Credit: Blake Reilly and Prowrestling.net
Before the show Samoa Joe, Rocky Romero and Matt Sydal were doing the meet and greet. Joe had by far the longest line.
Scarlett did ring announcing in an amazing shirt showing a lot of side boob. Steve Corino got a standing ovation when he was announced on commentary. There was a dark match with six Brew City Wrestling guys whose names they never announced…
1. Roderick Strong beat Ariya Daivari. Daivari does some awful dance with his hands that got massive heat. There was a huge Kick His Ass Roddy Kick His Ass all match. Rodding won with the Strong Hold at 10:15.
2. Will Ferrera beat Silas Young by DQ. Milwaukee LOVES Young to the point where I think he’s given up fighting it. Personal note: can we please phrase out the “You F—ed Up” chants? They are stupid. Rant over. This might be the only time a mid match chin lock gets an “All Day” chant when it’s done by Silas. The crowd at one point chanted “You’re a cream puff” at Ferrera. Only in Wisconsin. Ferrera won by DQ when Young kicked him in the nuts at 11:30. Post match, the crowd was pissed and Young cut an amazing heartfelt hometown promo.
3. Mark Briscoe beat Beer City Bruiser. Both men got a huge reaction and there was a big Let’s Drink Beer chant for Bruiser. Despite the hometown reaction, Bruiser played heel. The crowd was more into chanting for beer and calling Bruiser huggy bear than the match itself. Everyone got distracted by someone standing up and yelling at Bruiser randomly. None of it made sense to me, maybe it’s a BCW thing. Briscoe won with the Froggy Bow off the top rope at 9:21. Post match, instead of shaking hands they drank beer together.
4. RPG Vice (Rocky Romero & Berreta) beat The Decade (BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs). Jacobs got the biggest pop out of all four guys. It didn’t help that no one knew RPG Vice’s theme music. It’s interesting because the crowd just wasn’t into the match except for Trent. Things picked up around the 15 minute mark but it was so long. Trent pinned Jacobs after he was holding him up for a power bomb DDT and Rocky kicked him in the head at 17:55. Post match, Jacobs shook both men’s hands despite Whitmer not wanting to. It looks like the The Decade are breaking up.
Intermission.
5. Matt Taven beat Cheeseburger. This crowd LOVES Cheeseburger! Taven kept the match going refusing to pin Burger. Taven has an unhealthy obsession with his nuts. Just saying. He won at 6:41. That was really just for the crowd.
6. Michael Elgin beat Josh Alexander. Most of the crowd didn’t know who Alexander was and Elgin got a mixed reaction. Alexander wore an amateur wrestling head piece for some reason. The two of them WRESTLED in the opening moments, the crowd went nuts. This was a good match, though it was almost a comedown match and got the crowd calm before the main events. It also didn’t help that Elgin played heel and no one knew Alexander. The crowd woke up near the end as the match picked up and the ending was insane and impressive by both men. Elgin won after a vicious clothesline at 14:20. Elgin rose Josh’s hand up after the match and led the crowd in chanting his name.
7. Samoa Joe beat ACH. Yeah. Joe is home and the crowd loved it! I’m just going to be blunt. I have no notes. This was incredible, the crowd was WHITE HOT and, well, find this match when it becomes available. Nothing can do this justice. Samoa Joe went over at 19:08. Post match there was a huge Thank You Joe chant, and Joe bowed to the crowd and then hugged ACH.
8. Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly beat Jay Briscoe and Jay Lethal (w/Truth Martini, Jay Diesel) in a Champions Challenge match. At one time Bobby Fish was the most hated man in this building, no more as the crowd LOVED reDRagon. Lethal was by far the most hated but O’Reilly was the most cheered. This crowd was so tired after Joe that it was hard to judge who was enjoying it despite it being good. reDRagon when O’Reilly made Lethal tap after Briscoe hit Lethal with the Book of Truth after hitting it out of Truth Martini’s hands at 16:40. Post match both Jays posed with their belts while screaming at each other. Todd Sinclair and Truth separated them from fighting. Briscoe then grabbed the mic and sent the crowd home happy.
Overall another great show by ROH and worth a watch on VOD.