The main event of Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards was simply amazing with Richards superplexing Edwards off the top rope which Edwards followed up with a superplex over the top rope and both went over the top rope and they both made it back 19 and then they went to the corner and went back and forth with Edwards in controlled with kicks and Richards turned it around and karate chopped Edwards who then turned it around for some more kicks. Then they were in the middle of the ring with Richards holding down Edwards' head and kicking him and then Edwards chopped Richards and then they went superplex for superplex which brought out the house of truth to battle with Richards' corner and Dan Savern took apart the house of truth and ended up beating up Martini and all this gave the wrestlers a breather. Later Richards throws everything at Edwards and Edwards kicked out every time until Edwards could not kick out and Richards keeps the title and after the match Richards took the mic and thanked all the fans and thanked Edwards and thought that he was a great wrestler at which point Kevin Steen came out on the ramp and said that what Richards had just said was a piece of garbage and that he was coming for the title and when he won it he would hold ROH hostage and Richards was held back by security and that is how the show ended.
Just before ROH's intermission they had the Kevin Steen Vs Steve Corino with Jimmy Jacobs as special referee with Jim Cornete ringside and after Carino did everything he could to finish off Steen and keep him out of ring of honor for good but when Steen constantly kicked out at the count of two it was time for Jacobs and Corino argued over the count. Kevin Steen got the advantage with the argument and got the pin and won the opportunity to wrestle in Ring of Honor once again and Jacobs was not wanting to count three but finally against his better judgement he counted the three and the crowd chanted welcome back. After the match Steen said he had three thing checklist for tonight and the first was beating Corino and being reinstated in ROH and the second was and he attacked Jacobs and power bombed him and out and Steen went over to Cornette and put up three figures meaning that Cornette was next and chased him around the ring and before he could get his hands on Cornette El Generico came into the ring and ended up with Steen on the top for a brainbuster but Steen tossed him over the rope and tombstone piledriver onto a chair. This created a mess and the parametric were called to ringside and El Generico was sent to the hospital.
In the first half of the evening Michael Elgin had his troubles with TJ Perkins but in the end Elgin started the night with a win and then Tommaso Ciampa with Prince Nana and The Embassy in his corner took on Jimmy Rave who was returning from wrestling in India and he was in charge of the match Nana showed him the robe Rave had worn as a part of the Embassy and at that time Princess Mia attacked Rave which opened the door for Tommaso to win the match and he did. Another surprise was in the next match where Mike Bennett brought his quote on quote girlfriend former WWE Diva and playboy playmate Maria and Mike took on both El Generico and Jay Lethal for the TV title where Bennett beat Generico and seconds later Lethal beat Bennett to retain his title.
To start the second half they had the Tag Team Gauntlet match that started with the Bravados Vs Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander with Coleman and Alexander winning and taken on Future Shock and Future Shock won and took on the Young Bucks who took apart Future Shock which meant the final match was between The All Night Express and the Young Bucks and the Young Bucks won on a referee stoppage so that they will receive a title match in 2012.
Then it was the time for the Roderick Strong Invitational Challenge so Strong and his adviser Truth Martini came to the ring and Strong was disappointed that there was nobody taking the challenge so he wanted to be declared the winner of the match so the bell was rung and Martini started to count to 10 with comments in-between numbers but before he said ten the music hit and Chris Hero came out to a Hero's welcome. Martini and Strong were frustrated and argued around the ring and when the match started Hero took control and it was not until Martini used the book of truth to Hero to get his wrestler Strong back on track and they went back and forth in the match until the finish when Martini jumped into the ring to break up a three count and Hero ran around outside of the ring and then Martini ran into the ring and Strong went after Hero but missed and Strong almost ran into Martini and Hero tried to kick Strong and and he moved out of the way and Strong rolled Hero up for the win.
The Tag titles were in the lead into the main event and the World Greatest Tag Team came into the match as the heels because the Briscoe Brothers were fan favorite and before the match started the World Greatest Tag Team attacked the Briscos and blooded them up and like 10 to 15 minutes later the bell actually rang and the match started with its 45 minute time limit. The match was crazy and it got so bad for the World Greatest Tag Team that Shelton Benjamin was sent to the back and then Paul Turner the ref was knocked out and Benjamin came back and they used a piece of wood but in the end the Briscos got the advantage and the fans were happy with the final result as the Briscos won the titles for the seventh time.
The PPV was a good quality of wrestling with great surprises and the crowd were amazing all night and showed what Ring of Honor is all about but there was a huge mess up on the ippv and that was that during the replays the voice of Kevin Kelly was distorted and it just sounded very strange especially with the actual commentary in the background and this was a disappointment especially with their largest ippv buy rate in ROH history tonight. The Richards/Edwards3 was the match of the night and is the reason that one of these days ROH will definitely have the second highest buy rates next to the WWE and showed the fans like me who was watching an ippv for the first time why ROH has so much street cred in the wrestling business and I give it 4 stars with the audio problem being the only real problem on the night.
So great show ROH great show
Tom Mehegan
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