I ll probably pick this one up. Its about time Jay Briscoe got a W. I agree about the Wolves not getting any ME wins.
Dempsey and Payne beat two guys I never saw before,Brandon Day and ???. they were working the crowd a bit and it was fun Dempsey hits the DVD for the win.
Max Bauer beat Andy "Right Leg" Ridge by fireman's carry into a face plant (similar to a move Delirious uses) that didn't get a ton of impact. Bauer scared a kid on his way out of the ring - not Chuck Taylor "haha this is funny" but more "Max Bauer is a LARGE dude and little kids should be scared of him."
G3 Gino Giovanni was the manager for the "Bollywood Bad Ass" Jaleel Patel, but they were a VERY entertaining heel duo. The manager kept taking photos of Patel with a digital camera whenever he was doing well, Patel danced around a bit, and Matt Taven worked well here to put them over. G3 kept Taven from hitting a top-rope maneuver, which led to Patel getting the victory.
Grizzly beat Osiris with a flash pin after an implant DDT by Osiris. Post match saw Rave, Nana, and Claudio attack - they brought scissors, presumably to cut Grizzly's beard. Necro made the save and chased them off with a chair.
On to the main show...
Delirious beat Reyes with the Panic Attack / Shadows Over Hell combination. Early in the match, Delirious called himself a "scientific virtuoso" before Reyes slapped him across the face. Delirious teased a Shadows Over Hell but Reyes stopped him a couple times. Fun opener.
King and Titus beat the Super Smash Brothers after their powerbomb/blockbuster combo. Before the match, both King and Titus adjust their manhood before offering to handshake. This prompts Stupefied to reach in Player Dos' buttcrack before shaking hands. Gross, yet funny. Very fun match, with the first dives of the night by the SSB. Later, Titus gyrated outside the ring, baiting Player Dos into diving head-first into a Kenny King knee from the apron. Lots of fun double-team maneuvers by SSB, even after Player Dos took a beating. "Please come back" chants for SSB.
Jay Briscoe and Necro Butcher began by boxing each other, with each getting the upper hand at some point. Todd Sinclair got too involved early, with Briscoe and Necro both threatening to punch him. Decent in-ring brawl match (no weapons). The Embassy attacked Necro (likely in retaliation to the pre-show save) and Nana kept Briscoe at bay. Eventually, Necro fought out of Dirty Ernie and Claudio's grasp, Briscoe chased Rave into the ring, and Rave threw Osiris at Necro and fled. Necro responded by giving Osiris the Stone Cold Stunner!
Steen vs Richards was, in my opinion, the match of the night. Since this immediately followed the engagement segment, Steen jumps Richards during the entrance, beats him up, back-drops him through the ringside table, and asks, "Davey... Davey... will you marry me?" After the crowd laughs, Steen comes to his senses: "Wait, actually, I HATE you, and you're a B****!" Fight goes through the bleachers, with Steen keeping the upper hand. This includes him drinking a fan's Gatorade and spitting it in Richards' face, as well as Steen crotching Richards on the railing. Richards rolls to ringside and requests a time-out. Steen cannonballs him into the guardrail. Steen then sets up a MASSIVE LADDER and double-stacked tables! Richards rests up then takes advantage - he assaults Steen, superplexes him onto a pile of chairs, hits Steen's knee twice with a chair, chokes him with a chain, then wraps the chain around his shin and proceeds to repeatedly kick Steen in the face. Steen gets busted open from this. Richards and Hagadorn set up another table outside the ring. They lay Steen on it and Richards climbs the ladder. Steen fights out, nails Richards with a chair. Steen goes to superplex Richards off the ladder, but Richards headbutts Steen off the ladder through the double-stacked tables! Richards climbs down and rolls Steen into the ring for the... TWO COUNT?!?!!?!
Richards threatens to DR Driver Steen from the apron thru the last ringside table, but Steen reverses, superkick's Richards, then hits the Package Piledriver off the apron through the table! Steen gets Richards into the ring for pin! Steen wins, but post-match, Eddie Edwards assaults Steen and needs to be ripped off of him by two officials and three other guys (including Sugarfoot Alex Payne!).
Back from intermission with the (ROH version of a Triple Threat) match. Edwards out to boos, Dutt out to cheers, Danielson out to the biggest entrance pop of the night thus far. Dutt and Dragon shake... Edwards and Dragon shake, with Dragon signaling that he wants the belt... Edwards sucker-punches Dutt then Dragon. Early on, Edwards works over Dutt while keeping Dragon at bay by knocking him off the apron over and over (including Dragon taking a nasty looking bump in front of us, with his ribs hitting the guardrail). Dragon gets in and both he and Dutt double-team Edwards with kicks. Dragon gets the surfboard on Edwards, then positions him so Dutt can execute a running basement dropkick to Edwards. Edwards rolls out of the ring to avoid further damage, and Dragon and Dutt hesitate to attack each other, even with the crowd chanting "you're gonna get your f***ing head kicked in!" More hesitating... then Dragon hits Dutt with a roaring elbow. Later, Dutt hits a running somersault plancha on both men outside the ring. He rolls Dragon into the ring, does a stalking taunt (that very much resembles Randy Orton before the RKO) before hitting his backflip reverse DDT. Edwards then takes control and hits Dragon with his own MMA elbows. Edwards riles up the crowd more, but his lack of concentration leads to Dragon trapping him in the triangle choke for the tap-out victory. Post-match, Dragon invites Dutt back into the ring, shushes the crowd, then tells Dutt "please come back," which begins the crowd chanting the same thing. Great match where all three guys shined.
The six-man match was next. The guys busted their asses, and there were some very fun parts, including the dual flying a-hole by Colt and a Choo Choo attack by Stevens. Plus, Stevens sold like the dickens as face-in-peril. Still, it felt like the match never got out of first gear. There was limited interaction between Claudio and Albright, the driving feud behind this match (yes, I know the other guys have been involved, but Albright-Claudio is definitely feud #1 in this one), and I know they're probably saving that. Still, it would have probably been cool to see them go at it. Most importantly, this was an AWFUL way to debut Joey Ryan. He's been hyped for weeks now as something special, and he didn't get a true opportunity to show what he's got. He came out with the Embassy, posed once or twice and got the opening comedy beatdown spot (taking forearms and elbows from all his opponents), and got in a superkick during the finishing sequence. He's super-talented and has potential to be a major heel here, but we didn't get a chance to see that. Finish came when the referee was distracted and Claudio kicked Stevens below the belt for the three-count. A wasted opportunity in a very meh match.
The main event was a close second place for me in the MOTN debate. Throughout the first ten minutes, Hero kept taunting Lynn by telling him "I've got sixty minutes, Jerry! Sixty minutes to beat you up!" which was a cool way to plant that seed in our heads that it could be a time-limit draw early. Jerry worked Hero's arm, while Hero kept going for head shots and body blows. Jerry ducked Hero's high-powered offense early and almost hit Hero with a rolling elbow of his own. Hero got pissed and took control. I can't remember the exact sequence of events, but there were three major spots outside the ring that all earned "holy s***" chants: Jerry giving Hero a super hurricanrana from the turnbuckle to the floor, Hero grabbing Jerry mid-dive and slamming him hard into the guardrail, and Hero charging, Jerry moving, Hero attempting to stop by balancing on the guardrail, and Jerry shoving Hero into three rows of chairs. Hero got a lot of near falls with some not particularly violent elbows. Eventually, Hero got the Emerald Elbow pad on, but Jerry Ducked and was able to remove the Emerald Elbow pad from the ring. However, Hero hit a sick rolling elbow (no pad) for a 2.9 count. Jerry attempted a cradle piledriver but could only hit a regular piledriver for another 2.9. Finish came when Jerry was finally able to hit the cradle piledriver for the decisive three-count. Crowd was probably 60-40 for Lynn, but the crowd was incredibly vocal for both men as the match went on, especially the finish and the final five minutes. This was the kind of hard-hitting, technically-sound match that you've come to expect from ROH World Title matches. It wasn't particularly mind blowing or one of the many "MOTY" candidates that people hype after seeing it live, but I personally loved it. Jerry Lynn busted his ass, as did Hero, and I'm now more interested in both wrestlers - I want to see how Lynn will fare against traditional heels in ROH while defending his belt, I want to see if someone uses the strategy of taking Lynn to the time limit ("he's too old to wrestle for a full hour!"), and I want to see That Young Knockout Kid get another title shot.