"Would the WWE sink that low?" will NEVER, IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND be a question that can be answered by "no."
You can point to Hassan, but that was 100% network action, and WWE's hands were tied.
I look forward to the Warrior video; I dunno if I'll buy it because I don't care for his matches (though, as a child, the entrance was impressive enough). I would like to see the commentary on it. Warrior is a nutcase and a piece of shit, and I'd love to see his side of things but it's *his* loss for doing so. Regrettably, WWE owns *all* the major video footage, so damn near everyone has to work with them.
It's unfortunate that this behavior is so blatant, though. Also, why can't they come to a compromise? Instead of burying Bret before his involvement, and exalting him after it, include a mix of ALL those interviews. With the exception of Hogan and Michaels comments about jobbing, a mix of praise and shit would be a mixture closest to the truth.
So, CM Punk lost his ROH title last night to Jamie Knoble, after Knoble gave him a tiger driver (double underhook sitting powerbomb) from the top rope in a four way elimination match that included Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels. Awesome, awesome match, and since we were in Dayton, OH (a John Cougar Mellencamp-esque "small town,") I didn't expect a title change.
Matt Hardy showed he could wrestle a decent match against Homicide, and in the end he took the win. No major bumps or spots, but fluid overall. The crowd was interesting to watch, because bipolar disorder took over; they were marking like crazy for the big WWE star (and the fat
and his filthpig of a spouse sitting in front of me creamed everytime he
in' blinked, leading me to think that being this close to a "celebrity" will be the highlight of their miserable, Old Milwaukee-soaked front porch hee-haw fests for years to come), yet at the same time the crowd's "indy pretentousness" made them boo Hardy for being "corporate" or some dumb shit like that. Any Homicide match not involving a fork just seems inauthentic, at least when he's willing to cheat by other means (in this match, he tried to use a chain and Low Ki tried to interfere).
Low Ki and Jay Lethal went to a no contest in a strange, ROH specific manner. The in-ring work itself was disgustingly hard-hitting. Low Ki is notorious for that, and Lethal can take and give. The last three matches will sell me on owning this dvd. Close falls, good wrestling, good stories in the matches, just
ing awesome. If you buy an ROH video, I'm going to have to recommend this one. Anyway, the match spilled out into the crowd, brawl-style. I couldn't see shit, and the ref called the match. Instead of using the tired and awful "10-count" rule, apparently ROH refs use discretion in calling a match if it is "unnecessarily" outside the ring for longer than necessary. I'm confused by that rule, but it seems to make far more sense at the moment than the traditional count-out. It can easily be misused, but we'll see if that happens.
I'm too tired to finish, but we also got to see an excellent 6-man tag with Abyss, Jimmy Rave and Alex Shelly versus Austin Aries (who looks to be Daniels' opponent on Sunday at Sacrifice), Roderick Strong, and Matt Sydal. The tag title match wasn't very good, featuring BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs versus Nigel McGuinness and Chad Collyer (and I'm usually very high on McGuinness and Collyer's work). It just didn't happen tonight, I suppose. Colt Cabana is the single most entertaining wrestler you've never seen if you haven't watch ROH, and he proved it in a match that was simultaneously good comedy *and* good wrestling, as he took on, and pinned, Spanky. The opening match was a four way with Matt Stryker (the brow, not the teacher), Delirious, and two other guys I can't think of immediately. Anyway, awesome show, Knoble deserves every bit of this recognition, as he is a wrestler better than you would *ever* think having watched him in WWE. He's a class act (rebel flag fixation aside) and just totally worthy of this. I hope he keeps it for awhile, because that means I get to keep watching him wrestle instead of on smackdown.
