PWG Giant Size Annual 4 Review

Ronin vs. Top Gun Talwar --- *1/2

Human Tornado vs. Tony Kozina --- **

The Young Bucks/Perkins vs. Lost/Gambino/Anderson --- ***1/4

Davey Richards vs. Fergal Devitt --- ***1/4

Joey Ryan vs. Scorpio Sky (Street Fight) --- **1/4

Austin Aries vs. Rocky Romero --- ***1/2

Bryan Danielson vs. Necro Butcher --- ***

Steen/Generico vs. Pac/Strong (PWG Tag Team Titles) --- ****1/4

El Generico vs. Bryan Danielson (PWG World Title) --- ****1/4

ROH Chaos at the Cow Palace Review

Chris Hero vs. Human Tornado --- ***1/4

Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli (FIP Title) --- ***

Adam Pearce vs. Karl Anderson --- *

Delirious vs. Brent Albright --- *3/4

Richards/Romero vs. Perkins/Kozina --- ***

Richards/Romero vs. Jacobs/Necro Butcher --- *** 1/4

Austin Aries vs. Bryan Danielson (Match 2 of 3) --- ****

Nigel McGuinness vs. Jay Briscoe (ROH World Title) --- ***1/4

DVD Bonus Match: Del Ray vs. Haze vs. Perez vs. Alicia --- **

ROH All Star Extravaganza 2 Review

Andrews/Franco/Hagadorn/Turner vs. Special K --- *1/2

Jay Lethal vs. Weapon of MASK Destruction --- **

Outcast Killaz vs. Dunn/Marcos vs. Maff/Whitmer vs. Carnage Crew (Tag Team
Scramble) --- **1/4

John Walters vs. Jimmy Rave (Pure Title) --- ***1/2

Austin Aries vs. Low Ki (#1 Contendership) --- ***3/4

Havana Pit Bulls vs. McGuinness/Collyer (ROH Tag Titles) --- **3/4

Trent Acid vs. Jerk Jackson --- ½*

Cabana/Jacobs vs. Evans/Strong --- **3/4

Homicide vs. Bryan Danielson --- ***1/4

Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (ROH World Title No Time Limits) --- ****3/4

ROH Midnight Express Reunion Review

Havana Pit-bulls vs Izzy & Angel Dust (ROH Tag Team Titles) --- **1/4

Rave vs Acid vs Josh Daniels vs Whitmer --- *3/4

Low Ki vs Jay Lethal --- ***

Homicide vs Nigel McGuinness --- ***3/4

Generation Next vs Punk/Steel/Jacobs/Walters (Elimination Match) --- ***1/4

Midnight Express segment

Samoa Joe vs Bryan Danielson (ROH World Title) --- ****1/4

ROH World Title Classic Review

The New & Improved Carnage Crew vs. Dunn/Marcos --- *3/4

Jacobs vs. Loc vs. Rainman vs. Delirious vs Sydal vs. Coleman --- ***

Shelley/Strong/Aries vs. Stryker/Rave/Walters --- ***1/4

CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe (ROH World Title) --- ****3/4

The Briscoes vs. Evans/Aries vs. Cabana/Steel vs. Maff/Whitmer (Ultimate Endurance) --- **1/4

ROH One Year Anniversary Show Review

Chad Collyer vs. EZ Money vs. Colt Cabana vs. Michael Shane --- **3/4

Fast Eddie/Don Juan/Hotstuff Hernandez vs. The Carnage Crew --- *1/2

Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Briscoe --- ****

Homicide vs. Steve Corino --- *1/2

CW Anderson vs. CM Punk --- *3/4

Bryan Danielson vs. Samoa Joe --- ***3/4

Paul London vs. AJ Styles vs. Low Ki (#1 Contendership) --- ****

Xavier vs. Paul London (ROH World Title) --- ***3/4

Da Hit Squad/S.A.T.s/Devine Storm/Whipwreck vs. Special K (Scramble Madness) --- DUD

ROH Road to the Title Review

American Dragon vs. Bio-Hazard --- ¾*

Spanky vs. Paul London --- ***1/4

Jay Briscoe vs. Doug Williams --- **

Jonny Storm vs. Jody Fleisch --- *1/2

Low Ki vs. Prince Nana --- ¼*

Xavier vs. Amazing Red --- *3/4

Christopher Daniels vs. Scoot Andrews --- ¾*

Jerry Lynn vs. AJ Styles --- ***1/2

Finals

Spanky vs. Jody Fleisch --- *1/4

American Dragon vs. Doug Williams --- ***1/4

Low Ki vs. Amazing Red --- ***3/4

AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels --- ***3/4

ROH Night Of Appreciation Review

Da Hit Squad vs. The Christopher Street Connection (0-1) vs. Nana/Luscious --- ¼*

Jay Briscoe vs. Tony Mamaluke --- **1/4

Divine Strom vs. Matthews/York --- *

Xavier vs. James Maritato vs. Scoot Andrews --- **

AJ Styles vs. Low Ki --- ****

Carnage Crew vs. Dunn/Marcos --- ¼*

Donavon Morgan vs. Christopher Daniels --- **3/4

TWA Gauntlet Match
Paul London vs. Michael Shane --- *1/2
Michael Shane vs. Spanky --- **1/4
Spanky vs. American Dragon --- ***

Guerrero/Amazing Red vs. The S.A.T.s --- ***1/4

ROH Round Robin Challenge Review

Christopher Daniels vs. American Dragon --- ***3/4

Prince Nana/Eric Tuttle vs. Da Hit Squad --- DUD

Matthews/York vs. Anderson/Elax --- *1/2

Xavier vs. James Maritato - *3/4

Natural Born Sinners vs. Boggie Knights --- ½*

Christopher Daniels vs. Low Ki --- ***1/2

Paul London vs. Chris Marvel --- ½*

Spanky vs. Jay Briscoe --- ***

SATs vs. Divine Storm vs. Red/Brian XL --- **

Low Ki vs. American Dragon --- ****1/2

ROH The Era of Honor Begins Review

Christopher Street Connection vs Da Hit Squad --- DUD

Amazing Red vs Jay Briscoe --- **3/4

Xavier vs Scoot Andrews --- *3/4

Boogie Nights vs Natural Born Sinners --- *1/4

Quiet Storm vs Chris Divine v Brian XL v Joel Maximo v Jose Maximo vs Amazing Red --- **1/2

Michael Shane/Oz vs Spanky/Ikaika Loa --- **1/4

Super Crazy vs Eddie Guerrero --- ***

Christopher Daniels vs Low-Ki v American Dragon --- ****1/2

PWG All-Star Weekend IV Night 1 Review

PWG ALL-STAR WEEKEND IV NIGHT 1
Colt Cabana vs. Petey Williams --- **3/4
Ronin vs. M-Dogg 20 --- **1/4
Sabin & Shelley vs. Jacobs & Black --- ***1/2
Homicide vs. Christopher Daniels --- **3/4
AJ Styles vs. PAC --- ***1/4
B-Boy & Super Dragon vs. Richards & Strong --- ***1/4
Samoa Joe vs. Rocky Romero --- ***1/4
Quicksilver, Kazarian, Generico & Human Tornado vs. Bosh, Lost, Sky & Ryan --- ***3/4

ROH Survival of the Fittest Review

Brent Albright vs. Roderick Strong --- **1/2

Chris Hero vs. Karl Anderson --- *

Rocky Romero vs. TJ Perkins --- **1/4

Austin Aries vs. Delirious --- *** 1/4

Davey Richards vs. Claudio Castagnoli --- ***

Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson --- ****1/4

Shane Hagadorn vs. Human Tornado vs. Tony Kozina --- *1/4

The Briscoes vs. Jacobs/Necro Butcher --- ***

Hero vs. Romero vs. Aries vs. Richards vs. Human Tornado(SOTF Elimination Match) --- ***1/2

Armageddon 2007 Review

Can the show live up to the hype?

Rey Mysterio defeated WWE United States Champion Montel Vontavious Porter by count-out (11:29)
MVP was counted out after refusing to get back in the ring. As a result, MVP retained the title.
**3/4
This was going well before the countout.

Big Daddy V and Mark Henry (w/Matt Striker) defeated CM Punk and Kane (10:40)
Big Daddy V pinned Punk after a Samoan Drop.
*3/4
The match was dragging for a bit until the end.

Shawn Michaels defeated Mr. Kennedy (15:15)
Michaels pinned Kennedy after a Sweet Chin Music.
***
Kennedy's best match ever. It felt like they took out the first 5 minutes of the match.

Jeff Hardy defeated Triple H (15:22)
Hardy pinned Triple H after reversing a Pedigree attempt into a jackknife pin to
win a WWE Championship match at Royal Rumble 2008.
***1/2
Really good stuff here but there were a lot of botches and miscommunications.

Finlay (w/Hornswoggle) defeated The Great Khali (w/Ranjin Singh) (6:04)
Finlay pinned Khali after Hornswoggle gave Khali a low blow with a shillelagh and Finlay hit Khali in the head with a shillelagh.
¾*
As awful as I figured it would be.

Chris Jericho defeated WWE Champion Randy Orton by disqualification (15:04)
Orton was disqualified after John "Bradshaw" Layfield kicked Jericho in the head. As a result, Orton retained the title.
***1/4
Started off slowly but by the end it was kicked into high gear. Might as well book JBL vs. Y2J for Mania (because the world needed to see that).

Beth Phoenix defeated Mickie James to retain the WWE Women's Championship (4:46)
Phoenix pinned James after a Delayed Fisherman's suplex.
*1/4
OK for time given.

Edge defeated Batista (c) and The Undertaker in a Triple Threat match to win the World Heavyweight Championship (13:00)
Edge pinned Batista after a Tombstone Piledriver from Undertaker.
Edge used two look-alikes to distract Undertaker and Batista during the match.
***1/2
Better than I thought it would be.

Well I was 6/8 for predictions (actually 4/8 put I knew Orton and MVP would retain so I'm counting that because its my blog). Not WWE PPV of the year but in the top half.

Armageddon Predictions

Mysterio vs. MVP
This will probably open the show. MVP should hold on to the title until Mania where he'll lose it to Matt Hardy.
Winner: MVP

Michaels vs. Kennedy
This will probably be Kennedy's best singles match ever (that's not saying much). This rivalry will continue on after this show.
Winner: Kennedy via cheating.

Finlay vs. Khali
This will be god awful.
Winner: Khali

Punk and Kane vs. Big Daddy V and Henry
Won't be as bad as the previous match but will probably still reek.
Winners: BDV & Henry

Hardy vs. HHH
I originally thought HHH would win but I get the feeling he'll save his title shot until Mania. The Rumble challenger never wins any way.
Winner: Hardy

Phoenix vs. James
Beth keeps on rolling.
Winner: Phoenix

Jericho vs. Orton
Jericho has yet to impress me in his return. I don't see him carrying Orton to a great match here.
Winner: Orton

Edge vs. Taker vs. Batista
Whenever I see this match I always think back to Armageddon 2003's World Title match. That show sucked so it is a bad memory. Doesn't really matter who wins because the end game is Taker vs. Edge at Mania.
Winner: Edge

I've heard a lot of people say that this will be PPV of the year. I don't really no what they are talking about because this card looks pretty mediocre. Maybe I'll be proved wrong.

ROH Manhatten Mayhem II Review

Matt Cross & Erick Stevens vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw --- ***1/2

Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mitch Franklin --- *

Whitmer, Pearce, & Albright vs. Delirious, McGuinness, & Primeau --- **3/4

Davey Richards vs. PAC --- ***

Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jack Evans --- ***1/4

Ruckus vs. Eddie Edwards --- **

Chris Hero vs. Claudio Castagnoli --- ***

Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH World Title Match) --- ****3/4

The Briscoes vs. Steen & El Generico (World Tag Team Title- 2 Out Of 3 Falls) --- ****1/2

ROH Death Before Dishonor V Night 2 Review

Mark Briscoe vs El Generico --- ***

Jack Evans vs Deranged --- *1/2

Claudio Castagnoli & Nigel McGuinness vs Chris Hero & Jigsaw --- ***

Bryan Danielson vs Mike Quackenbush --- ***3/4

Jay Briscoe vs Kevin Steen --- ***1/2

Takeshi Morishima vs Brent Albright --- ****

Aries, Delirious, Stevens, & Cross vs. Strong, Romero, Richards, & Sydal (Philly
Street Fight) --- ****

ROH Death Before Dishonor V Night 1 Review

Davey Richards vs. Jack Evans --- ***1/2

Lacey vs. Daizee Haze (#1 Contender for SHIMMER Title) --- **3/4

Nigel McGuinness vs. Chris Hero (Pure Wrestling Rules) --- ***

Delirious vs. Albright vs. Cross vs. Primeau vs. Edwards vs. Jigsaw --- **3/4

Austin Aries & Erick Stevens vs. Roderick Strong & Rocky Romero --- **1/4

Bryan Danielson vs. Matt Sydal --- ***1/2

Takeshi Morishima vs. Claudio Castagnoli (ROH World Title Match) --- ****1/4

Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico (Boston Street Fight) --- ****3/4

ROH Man Up Review

Nigel McGuinness defeated Claudio Castagnoli, Chris Hero (w/Larry Sweeney) and Naomichi Marufuji in a Four Corner Survival Match (18:00)
McGuinness pinned Castagnoli after a Jawbreaker Lariat.
***1/2

Rocky Romero defeated Matt Cross (4:45)
Romero pinned Cross after kicking him in the head.
**1/2

Austin Aries defeated Davey Richards (11:54)
Aries pinned Richards after a 450 Splash.
***1/4

Roderick Strong defeated Erick Stevens (16:26)
Strong pinned Stevens after a Gibson Driver.
***1/2

Takeshi Morishima defeated Bryan Danielson to retain the ROH World Championship (12:43)
Morishima won after the referee stopped the match due to Morishima attacking Danielson's injured eye.
****

The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) defeated Kevin Steen and El Generico in a Ladder Match to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship (27:23)
After the match, The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black and Necro Butcher w/Lacey) ran out to the ring and attacked the Briscoe Brothers, tying Mark to the ring post and punching Jay in the head with barbed wire before hanging him upside down from the chain that held the belts.
****1/2

DVD Bonus Matches:

Mitch Franklin defeated Alex Payne to retain the Top of the Class Trophy (2:25)
Franklin pinned Payne after a Faceplant Powerbomb.
*

Daizee Haze and Amazing Kong defeated Lacey and Sara Del Rey (14:48)
Haze pinned Lacey after a combination Heart Punch by Haze, Powerbomb by Kong, and top rope Splash by Haze.
***1/4

BJ Whitmer and Brent Albright (w/Shane Hagadorn) defeated The YRR (Chasyn Rance and Kenny King) (5:19)
Whitmer pinned Rance after a Flapjack Piledriver.
¾*

Jack Evans fought Tyler Black to a no contest (2:40)
The match was stopped after Necro Butcher (w/Jimmy Jacobs) came out and threw a chair at Evans. The Age of the Fall then attacked Evans until Irish Airborne came to his aid.
*

Jack Evans and Irish Airborne (Jake and Dave Crist) fought The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black and Necro Butcher) to a no contest (6:50)
The match was stopped after Necro Butcher punched the referee.
**1/2

Delirious defeated Matt Sydal (w/ Larry Sweeney) (21:52)
Delirious pinned Sydal with Chemical Imbalance II.
***1/4

King of Europe Cup (April 28 and 29, 2007)

The King of Europe Cup (KOE cup) is a European professional wrestling tournament in the style of the "King of Indies" and "Super 8" tournaments of the United States.
The inaugural event was hosted in Liverpool, England on the last weekend of April 2007 and was the brainchild of two UK wrestling veterans Alex Shane and Doug Williams. In what was considered a historic event in British wrestling history, the first event featured a tournament to crown the first KOE cupholder and involved 16 promotions and wrestlers from across the world. Just 5 days later, Germany's westside Xtreme wrestling hosted another weekend worth of shows and its own international tournament, known as the 16 Carat Gold Tournament.

Promotion
Country Representative
Wrestler

1 Pro Wrestling
United Kingdom
Jody Fleisch

CHIKARA
United States
Claudio Castagnoli

Combat Zone Wrestling
United States
Chris Hero

Dragon Gate
Japan
Ryo Saito

Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
United States
Matt Sydal

International Wrestling Syndicate
Canada
El Generico

International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Pac

Premier Promotions
United Kingdom
Doug Williams

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
United States
Davey Richards

Pro Wrestling NOAH
Japan
Go Shioazki

Pro Wrestling Unpluged
United States
Trent Acid

Real Quality Wrestling
United Kingdom
Martin Stone

Ring of Honor
United States
Nigel McGuinness

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
United States
Rhino

westside Xtreme wrestling
Germany
Are$

World Association of Wrestling
United Kingdom
Zebra Kid


Night 1

DVD Bonus Match (Pre-show):
Pac vs. El Generico (2/3 Falls) ---****1/4

Round of 16

Chris Hero vs. Claudio Castagnoli --- **3/4

Go Shiozaki vs. Martin Stone --- ***

PAC vs. Trent Acid --- ***3/4

El Generico vs. Matt Sydal --- ***1/4

Ares vs. Doug Williams --- **1/2

Zebra Kid vs. Davey Richards --- **1/4

Ryo Saito vs. Jody Fleisch --- ***

Nigel McGuinness vs. Rhino --- ***3/4

Night 2

Quarterfinals

Chris Hero vs. Doug Williams --- ***1/2

Nigel McGuinness vs. PAC --- ***

Go Shiozaki vs. Davey Richards --- ****

Ryo Saito vs. Matt Sydal --- **3/4

Semifinals

Nigel McGuinness vs. Davey Richards --- **3/4

Matt Sydal vs. Doug Williams --- **1/2

Finals

Nigel McGuinness vs. Doug Williams --- ***3/4

The Best of CM Punk: Declarations

CM Punk vs Vordell Walker (FIP Emergence Night I 9.24.04) --- **1/4

Homicide vs Joshua Masters w/CM Punk (FIP Emergence Night II 9.25.04) --- ½*

CM Punk vs Justin Credible (FIP Emergence Night II 9.25.04) --- **1/2

CM Punk vs Rainman (FIP Emergence Night II 9.25.04) --- **

FIP Heavyweight Title Tournament Finals
CM Punk vs Homicide (FIP Emergence Night II 9.25.04) --- ***3/4

CM Punk vs Dan Maff (FIP Fallout Night I 11.12.04) --- **1/4

FIP Title - No DQ Falls Count Anywhere
Homicide vs CM Punk (FIP Fallout Night II 11.13.04) --- ***1/2

CM Punk vs James Gibson (FIP Florida Rumble 12.17.04) --- ***

Bonus Matches:

CM Punk vs. Roderick Strong (ROH The Future is Now 6.12.05) --- ****1/4

CM Punk vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH Reborn Stage I 4.23.04) --- ****1/4

TNA Turning Point 2007 Review

Johnny Devine and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Jay Lethal and The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) in a Tables Match (14:50)
Lethal put Devine through a table with a Diving Elbow Drop but referee Mark "Slick" Johnson was knocked out. While the referee was knocked out, Team 3D put Devine on top of Lethal and woke up the referee.
**3/4

Angelina Love and Velvet Sky defeated ODB and Roxxi Laveaux (5:57)
Love pinned Laveaux after a Mafia Kick.
*1/4

Eric Young defeated James Storm (w/Jackie Moore) (12:20)
Young pinned Storm with a sunset flip.
**

Scott Steiner, Senshi, B.G. James and Petey Williams won the Feast or Fired Battle Royal (11:56)
Other participants: Shark Boy, Lance Hoyt, Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, Homicide, Hernandez, Kip James, Jimmy Rave, Chris Harris, and Sonjay Dutt
There were four briefcases in the corners; one had a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, one had a shot at the TNA X Division Championship, one had a shot at the TNA World Tag Team Championship, one had a "You're Fired" slip.
The contents of the cases will be revealed on the December 6 edition of iMPACT!.
*1/2

Gail Kim defeated Awesome Kong by disqualification to retain the TNA Women's World Championship (8:38)
Kong was disqualified after shoving referee Rudy Charles and excessively choking Kim in the corner.
**3/4

Abyss and Raven defeated Rellik and Black Reign in a Match of 10,000 Tacks (15:37)
Abyss pinned Rellik after a Black Hole Slam onto tacks.
Rhino was originally scheduled to be Abyss' partner, but pulled out due to injury.
3/4*

Kaz and Booker T (w/Sharmell) defeated Christian Cage and Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) (18:11)
Booker pinned Cage after an Axe Kick.
***

Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash and Eric Young, defeated The Angle Alliance (Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles and Tomko) (w/Karen Angle) (10:40)
Joe pinned Tomko after a Muscle Buster
Scott Hall was scheduled to be part of the match, but was replaced by Young after Hall no-showed.
**1/4