ROH Hartford 12/22 Results

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Hey guys,

I just got back from the Ring of Honor show in
Hartford and it was a good one.

Samoa Joe came out at the beginning of the show and
apologized for not being able to wrestle as he said he
"tripped over a booking" but he didn't want to get
fired from that other company.

The opening contest was a good one with Jason Blade
defeated Pelle Primeau

Next match was Austin Aries defeated Eddie Edwards.
At one point, Aries yelled out Brainbuster only for
Edwards to make a move on him and yelled out
Brainbuster. For the rest of the night, it is all the
crowd would be saying was Brainbuster.

Next match had Adam Pearce coming to the ring with
Shane Hagadorn facing Delirious. Pearce used brass
knuckles when Delirious was coming off of the top rope
for a splash it looked like and Pearce hit him in the
stomach and rolled him up for the pin. Primeau came
out after the match and grabbed the top of the class
trophy from him and then after him and Delirious beat
him down, he gave it back.

Next match saw BJ Whitmer and Daizee Haze defeated
Jimmy Jacobs and Mercedes Martinez. The finish was
Jacobs beings on Whitmers shoulders with Haze doing a
splash off of Jacobs on to Martinez for the win.
Martinez needed some help to the back but then Brent
Albright came out and they started beating on Whitmer
with Jacobs grabbing a spike from under his pants and
then he spiked Whitmer's forehead and then Colt Cabana
came out.

Colt Cabana defeated Albright in a pretty good match
with the crowd being all over Albright by chanting "he
got fired" and "you suck" at him. He played to the
crowd pretty well as did Colt as always.

The Kings of Wrestling came through the crowd and they
would face the Briscoes. This was a really good match
as you would expect and the finish saw Larry Sweeney
hitting Jay Briscoe I believe and Hero rolled him up
for the win. Hero was giddy when he saw Sweeney and
walked to the back with his arm over his shoulder
which may be a preview to a turn tomorrow night to
make Claudio a face when he leaves the company.

Intermission was then next.

The four way match was next with Jimmy Rave, Nigel
McGuinness, Homicide and the ROH World Champion Bryan
Danielson. There were chants of "Next World Champ" at
Homicide. Pretty good match with Homicide and
Danielson not getting a lot of time with each other
until close to the end. Danielson threw Homicide into
the ring post and Homicide landed on the table hurting
his shoulder. He was over by me and Joe came out and
had the refs come out as well. The ref in the ring
was distracted and it looked like Danielson was able
to score the pin on Nigel. I didn't pay attention to
the end of the match because Homicide was by me and I
was watching that part. Julius Smokes put a white
towel in front of the fans so they wouldn't see
Homicide down and when he got up, a fan touched
Homicide on his good shoulder like a "That a boy, you
got up" and Smokes flipped out on him saying "You
don't touch the man on his shoulder" and I think Joe
said something as well. It seemed like it was a work
so Homicide wouldn't be around in the ring when
Danielson got the pin.

The first match of the double main event was next and
it was for the FIP Heavyweight Title between Roderick
Strong and Davey Richards. Slow start with someone
yelling "I could be home watching Smackdown" and then
they did countering arm drags and Davey yelled "That
was better than Smackdown". There were some
brainbuster chants with Davey responding, "I don't do
a Brainbuster." Then Roderick got Davey in the air
like he was going to do one and then put him down and
shook his head at the crowd. Davey said, "I'll give
you a brainbuster" and did a stiff kick to the head on
Strong. Davey did something that looked to be a
brainbuster type move and gave the crowd the middle
finger. The finish was a countout win for Roderick
Strong as he got in right when the ref counted to 20.

The last match was for the ROH World Tag Team Titles
with Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal defending
against CIMA and Shingo from Dragon Gate. This was an
awesome match and it got the usual "This is Awesome"
at the end. The finish saw Daniels do I believe the
STO and then the combination of BME and Sydal's
Shooting Star Press for the win. Afterwards, CIMA
went to go grab the belts and he realized they didn't
win. The Dragon Gate guys were met with "Please Come
Back" chants.

I thought this show was better than the one under the
tent and I am very fortunate to have been able to see
KENTA, Marafuji, CIMA, and Shingo. They announced the
next show at the Connecticut Expo Center will be at
Friday May 11. I know the match results are correct,
some of the moves may be off.


You may see these at pwinsider since I sent them too as well.

Bon

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