WannaB wrote:The crowd was about 150-200 people.
The booze was overpriced, and watered down.
Karl Anderson was great. No one knew who he was save for the small group of my friends who were hella marking out for him. He had a pretty solid match, nothing special, but he came across well, and the other fans seemed to like him.
Kozina was also unknown to the audience, and the audience took a liking to him as well.
Tornado was not the evil pimp. But everyone in the audience was psyched to see him live.
A lot of the match finishes were kind of lame. And a lot of matches were far from hard hitting. For example... Rocky vs. TJ. A lot of us PWG & SoCal fans have seen them face each other a great many times, and their matches are always amazing. This had to have been one of their weakest showings together. A lot of the striking manuevers made little or no contact, and when they did you couldn't hear any contact. As a result the crowd wasn't that into it. The same could be said of the striking in most all other matches on the show.
Chris Hero was amazing in his heel role, and Sweeney really needs to be booked in PWG. They were gold together.
The show was also very very short.
All in all I'd say the show was okay at best. A great effort by a lot of the guys but it didn't come off that way. I'd recommend passing on the DVD.
That disappoints me.
Results
~Attendance looks to be 150-200.
1) Chris Hero defeats Human Tornado with a Hero's Welcome and the Hangman's Clutch for the submission.
~After the match Claudio ran out and jumped Hero. Claudio cut a promo, and Roderick is out for their match.
2) Roderick Strong defeats Claudio Castagnoli with a Gibson Driver to retain the FIP World Championship.
3) Adam Pearce defeated Karl Anderson with a piledriver. After the match Delirious ran out and bites Hagadorn's face tearing it open. Another friend at the show told me the crowd was really annoying trying to get themselves over in this one.
4) Brent Albright defeats Delirious with a half nelson suplex in a really solid match.
5) Davey Richards & Rocky Romero defeat TJ Perkins and Tony Kozina via submission when Perkins tapped to Davey.
~The Age Of The Fall are out. They challenge the NRC and they accept!
6) Jimmy Jacobs & Necro Butcher defeat Davey Richards and Rocky Romero in a wild brawl when Davey gets tigerdrivered through two chairs and Jacobs locks on his guillotine choke.
7) Bryan Danielson defeats Austin Aries with a small package to even their best of 3 series up at 1 apiece.
8) Nigel McGuinness defeats Jay Briscoe with the Tower of London on the ring apron to retain the ROH World Championship. After the match all hell breaks loose!
~Bryan Danielson hits the ring and brawls with Nigel. Age of the Fall run in to attack Jay Briscoe. Mark hits the ring to help Jay but is beaten down as well. The No Remorse Corp hits the ring and clears out the Age of the Fall. THEN Aries hits the ring and takes out the NRC. He nails a plancha to the outside on everyone. HUGE BRAWL insuing. Jay Briscoe and Davey Richards also end up flying outside of the ring on everyone. Chris Hero then hits the ring to taunt everyone, and Claudio heads out and floors him with the Riccola Bomb. Claudio addresses the crowd on the mic, and the show ends!