Saturday, August 8, 2009

ROH A Cut Above (4/24/09)

Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Edwards ***3/4
I think I liked this a lot more than most people did. It was a pretty exciting match and they brought the hate, as Danielson always does.

Rasche Brown vs. Silas Young vs. Matt Cross vs. Claudio Castagnoli *
Does Pearce hate Claudio?

Jimmy Rave vs. Grizzly Redwood DUD

Austin Aries & Rhett Titus vs. The Phoenix Twins (Tweek & Dash) **1/2

Chris Hero vs. Colt Cabana ***1/2

Egotistico Fantastico vs. Jimmy Jacobs **3/4

Davey Richards vs. Tyler Black ****

Jay Briscoe & Kevin Steen vs. Dark City Fight Club (Jon Davis & Kory Chavis) ***

ROH World Championship
Jerry Lynn (c) vs. Roderick Strong ****

Pretty awesome show, except it could have been better if they would have spread out the three matches between Danielson/Edwards and Hero/Cabana. Those three matches almost took me out of the show.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

WWE Night of Champions (7/26/09)

WWE Unified Tag Team Championship
Chris Jericho & The Big Show (c) vs. Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes ***1/4

ECW Championship
Tommy Dreamer (c) vs. Christian ***1/4

WWE United States Championship
Kofi Kingston (c) vs. MVP vs. Primo vs. Carlito vs. Jack Swagger vs. The Miz ***3/4

WWE Women's Championship
Michelle McCool (c) vs. Melina ***1/4
My favorite women's match in a long time. Surprisingly though, seeing as how I love TNA's Knockout division. TNA just hasn't had any *** PPV women's matches this year. This match had some unusual spots for your typical women's match. Definitely worth a watch, IMO. Michelle is awesome, in my book.

WWE Championship
Randy Orton (c) vs. John Cena vs. Triple H ***1/2

WWE Divas Championship
Maryse (c) vs. Mickie James *3/4
The crowd was completely dead and not into this match at all. It wasn't a very good match anyway.

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Rey Mysterio (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler ***
The dead crowd really put a damper on this one. They did some good work, although much of the match consisted of rest-holds. Decent match, could have gotten up to ***1/2 if the crowd had been into it.

World Heavyweight Championship
CM Punk (c) vs. Jeff Hardy ***1/2

Another good PPV from WWE in 2009. Definitely worth checking out, if you get the chance.

TNA Victory Road (7/19/09)

TNA Knockouts Championship
Tara (c) vs. Angelina Love **3/4

Christopher Daniels vs. Matt Morgan ***1/4
This was my Match of the Night, which surprised the hell out of me. Morgan showed me he can have a decent match here. Either that or Daniels can have a good match with anyone.

No Disqualifications
Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie *1/2

The British Invasion (Doug Williams & Brutus Magnus) vs. Team 3D (Brother Ray & Brother Devon) **

Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell DUD

TNA Legends Championship
AJ Styles (c) vs. Kevin Nash **1/4

TNA World Tag Team Championship
Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm & Robert Roode) (c) vs. Booker T & Scott Steiner **3/4

Samoa Joe vs. Sting ***
The way they introduced Taz was VERY anticlimactic. They could have done that a lot better, and I bet Taz felt awkward just walking out there and then just standing there. He should have shown up after the match and spoke about how he is Joe's advisor, etc., etc.

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Kurt Angle (c) vs. Mick Foley **1/2

Pretty decent PPV, although the match quality wasn't great, they did well with continuing some stories. Morgan/Daniels was MOTN. Worth watching.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

CHIKARA The Bobliographon (4/26/09)

Shadow Phoenix vs. Claudio Castagnoli **1/2

2.0 vs. Cheech & Cloudy vs. The Super Smash Brothers vs. The UnStable **1/2

UltraMantis Black vs. Create-A-Wrestler *1/2

The Roughnecks vs. Incoherence ***3/4

Shark Girl vs. Sara Del Rey *1/2

The Future Is Now vs. The Osirian Portal ***3/4

Vin Gerard vs. Glacier 1/2
Wow, what a terrible match. Someone tell Glacier this isn't WCW Saturday Night.

F.I.S.T. & Buck Hawke vs. Mike Quackenbush, Jigsaw & The Colony ****1/4
Currently number 32 on my MOTYC list. Tremendous match, IMO.

Pretty good show, 3 awesome matches. Rest was meh.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

NJPW Best of the Super Juniors XVI (5/30/09)

Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Nobuo Yoshihashi *

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe, Wataru Inoue & Tomoaki Honma vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii **3/4

Manabu Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada ***1/2

Block A
Prince Devitt vs. Milano Collection AT ***3/4

Block B
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. YAMATO ***1/4

Block A
Tiger Mask IV vs. Atsushi Aoki **3/4

Block B
Kota Ibushi vs. Koji Kanemoto ***3/4

I watched it all out of order, but seems like a pretty good show. Worth checking it out.

CHIKARA Behind the 8-Ball (4/25/09)

.0 vs. Incoherence ***1/4

Nevaeh vs. Shark Girl **1/2

Escorpion Egipcio vs. Helios **3/4

Player Uno, Hydra, Vin Gerard & Buck Hawke vs. Player Dos, Tim Donst, STIGMA & Brodie Lee *1/4

Gran Akuma vs. Shadow Phoenix ***1/4
Oh the sloppiness. That hurt the match badly. It could have been so much better.

F.I.S.T. vs. The Colony ***1/2

Young Lions Cup Championship
Equinox (c) vs. Colin Delaney ***

2 out of 3 Falls Match for the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas
The Osirian Portal (c) vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw ***1/4
I think the flow to this match did not work too well. I think there wasn't enough Quack and that's bad, because it was such a long match and the other three seemed to have problems working so long. The psychology was a little off.

Overall, a solid show that's worth getting.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

PWG Based on a True Story (1/13/07)

Frankie Kazarian vs. Scorpio Sky ***1/2

Colt Cabana vs. Rocky Romero **

Karl Anderson, Bino Gambino & Scott Lost vs. Nemesis, TJ Perkins & Disco Machine ***

Kevin Steen vs. Chris Bosh ***3/4
Some cool spots in this one. It was pretty brutal, especially the finisher Steen used.

Super Dragon vs. Ronin ***1/4
This one kinda surprised me. Pretty good match.

PWG World Tag Team Championship
El Generico & Quicksilver (c) vs. Phoenix Star & Zokre ****

Guerrilla Warfare Match for the PWG World Championship
Joey Ryan (c) vs. Human Tornado ****1/4
This was pretty awesome. There were some pretty sick spots also. It was really good. Though, at the beginning, it was pretty hard to get into. It got a lot better though.

Overall, it was a pretty great show. One of the best overall shows that I have, to be honest. Worth picking up.