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Ring of Honor 8/7 Philadelphia results Posted by Bob Magee Ring of Honor returned to Essington, PA last night, featuring a Tag Title change, an announcement of a reunion 15 years in the making for Philadelphia fans on October 2nd...and a unique main event match that was the longest match in the United States this year.
John Walters pinned Nigel McGuiness to earn a Pure Wrestling championship match against Doug Williams at the next Ring of Honor show on August 28 in Braintree, MA.
Roderick Strong pinned Izzy of Special K, then laid out Cloudy and Cheech of Special K as they ran in. Strong then turned his attention to Becky Bayless when Angeldust made the save.
The Carnage Crew defeated Danny Maff and BJ Whitmer.
In an excellent match, Alex Shelley defeated Jay Lethal, Ace Steel, and 2 Cold Scorpio by pinning Lethal after a "Shellshock". This was Scorpio's first Philadelphia appearance since his days in ECW in the mid-1990s.
Gary Michael Capetta then came out for the reunion announcement....Jim Cornette's Ring of Honor return....with, for the first time in Philadelphia in 15 years, the return of The Midnight Express of Stan Lane, Bobby Eaton, and Dennis Condrey to the Ring of Honor show on October 2 at the Philadelphia National Guard Armory. The trio, appearing together for the first known time anywhere, will appear at an afternoon convention with matches as well as a Q and A Session with Cornette and the Express....and will appear in a manner to be determined on the evening's card.
The Briscoe Brothers defeated The Rottweilers of Low Ki and Homicide after Jay Briscoe reversed an attempted Ki Krusher and rolled it into a small package on Ki. Post-match, Homicide and Ki destroyed the Briscoes, leading to a wild pull apart brawl involving Samoa Joe, CM Punk and most of the rest of the locker room. The partitions separating the crowd from the locker room were knocked down in the wild brawl that took the show to intermission.
In the obligatory post-intermission Philadelphia match, The Rockin' Rebel pinned Cloudy of Special K
The Havana Pitbulls defeated CM Punk and Colt Cabana to win the ROH Tag Team championships. In a nice and typically comic touch, Cabana came out to (instead of his usual "Copacabana" entrance) to Rick James' "Superfreak" honoring James, who died in his sleep this past week.
ROH champion Samoa Joe pinned Trent Acid with the muscle buster. Acid legitimately sprained his ankle and bruised heelbone
late in the match, and was carried out of the ring after taking the finish, and taken to the hospital immediately after the bout.
In what had to be one of the most unique matches I've ever seen...a 2 out of 3 falls match (one hour time limit per fall), Austin Aries defeated American Dragon Bryan Danielson, two falls to one fall.
Amazingly, the crowd (with very rare exceptions) stayed with, and stayed into, this match for the entire 80 minutes it lasted until past midnight. As the hour was getting late, people did come in and out to get any sort of caffeine or food they could at the breaks between falls (the Ramada had to make a killing on concessions).
The first fall saw Aries forcing American Dragon submit to his own Cattle Mutiliation finisher in about 45 minutes. Yes, folks, that's 45 minutes for the first fall alone.
The second fall saw Dragon defeating Aries by pinfall in a little over 22 minutes (67 minutes total) after Aries flipped out of an attempted Cattle Mutiliation by Dragon on Aries.
The third and deciding fall saw Austin Aries hit a 450 splash in a little over 13 minutes (80 minutes total).
It was amazing in an era that sees bimbos trotted around on weekly national TV as "sports entertainment" masquerading as wrestling...that a wrestling match that would have fit in 30 year ago got over so well with the pickiest wrestling audience in North America.
In side notes...in the worst kept secret around, Christopher Daniels was backstage taping a video for ROH's Straight Shooting video series. Former ECW announcer Joel Gertner was also in attendance at the show. Click
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