ROH: GLORY BY HONOR II
ROH: GLORY BY HONOR II
Murphy Rec Center
Philadelphia, PA
September 20th, 2003
ROH World Champion: Samoa Joe (Since 3/22/2002 - 6 Defenses)
ROH Tag Team Champions: Vacant (Since 8/20/2003 - 0 Defenses)
Dan Maff cuts a pretape in a neck brace, still recovering from the injury by Low Ki last show which is a pinched nerve. He tries to cut a real slow spoken word promo and it comes across like he’s doped up (maybe he is? pain meds?) and it doesn’t come across well. He promises vengeance on Low Ki and tells Daniels good luck tonight.
So tonight is the very last ROH show at the Rec Center. They’re at the beginning of becoming very popular and they’ve seemingly outgrown the Rec Center and probably a couple of other venues. But this was their home base for these first 18 months.
REC CENTER MEMORIES: Low Ki vs. Dragon vs. Daniels
Backstage, AJ Styles is again hyping up Jimmy Rave before his match tonight. He says that Whitmer is bigger than him so to target his arm early and often so the cross face pays off in the end.
Punk is on commentary. Fuck yeah.
Match #1: BJ Whitmer (0) vs. Jimmy Rave (0) [Field of Honor Block B]
Punk shits on Whitmer the entire match, and Jimmy gets some residual shit as well. Jimmy does some solid arm work, taking AJ’s advice. BJ works out of it and does his usual run thru em style head drop offense and it’s whatever. He controls a large portion until Rave is able to make his comeback by abandoning any arm work and trying to beat Whitmer at his own game with the big throws and suplexes. He gets Whitmer up top for something and Whitmer surprises him with a Blonde Bombshell to win. With that loss, Rave is mathematically eliminated from the tournament since he’s already lost to Colt, too. Solid little match though. Rave is developing nicely. And BJ didn’t annoy me as much.
**1/2
UPDATED BLOCK B STANDINGS:
WHITMER - 1
CABANA - 1
MAFF - 0
RAVE - 0
Backstage, Whitmer puts Rave over but promises victories over Cabana and Maff too.
Jimmy Rave is recuperating backstage and a disappointed AJ Styles comes over, questioning Rave’s decision to put Whitmer up top? He could’ve capitalized on the arm work with the crossface and won, and he needs to start thinking things through.
Elsewhere, Samoa Joe cuts a promo. He says that some might say for Christopher Daniels that it is his destiny to take the ROH World belt away from Samoa Joe. Few months back, Doug Williams knew that it was his destiny to take this, and he choked the life out of his him. Same with Homicide. That wasn't his destiny. Dan Maff, mere hours after burying his father, summoned all his heart because he thought it was destiny, but it wasn’t. Glory by Honor is an event that he made famous with Low Ki, and proved it was HIS destiny to be the top guy in this company. Is this destiny? Or is Christopher Daniels just destined to be another victim? They do the signature “ROH end of promo cut” even though the camera keeps rolling, and then Steve Corino comes in and sits next to Joe. Corino asks if he can believe CM Punk, putting him in a match with Raven. Joe says Punk is rough around the edges and antisocial, but it's not like Corino's never beaten Raven before, which makes Guillotine LeGrande yell that Joe knows Corino's never beaten Raven. Corino says he brought Joe into ROH and he's happy for him being champion, but the idea was for HIM to hold the belt, not the big guy enforcer. But hey, destiny is what it is, and Corino quickly wishes him luck and leaves. Seeds planted for another Corino match that’ll probably never happen.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Eddie vs. Super Crazy!
Before the next match, Lollipop from TNA is seen in Xavier’s corner. Allison Danger comes out pissed off and Xavier orders her away, and Lollipop stays.
Match #2: Xavier (0) vs. John Walters (0) [Field of Honor Block A]
Xavier still stinks I don’t care what anyone says. And Walters is boring. Xavier does some new stuff with his strikes and knee work which is alright. Punk uses Xavier’s dominance in this to mock Whitmer some more, saying Whitmer would lose to Xavier offense. Walters gets some hope spots and they even continue the bastardization of the RVD/Lynn roll up spot. They work their way back to their feet where Xavier sneaks in a low blow by swinging his leg back and he gets a quick roll up to win and Gabe SCREECHES.
**
UPDATED BLOCK A STANDINGS
XAVIER - 1
STRYKER - 1
WALTERS - 0
SABIN - 0
Backstage, Christopher Daniels cuts a promo with Allison Danger by his side. He says he can smell it in the air tonight. He can feel it in his bones. Tonight, his destiny will come to pass. Ever since ROH began, it's been evident that the ROH title belongs around HIS waist. Tonight, on his first one on one match for that belt, how ironic is it that it's Joe? He was the one who brought Joe into ROH to beat up Low Ki, and he made himself a star in the process. Destiny has taken them in two different paths since then. In March, Samoa Joe fulfilled his destiny by beating Xavier for the belt, but that started him on the road to his. He laid him out after his first title defense. They fought in an empty arena. They fought in the ring, and The Group was disbanded. He even saved Jim Cornette from a beating from the Prophecy. There's been one true thing throughout, and that is that Joe's title is HIS destiny. All roads have led to Philadelphia and the Murphy Rec Center tonight. Samoa Joe and the Fallen Angel. He will be the ROH World Champion, and the only thing Joe can do about that is SAY HIS PRAYERS. And THAT is the gospel according to the word of the Fallen Angel.
After the cut, Steve Corino shockingly comes over and says he comes in peace. Corino admits Daniels is number one in ROH, and they're never going to have a feud again. He wishes him luck tonight, and offers a handshake but Daniels doesn’t reciprocate, and Corino leaves. Daniels is spooked.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Danielson/Ki on 3/30/02
Match #3: Teddy Hart vs. TJ Wilson
Oooh boy. For what it’s worth, this wasn’t HORRIBLE. But it’s still a pretty green TJ against batshit crazy Teddy Annis. They exchange some of that DUNGEON~ matwork to start and it just dawned on me that Stu Hart passes away like a month from this point in time so maybe ol’ Stu got to watch The Ring of Honor. Anyway, this slowly turns in to a showcase for Teddy Annis and he gets the win with a Flying DDT. Honestly? Not the worst match.
*1/2
During that match, CM Punk cut a promo on Terry Funk on commentary, saying Funk has no knees left, he relies on narcotics to get out of bed in the morning, and that Funk quit on national TV in 1989 like a coward and is somehow still around, and he promises to end his career for good tonight because this match is offensive to him as a competitor.
After the previous match, Teddy Hart went backstage and Special K tried offering him drugs a chance to party with them, and while he seemed intrigued, he walked away. HILARIOUS in retrospect.
Raven cuts a quick pre match promo explaining why he chose Funk to face Punk, and also challenges Corino to make their match tonight Raven’s Rules.
REC CENTER MEMORY: The insane Natural Born Sinners/Carnage Crew bunkhouse match.
Corino comes out, flanked by his young boys, LeGrande, Simply Luscious and Bobby Cruise. Cruise gives the big ring introductions for LeGrande and Luscious. He then says in the corner to his left, from Sea Isle City, NJ, weighing in at 106 kilos which is 232 pounds to YOU, THE IGNORANT MASSES. The man who has defeated such stars as:
- Doink the Clown
- Big Vito
- Razor Ramon
- Tom Brandi
- The Headbangers
- Nova
- Scotty Riggs
- David Flair
- Pat Tanaka
- Paul Diamond
- Gerard Gordeau
- Devon Storm
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Minoru Fujita
- Kid Kash
- Mikey Whipwreck
- ROH Champion Samoa Joe
- Simon Diamond
- The Sandman
- (Takes a break for water)
- Spanky
- Super Crazy
- Tommy Dreamer
- Yoshihiro Tajiri
- Rob Van Dam
- Jeff Hardy
- Jack Victory
- Mike Awesome
- Barry Windham
- Vampiro
- TAKA Michinoku
- Homicide
- Low Ki
- Val Venis
- Shinjiro Otani
- Masato Tanaka
- CW Anderson
- Jerry Lynn
- Rhino
- Mitsuharu Misawa
- The American Dream Dusty Rhodes
- Terry Funk
“…and I dare say if Jesus came back in a pair of tights, he’d beat him too.”
INTRODUCING THE KING OF KINGS, THE EXTREME HORSEMAN, AND THE FUCKING GOD OF PRO WRESTLING, STEVE CORINO.
Raven comes out for the match and his head is shaved due to the TNA angle with, I think, Larry Zbyszko?
Match #4: Raven vs. Steve Corino [Raven’s Rules]
If you know me, you know that this has always been a dream match of mine and something I once painstakingly fantasy booked on the old BQ. So as long as it doesn’t shit the bed, don’t be surprised if I overrate this. UPDATE: It didn’t shit the bed but it was just kind of whatever. Neither man really seemed into it and other than some light usage of the chair and Luscious getting involved, there wasn’t much about this that was Raven’s Rules. Punk is commentary still until Raven puts Luscious over his knee to spank her. Punk “leaves commentary” and as Raven has Corino pinned, Punk is there to pull the ref out of the ring. Raven chases after Punk on the outside and right back in the inside where Corino cuts Raven off with an Old School Kick to win. Honestly they really haven’t done much to make Raven look credible at all in the second half of this feud, and now he’s out here just playing keystone cops. wtf.
**
Post match, Corino seems pissed at Punk for helping him. Punk beats on Raven but then Corino pulls Punk off of him and shoves him! Punk gets right in Corino’s face until LeGrande and the young boys get in and Punk bails since he’s got no back up. Raven and Corino then shake hands. Weird segment.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Low Ki becomes the first ROH Champion.
Match #5: AJ Styles vs. Colt Cabana vs. Chris Sabin vs. Matt Stryker [Four Corner Survival Match]
Obnoxiously long at 20+ minutes and a complete fucking misuse of 2003 AJ Styles. It’s one thing to waste him in a match like this, but then he’s not even the one that really gets to shine here. It feels like Gabe is fully behind making Colt a top guy at the expense of a lot of others. Nobody does anything outwardly offensive in this, in fact, it is enjoyable at points but only in spurts. There’s longish periods in this of stuff not really happening, at least not interesting stuff. The finishing run feels like it’s missing something, like it’s just artificially done. Stryker becomes Cabana’s target and he beats him with the Colt 45. Whatever.
**1/2
At his home, we see footage of Dan Maff getting his update call from Allison Danger. He seems nonplussed about Xavier seemingly leaving the Prophecy but gets worked up when it’s implied ROH may remove him from the FOH due to his injury. Maff tells Danger to tell Convicted Sex Offender Rob Feinstein that he will be at the Baltimore show for his FOH match.
In the back during intermission, GMC finds Colt Cabana. He’s celebrating and says he's excited. He beat three guys and like the egg whites he does in the morning, he's cracking that top five. What. But even better is the something special he has planned later and it's gonna make history. CM Punk then walks on and says history is now his favorite subject in ROH. Now it appears he and Steve Corino have some history too, but first, he has to take care of Raven. Tonight, it's kind of ironic that Raven has chosen a man in Terry Funk who needs to be on ALL kinds of medication to even step foot in to the ring. This might as well be Terry Funk's hometown, and he's known for beating the odds. He won't say he's a legend killer, because Terry Funk is no legend. He might be Raven's father figure though, so it'll be even better when he cripples him. He then gives Colt props for winning that match.
REC CENTER MEMORY: London/Shane street fight.
Match #6: Backseat Boyz vs. Special K (Angel Dust/Deranged/Hydro) vs. The Briscoes vs. Special K (Izzy/Dixie) vs. Carnage Crew (DeVito/Loc/Credible) vs. Dunn & Marcos [Tag Team Gauntlet Match] [Vacant ROH Tag Team Championships]
So in a complete mess, this gauntlet match starts with Carnage Crew vs. Special K, but as a six man grudge match tag with DeVito/Loc/Credible against Dust/Deranged/Hydro. Whoever wins will then drop down to two members. BUT, there is a second Special K team in this gauntlet too. Whatever. This is meant to really heat up the feud between the two stables and it does its job. DeVito gets a hot tag and clears house. So Special K start sneakily using leather straps to attack him. The Crew get a hand on the straps and begin using them on Special K and get CAUGHT, so they’re DQ’d.
So now the gauntlet continues and Special K Black & White will be represented by Deranged & Hydro. And their first opponents are the Briscoes! Hell yeah. All that cheating previously led to nothing because the Briscoes demolish them in short order and move on in the gauntlet after Jay beats Hydro with the Jay Driller.
Dunn & Marcos come in and hesitate doing their schtick out of fear for the Briscoes. And it turns out their suspicions were correct as the Briscoes beat the FUCK out of them. Springboard Doomsday Device ends it. COME ON GIVE THE BRISCOES THE BELTS.
Special K Deluxe (Izzy/Dixie) are in next. This actually gets a few moments and is a blast! SKDX are such a good wormy lower card heel team that are able to get under the Briscoes skin and cause them to overreact and almost lose it beyond comprehension. All of Special K start to get involved in their usual games behind the ref’s back and the Briscoes clean house, BUT THEN ANGEL DUST SURPRISES MARK WITH A SPRINGBOARD DIAMOND DUST! AND THEY SCORE THE UPSET!
Last out are the Backseat Boyz. Gross. I smell where this is going. It’s a fun enough spot fest but far from the normal fun shit these matches tend to USUALLY put out. Izzy gets nailed with the T Gimmick and the Backseats are your new champs.
I don’t like this. I enjoyed the Backseat Boyz when I’d watch CZW on cable access here in the Philly area when I was a teen but while I was looking forward to seeing them in this review, they are one act that did not stand the test of time for me. Whatever.
**1/4
Post-match, all of Special K attacks the new champs, but the Briscoes run back out to make the save! It's a big brawl on the floor. And MARK BREAKS OUT HIS SHOOTING STAR PRESS DIVE ON TO EVERYONE! Teddy Annis also runs out because he’s clearly upset about being offered drugs earlier and hits everyone with a big flippy corkscrew moonsault dive. Dopey.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Joe/Ki fight without honor one year ago
In a pretape, Homicide cuts a promo from Japan. He says he's kicking ass for Zero One. BBBDAT. MY FLESH MY FLESH MY BLOOD MY BLOOD. Homicide says he's here to kick ass and take care of business, and he knows Julius Smokes will hold it down back in ROH. He says behind closed doors and in public, Low Ki's disrespected him. He knows who he is, he is the strong style thug. And he trained Low Ki, don't forget that. He's a superstar, but HE trained HIM. If he wants to fight, they know where each other lives. If he wants to fight, he needs to come to him, because he forgot where he came from. AND SPEAKING OF THAT, Samoa Joe beat him because of Low Ki & J Train arguing. He should be the ROH World Champion. He wants one more match, and it doesn't even need to be for the title. Non-title, title, street fight, Joe's rules, he doesn't care. It needs to happen.
Alexis Laree comes out to a big ovation, streamers and all, because WWE’s signed her to a developmental deal in OVW. Crazy that she was in developmental for close to two years but given how far she still had to go, it also makes sense. The Alexis Laree you saw in ROH is NOT the Mickie James you see come 05-06. She becomes one of the best women’s wrestlers that company’s ever had which, after watching this ROH run, is insane to think about it but it’s true. This will also thankfully end Gabe’s creepy commentary about her.
Special K interrupt her celebration and go to beat her down but then JOEY MATTHEWS RETURNS! It’s noted he’s fresh out of rehab and he was the one who brought Alexis in to ROH. He scares off Special K, so Mickie plants a big wet kiss on him. I think this is post Mickie/Punk and right around when Mickie/Joey started dating. And I believe Punk was with Daffney but that would be ending soon once he meets Traci Brooks. Whatever. AND JOEY THEN CLOTHESLINES HER DOWN! YOU RAT! “TURNS OUT REHAB DIDN’T DO THE JOB” Gabe yells as Joey reunites with Special K. BUT HERE COMES SLUGGA, the now former head of security for Special K. He’s got J Train and Benny Blanco with him. They chase Special K off and Mickie plants Hijinx with a quick spinning DDT and Smokes counts 1-2-3, and they parade Mickie around the ring for a final farewell. What a mess.
OH AND IT ONLY GETS WORSE. CORNETTE’S BACK. FUCKER. He says he's back in ROH because of what Daniels and Maff did to him in Ohio. Well you deserved it shit head. Nobody screws over Jim Cornette and gets away with it, According to Jim (no not the cool tv show). Recently, he heard Ric Flair tell a young man that he'd had more championships than that guy had had women. Daniels and Maff, he's had more main events than they've jerked off. WHAT ARE YOU, AN EARLY 2000’s E-FEDDER? HORRIBLE. They bring HIM to ROH and embarrass him with their mediocrity. Then they tried to kick HIS ass? He's gonna come back to do two things. Number one, to get even with The Prophecy. Number two, there's a lot of money to be made with a new talent, and he wants some. Oh fuck off asshole.
CM Punk comes out for his match, and he gets on the mic. He says that in ‘83, he was just a four year old Punker, Terry Funk retired, for the first time, in All Japan Pro Wrestling. FOREVER. He can come out here and call him old, call Terry's old man a piece of shit, talk about how Terry's brother never amounted to a god damned thing in his entire life (CORRECT), make fun of his wife, make fun of his daughters, shit on his career all night, but it's all been done before. EVERYBODY has claimed that they will take Terry Funk out, but he keeps on keeping on. Why? BECAUSE HE'S A DRUNK, HE’S PILLED UP, HE’S SCHIZOPHRENIC, HE’S A MULTIPLE PERSONALITY HAVING DICKHEAD. Punk says he’s none of that and needs none of that, he’s part animal and part machine, and 20 years after he retired for the first time, Terry Funk will be dismantled. FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER. FOREVER.
Match #7: CM Punk vs. Terry Funk
Listen, you’re never going to hear me disparage Terry Funk. By all accounts, he was still working a pretty full schedule at this point between MLW and Japan. So it’s not like he’s coming off a long stretch of inactivity. Hell, in the prior and proceeding 30 day periods, Funk will have the following matches:
- A 15-20 min match with Credible
- A match with Lawler
- A 20+ min War Games match 24 hours before this night
- A match against Homicide in a week
- A second barbed wire match against Corino about a month from now, which is about 60 days after his last barbed wire match with Corino
So the Funker is still going. A part of me just gets bummed because nobody could tell him to stop. But whatever. Sad shit out of the way. This is really fun, better than some of contemporaries have it rated, which is fine. Punk tries to go the mind games route but it backfires so Funk just starts beating the hell out of him inside and outside the ring. He even pulls off, for apparently the first time in over 3 years, his patented moonsault…
…but he missed! He lands awkwardly on his knee and that immediately becomes a target for the vicious Punk to attack and it’s really good. Gabe is freaking the fuck out on commentary which is fun at first but then he says some dumb shit that doesn’t make sense when you remember he’s the Booker of the fucking show. Punk does the Spinning Toe Hold to add insult to injury. Then he drops it down into the figure four for a WHILE, but Funk fights to get the ropes! Punk keeps the hold on but instead of the ref counting him out at 5, THE REF SHOVES PUNK OFF! But that just pisses Punk off more so he RE APPLIES THE FIGURE FOUR, REALLY SYNCHING IT IN BY TURNING TO THE SIDE A BIT. Funk AGAIN gets the ropes and the ref is forced to keep his cool. But Punk still DEFIANTLY refuses to take the hold off and the ref DQ’s him!
***ish
Post match, Punk keeps the hold on to some hot heat from the crowd. Cabana comes running out and he peels Punk off of Funk and yells at him. BUT THEN CABANA PUTS FUNK IN THE FIGURE FOUR WHILE PUNK STOMPS ON FUNK! Raven finally runs out and the heels bail…UNTIL TOMMY DREAMER RETURNS AGAIN! Punk evades him but Dreamer catches Cabana and throws him back in the ring. Raven hits Cabana with an Evenflow and then Funk hits him with an Ace Crusher. Dreamer gets in the ring to hug his pseudo father and pseudo brother and he even gets Raven and Terry to finally hug and I gotta tell ya that was nice.
Tommy stays behind and grabs a mic. Oh no. Luckily it’s quick. He just says that if it wasn’t for his other job he’d be right here in ROH joining Raven and Terry. He puts over Philly, ROH, the young talent, ECW and Funk and thanks everyone. Tommy let’s not pretend you didn’t have a six figure a year office deal at this point that quite frankly you could’ve probably easily walked away from if you really wanted to do so. Nerd.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Bryan/AJ I!
Match #8: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Christopher Daniels [ROH World Championship]
This feels like a really big deal, like ROH’s first huge world title match really since the initial four way to crown the first champion. But idk man. It was a damn, damn good match. But it needed some more time, I think. I don’t know if they’re protecting Joe or what. I know he doesn’t have the stamina to go 30-40 mins and that’s fine. But I don’t think a single title defense of his has even come close to, let alone surpassed, 20 minutes? This gets 15 which is probably why it’s so good. But I don’t know. I’ve been pretty disappointed with the Joe title run thus far if I am being completely honest. It lacks the umph and intensity I was promised, and some of the booking has been kind of baffling at times, too. I mean he’s been pinned clean at least two times since he’s won the belt and he’s only been champ for a little over 5 months. That probably shouldn’t happen. But okay fine. Whatever. I know I’m probably in the minority and people will get mad at me even daring to question The Reign. Joe does the Ole Ole kick stuff for a bit too long and it starts to become goofy when he’s got the ref doing shit like clapping along to the chant or doing the “ITS GOOD” Field Goal hand gesture after one of the kicks. Like cmon. Daniels fights back and has a really really good control segment that just eats in to Joe’s fairly low (in comparison to Daniels) level of stamina and commentary toys with the idea of maybe this has been the way to beat Joe all along. Joe stays in it though. FANTASTIC finishing run. Joe has Daniels reeling and gets him up on top of the ropes to end this shit, BUT DANIELS BLOCKS THE SUPER MUSCLE BUSTER WITH A HURRICANRANA AND IMMEDIATELY HITS THE ANGEL’S WINGS WITH A COVER, AND JOE JUUUUUUUUST KICKS OUT AT A COUNT THAT WAS SO DAMNED CLOSE, THE TIME KEEPER RANG THE BELL BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS THREE. IF that was part of the bit? That was brilliant. If that was a mistake? It’s a beautiful accident. Hell yeah. Joe rolls out of the Last Rites attempt that follows, and Joe locks on The Choke. BUT MY GOD, DANIELS GETS TO THE ROPES IN THE CHOKE AND HE BREAKS IT! COME ON CHRIS! But damnit. Joe then hits the Island Driver to win. Fun shit. Match of the night by far.
***1/2
Post match, Joe doesn’t observe the code of honor for once and instead flips the bird to Daniels who’s down in the corner. Joe leaves and Daniels gets a huge standing ovation which surprises him.
REC CENTER MEMORIES: Danielson/London 2 out of 3 falls!
Back at his home, Maff cuts another really bad promo. He tells Daniels he did great and he knows he’ll get him next time. He then rambles on more about Low Ki and the FOH and honestly who cares?
Elsewhere, the Carnage Crew and Credible are lamenting their loss tonight. Loc’s loud recaps of what happens that night are starting to annoy me, I won’t lie. Just get to the promo. DeVito says they got their revenge tonight by whipping them back with belts but now they’ve got no titles and that pisses them off so they’re gonna kick Special K’s god damned asses. Credible then drops his shitty lil catchphrase with his big stupid teeth.
Backseat Boyz cut a pretape putting over being the new champs. I don’t really care. They’re going to AC to get hookers and drink lean. Alright.
REC CENTER MEMORY: Joe/Cide May 2003
And now it’s time for GOOD TIMES GREAT MEMORIES WITH COLT CABANA! YEAAAH!
He has his own talk show, “LIVE FROM CHICAGO”, the Windy City or the Second Ciry. He's reading his Tribune and has Twiggy on the water skis, Gumby’s here to help out, and he's a journalist now! They're going to have a lot of guests and his partner, CM Punk, will be here a bit later on. But his first guest is the J Train, Julius Smokes!
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH ELEVATE YO HATE MY FLESH MY FLESH MY BLOOD MY BLOOD.
He has Slugga and Blanco with him too. Cabana's first question is interrupted by J-Train yelling BBBBBBDAT BELLY OF THE BEAST CONCRETE JUNGLE again and again, and Cabana is confused and says he doesn’t speak Irish. Smokes says that's real language, that concrete jungle language, and Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier speak it so Colt should know how to speak it. He then just yells out HIP HOP. Cabana asks if "The Man", being Rob F, is holding him down. Smokes says he ain't Bob Dole, now and he ain’t gonna be railroaded. Cabana asks what The Rottweilers are and Smokes says to let him give a formal introduction and sings that his name is the Devil's Son in Law, Julius Smokes and sings YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". Smokes says they're wolves in sheeps' clothing, building this dynasty. LOOK AT THESE GOLD TEETH. KNOCK EM OUT IF YOU CAN. THE ROTTWEILERS TWO THOUSAND AND THREE IS COMING. He then just snarls like a dog and leaves. A clearly disturbed Cabana moves on and says they're out of time, so they'll get CM Punk on the show next time, starting that fun bit.
Overall, another very missable show by ROH. I’ve got to be honest, ROH 2003 has kind of been down hill for me post NYC riot. Corino not being around much for half the year, Low Ki being hurt, London leaving, Danielson in and out, and Punk/Raven starting to overstay its welcome it’s just…I dunno. I was told 2003 was the beginning of ROH’s glory years and I’m hoping that’s true and it just gets better deeper into 2003 and then 04-07 which I know is the period everyone raves about typically. But aside from time crunch/other reviews, the real reason I’ve slowed these ROH reviews down is that this last string of shows in 2003, since probably like April, have been mostly boring as hell. Praying it gets better soon because I am determined to finish this project!
NEXT MONTH: JOE/JAY I; FOH CONTINUES; STYLES/PUNK!!!!
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