It's Official - Steen vs Richards

[cero2k]

The news broke on Saturday after footage of ROH’s recent private press conference aired during “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV this weekend. It will be ROH World Champion Davey Richards defending his championship against “Wrestling’s Worst Nightmare” Kevin Steen on May 12 at “Border Wars” in Toronto!!!

It is the most demanded match from the ROH faithful since Kevin Steen was officially reinstated following “Final Battle 2011” and it will go down at The Ted Reeve Arena. It must be noted that this match was essentially demanded by Richards after Steen crashed the press conference and that, despite the extreme protestations from Jim Cornette, was made official when Davey held a metaphorical gun to Cornette’s head, threatening to forfeit the title and go to Japan if the match wasn’t made.

“I looked in your eyes Jimmy,” said Kevin to ROHWrestling.com, “and you know what I saw? I saw fear. Real fear, the kind of fear little kids have when the shadows get too dark at bedtime or the kind of fear you have when you see the drive-thru at Wendy’s closed early. You know the truth, you know Davey can’t stop me, and you know I will be the returning hero walking into Canada that night. It’s going to kill you to hear my name get chanted, but just remember, it’s only going to get worse when I’m your World Champion. I know Davey and I will tear the house down, and I know we will have a fight that everyone will remember because he isn’t scared to face me and he isn’t scared of what I represent. He’s a machine, I’m a monster, together we will make this show a piece of history.”

There’s more to the story though as not only did Davey force this match, he also forced Jim’s hand to rescind the ban on the piledriver for this match. The Package Piledriver that put El Generico on the shelf for four months, put Steve Corino down in December, and has been blocked since Steen’s reinstatement will once again be in play. This is a war for the ages, and it all goes down at “Border Wars” on May 12th in Toronto, ON!!!

[Big Red Machine]

So is it title vs. career now?

[cero2k]

where are you getting the career thing from?

[Big Red Machine]

where are you getting the career thing from?

NM. I misread the line that said "Steen's reinstatement will also be in play." What I didn't see was the preceding clause talking about the fact that the Package Piledriver has been banned since then. My bad.

[cero2k]

where are you getting the career thing from?

NM. I misread the line that said "Steen's reinstatement will also be in play." What I didn't see was the preceding clause talking about the fact that the Package Piledriver has been banned since then. My bad.

oh ok. I'm pretty sure davey asking to remove the ban on the pkg piledriver is gonna byte him in the ass

[Big Red Machine]

where are you getting the career thing from?

NM. I misread the line that said "Steen's reinstatement will also be in play." What I didn't see was the preceding clause talking about the fact that the Package Piledriver has been banned since then. My bad.

oh ok. I'm pretty sure davey asking to remove the ban on the pkg piledriver is gonna byte him in the a**

The ban is on all piledrivers, though... so the DR Driver is also back in play.

[cero2k]

oh ok. I'm pretty sure davey asking to remove the ban on the pkg piledriver is gonna byte him in the a**

The ban is on all piledrivers, though... so the DR Driver is also back in play.

oh, i thought it was just the package piledriver. I thought Richards was acting tough for once

[Big Red Machine]

oh ok. I'm pretty sure davey asking to remove the ban on the pkg piledriver is gonna byte him in the a**

The ban is on all piledrivers, though... so the DR Driver is also back in play.

oh, i thought it was just the package piledriver. I thought Richards was acting tough for once

Not that Davey has used the DR Driver in a while anyway, but it was indeed all piledrivers that were banned (so the J-Driller and Bennett's Piledriver are back as well).

[badnewzxl]

I didn't think the DR Driver fell into the category of piledrivers in America. I mean, Generico could still use the brainbuster, right (He's been injured for most of the duration of the ban, but he went for it against Jimmy at SITS night 2 and the ref didn't stop him like the ref stopped Adam Pearce the night before. I guess they're just picking and choosing.

[Big Red Machine]

I didn't think the DR Driver fell into the category of piledrivers in America. I mean, Generico could still use the brainbuster, right (He's been injured for most of the duration of the ban, but he went for it against Jimmy at SITS night 2 and the ref didn't stop him like the ref stopped Adam Pearce the night before. I guess they're just picking and choosing.

One of the versions of the DR Driver is a brainbuster, but the other one is a piledriver.

[badnewzxl]

I didn't think the DR Driver fell into the category of piledrivers in America. I mean, Generico could still use the brainbuster, right (He's been injured for most of the duration of the ban, but he went for it against Jimmy at SITS night 2 and the ref didn't stop him like the ref stopped Adam Pearce the night before. I guess they're just picking and choosing.

One of the versions of the DR Driver is a brainbuster, but the other one is a piledriver.

oh; I've only ever seen him do the butterfly brainbuster version.