Friday, October 5, 2007

ROH Driven Review (plus Dragon vs. KENTA bonus match)

• The No Remorse Corps (Roderick Strong, Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) defeated Delirious and The Resilience (Matt Cross and Erick Stevens) (11:00)
o Richards pinned Cross after a DR Driver II.
o After the match, Austin Aries ran out of the crowd and attacked the No Remorse Corps.
o ***3/4

• Claudio Castagnoli defeated Matt Sydal (8:20)
o Castagnoli pinned Sydal after rolling through a hurricanrana into a sunset flip.
o ***1/2

• Naomichi Marufuji defeated BJ Whitmer (10:58)
o Marufuji pinned Whitmer after a Shiranui.
o **3/4

• Brent Albright defeated Pelle Primeau (1:41)
o Albright forced Primeau to submit with the Crowbar.
o ½*

• Takeshi Morishima defeated Jimmy Rave to retain the ROH World Championship (3:58)
o Morishima pinned Rave after a Backdrop Driver.
o *1/2

• The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) defeated Kevin Steen and El Generico to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship (16:08)
o Generico was pinned after a Spike Jaydriller.
o After the match, Steen attacked the Briscoe Brothers with a ladder.
o ****

• Bryan Danielson defeated Nigel McGuinness. (24:31)
o Danielson forced McGuinness to submit to the Cattle Mutilation.
o This match was not part of the event, but was taped on June 9 in Philadelphia, PA at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory and was aired with the PPV.
o *****
I don't really talk about matches for anything other than WWE, but this is different. This match was just incredible. I looked through it for flaws to see if it deserved *****. I then figured if I have to look, then screw it. I don't see anything touching this for MOTY unless the ladder match at Man Up delivers HUGE. Anyhoo, best match I've probably seen since Danielson vs. KENTA (GBHVN2)

What are you waiting for? ORDER THIS SHOW. It is only $10 in many places. It seriously might be the best PPV since WM 21 or 20 or maybe even WM X-7. And it's only 2 hours. Thats some serious company for only 2 hours.

I'll be back sometime with ROH reviews because I got like 12 DVDs and I'm gonna check them out.

Bonus matches from Driven DVD:

• Lacey and Rain (w/Jimmy Jacobs) defeated Daizee Haze and MsChif
o **1/4

• Nigel McGuinness defeated Chris Hero (w/Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland and Bobby Dempsey)
o McGuinness pinned Hero after a Tower of London.
o ***1/4

• Takeshi Morishima defeated Adam Pearce to retain the ROH World Championship
o Morishima pinned Pearce after a Backdrop Driver.
o After the match, Morishima attacked Shane Hagadorn.
o Adam Pearce came out and issued an open challenge, which was accepted by Takeshi Morishima.
o *3/4

• KENTA defeated Bryan Danielson
o KENTA pinned Danielson after a Go 2 Sleep.
o ****1/2

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