Ring of Honor on HDNet – 2/8/10

Why haven’t you gotten HDNet yet?  You’re missing Ring of Honor!!!  I’ll fill you in, don’t worry.  Here’s what happened:

Video Package: Tyler Black vs. Roderick Strong in the main event from last week, and ROH World Champion, Austin Aries gets involved.

Jim Cornette is in the ring and he introduces Tyler Black to the crowd.  Cornette tells him to stay focused on his ROH World Title match this Saturday, and asks for his thoughts.

• Black rants a bit about how Aries was sitting ringside for his match last week and how he super kicked him.  He didn’t realize that Aries was a direct result in the outcome of the match last week.  Black swears that he’ll become the NEW ROH World Champion.
• Roderick Strong comes out to the ring and grabs the mic from Cornette.   “You didn’t beat me, Austin Aries beat me.  I told you that I’m going to be straight up, and that I’m going to judge the match for the best man… if it wasn’t for me running into Aries, you wouldn’t have beat me!”
• Black’s a little frustrated with this notion, but comes to grips and admits that he didn’t beat Strong last week… “but when I’m champion, you will NEVER beat me!”

Bobby Dempsey & Alex Payne vs. Steve Corino & Kevin Steen
WINNERS: Corino & Steen via referee stoppage after Steen locked the Sharpshooter on Payne

Backstage: Kyle Durdan is with the American Wolves who comment on being the fan pick to who is going to face the Young Bucks tonight.  They thought the fans liked the Bucks… Obviously not because they chose them to get destroyed by the Wolves.

Dark City Fight Club vs. Bravado Brothers
WINNERS: DCFC via pin fall after hitting Project Mayhem (combo Power Bomb/Neckbreaker) in a total squash

• After match, Kyle Durden gets DCFC’s reaction to the fan pick.  They’re pissed and are going to take it out on the whole tag team division.

Video Package: Last week, Eddie Kingston gets jumped by Erick Stevens & Joey Ryan.

Video Package: Prince Nana talks about his past from Ghana, and what The Embassy stands for.

In the ring, Kyle Durdan is with ROH World Champion, Austin Aries, and his buddy, Kenny King. Durden asks about this Saturday’s match for Aries against Tyler Black.  Aries shows his fat lip and a messed up shirt from last week’s altercation with Black.  “The things that happened last week reeks of desperation… The first time around, maybe people didn’t like my strategy, but it got the job done!  I don’t wrestle for the people, I wrestle to keep this belt on my shoulder.”

• Aries then makes a crack about a woman at the last PPV who was excited with what he’s packing compared to Tyler Black, and Black tries to run into the ring, but is stopped by wrestlers, referees, and security.

Main Event – Fan Pick
Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) vs. American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) with Shane Hagadorn
WINNERS: Young Bucks via jack knife pin fall from Matt Jackson on Davey Richards

• Before the match starts, the Briscoe Bros. come out and up the ante.  They say, whoever wins the match gets a title shot.

QUICK THOUGHTS:

Main event of the night could possibly be the match of the year so far for 2010.  Great back and forth match up with a ton of near falls and desperation saves.  Glad to see the Bucks pull out the upset, but not sure if that means they’ll get the titles considering they now are on the TNA roster as Generation Me… we’ll see how things shake down.  I have to say, that even though we had essentially two squash matches early in the broadcast, this main event made up for it big time!  This match was approximately twenty minutes long, and seriously there was no stop in the action from bell to bell!

I’ll try to get all the information from Saturday’s ROH show to you after the results go live.  I’m hoping that Tyler Black finally gets his due and takes the ROH Title from Austin Aries.