Ring of Honor’s Gabe Saplosky posted the following results earlier today on ROHwrestling.com:
1A) In the dark match Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro defeated Genba Hirayanagi & Kotaro Suzuki in a wild match. This will be a bonus on the DVD of tonight’s event.
1) The lights went out and the music started and the ROH show was underway. Austin Aries crashed Bobby Cruise’s open and after the happenings of last night demanded that his match against Tyler Black start immediately. Aries defeated Black with the Last Chancery, but after the match Jimmy Jacobs put out Aries with the End Time and promised more chaos and said that he would win the World Title in the main event.
2) Kazushi Miyamoto defeated Eddie Edwards when Larry Sweeney’s interference backfired. The fans really got into Sweeney. After the match it looked like Sweeney and Edwards might have been on the outs, but they made up with a big hug. The Japanese fans really reacted to that.
3) Taiji Ishimori defeated El Generico in a really athletic match.
4) Davey Richards debut his new finisher to earn him and Takeshi Morishima a win over Jay & Mark Briscoe. After the match, Jacobs and Tyler Black attacked The Briscoes.
5) Bryan Danielson defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru to win the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title in just over 20 minutes. This was a great match and I was fortunate to just sit in the crowd and watch it. The fans were really behind Bryan and when he won they were overjoyed and surprised. It was really a genuine moment when he won as everyone was really happy for Bryan. There aren’t a lot of moments like that and I don’t know if it will come across on the DVD, but live it was something I’ll never forget.
6) Things got turned up a notch after intermission with the dream tag. KENTA & Kota Ibushi went to a 30 minute draw vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Katsuhiko Nakajima. They then went to a 5 minute overtime, which ended in a draw. This was just unreal. I don’t want to hype it too much as I’ll let you just watch it for yourself. I’ve never heard kicks likeNakajima’s. This was the most over match of the night with the fans. These guys are really the new stars in Japan.
7) Kensuke Sasaki defeated Roderick Strong in a very even match in about 12 minutes.
8) Nigel McGuinness retained the ROH World Title against Jimmy Jacobs in a classic heel/face match that the fans got into. I have to be honest. I feared for these guys. This was a long show with a lot of great stuff on it. I figured the crowd would be tired and knew they would have a tough time. Instead, they told a great story in the match and the fans totally got into it. Hats off to Nigel and Jacobs.
I have a lot of other thoughts, but people are waiting to go out. Sorry if there are any typos, but I wrote this in a hurry. I’ll try to have another entry before I get on the plane tomorrow, but don’t know if that will be possible. I need to eat some more sushi now. Thanks for reading.
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