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ROH TV results: Marty Scurll vs. Shane Helms, three-team main event

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Ring of Honor television episode #359 was taped in Fairfax, Virginia at the end of June.

Chris Sabin defeated Silas Young to become the number one contender to the ROH Television Championship

Alex Shelley joined Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana on commentary for the opening match.

Sabin got the early edge with some nice chain wrestling that led to a roll-up. Sabin maintained control and landed a flip dive off the apron. He then landed a big kick that sent Young outside. Sabin went to the top turnbuckle and connected with a missile dropkick, and a tornado DDT by Sabin earned a two count.

Young finally cut him off with a backbreaker and an anarchist suplex. Young put the beatdown on him, but Sabin was able to fight back and landed a Cradle Shock driver for the pin. Sabin is now the number one contender to the ROH TV title. Punishment Martinez, the current TV Champion, came out on the entrance ramp to intimidate him after.

Marty Scurll defeated Shane “Hurricane” Helms

This was a battle of the superhero vs. the super villain. Scurll threw his scarf at Helms to start the match. Helms threw it back at him, which led to Helms getting the early advantage with some chain wrestling into a fireman’s carry and an armbar. Scurll managed to outmaneuver Helms and then spat in Helms’ face. He kept control and sent Helms outside, then stomped on his fingers.

Scurll hooked on some unique submissions, including a stranglehold into a lung blower. Helms was able to fight back and land an interesting looking variation of the Vertebreaker. Helms then landed the Eye of the Hurricane, but Scurll kicked out and landed a huge knee to his downed opponent.

Scurll snapped the fingers of Helms and went up top, but Helms followed and pulled off a really crazy neckbreaker. The referee had his back turned after a slight shove, which allowed Scurll to kick Helms low and roll him up for the win.

Los Ingobernobles de Japon (EVIL, SANADA & BUSHI) defeated SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) and The Young Bucks & Hangman Page in a triple threat six-man tag match

There was an incredible opening sequence with basically everyone involved. Daniels landed an Arabian press moonsault to the outside, but The Young Bucks and Page landed triple superkicks on SCU and took over with their patented zany offense.

After the break, Daniels put SANADA down with an STO. Page got in and cut him off and went to work on SANADA with a buckle bomb. The Bucks hit a combo moonsault/frog splash, and Page followed up with a standing Shooting Star Press.

After a series of crazy moves, BUSHI spit green mist into the referee’s eyes. Kazarian used the ref’s arm to count the three, but BUSHI got his shoulder up at two and Kazarian stopped the count. The Bucks got superkick crazy and Page landed a cradle piledriver on SANADA, but the second ref didn’t make it down in time and SANADA kicked out.

Everyone spilled out to the floor, allowing BUSHI to hit a destroyer on Matt Jackson. Daniels and BUSHI were left in the ring, and Daniels hit a Blue Thunder Bomb. He went for the Angel’s Wings, but The Briscoes interfered and Jay waffled Daniels with a chair. That allowed BUSHI to hit a facebuster for the pin.

ROH TV results: Bullet Club vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon

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This episode of Ring of Honor television was again taped at the Odeum in Chicago, Illinois.

The Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll, and Adam “Hangman” Page) opened the show and announced that their opponents for the main event tonight would be Los Ingobernables de Japon in a 10-man tag team match. Bullet Club said the J in LIJ stands for jabronis.

Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana called the action. Riccaboni mentioned that Chicago is Cabana’s hometown — to which Cabana replied that there are many billboards of him up in the area.

Kenny King defeated Chuckie T

On his way to the ring, King said he had not forgotten about Austin Aries giving him a low blow and a brainbuster a few weeks back.

King wanted a hug of honor instead of a handshake. An even matchup started it off and a nice wrestling exchange ended in a hug. Another grappling mix-up ended in another hug, but Chuckie T used it as an opportunity to connect with a belly-to-belly suplex.

King nailed a twisting dive to the floor and then took time to pose for a selfie with a fan, who took too long so King left and yelled, “have your cameras ready.” Then Chuckie T hit a dive and gave the same fan a chance to get a selfie with him instead. Back in the ring, Chuckie hit a snap piledriver, then went for the Awful Waffle, but King countered into the Royal Flush for the pin and the win. 

A replay of The Briscoes beatdown of The Young Bucks with chairs from a few weeks ago led into a Briscoes promo. Jay Briscoe said the Bucks were the best in the world at selling  T-shirts, but that they would not beat them for the titles on June 29 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Best in the World pay-per-view.

Shane Taylor cut a promo in the ring and called Josh Woods and King Mo “losers,” which led to our next match.

Shane Taylor defeated Josh Woods

A replay of Woods getting a win over Taylor from West Palm Beach, Florida with an assist from King Mo reminded us of why Taylor was so upset.

Taylor hit a bowling ball roll on Woods into the barricades. He was firmly in control until Woods took his back and hit two German suplexes, but Woods walked into a huge right hand and got knocked out for the pin.

ROH World Champion Dalton Castle and The Boys joined Riccaboni and Cabana to get a closer look at his upcoming opponents, Cody and Marty Scurll.

Bullet Club (Cody, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Adam Page) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi)

Cody and Naito started it off, with Naito spitting at him and Cody bailing. Naito faked going for a dive and instead laid down for a relaxing pose. This brought Scurll and BUSHI in for some chain wrestling. The Bucks then entered and squared up with EVIL and SANADA. This brought everyone in for a 10-man standoff that turned into a wild brawl. Bullet Club got the advantage after some dives, but Takahashi used Daryl Jr. to clear house until he ate a superkick.

Scurll and Takahashi tagged in for a striking exchange. Scurll used a foot stomp and multiple superkicks and went for the chicken wing. Takahashi countered and backdropped Scurll into the corner.

Nick Jackson got the tag and nailed a facebuster for a near fall. The Bucks locked on double Sharpshooters but were cut off by Takahashi and Naito, who then got cut off by the Buck Shot from Page. Out of nowhere, Punishment Martinez came to the ring and he and Page battled to the back in anticipation of their match at Best in the World.

After the break, LIJ were in control briefly until each man from both teams came in and hit moves back and forth, including a Japanese Destroyer from BUSHI and a Magic Killer on Matt Jackson. It looked like that was the end, but Nick pulled referee Todd Sinclair out of the ring at the last second.

It looked like Nick was going to take a sunset flip powerbomb to the floor, but Burnard the Business Bear made the save and then took the green mist from BUSHI. Cody grabbed BUSHI from behind and Scurll went to hit him with his cane, but BUSHI moved and Scurll hit Cody.

A superkick party ensued and the Bucks finally landed the 5 Star Meltzer Driver on BUSHI for the win.

ROH War of the Worlds TV taping results: Bullet Club vs. LIJ

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Submitted by reader Stanley Kosek from yesterday’s television tapings in Chicago

– Tenille Dashwood defeated Karen Q

This was a decent opener. Dashwood got a good reaction and won with a reversal.

– Jushin Thunder Liger & Cheeseburger defeated The Dawgs (Rhett Titus & Will Ferrara)

Liger was over big. They had a well-worked match, with Liger getting the win with a brainbuster.

– Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai defeated Jenny Rose to retain her title

Good match with some stiff spots, ending when Sakai retained with what looked like a swinging neckbreaker. The crowd was really into this.

– ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defeated Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh) to retain their titles

Jay Briscoe got the win with a Jay Driller. They had a good match but didn’t click together as well as I thought they would.

– ROH Television Champion Silas Young defeated Austin Aries by DQ

Young was great in this. There was a false finish where Kenny King got involved and there was a belt shot on Young after a ref bump, with Aries at first getting the pin before the decision was overturned.

– Cody Rhodes entered for a heel interview segment before Marty Scurll came out and they went back and forth. It ended with a handshake, but Scurll teased a finger-break spot prior to that.

– Flip Gordon defeated Jonathan Gresham

Gordon picked up the victory with a stunner off the ropes after a solid match where they did a decent amount of mat wrestling.

Bully Ray then came out and confronted Gordon, apologizing for being hard on him. Bully Ray mentioned Gordon being from Montana and gave him respect for his military service. They shook hands, but, of course, Bully turned and kicked him, calling him a “stupid young boy.”

– Kelly Klein defeated Deonna Purrazzo

Purrazzo was over with the audience and would have won, but there was a ref bump that led to Klein submitting her. This was an okay match that was sloppy at points.

– SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) defeated ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) by DQ

After a good match that struggled to connect with the crowd, there was a weird chair shot ending for the disqualification.

– Kenny King defeated Chuck Taylor

Very fun match. Taylor connected with the fans well.

– Shane Taylor defeated Josh Woods

Taylor won with a closed-fist punch.

– The Bullet Club (Cody, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi)

They did lots of crowd work and big spots. Everyone was over, and the Bullet Club won with a Meltzer Driver on BUSHI. Dalton Castle and The Boys were announced before the match and were on commentary.

ROH War of the Worlds London results: Bullet Club vs. LIJ

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Report submitted by reader James Ryder with additional notes from Martin Bentley

– The show was being taped for VOD with commentators at ringside.

– Mark Briscoe defeated Ryan Smile

Briscoe got a good pop for his entrance, then the crowd was behind Smile during the match but with dueling chants in parts. It was a good opener to begin with and then heated up as it went on. Briscoe won with a Cutthroat Driver.

– The Addiction defeated Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Bucanero

This was a good match with plenty of back-and-forth action. The crowd got into the CMLL team as it went on. Christopher Daniels pinned Bucanero with his feet on the ropes, then there was a post-match brawl with Guerrero launching himself onto The Addiction on the outside. Daniels and Kazarian retreated after that.

– Jay Briscoe defeated Kenny King

They had a basic match. There was brawling on the outside early, but the crowd wasn’t into this as much as the other matches. Briscoe won with the Jay Driller and refused a handshake after.

– Bully Ray defeated Jay Lethal, Silas Young, and Sha Samuels in a four-way match

Bully Ray and Lethal got big reactions. There were some Attitude Era fans who were into everything Bully Ray did. The match itself was fun, with everyone getting their chance to get some stuff in.

In the closing moments, Bully Ray and Lethal did the “Wassup” spot and Bully shouted for him to get the tables. Bully won with a top rope splash. After the match, he called for Lethal to come back to the ring. Bully said that ECW was his company, but ROH is Lethal’s.

– ROH SIx-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle & The Boys defeated Jushin Thunder Liger, Mistico & Delirious to retain their titles

Liger and Castle got big reactions and there were really loud chants for them. The match had a lot of comedy, but it was really fun and the audience loved it. Castle launched both Boys separately over the top rope onto Mistico and Liger near the end. He then hit Delirious with the Bang-a-Rang to retain.

– ROH World Television Champion KUSHIDA defeated Titan to retain his title

Brilliant match. It got the first “this is awesome” chant of the night, as well as “fight forever” chants and a standing ovation from the crowd as soon as it was over.

Titan got himself over big with his high-flying and lucha transitions. He kept fighting off the Hoverboard Lock, but KUSHIDA eventually won with Back to the Future. Titan got a standing ovation despite many people not being familiar with him going into it.

– Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, EVIL, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI) defeated Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page)

Takahashi came out with Daryl (his stuffed cat), resulting in a loud “Daryl” chant. Naito also got a big reaction. Bullet Club came out together and got a big pop. There were loud “F*ck The Revival” chants, along with other Bullet Club and LIJ ones.

LIJ worked on Scurll for a short time before he got the hot tag and the Bucks cleaned house. Cody, Page, and The Bucks all wiped out LIJ with dives to the outside. There was a cool moment in the match where the Bullet Club all applied a figure four, getting “Nature Boy” chants in the process.

Each Bullet Club member then missed a top rope moonsault, with the crowd having to encourage Scurll to do it. The Bucks hit all of LIJ with a superkick to the delight of the fans.

Scurll fired up the crowd by going for the chicken wing on Daryl. Takahashi made the save, but he got hit with a superkick. The Bucks then gave Daryl the Meltzer Driver. All of the members of the Bullet Club gave Takahashi a superkick at the same time, but Naito pinned Page with the Destino to a massive pop.

That was a great main event and the audience loved it. LIJ posed after while the Bullet Club stayed in the ring and Cody got the mic. He put over that it was Page’s first time in the UK, then hyped up Saturday’s iPPV in Liverpool (which the crowd booed).

Cody called SANADA a young boy and said he’s going to beat him half to death. He gave Scurll the mic, with Scurll saying The Villain in the Bullet Club in the UK is too sweet. He put over the UK wrestling scene and how long he’s been wrestling here.

Scurll mentioned the bet Cody has with Dave Meltzer and said ROH can run a 10,000 seat arena in the USA. He then asked why ROH doesn’t run a 10,000 seat UK arena instead. He mentioned they should run Wembley Arena to a huge pop.

Matt Jackson got the mic and said the figure four in the match was in homage to Ric Flair. He plugged The Elite’s YouTube show and their T-shirts before ending with a “F*ck The Revival” chant.

NJPW 45th Anniversary show results: LIJ vs. Chaos six-man main event

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The Big Takeaway —

The build towards the New Japan Cup continued as those who were scheduled to face off against one another in the opening rounds competed in a series of mystery tag team matches. The situation over the NEVER title became clearer, as Zack Sabre Jr. looks to add a fourth belt to his growing collection.

Gedo & Jado have become the favorites to get the next Junior tag team title match against new champions Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. KUSHIDA scored a pin over Hiromu Takahashi, further building a showdown between the two.

Show Recap —

Manabu Nakanishi, Hirai Kawato, Ryusuke Taguchi & David Finlay defeated Jushin Thunder Liger, Tomoyuki Oka, and IWGP Tag Team Champions Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima

Kawato jumped Liger at the bell and really gave him a beating, stomping him in the corner viciously. This was a standard, pretty solid opener with Nakanishi scoring the win with the torture rack on Oka.

Kawato and Liger stared down one another after the match, but nothing came out of it. 

Yuji Nagata, Juice Robinson & Michael Elgin defeated Yujiro Takahashi, Bad Luck Fale & Tanga Loa

Juice and Yujiro, who are facing each other in the opening round of the NJPW Cup, squared off against one another, as did Elgin and Fale. It boiled down to Nagata and Loa, with Nagata drilling his NJ Cup opponent with an exploder suplex for the win. This was a nice match with some good action.

RPW British Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr., El Desperado, and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated NEVER Openweight Champion Hirooki Goto, Jado, Gedo & Trent Baretta

This was a solid match, but it was more about building programs for the NEVER and Jr. tag team titles. The heels beat up on Gedo for a while. They were building a future junior tag title bout between the new champs and Gedo & Jado.

Goto and Sabre Jr. were paired together and went at it for a bit, exchanging near falls before Sabre Jr. caught Goto in a bridge pin hold. This probably signals a future match between Goto and Sabre Jr. for the NEVER title.

Tiger Mask, Katsuyori Shibata & Togi Makabe defeated Minoru Suzuki, Taka Michinoku & Davey Boy Smith Jr.

Suzuki and Shibata brawled into the crowd early, with Suzuki getting the better of it and whacking Shibata with a steel chair. Suzuki and Shibata eventually came back in. Both teased their finishers but took each other down with multiple big boots. The crowd was really into that, and helped the match pick up over time.

Makabe and Taka Michinoku were in, and from there it didn’t last long as Makabe quickly took him down and pinned him with the King Kong Knee Drop.

Shibata and Suzuki continued to brawl as they eventually had to be separated. Suzuki pelted one of the young boys (Kitamiya) with a steel chair, causing another brawl between the two. 

Kenny Omega & Tama Tonga defeated Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii

Yano had a near fall with a low blow on Tonga, but Omega pulled the ref out. Omega went for the knee strike, but Yano dodged and Omega fell to the floor. Tonga gave Yano a low blow of his own, then pinned him with the Gun Stun in another solid match.

KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated EVIL & IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi

Tanahashi jumped EVIL at the bell, which was retaliation for EVIL’s assault earlier in the day at the New Japan Cup press conference. Hiromu Takahashi and KUSHIDA worked together a lot as well, since they are the next Junior title match. They have excellent chemistry with one another and made this a good match.

EVIL laid out Tanahashi, then KUSHIDA sent EVIL packing. KUSHIDA then caught the surprise win over Takahashi with a backslide into a bridging pin. 

IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & SANADA defeated YOSHI-HASHI, Rocky Romero & IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada

Not a spectacular main event by any means, but the action was fine and the crowd was pretty hot for everything, which helps.

BUSHI wiped out YH on the outside, leaving it between SANADA and Romero. The latter pulled off some great near falls that people got into, but the size difference was too much and Romero tapped out to the Skull End when SANADA sunk it in.

Naito cut the end of the show promo.

Final Thoughts —

There’s nothing on this show that you need to see, though everything was solid and nothing was awful.