Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels have agreed if they lose one more match, they will split as a team.
The two discussed the current status of their career on tonight’s episode of AEW Dark. Kazarian talked about their run as a team so far, noting that they have lost more than they have won. He said despite everything in 2020, he could rely on Christopher Daniels until now, pointing out their loss to The Acclaimed on last week’s AEW Dynamite.
Kazarian talked about how he met his wife thanks to this business and put over Christopher Daniels as one of his best friends, and apologized for speaking out. Daniels told him not to apologize, he was the one that needed to apologize as he was the one who lost his passion. He let injury and adversity beat him. He said that perhaps this was a sign that he should walk away.
Kazarian stopped him, saying he knows Daniels as a fighter, and asked him to fight one more time. That was when Kazarian issued the ultimatum. Daniels started to walk away, but then told Kazarian he’d do it. They ended the interview by calling out TH2, who were in the crowd.
Daniels and Kazarian have been teaming regularly since 2011, when they were together in Impact Wrestling under the Fortune stable before eventually teaming together on their own under the team name Bad Influence. After leaving Impact in 2014, they appeared in Ring of Honor and continued to team together under the name The Addiction. When they joined forces with Scorpion Sky, they started working as a trio under the name SoCal Uncensored.
The finals of the AEW Tag Team title tournament are now set for next week, with the final two teams advancing.
SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian) will face the Lucha Bros. (Pentagon Jr. and Fenix) next week for the AEW Tag Team titles. Both teams advanced tonight on Dynamite, beating The Dark Order and Private Party respectively.
This plays into an angle that took place last week on Dynamite. Originally, Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian were to be the team representing SCU in the tournament. However the Lucha Bros. jumped them as they were making their way to the ring, with Pentagon Jr. giving Daniels a package piledriver on the rampway.
Scorpio Sky came out in street clothes and joined Kazarian instead, defeating Best Friends. Commentary tonight gave an update on Daniels, saying that he was resting at home.
Dynamite will take place week in Charleston, West Virginia at the Charleston Coliseum.
Both AEW Tag Team title tournament semifinals are set for next week.
Private Party vs. The Lucha Bros and SoCal Uncensored vs. The Dark Order are now confirmed for next Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite. Both SoCal Uncensored and Lucha Bros won their matches tonight to advance to the semifinals.
The winning teams will advance to the finals of the tournament. The finals are being held on the October 30 episode of Dynamite in Charleston, West Virginia.
Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian opened the show by defeating Best Friends Chuck Taylor & Trent. The SCU team was originally supposed to be Frankie Kazarian & Christopher Daniels, but the Lucha Bros jumped them as they were coming to the ring, with Pentagon Jr. drilling Daniels with a package piledriver on the entryway.
Scorpio Sky came to the ring in street clothes and took Daniels’ place in the match, with his team winning after they hit a powerbomb/dropkick combination on Trent.
Lucha Bros later in the show defeated the team of Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt, who replaced Luchasaurus in the match. It was reported this afternoon that he would be out of the match due to a hamstring injury. Pentagon picked up the win for his team after he and Fenix drilled Stunt with a dropkick/package piledriver for the win.
Next week’s Dynamite will take place at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
– SCU remain undefeated in six-man tag team matches, winning their second match over Jurassic Express.
– The episode started with Tony Schiavone in a studio introducing the show. He noted that AEW Dynamite was TNT’s biggest premiere in five years.
– They used the Dynamite announce team of Jim Ross, Excalibur, and Schiavone, although Schiavone stepped out halfway through the show.
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Darby Allin defeated CIMA
Allin was sitting in the corner — soaking in the adulation — when CIMA gave him the running knees to the face to start the bout. Allin came back with a trio of suicide dives, which just got the crowd to ask for one more.
Allin went for the Coffin Drop, which he seemingly always misses, and he missed again, with CIMA turning it into a powerbomb. Allin worked over the knee of CIMA, including headbutting it. I’m not saying that sarcastically, he was throwing headbutts to CIMA’s knee.
After a chop to Allin, CIMA held his own arms behind his back for a chop, but Allin punched him in the face instead.
Allin went for another Coffin Drop, but this time CIMA got his knees up. CIMA hit a meteora for a near fall. He missed a diving knee drop, then Allin hit a Code Red and finally hit the Coffin Drop for the win.
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Schiavone announced that Allin will wrestle Jimmy Havoc tomorrow night on Dynamite. The winner will get a shot at Chris Jericho’s AEW World Championship on October 16.
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The Lucha Brothers (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix), Jack Evans & Angelico defeated Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor w/ Orange Cassidy) & Private Party (Marq Quen & Isiah Kassidy)
Evans and Angelico are now going by The Hybrid2. They were arguing with their partners from the opening bell.
I type pretty fast, relatively speaking, but I could not type everything that happened in this match if I tried. The first two minutes were an eight-way series of dives and moves to everyone else. After a few minutes, they settled down and a wrestling match broke out.
The heels (The Lucha Brothers and Hybrid2) had quite a few misdirection spots where they crashed into each other. Evans used a backflip back elbow to break up a hug attempt.
They fought outside and Cassidy got in between Hybrid2 and Best Friends and just put his hands in his pockets, so Evans punched him in the face. Taylor was about to dive when Barreta stopped him for a hug and then we had a double dive. Cassidy got back in the match and did a dive onto the heels outside the ring.
In the ring, Fenix broke up a Best Friends double team and Pentagon pinned Taylor after a package piledriver/foot stomp combo.
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Dr. Britt Baker & Allie defeated Penelope Ford & Bea Priestley
The crowd was noticeably dead for most of this match, although Allie did her best to cheerlead. The story of this match was the continued feud between Baker and Priestley. Priestley did your classic heel tactics of taunting Baker when she was on the apron and then tagging out as soon as Baker tagged in.
The heels got the heat on Allie, working over her arm. Priestley did the Shayna Baszler move of stomping on Allie’s elbow. Allie came back and went for a hurricanrana on Ford, but they collapsed. Excalibur sold it as Ford blocking it and using a powerbomb.
Finally, Priestley and Baker tagged in and were the best part of the match. It broke down into a four-way and everyone hit a big move on everyone.
The DMD hit a DDT and then tapped Ford out with a laying down abdominal stretch while yanking on her jaw.
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Schiavone did a recap of the events of last Wednesday night. We then went into the AEW Control Center, where Schiavone previewed the Tag Team title tournament and tomorrow night’s Dynamite.
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SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) defeated Jurassic Express (Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt)
It was an All Out rematch here as the AEW Dark main event.
Stunt started with Daniels and danced on Daniels’ back instead of jumping over it. Seconds later, Daniels returned the favor. JR continues to call Jungle Boy “Jungle Boy Jack Perry,” so I’m assuming that’s his name from now on.
JR and Excalibur put over Sky’s potential as Luchasaurus tagged in to spin kick Daniels in the face. Stunt tried a running crossbody to Sky, but it didn’t work and he just bounced off. Sky assisted Kazarian in a tornado DDT on Luchasaurus, who kicked out of the cover and went kick crazy on SCU.
Stunt rolled through on Kazarian’s Tombstone attempt, but got pinned after a combo powerbomb/lung blower. So that is SCU: 2, Jurassic Express: 0.
Final Thoughts —
It would probably be better to film all of these matches before Dynamite, since the last two matches had a bit of a dead crowd, while the opener (taped before the show) and the eight-man (taped immediately after the show ended) had a more lively crowd.
The viewership mostly increased throughout the show, starting with 14,895 at the start and ending with 25,820 when the show ended. The only time when I noticed it go down was at the start of the women’s tag. It went down around a thousand viewers, but it got those thousand back and more.
This week’s Being the Elite included the tease of another match for the AEW Dynamite premiere.
On today’s Being the Elite episode, it was teased that SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) will face Jurassic Express (Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt) on AEW’s first television episode on TNT. Those six also faced off at All Out, with SCU getting the win.
The Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. is hosting the Dynamite premiere on Wednesday, October 2. Here’s what’s been announced for the episode:
Chris Jericho and two mystery partners vs. Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks
Nyla Rose vs. Riho to determine the inaugural AEW Women’s Champion
Cody Rhodes vs. Sammy Guevara
MJF vs. Brandon Cutler
Appearances by Jon Moxley and Hangman Page
This week’s Being the Elite also featured Omega giving an in-character response to the reaction to comments he made about NXT wrestlers. Omega had told Sportskeeda’s Dropkick Diskussions that AEW would feature real stars and not developmental talent. He also said that NXT wrestlers would be in the opening match to his main event if they were on the same show.
On Being the Elite, Omega’s character has been in a downward spiral since losing to PAC at All Out.
AEW has added a six-man tag match to the card for All Out.
Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt vs. SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) is set for the pay-per-view. The match announcement was made on today’s episode of Being the Elite.
Stunt accompanied Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy for their three-way tag match against The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) and Angelico & Jack Evans at Fight for the Fallen last month. It was later announced that Stunt has officially joined the AEW roster.
All Out is taking place at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois this Saturday (August 31). Here’s the updated card for the PPV:
Chris Jericho vs. Hangman Page for the AEW World Championship
Kenny Omega vs. PAC
AAA Tag Team Champions The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix) defending against The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) in a ladder match
Cody Rhodes vs. Shawn Spears
Hikaru Shida vs. Riho
Darby Allin vs. Joey Janela vs. Jimmy Havoc
Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) vs. The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) (winning team gets a first-round bye in AEW’s Tag Team title tournament)
Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt vs. SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky)
Women’s Casino Battle Royale (pre-show)
Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) vs. Angelico & Jack Evans (pre-show)
This week’s Being the Elite is available to watch below:
The Lucha Bros and SoCal Uncensored will be facing off at AEW Fight for the Fallen this Saturday.
On this week’s Being the Elite, Pentagon Jr. & Fenix vs. Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian was announced for Fight for the Fallen. The show is being held at Daily’s Place Amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday (July 13) and is benefiting Jacksonville’s Victim Assistance Advisory Council.
Christopher Daniels will be in Sky & Kazarian’s corner for the match.
The Lucha Bros lost to The Young Bucks at Double or Nothing in May. Pentagon & Fenix then teamed with Laredo Kid against The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega at Fyter Fest, with Omega pinning Laredo Kid to get the win.
Sky, Kazarian & Daniels defeated CIMA, T-Hawk & El Lindaman at Double or Nothing. Daniels lost a singles match against CIMA at Fyter Fest, and Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor defeated Private Party and Sky & Kazarian in a triple threat match on the Fyter Fest pre-show. As a stipulation of winning that match, Barreta & Taylor will advance to All Out and get the chance to earn a first-round bye in AEW’s Tag Team title tournament.
Fight for the Fallen will air for free on B/R Live in the United States and Canada and will be available to purchase as an iPPV via Fite TV elsewhere. Here’s the updated card for the show:
The Young Bucks vs. Cody & Dustin Rhodes
Kenny Omega vs. CIMA
Brandi Rhodes vs. Allie
Hangman Page vs. Kip Sabian
Jimmy Havoc, Darby Allin & Joey Janela vs. MJF, Sammy Guevara & Shawn Spears
Pentagon Jr. & Fenix vs. Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian
A three-way tag match with Tag Team title tournament implications has been announced for Fyter Fest.
Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) vs. SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) is set for the Fyter Fest pre-show. The winning team will advance to All Out on August 31, where they’ll get an opportunity at a first-round bye in AEW’s World Tag Team Championship tournament.
During his appearance on the Steve Austin Show, AEW’s Tony Khan revealed that AEW will be holding the Tag Team title tournament and it will be “one of the main focuses” of their television when it debuts this fall.
Fyter Fest is taking place at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on Saturday, June 29. It will air for free on Bleacher Report Live and will be available to purchase on Fite TV outside of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Here’s the updated card:
The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) & Kenny Omega vs. The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix) & Laredo Kid
Jon Moxley vs. Joey Janela
Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin
Hangman Page vs. MJF vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Jungle Boy
Nyla Rose vs. Riho vs. Yuka Sakazaki
Christopher Daniels vs. CIMA
Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) vs. SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) vs. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) (pre-show)
CEO Fighting Game Championships organizer Alex Jebailey vs. AEW’s Michael Nakazawa in a hardcore match (pre-show)
Going into Final Battle last night, much of the intrigue for the pay-per-view was what it would confirm about the futures of Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page, and SoCal Uncensored.
While nothing has been officially announced about what’s next for the wrestlers in question, all of them lost at Final Battle. Jay Lethal retained the ROH World Championship against Cody, The Briscoes won the ROH Tag Team titles in a Ladder War against Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian and The Young Bucks, Jeff Cobb retained his Television title against Page, and Marty Scurll (whose contract isn’t up) defeated Christopher Daniels.
The Young Bucks did a post-show speech last night with Cody, Page, SCU, and Scurll in the ring. Nick Jackson started it by saying that the Hammerstein Ballroom is his favorite arena to wrestle in.
Matt Jackson then said it wasn’t going to be “some emotional farewell speech or anything like that.” He mentioned that The Young Bucks started in ROH over 10 years ago and called the past two years the greatest time of his life. He said he loves former ROH owner Cary Silkin and everyone in the ring.
Matt said ROH’s Joe Koff, Greg Gilleland, and Gary Juster have been incredible to work with. He said he wouldn’t have become the person or wrestler he is without their support, everyone in the back, his wife, and their families. In what appeared to be a reference to All Elite Wrestling, Matt said to the crowd, “Everybody in this ring, all of you — we’re all elite, right?”
Matt said the timer is ticking and something is about to go down. He doesn’t know what, but he hopes you watch Being the Elite. The crowd chanted “Double or Nothing.”
Matt closed the speech by saying they will be back in New York City. The Young Bucks, Cody, Page, Kazarian, Sky, Daniels, and Scurll all raised each other’s arms.
ROH’s fallout from Final Battle will take place tonight as the promotion holds a set of television tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.
Video of last night’s speech is available to watch below:
Marty Scurll joined Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana at the announce table.
Kenny King defeated Christopher Daniels
Before the match, King took the microphone and made fun of Daniels for being old.
Daniels started off the match with a springboard moonsault for a two count. Daniels worked King over for a while — until King managed to land a leg sweep to knock Daniels off the ring apron.
After the break, King was firmly in control. However, Daniels landed a Blue Thunder Bomb and went back on the offensive. King countered with a spinebuster and unsuccessfully used the ropes for leverage on the pin. King then used a low blow when the referee’s back was turned, which allowed him to hit the Royal Flush on Daniels for the win.
Dalton Castle reminded us that he was out for a long time and is hungry to get revenge on Matt Taven at Final Battle.
ROH Television Champion Jeff Cobb defeated Josh Woods in a non-title match
The match started off with a grappling exchange. Meanwhile, Hangman Page came out with a chair to watch from the stage. Woods went for a takedown and followed it up with an armbar attempt. Woods maintained top control with a wristlock. Page looked bored.
Cobb powered to his feet and used an arm throw to set up a capture suplex, but he missed with a running hip attack and that set up a hip throw by Woods. Woods again went for an armbar. Cobb elevated him and tossed him into the turnbuckle.
Woods went for a springboard DDT, but Cobb caught him in mid-air and landed the Tour of the Islands for the three count.
Not to be outdone, Page came to the ring and announced that he himself would be competing immediately against Facade.
Hangman Page defeated Facade
After the break, Cobb was seated in the chair on the stage — and Page was putting a hurting on Facade. Page connected with his running Shooting Star Press off the apron. He landed a bridging fallaway slam for a two count.
Unlike Woods, Facade got in a bit of aerial offense until Page connected with a huge boot to the face. Facade used a springboard 450 double ax handle, but that didn’t matter as Page hit the shotgun clothesline and the Rite of Passage to earn the victory. This brought Cobb back to the ring and the two Final Battle opponents faced off.
A replay of the finish of Scurll’s win over Christopher Daniels to win Survival of the Fittest was shown. Apparently, after that match, Daniels and Scurll had a discussion backstage. Daniels said it was the Bullet Club that won, not Scurll. Daniels bated Scurll into putting his title shot on the line against him at Final Battle.
Taven and TK O’Ryan were backstage talking trash on Jay Lethal.
ROH Tag Team Champions SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) defeated Guerrero Maya Jr. & Stuka Jr. to retain their titles
Sky was dressed like Apollo Creed before he faced Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. Frankie Kazarian appeared to be wearing a Cobra Kai outfit from the Karate Kid.
Some unique offense started it off as Maya and Stuka used a double surfboard on Kazarian and followed it up with a full body twist. Sky finally made the tag and lured Maya in for a headscissors. He then hit a double stomp on Stuka. However, Stuka used a spinebuster on Sky and a moonsault to Kazarian on the outside. The pace really picked up and Maya hit a flipping tope through the ropes to wipe out Sky.
Back in the ring, Sky and Kazarian used a combination uranage and backstabber, which they call the “Burning Heart,” on Stuka for the win and the successful title defense.
After the match, Daniels came to the ring with a microphone. He reminded us that Sky and Kazarian had earned new contracts by winning the ROH Tag Team titles, but he did not. He then announced that he would be facing Scurll for Scurll’s future title shot.
Scurll came to the ring and took the microphone. He talked about all that Daniels had accomplished in ROH, but then said that this would be Daniels’ final battle.
A Ladder War match for the Tag Team titles has been confirmed for next month’s Final Battle pay-per-view.
On this week’s episode of Ring of Honor television, The Young Bucks faced The Briscoes in a match to determine which team would challenge for SoCal Uncensored’s (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) Tag Team titles at Final Battle. After the match ended in a double disqualification, Sky & Kazarian came out and set up them defending their titles against both The Young Bucks and The Briscoes in a triple threat Ladder War at Final Battle.
In the most recent Ladder War match, The Young Bucks defeated Kazarian & Christopher Daniels and Motor City Machine Guns at All Star Extravaganza VIII in 2016.
Final Battle 2018 is being held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Friday, December 14. Here’s the updated card for the PPV:
ROH World Champion Jay Lethal defending against Cody Rhodes
ROH Tag Team Champions SoCal Uncensored defending against The Young Bucks and The Briscoes in a triple threat Ladder War match
ROH Television Champion Jeff Cobb defending against Hangman Page
Women of Honor World Champion Sumie Sakai defending against Madison Rayne, Karen Q, and Kelly Klein in a four corner survival match
Marty Scurll vs. Christopher Daniels (for Scurll’s future shot at the ROH World Championship)
Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana called the action from the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dalton Castle and The Boys entered. Castle talked about his comeback from injury, which included going to Australia and kissing a kangaroo. He called out ROH World Champion Jay Lethal, but it was Matt Taven who responded. Taven — who is calling himself the real ROH World Champion — said he’s the one Castle should be worried about.
Three red balloons floated up in front of Castle, which led to The Kingdom jumping Castle and The Boys. Taven, Vinny Marseglia, and TK O’Ryan all landed a synchronized chair shot to the head of the prone Castle.
Marty Scurll defeated Hurricane Helms in a street fight
The Villain Marty Scurll came to the ring holding Hurricane’s mask, which he stole in their last encounter. Hurricane’s music hit, but Delirious tried to come out instead. It was all a distraction as the real Hurricane Helms, sans mask, slid in behind Scurll and landed a Hurri-chokeslam, but it only got a two count as Scurll kicked out.
Scurll tossed multiple canes into the ring and used them against Hurricane, but Hurricane finally fought back and was able to procure the mask. He put it on and back came his Hurri-strength. Hurricane then tossed four chairs into the ring. Hurricane set them all up and went for a superplex. That didn’t work — so he grabbed Scurll by the cajones and tossed him off the top through the chairs.
After the break, Scurll had set up a table on the outside and tossed Hurricane through it. He rolled in Hurricane but only got a two count. Scurll then went for a satchel. He emptied it to reveal a thousand thumbtacks. However, it was Hurricane who was able to land another Hurri-chokeslam — this time slamming Scurll into the tacks, but Scurll got his foot on the ropes.
Scurll got back up and took a handful of tacks, shoved them into the mouth of Hurricane, and landed a superkick, which he followed up with Graduation for the win.
A recap of Brandi Rhodes’ injury and subsequent recovery aired.
SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) defeated The Briscoes and The Young Bucks in a triple threat match to win the ROH Tag Team titles
The Bucks and SCU started it off hot with dives. However, it was The Briscoes who gained the control early as Mark Briscoe bounced Frankie Kazarian’s head off the metal guardrail.
The Young Bucks added a few new crazy moves to their arsenal and landed them on The Briscoes, after taking out SCU with dives. Kazarian and Sky worked together and connected with a dropkick/powerbomb on Nick Jackson. Each man hit an outside-in cutter into dragon sleepers until a pair of superkicks broke it up.
Referee Paul Turner was squished in the melee of the match. Jay Briscoe hit the Jay Driller on Kazarian, but Matt Jackson broke up the slow pin count. The Briscoes got a couple of chairs involved, but before they could be used, Matt hit a spear on Mark.
A chair shot from Jay accidentally hit Mark. Sky capitalized with Kazarian as they hit a combination lung blower on Mark to win the titles.
Christopher Daniels came to the ring, wearing a neck brace, to celebrate with his SCU compadres.
CORRECTION: This article originally stated that Frankie Kazarian & Christopher Daniels won the titles. It was Kazarian & Scorpio Sky.
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The Tag Team titles changed hands during Sunday night’s Ring of Honor television tapings.
During tonight’s television tapings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky defeated The Young Bucks and The Briscoe Brothers in a triple threat tag team match to win the titles. Previous champions the Briscoe Brothers, who were on their ninth reign as champions, held the titles for 217 days, winning them back on March 9 at the 16th anniversary show.
For most of this year, SoCal Uncensored have been fighting for their spot in the company. After trying to leverage a better deal with Joe Koff, Koff instead said he would let their contracts expire at the end of the year. Since then, the group’s goal has been to become champions and stay champions until after Final Battle so that they will have better leverage and remain with the company.
Back in March, SoCal Uncensored won the six man tag team titles in an effort to remain champions through the end of the year, but lost the titles to The Kingdom a few months later in May.
ROH World Champion Jay Lethal came to the ring to talk about his Iron Man match with Jonathan Gresham from last week. After listing some of the classic matches he’s had in ROH against opponents like Roderick Strong, Samoa Joe, and AJ Styles, he called the match with Gresham his favorite.
Lethal then went on to issue a “Lethal Challenge” to any wrestler in the world.
Will Ospreay appeared on the video screen and accepted the challenge for a World title match in Las Vegas at Death Before Dishonor on September 28.
A SoCal Uncensored promo aired. They talked about how they will beat The Briscoes & Punishment Martinez in tonight’s six-man tag team main event.
Brandi Rhodes joined Caprice Coleman and Ian Riccaboni to call the next match.
Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai defeated Tasha Steelz in a non-title proving ground match
Sakai put a hurting on Steelz in the opening sequence, but Steelz landed a springboard bulldog for a two count. She went for the Boricua Butterfly, but Sakai countered into her Smashmouth finisher for the three count.
Backstage, the Bullet Club talked trash about the other factions in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Riccaboni got in the ring with Sakai and stated that the Women of Honor Championship is now known as the Women of Honor World Championship. Sakai took the microphone, said ROH is her home, and then challenged Tenille Dashwood to a match. Dashwood came out and accepted. She said the title match will be at Death Before Dishonor.
Riccaboni stayed in the ring to speak with Gresham. Before Gresham could finish, Bully Ray came to ringside. Ray claimed he single-handedly sold out Madison Square Garden and then called Gresham a jobber. Gresham took the mic and challenged Ray to a wrestling match, not a fight. It was neither as Ray immediately kicked Gresham low and the referee disqualified Ray.
Ray went for his chain, but Flip Gordon came out to make the save for Gresham. However, he ran into a big boot and looked to be in trouble too. Then Lethal came to the ring to make the save for both men. He fired up on Ray until Silas Young came out and landed Misery on Lethal.
Backstage, Lethal and Gresham went off on Ray and Young and challenged the two to a tag match on ROH TV next week.
Chris Sabin was on commentary to scout Martinez for their upcoming ROH TV Championship match.
SoCal Uncensored jumped their opponents and turned this into a brawl at the beginning. The Briscoes took over on Daniels and used quick tags to isolate him. Martinez and The Briscoes were working well together until Daniels was able to land a Blue Thunder Bomb and tag in Sky.
Wheel kicks and cutters galore sparked SCU, but Sky walked into a Spicolli driver from Mark Briscoe and a Silencer from Martinez.
Kazarian took the tag from Sky and landed a DDT on Mark Briscoe. The match broke down as everyone landed big moves. Mark Briscoe got a chair and wanted to hit Kazarian with it but accidentally nailed referee Paul Turner. That allowed Martinez to hit Kazarian with the chair. The Briscoes nailed everyone with chairs — and that caused Sabin to head to the ring to attack Martinez. The two of them brawled to the back, and Sabin used a shoe to hit him.
In the ring, Daniels and Kazarian finished the match with the Best Meltzer Ever on Mark Briscoe to get the win.
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.
