Kanellis VS The Bullet Club (AJ Styles & The Young Bucks)

 

The Briscoe’s Not Signing With WWE

The Briscoe brothers (Jay and Mark) will not be signing with WWE. They are expected to stay with Ring of Honor. F4WOnline reports that ROH recently made another offer to them and it was better than WWE’s offer. The Briscoe’s went back to WWE officials but they wouldn’t budge on their offer.

Source: WrestlingINC.com

 

Major NJPW Stars Announced For ROH/NJPW May Shows

Ring of Honor announced that booth Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada of New Japan Pro-Wrestling will appearing at the ROH/NJPW shows in May.

 

Former ROH Champion Announced His Departure

Former Ring Of Honor Champion Tommaso Ciampa announced his departure from ROH on Twitter.

ROH Supercard Of Honor IX – 3/27/15

Ring Of Honor – Supercard of Honor IX – Redwood City, CA – 3/27/15

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Briscoe VS Samoa Joe

ROH World Television Chapionship: (C) Jay Lethal VS Jushin “Thunder” Liger

ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) reDRagon VS The Kingdom w/Maria Kanellis

BJ Whitmer VS Jimmy Jacobs

Christopher Daniels VS Roderick Strong

Frankie Kazarian VS Michael Elgin

Also scheduled to appear – Mark Briscoe, Matt Sydal, ACH – plus more

NXT Stars making transition to the main roster?

It is being reported via wrestlinginc.com that word within WWE is that the direction of NXT has changed as of late. HHH loves the praise he gets on NXT and he’s looking to capitalize on that.

Originally NXT was meant for “rookies” to learn and eventually establish themselves as stars to be called up to the big leagues known as Raw and SmackDown. However that tune has changed as of late. Now what HHH wants to do is take well established indie wrestlers (more specifically the ones in ROH) wait till their contracts expire and then call them up to NXT. Right now the feeling is NXT is a brand within itself and if you have experimented wrestlers your bound to get great matches.

Now as far as well known faces of NXT there has been no talks of NXT champion Kevin Owens or former champion Sami Zayn being called up to the main roster just yet. There  has been talks though of calling NXT women’s champion Sasha Banks up to the main roster along with Adrian Neville and possibly Charlotte. Word is that if these calls up happen it’ll be sometime after WrestleMania.

That doesn’t surprise me especially if one of those 3 debut on Raw the next night. The raw after mania is always a highly rated Raw and further more last year when Paige debuted is proof that there’s no better way to do it.

How do you guys feel about these reports? Does it make you excited and hopeful for the future? I know it does for me. Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

ROH’s Tag champs reDRagon have found their Ringo Star

Last Sunday at ROH’s 13th Aniversury reDRagon successfully defended their tag team titles against the Young Buks in what many called the match of the night, with the assist from our good friend, member of the 4Horsewomen, WMMA pioneer, and UFC fighter Shayna Baszler.

By the looks of this video it seems that O’Reilly, Fish and Baszler have formed an alliance. I don’t know about you but to me that sounds pretty bad ass.

Recently a fan asked Shayna on Twitter if we world see her in the wrestling ring again to which Baszler replied “not while there’s faces to smash in the UFC” (Baszler takes on Amanda Nunes at UFC fight night 62 on March 21st)

Still seeing the Queen of Spades and now the newly named “Mother of the dragons” in a the ROH ring again doesn’t seem so far fetched. I mean she’s a certified catch wrestler under the late great Billy Robinson and she dabbles in professional wrestling training under couch Josh Barnett and gets occasional help from WWE diva Natalya.

Not to mention she embodies that heel character pretty well. Check out the reDRagon promo with Baszler here.

Does this make you guys as excited as it makes us here at WrestlingNewsBlog? Let us know in the comments.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)