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.