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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pro-Wrestling NOAH (1/12/09)

Takeshi Rikio, Mohammed Yone & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Shuhei Taniguchi **3/4

KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi ***3/4

Takuma Sano vs. Go Shiozaki ****

Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Jun Akiyama & Atsushi Aoki ****

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III (1/4/09)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Yujiro & Naito (c) vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin ***3/4

Manabu Nakanishi vs. Jun Akiyama ***1/2

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (c) vs. Brother Ray & Brother Devon **

Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono, Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash vs. Giant Bernard, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson **1/2

Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura ****1/4
Currently number 29 on my MOTYC list.

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Keiji Mutoh (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi **3/4
Wow this one really bored me. My rating is probably being generous, but they went so long, and had some cool stuff in there. Mostly, though, it was just a bunch of the same stuff over and over again, especially by Mutoh. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you wanna watch it.

Pro-Wrestling NOAH (2/15/09)

Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Kotaro Suzuki & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Aoki & Akihiro Ito ****

KENTA & Ippei Ota vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara ****

Takeshi Morishima & Makoto Hashi vs. Takeshi Rikio & Mohammed Yone **

Jun Akiyama & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Takashi Sugiura & Go Shiozaki ***3/4

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2/15/09)

Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto ****1/4
Currently number 28 on my MOTYC list.

Kurt Angle vs. Giant Bernard ***1/4

Hardcore Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
Brother Ray & Brother Devon (c) vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano ***3/4

CMLL World Welterweight Championship
Mistico (c) vs. Mephisto **3/4
I don't watch these guys often, but they seemed to either be very sloppy or just off their game. Decent match, but skippable.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Tiger Mask IV (c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger ***1/4

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura ****

ROH Double Feature II

ROH The Hunt Begins (4/17/09)

Jimmy Jacobs vs. Tyler Black ***3/4

Jay Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong vs. Kenny Omega vs. Austin Aries ***1/4

Jimmy Rave & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Colt Cabana & Brent Albright **3/4

Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards & Sylvain Grenier vs. Kevin Steen, El Generico & Bryan Danielson ***1/4
I'd like to know who's idea it was for Grenier to not be involved in this match much. I mean, did everyone else say "Ya know, we don't think you're very good, so uhh we got this, don't worry about it." or did Grenier say "You guys are a lot better than I am, to be honest, I don't really need to be a big part of this match, do I?" Either way, I'm sure it was a good idea, because it was a pretty good match.

ROH Tag Title Classic (4/18/09)

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Colt Cabana **3/4

Austin Aries, Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. Kevin Steen, Player Dos & Kenny Omega ***1/4

Markham Street Fight
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Delirious ***1/4

Jay Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong ***3/4

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards (c) vs. Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black *****
I might get some flack for giving this 5 stars, but I don't care. It also entertained me more than KENTA/Davey did and I gave that one 5 stars too. I never lost interest in this match at all. The pace was never too slow, never too fast. It was tag team wrestling at it's finest. Danielson is just brilliant when it comes to selling a leg. They were all noticeably worn out near the end of the match, and rightfully so. If you've got 45 minutes to kill sometime, you better watch this match. This is my Match of the Year. It'll be hard to top.

Pretty awesome DVD right here, definitely worth getting. Not a bad match throughout, plus you get to see a bonafide classic tag team contest. One shame about this DVD is that if someone new to ROH were to watch it, they wouldn't know who the World champion was at the time.

WWE The Bash (6/28/09)

Scramble Match for the ECW Championship
Tommy Dreamer (c) vs. Christian vs. Finlay vs. Mark Henry vs. Jack Swagger **3/4
Pretty average match. Though I'm not sure why Dreamer went for another cover when he was already the one that had the last pin.

Title vs. Mask for the Intercontinental Championship
Chris Jericho (c) vs. Rey Mysterio ****1/4
Very entertaining match. They set this one apart from all their other contests. Very, very good match. Definitely a must-see.

The Great Khali vs. Dolph Ziggler *

Unified Tag Team Championship
Carlito & Primo (c) vs. Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes vs. Edge & Chris Jericho *1/2

WWE Women's Championship
Melina (c) vs. Michelle McCool **1/4

World Heavyweight Championship
CM Punk (c) vs. Jeff Hardy ***
My god, what a finish this match had. It wasn't a superb wrestling match, but it was good and had an even better finish. I'm loving Punk's heel turn. I'm excited to finally see him pull out his heel persona in the WWE.

The Miz vs. John Cena 3/4

3 Stages of Hell for the WWE Championship
Randy Orton (c) vs. Triple H ***3/4
I was predicting to myself that Triple H would sacrifice the first fall, just so he could get to the Falls Count Anywhere stage. This way he could use the steel chair to annihilate Orton. By the way, why did the ref make him stop? He can do whatever he wants in Falls Count Anywhere. I hate when the referees look retarded like that. Anyway, the stretcher match was pretty well done, and Orton and Hunter put on a quality match together. This one is worth viewing.

Aside from Rey/Jericho and Orton/HHH, this one isn't up there in match quality, but it made up for it, with the stories they added to the show. Jericho and Edge being added to the tag title match, out of desperation by Teddy. Then Orton and DiBiase having an argument about what's important. It was a pretty good pay-per-view, IMO and WWE keeps on dishing out monthly goodness.

ROH Night of Appreciation (4/27/02)

Da Hit Squad vs. Christopher Street Connection vs. Prince Nana & Simply Luscious DUD
Some crazy spots, but it was more of a brawl. Could have done without this.

Jay Briscoe vs. Tony Mamaluke ***

Scoot Andrews vs. James Maritato vs. Xavier **3/4

AJ Styles vs. Low Ki ****1/4

Donovan Morgan vs. Christopher Daniels ***3/4

Paul London vs. Michael Shane *

Michael Shane vs. Spanky ***1/2

Spanky vs. Bryan Danielson ***1/2

Jose & Joel Maximo vs. Eddie Guerrero & The Amazing Red ***1/2

Pretty damn good show. Though, I don't know why London/Shane went less than 3 minutes, then Shane/Spanky and Spanky/Dragon went 10+ each. London got some easy money that night, I guess.

ROH Supercard of Honor IV (4/3/09)

Rhett Titus vs. Erick Stevens **1/4

Chris Hero, Eddie Edwards & Incognito vs. Kevin Steen, Jay Briscoe & Magno ***1/4

Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Roderick Strong ***3/4
Would have gotten 4 stars if it'd been longer. Seemed like it only had one long stretch of fast-paced action.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright vs. Blue Demon Jr. vs. El Generico **

Bryan Danielson vs. Alex Koslov ***1/4
I liked Koslov's match with Strong more than this one, but this one wasn't bad at all. Koslov is awesome, in my book.

D-Lo Brown vs. Colt Cabana **1/2

GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship
KENTA (c) vs. Davey Richards ****1/2
This was so awesome, not quite ***** though. They damn near kicked each others' heads off. The editing of the finish looked retarded though. I was like "WTF?"

Jimmy Jacobs & Austin Aries vs. Tyler Black & Necro Butcher ***

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Jerry Lynn ****1/4

Great show. Not a lot of tremendous stuff, except for 2 or 3 matches, but nothing was really bad. You might notice (or not) that I left Dempsey/Kamala off my ratings. Well that's because the match never happened. Dempsey gave Hagadorn a cannonball in the corner and that was it. This show is definitely worth seeing.

TNA Slammiversary (6/21/09)

King of the Mountain Match for the TNA X-Division Championship
Suicide (c) vs. Jay Lethal vs. Alex Shelley vs. Consequences Creed vs. Chris Sabin ****1/4

Christopher Daniels vs. Shane Douglas **1/4

TNA Knockouts Championsip
Angelina Love (c) vs. Tara **1/2

Monster's Ball
Raven & Daffney vs. Abyss & Taylor Wilde ***3/4

Matt Morgan vs. Sting **1/2

TNA World Tag Team Championship
Brother Ray & Brother Devon (c) vs. James Storm & Robert Roode ***3/4

King of the Mountain Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Mick Foley (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle ****1/4

Really good show, IMO. Matt Morgan surprised the hell out of me. His match with Sting wasn't too bad. The two KOTM matches were awesome. Worth seeing.

ROH Fifth Year Festival: Liverpool (3/3/07)

Davey Richards vs. Homicide ***1/2

Sara Del Rey vs. Allison Danger **1/2

Jimmy Rave & Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer & Colt Cabana ***

2 out of 3 Falls
Delirious vs. Matt Sydal ***1/4

FIP World Heavyweight Championship
Roderick Strong (c) vs. PAC ****

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jay & Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Naruki Doi & Shingo ****1/2

Nigel McGuinness vs. Samoa Joe ****3/4
This should have been Joe's farewell match at the Finale. I know it was only fitting, with their rivalry and all, that Homicide be Joe's last opponent. Thing is, this match was a much bigger moment, in my opinion.

Superb show. Don't know if this or Finale is better. Don't really wanna determine that though, as both are great shows. Definitely track this show down any way you can.

ROH Better Than Our Best (4/1/06)

Jack Evans vs. Matt Sydal vs. Jake Crist vs. Dave Crist vs. Ace Steel vs. Jimmy Jacobs ***

Delirious vs. Ricky Reyes **

Jimmy Rave, Alex Shelley & Masato Yoshino vs. Ryo Saito, Genki Horiguchi & Dragon Kid ****1/4
Funniest moment of the night (and most random) is in The Embassy's interview later in the show when Shelley said "we're gonna get laid by hookers!"

Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Jimmy Yang ****

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (c) vs. Naruki Doi & CIMA ****1/2

ROH World Championship
Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Lance Storm ****

Chicago Street Fight
Homicide vs. Colt Cabana ****3/4
Awesome, awesome feud ender. Cabana and Homicide burying the hatchet afterward was a great moment.

One of the best professional wrestling shows I've ever seen, to be completely honest. I would recommend it to anyone.

ROH Nowhere to Run (5/14/05)

James Gibson vs. BJ Whitmer ***

Jimmy Jacobs vs. Chad Collyer **3/4

Doug Williams vs. Homicide ***3/4

Alex Shelley & Delirious vs. Jack Evans & Roderick Strong ***3/4

Nigel McGuinness vs. Colt Cabana ***1/4

ROH World Championship
Austin Aries (c) vs. Bryan Danielson ****

Steel Cage Match
CM Punk vs. Jimmy Rave ****1/4

Great show. I would recommend it to anyone. Especially people that don't know how good ROH was back then.

ROH Take No Prisoners 2009 (4/4/09)

Ace Steel vs. Colt Cabana **
Funny match, at the beginning, at least.

Jay Briscoe, Magno, Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Chris Hero, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards & Incognito ***
Fun match. Very fast paced.

Fight Without Honor
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Necro Butcher ***3/4
This is Necro's best match in a while. I was pleasantly surprised by it. Might be overrating it, but it was very enjoyable.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright vs. Blue Demon Jr. *3/4

Alex Koslov vs. Roderick Strong ***1/4
Koslov should be a permanent member of the roster. He gets a great reaction from the crowd, the fans cared that he was there. Oh, and Roddy is Roddy.

ROH World Championship
Jerry Lynn (c) vs. D-Lo Brown vs. Erick Stevens vs. Bryan Danielson ***
Very short for a 4-way title match, but it was fun. D-Lo looked good.

Austin Aries & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Tyler Black & KENTA ****3/4
Oh my god! What a match this was. I don't think I overrated it. Also, Aries shined like crazy in this one. Loved when he was cringing at every kick KENTA and Nakajima delivered to one another. Brilliant match, IMO.

Awesome show. I recommend everyone sees it. Especially those Koslov doubters.

PWG One Hundred (4/12/09)

PWG World Tag Team Championship
Nick & Matt Jackson (c) vs. Dustin & Brandon Cutler ***1/2

Scott Lost vs. Roderick Strong ***1/2

Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega ***

Joey Ryan vs. Paul London **3/4
Man, this wasn't very easy to watch. London showed some rust. I want him to have a singles match against Danielson or Generico, just so he can show he's still got it, before the fans start turning on him.

B-Boy, Candice LeRae & Scorpio Sky vs. Austin Aires, Human Tornado & Chuck Taylor ***1/2

Tyler Black vs. Davey Richards ***3/4

El Generico vs. Sonjay Dutt ***1/4
"He's going for the Stoner, the Stone Cold Stoner."

PWG World Championship
Chris Hero (c) vs. Colt Cabana ***
Man, PWG's world title matches are becoming an afterthought lately. More so, Hero's becoming an afterthought. This match got to the point where I was like "Oh, Hero's in this match too". I'm glad they're giving him a program with Joey now, because they need to give him matches with legitimate heels, where the fans will cheer for Hero. That, or turn Hero heel. Not a bad match, not great though.

Good show. Nothing bad, really. I recommend watching it.

WWE Judgment Day (5/17/09)

CM Punk vs. Umaga ***

ECW Championship
Christian (c) vs. Jack Swagger **1/2

Shelton Benjamin vs. John Morrison ***1/2

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Rey Mysterio (c) vs. Chris Jericho ***3/4
Each time these two guys go at it, I can't help but have flashbacks to their battles back in WCW. Such a treat to watch them work together.

WWE Championship
Randy Orton (c) vs. Batista **3/4

John Cena vs. Big Show **1/2

World Heavyweight Championship
Edge (c) vs. Jeff Hardy ***3/4

Yet again, another solid PPV in 2009 for WWE. I don't think they've had a bad one yet this year. I'd like to hear someone explain how any of them are bad. I'd like to point out that I'm nowhere near the WWE's biggest fan lately, but I have to admit that so far in 2009, they are delivering.

WWE No Way Out (2/15/09)

Elimination Chamber for the WWE Championship
Edge (c) vs. Triple H vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Vladimir Kozlov vs. The Undertaker vs. Big Show ****1/4

No Holds Barred
Randy Orton vs. Shane McMahon ***1/2

ECW Championship
Jack Swagger (c) vs. Finlay **

Shawn Michaels vs. JBL **

Elimination Chamber for the World Heavyweight Championship
John Cena (c) vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Jericho vs. Edge vs. Kane vs. Mike Knox ****1/2
I like that this match was mostly Jericho, Rey and Edge. Cena, Kane and Knox were all eliminated within five minutes of entering the match. We got about 30 minutes of action from Rey, Edge and Jericho. It was pretty awesome.

Another good 2009 PPV for WWE. I'd recommend watching it, just for the Elimination Chambers and Shane/Orton as an added bonus.

PWG Ninety-Nine (4/11/09)

Scorpio Sky, Phoenix Star & Zokre vs. Scott Lost & Brandon & Dustin Cutler ****

Bryan Danielson vs. Chuck Taylor ***1/4

Joey Ryan vs. B-Boy ***

Kenny Omega vs. Davey Richards ****

Roderick Strong vs. Sonjay Dutt ***

Tyler Black vs. El Generico ***1/4

PWG World Championship
Chris Hero (c) vs. Austin Aries ***3/4

PWG World Tag Team Championship
Nick & Matt Jackson (c) vs. Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley ****1/4

I really enjoyed this show. It was awesome. GUEST COMMENTARY ISSUE STILL NOT FIXED, though. I wonder if they even try to fix the fact that you can't hear a word the guest commentator is saying.

WWE Royal Rumble (1/25/09)

ECW Championship
Jack Swagger (c) vs. Matt Hardy ***

WWE Women's Championship
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Melina **1/2

World Heavyweight Championship
John Cena (c) vs. JBL **1/2

No DQ for the WWE Championship
Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Edge ***3/4

Royal Rumble Match ****

Solid event. Beth/Melina and Cena/JBL weren't bad matches. Swagger/Hardy, Edge/Jeff and the Rumble itself were pretty darn good. This is an event worth watching.

WWE Extreme Rules (6/7/09)

WWE United States Championship
Kofi Kingston (c) vs. MVP vs. William Regal vs. Matt Hardy **3/4
This match didn't go nearly as long as it should have. It was good while it lasted, though.

No Holds Barred for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
Rey Mysterio (c) vs. Chris Jericho ****

Samoan Strap Matchp
Umaga vs. CM Punk ***

Hardcore Match for the ECW Championship
Christian (c) vs. Jack Swagger vs. Tommy Dreamer **1/2
Same goes for this match. If it had gone longer, they could have done a lot more stuff and it would have been a lot better. It was good though.

Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship
Randy Orton (c) vs. Batista *1/2
This match seemed extremely rushed, and having Orton lose the title in 6 minutes made him look bad, IMO. I don't like the idea of Batista carrying a show. I hope this is his last title run.

Submission Match
Big Show vs. John Cena **

Ladder Match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Edge (c) vs. Jeff Hardy ****

Another awesome Pay-Per-View by WWE. Keep it up, boys.

WWE Wrestlemania 25 (4/5/09)

Money in the Bank Ladder Match
CM Punk vs. Kane vs. Mark Henry vs. MVP vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Christian vs. Finlay ****1/4
In my opinion, this is the best of all the MITB matches. Just a great match. Spot after spot after spot, it didn't go overboard though, and ring psychology actually came into play.

25 Diva "Miss Wrestlemania" Battle Royal DUD
This was pretty retarded, just like any other women's battle royal that ever happened. They didn't even introduce anyone. What's the point of having past divas there if you're not even gonna let the fans know that they're there? Santina was something funny though, but I'm still confused as to why Beth didn't attack Santino after the match and say "He can't win! He's not a woman!". I was thinking throughout the match, that they should have Beth win it and have it every year and start a thing where Beth wins the battle royal every year. She would, therefore, be legitimately nicknamed Miss Wrestlemania.

Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper & Jimmy Snuka ***
I loved this match. Piper and Snuka actually did OK, and I didn't hate anything they did. Steamboat put on a great performance, he was awesome. Jericho was Jericho. I also thought the Rourke segment was very well done. They didn't just have Rourke join in a beatdown on Jericho. They had him go toe to toe with Jericho and got him with a left hook. It was pretty awesome, if you ask me.

Extreme Rules Match
Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy ***3/4
I loved this match, they had some awesome spots. The twist of fate with the chair on Jeff's head was pretty fuckin sweet.

WWE Intercontinental Championship
JBL (c) vs. Rey Mysterio DUD
Second worst part of the night. Rey winning the IC title is fine, but they should have had an actual match. Who's gonna believe that a 619 and a splash right off the bat is gonna take anyone out for the three count? Especially a guy that weighs like 175 doing it against a guy that is a whole hell of a lot bigger than him. The 619 is a joke, and he should get rid of it.

The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels ****3/4
Ok, I knew this match was going to be good, but not this good. This was amazing. There's really nothing else to say about it.

World Heavyweight Championship
Edge (c) vs. Big Show vs. John Cena ***1/2
This match was pretty good, nothing wrong with it. They tried some new things. I thought they made it way too obvious that Cena was going to win though. He's the focus of the build-up videos, he comes out last with some huge entrance. I mean, it's obvious.

WWE Championship
Triple H (c) vs. Randy Orton **3/4
Meh. Should have been better, given the backstory, but it was pretty much the same as any other match they've had. Sure they tried a few new things, but it just didn't have the personal feel. Vince, Shane and Stephanie should have gotten involved also.

I loved this show. Nothing more to say. It was a great Wrestlemania.

WWE Backlash (4/26/09)

ECW Championship
Jack Swagger (c) vs. Christian ****
MARKED LIKE A LITTLE KID IN A FUCKIN CANDY SHOP WHEN CHRISTIAN TALKED TO EDGE BACKSTAGE.

Ricky Steamboat vs. Chris Jericho ***1/2

Kane vs. CM Punk ***
This match needed to prove that it belonged on the show. It didn't fit in with the rest of the card. The rest of the card was stacked with great feuds and a few we could call "blood feuds" that have been going on for more than 2 months. Punk and Kane more than proved they belonged on the show. They put on a good match, and we saw some shades of Punk's indy days, with the hard strikes he gave Kane. Just plain good.

"I Quit" Match
Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy ***3/4

WWE Championship
Triple H (c), Shane McMahon & Batista vs. Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes ***3/4
Orton was a genius in this match. He finally showed some brutality. He threw Shane into the steel steps with such force. This was Orton at his finest, really. It takes a lot from Orton for me to give him this respect, though, so don't go saying I'm an Orton mark. Far from it, I have had high expectations for his future, and he has finally shown me that he is the man. The finish in this match was brilliant (cept for the stupid ring bell guy). I can't wait to see what happens next.

Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship
John Cena (c) vs. Edge ****3/4
I don't know what to say about this one. This one really speaks for itself. Just watch it. Definite Match of the Year candidate. The FU into the crowd had me saying "What The FUCK?"

This is the best PPV I've seen since... I don't know when. Instinct tells me since Wrestlemania 17, but maybe I'm forgetting something that's happened since then that would rival this PPV. Nevertheless, this PPV was stellar, and I mean STELLAR.

CHIKARA King of Trios 2009 - Night 1 (3/27/09)

Opening Round Match #1
Team EPIC WAR vs. The F1RST Family ***1/4

Opening Round Match #2
The Osirian Portal vs. Team PWG ****

Opening Round Match #3
The Roughnecks vs. Team Uppercut **3/4

Opening Round Match #4
Team CZW vs. Da Soul Touchaz ***

Opening Round Match #5
F.I.S.T. vs. Death Match Kings ***

Opening Round Match #6
Team DDT vs. The Future Is Now ***1/2
This one got quite sloppy at times, but it was still very good.

Opening Round Match #7
Incoherence vs. Masters of a Thousand Holds ***3/4
Another very good one. Don't understand why this wasn't the main event, to be honest.

Opening Round Match #8
The UnStable vs. The Cold Front **3/4
Very disappointing as a main event. Should have been a midcard matchup. It is very confusing that it was the main event.

I am now done with the whole King of Trios weekend. Night 2 was the best of the 3 nights. Then Night 3, then Night 1.

ROH 7th Anniversary Show (3/21/09)

Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. Roderick Strong & Erick Stevens ***1/4

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright ***3/4
I might be overrating this at first, so I'll watch it a second time. But on my first watch, I really enjoyed it. Probably the best match these two can have together.

Adam Pearce vs. Bobby Dempsey DUD

Mike Quackenbush vs. Jerry Lynn ***1/4
Pretty disappointing, considering the guy that's gonna win the world title on your very next show is wrestling a 10-minute match against a guy that's not even an ROH regular. I love Quack, but this match was VERY lackluster.

Revolution Rules Match
Austin Aries, Jimmy Jacobs & Brodie Lee vs. Tyler Black, Necro Butcher & Delirious ***1/2

Bison Smith & Jimmy Rave vs. Bryan Danielson & Colt Cabana **1/2
This match had two things going for it, the returns of Rave and Cabana, especially Cabana. It wasn't much of a match. I hope this Embassy feud picks up and becomes interesting in June.

D-Lo Brown vs. Jay Briscoe ***

No DQ for the ROH World Tag Team Championship
Kevin Steen & El Generico (c) vs. Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards ****

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. KENTA ****3/4
This match was EPIC, in my opinion.

Really awesome show. I'm interested to see more opinions on this show.

ROH Fifth Year Festival: Finale (3/4/07)

Delirious vs. Colt Cabana **1/2
Very funny match

Sara Del Rey & Allison Danger vs. Jetta & Eden Black **1/4

Falls Count Anywhere
Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer ***1/2

PAC vs. Matt Sydal ***3/4

Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Briscoe ****

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Shingo & Naruki Doi (c) vs. Roderick Strong & Davey Richards ****1/4

Fight Without Honor
Jimmy Rave vs. Nigel McGuinness ***3/4

Homicide vs. Samoa Joe ****1/2

VERY good show. I should be getting FYF: Liverpool in the mail today, along with at least 3 others. I got this one, together with Nowhere to Run, yesterday.

TNA Sacrifice (5/24/09)

Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin & Shiek Abdul Bashir vs. Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed & Eric Young ****

Monster's Ball
Daffney vs. Taylor Wilde 3/4

TNA X-Division Championship
Suicide (c) vs. Christopher Daniels ***1/4

TNA Knockouts Championship
Angelina Love (c) vs. Awesome Kong **1/4

Kevin Nash vs. Samoa Joe **1/4

Robert Roode & James Storm vs. Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams ***

I Quit Match for TNA Legends Championship
AJ Styles (c) vs. Booker T ***1/4

Ultimate Sacrifice Match
Mick Foley vs. Kurt Angle vs. Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett ***1/2

Solid show all around. Though aside from the opener, which was fantastic, the wrestling was sorta slow-paced.

PWG Express Written Consent (2/21/09)

Scorpio Sky vs. Zokre ***1/4

B-Boy vs. TJ Perkins ***1/2

El Generico vs. Kenny Omega ****

Necro Butcher vs. Austin Aries **3/4

PWG World Championship
Chris Hero (c) vs. Human Tornado vs. Colt Cabana ***3/4

Matt & Nick Jackson & Paul London vs. Joey Ryan, Scott Lost & Karl Anderson ****1/4

Really good show with a hot crowd. Definitely worth picking up.

PWG The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1/10/09)

Phoenix Star & Zokre vs. Dustin & Brandon Cutler ***1/2

Austin Aries vs. TJ Perkins ***1/2

Joey Ryan vs. Bobby Quance ***3/4
Classic WWF spots FTW.

Bryan Danielson vs. Scott Lost ****

Chuck Taylor vs. El Generico ***1/4

PWG World Tag Team Championship
Matt & Nick Jackson (c) vs. Roderick Strong & Davey Richards ****1/2

Awesome show. Not one bad second.

ROH Final Battle 2005 (12/17/05)

Jimmy Rave vs. Milano Collection AT ***1/4

Azrieal vs. Colt Cabana **1/4

ROH Pure Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli ***1/2

Alex Shelley vs. Steve Corino ***

Jay Lethal vs. BJ Whitmer vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe ***3/4

Davey Andrews vs. Ricky Reyes DUD

ROH Tag Team Championship
Tony Mamaluke & Sal Rinauro (c) vs. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong ***3/4

ROH World Championship
Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Naomichi Maurfuji ****1/4

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship
KENTA (c) vs. Low Ki *****

None of this needs any explanation. Great show. A must-see, IMO.

ROH Bound By Hate (11/8/08)

Davey Richards vs. Jerry Lynn ***

Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. Delirious & Brodie Lee **3/4

Eddie Edwards & Go Shiozaki vs. Erick Stevens & Roderick Strong ***1/2

Dog Collar Match
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Austin Aries ****1/2

Alex Payne vs. Grizzly Redwood 1/2
Not sure why this match was even on the card.

Tyler Black vs. Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson ***1/2

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Necro Butcher **3/4

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Kevin Steen & El Generico (c) vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe ***3/4

Damn good show. Worth a looksey.

ROH Insanity Unleashed (3/14/09)

Spyder Nate Webb vs. Flash Flannigan **1/2

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson ***

Chris Hero vs. Jay Briscoe ***1/4

Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Kenny King & Rhett Titus ***1/2

No Disqualifications
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Delirious **3/4

Nigel McGuinness & Austin Aries vs. Tyler Black & Jerry Lynn ***3/4

This was a lot better than Stylin' & Profilin'. Worth checking it out.

ROH Stylin' & Profilin' (3/13/09)

Jay Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong ***1/4

Chris Hero, Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards vs. Kevin Steen, El Generico & Bobby Dempsey ***3/4

Bison Smith vs. Bryan Danielson **1/2
It saddens me to have to give a match involving Danielson less than 3 stars, but this match truly doesn't deserve it. It probably doesn't even deserve more than 2 stars.

Jerry Lynn & Tyler Black vs. Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious **3/4

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Brent Albright ***

I didn't see every match on this show, but from these five that I saw, I'm guessing it wasn't much of an impressive show.

ROH Ring of Homicide (5/13/06)

Kikutaro vs. Colt Cabana *1/2

Dunn & Marcos vs. Homicide & Ricky Reyes ***1/4

Jimmy Rave vs. Jimmy Yang ***1/4

ROH Pure Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Jay Lethal ***3/4
I really enjoyed this match. They did a lot of great wrestling, along with some nice spots. Awesome match.

ROH World Championship
Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Delirious ****
I was really surprised by this match. I thought it was going to be a lot shorter than it was. It went about 20 minutes and it was really a very good match. Delirious did well. Danielson was... well, Danielson.

Matt Sydal vs. Christopher Daniels ***1/2

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (c) vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe ****

Necro Butcher vs. Homicide (No Disqualifications)***1/2

Awesome show. Definitely worth seeing.

ROH Steel City Clash (3/20/09)

Pre-Show: Brandon Morino vs. Shiima Xion **1/4
Good, fast paced action. Give these guys 10 minutes and you got a solid *** match. Two talented dudes.

Pre-Show: Tony Kozina & Brandon Day vs. Alex Payne & Grizzly Redwood *
Not much of a match.

Sterling James Keenan vs. Delirious **1/4

Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. Erick Stevens & Matt Cross **3/4

Mike Quackenbush vs. Bryan Danielson ****
I loved this match. It was pretty awesome, IMO.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright vs. Jerry Lynn ***1/4

Jimmy Jacobs & Brodie Lee vs. Tyler Black & Necro Butcher ***1/2

Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong ***3/4

El Generico & KENTA vs. Davey Richards & Nigel McGuinness ****1/4

Pretty damn good show. Definitely worth getting, IMO.

ROH The French Connection (11/7/08)

Eddie Edwards vs. Erick Stevens **3/4

Kenny Omega & Kenny King vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe ***1/4

Necro Butcher vs. Brodie Lee *3/4

Jerry Lynn vs. Delirious **

Roderick Strong vs. Davey Richards ****

Tyler Black & Jimmy Jacobs vs. Bryan Danielson & Austin Aries ***3/4

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. El Generico vs. Kevin Steen vs. Go Shiozaki ***1/2

Nothing really special about this show, other than Strong/Davey. Good show though. Four matches above ***, definitely worth seeing.

ROH Undeniable (10/6/07)

Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black vs. Ruckus & Jack Evans **3/4

Sara Del Rey vs. Daizee Haze **
It was very short, but it was good while it lasted. Would have been a higher rating if it had gone at least 4 more minutes.

Chris Hero vs. Bryan Danielson ***1/4
This match had potential that it didn't live up to. Not their fault, though, as they were only given 10 minutes.

Adam Pearce, Brent Albright & BJ Whitmer vs. Kevin Steen, El Generico & Delirious ***

Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries ****1/2

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jay & Mark Briscoe (c) vs. Davey Richards & Rocky Romero ****1/4

ROH World Championship
Takeshi Morishima (c) vs. Nigel McGuinness ****1/4

I really liked this show. 3 matches with at least ****1/4. Can't argue with that shit. Excellent show.

ROH Proving Ground 2009 - Night 2 (2/7/09)

Jerry Lynn vs. Shawn Osborne **3/4

Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. The British Lions (Chris Gray & Tommy Taylor) **1/2
Gray and Taylor aren't impressive at all.

Bison Smith vs. John Kermon DUD
Even more of a squash than the one against Rinauro. Kermon's entrance wasn't even shown on the DVD.

Davey Richards vs. Kevin Steen ***1/4

Necro Butcher & Tyler Black vs. Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious ***1/4

Austin Aries vs. Brad Attitude ***1/4
Aries attempts to steal the show. The match was surprisingly good. Attitude is pretty impressive.

Brent Albright, Erick Stevens & Roderick Strong vs. Jon Davis, Kory Chavis & Francisco Ciatso ***3/4
This was a very good match. All six men looked good. Ciatso surprised me, I didn't expect much out of him, he can go.

Bryan Danielson vs. El Generico ****
A lot of playing to the crowd, but the action picks up and it became it an awesome, awesome contest. The finish was awesome, and very well done.

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness vs. D-Lo Brown ***1/2

This show was a lot better than Night 1.

ROH Proving Ground 2009 - Night 1 (2/6/09)

Brad Attitude vs. Shawn Osborne **1/2

Bison Smith vs. Sal Rinauro DUD
Squash. Served it's purpose.

Kenny King, Rhett Titus & Chasyn Rance vs. Roderick Strong, Erick Stevens & Bobby Dempsey ***1/2
This match was a lot of fun. Dempsey actually held his own and had some nice looking offense. He's a bit sloppy though. Fast paced match, awesome, hard-hitting.

Necro Butcher vs. Austin Aries ***
I don't know how often Necro uses a top rope rana, but it was very scary seeing him do that.

Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious vs. Bryan Danielson & Jerry Lynn ***1/2

Non-Title Match
Nigel McGuinness vs. Brent Albright ***3/4

Non-Title Match
Dark City Fight Club (Jon Davis & Kory Chavis) vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico ***1/4
Davis & Chavis are a solid tag team. They do a lot of nice double teams, and they can sure brawl.

Davey Richards vs. Tyler Black ***3/4
I expected this one to be a lot better. It was good, but it could have been great. Sweeney wearing a floral shirt tied in the front and a neck brace was a sight though.

ROH Final Battle 2008 (12/27/08)

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kenny Omega **3/4

Four Corner Survival
Chris Hero vs. Necro Butcher vs. Jerry Lynn vs. Rhett Titus ***1/2

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Kevin Steen & El Generico (c) vs. Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious ***1/4

Street Fight
Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards & Go Shiozaki vs. Roderick Strong, Erick Stevens & Brent Albright ***3/4

Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe ****

Tyler Black vs. Austin Aries ****1/4

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji ****1/2

Fight Without Honor
Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima ****3/4

CHIKARA King of Trios 2009 - Night 3 (3/29/09)

Semi-Final Match #1
Team Uppercut vs. The UnStable ***1/2

Semi-Final Match #2
F.I.S.T. vs. The Future is Now ***3/4

El Generico vs. Arik Cannon ***1/4

Tag Team Gauntlet
Hallowicked & Frightmare vs. Ryan Drago & Tony Kozina vs. Tim Donst & Hydra vs. UltraMantis Black & Crossbones vs. Beef Wellington & Steve “The Turtle” Weiner vs. Player Uno & Create-A-Wrestler vs. Pinkie Sanchez & Mitch Ryder vs. Marshe Rockett & Willie Richardson vs. The Young Bucks vs. Cheech & Cloudy vs. Brodie Lee & Grizzly Redwood vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw *-***1/2
I think I should explain my rating. Since we pretty much had 10 short matches, it had a range of ratings. Some of it was bad, some of it was okay, some of it was good, some of it was awesome. Some embarrassing gimmicks and wrestlers in this one (aka Hydra & Turtle). Hydra's just terrible.

Kudo, Michael Nakazawa & The Osirian Portal vs. The Colony & North Star Express ***1/4
Good match. I really liked Kudo. I continue to enjoy watching Amasis wrestle, he has a lot of charisma and ability. He should be wrestling elsewhere without a mask. NSE is a pretty good team, they have some potential. Absolutely hated Nakazawa, his love affair with baby oil and his lack of wrestling ability.

Austin Aries vs. Eddie Kingston ***1/4

Rey De Voladores Final
Player Dos vs. Kota Ibushi ***3/4

King of Trios Final
Team Uppercut vs. F.I.S.T. ***1/2
11 minutes for a trios tournament final? Odd. Disappointing final in my opinion. Still a good match, still a good show, still a good weekend though.

CHIKARA King of Trios 2009 - Night 2 (3/28/09)

Rey De Voladores Eliminator #1
Austin Aries vs. Player Dos vs. Fire Ant vs. Matt Jackson ***1/2

Quarter Final Match #1
F.I.S.T. vs. The F1RST Family ***3/4

The Submission Squad vs. Davey Vega & Gary The Barnowl **3/4

Quarter Final Match #2
Osirian Portal vs. The Future Is Now ***3/4

Rey De Voladores Eliminator#2
El Generico vs. Nick Jackson vs. Kota Ibushi vs. Jigsaw ****1/2

Quarter Final Match #3
The UnStable vs. Da Soul Touchaz ***

Inter Species Championship
Player Uno (c) vs. Twiggy ***1/4

Quarter Final Match #4
Team Uppercut vs. The Masters of a Thousand Holds ****1/2
I probably liked this a little more than some people, cuz I'm a huge fan of chain wrestling, submissions and mat wrestling, so this match really had me glued to the screen. It was a clinic, to say the least. Johnny Saint is brilliant, I really enjoyed every second of his time in the ring.

P.S. I have "MMMBop" stuck in my head

ROH Age of Insanity (8/15/08)

Kevin Steen vs. Jigsaw ***

Rhett Titus vs. Delirious *1/2
Best part of this match was Jimmy Jacobs. Also Delirious' way of throwing Titus into the barricade to bust him open.

Kenny King vs. Bryan Danielson ***3/4

Sara Del Rey vs. Sassy Steffy DUD
Squash.

Adam Pearce vs. Ruckus **1/4

Tyler Black vs. Austin Aries ***1/4

No Disqualification
Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious vs. Jay & Mark Brisoce **3/4
I don't like the "we're all gonna run in after the match before us, and the fans are just gonna have to assume we're starting our match right now, even though the bell never rings and Bobby C. doesn't introduce us" shit. I also don't like the way the Briscoe's brawl out in the crowd. It's always the same shit. That's one of the few things I don't like about them, really. Yes, I'm a fan of the Briscoe's.

FIP World Heavyweight Championship
Erick Stevens (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli ***

Chris Hero & Go Shiozaki vs. Brent Albright & Roderick Strong ****

ROH World Championship
Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. El Generico ****1/2

Very good show. Out of 10 matches, there were 8 that were at least decent. Surprised there's not more talk about this show.