Ring of Honor El Generico Vs Jay Lethal

The Second episode of ROH on national TV started with the introduction of Jim Cornette who interviews the World's Great Tag Team (Haas and Benjamin) and says that the Briscoe brothers only get into the ring with them and Haas immediately says that they would put the titles on the line and that they wanted them tonight and Cornette said he would not allow the match because of how the Briscos attacked them and crowd booed and Haas brought it to Cornerre attention and then Cornette left the ring without making the match.

Then they introduced Mike Bennett and his trainer Brutal Bob and it showed how he felt that he was better than everyone else and how he was going to be the great movie star and he would be better than the Rock and Cornette also talked about how full of himself Bennett was. They followed this up with a match where he took on Jimmy Jacobs and they told the story of how he was helping Steve Corino be come a better person and in the end Bennett won the match to keep him strong.

Then they introduced the World Title Match for next week between Roderick Strong and the champ Davey Richards and they introduced Eddie Edwards and all three had their separate interviews that production cut and pasted and they told the story how Edwards and Richards were good friends and Strong and Richards could not stand each other and that Edwards wanted the winner of the match in a match soon.

Then we headed to the Main Event of the evening and it was TV title match that started 23 before the top of the clock and it had a 15 minute time limit and it was challenger Jay Lethal and champ El Generico and the announcers kept dropping names of people in TNA like Ric Flair and AJ Styles, Christoper Daniels, and Samoa Joe. It was a good match and because it had time at the end it was draw and the crowd wanted 5 more minutes and Lethal and Generico were cornering the ref asking for more time and Cornette came down and said we do not have 5 minutes left in the TV but we do have 3 and that they could whatever time they had til the cameras went off the air so in the end Generico missed his kick and Lethal went to the top to drop the Macho elbow and he did it a couple times and ended up winning the title just before they went off the air to become the new Champ.

So it was another well put together production and TNA really needs to take notes and having a title change in the second show was good but there can not be to many of them like the others whose titles are paper thin right now as they are being hot shoted around. Also it was very strange that they would mention wrestlers apart of other companies because it is usually promoting the other company and drawing attention but I guess they are trying to get the point at wrestlers like Samoa Joe, CM Punk, AJ Styles, Daniel Bryant (Brain Danielson) and Christoper Daniels came from somewhere ROH is the place.

TNA please take notes

Tom Mehegan