BRM Reviews the 3/16/2013 ROH

[Big Red Machine]

SCUM INVASION OF 11TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW RECAP- good

NIGEL MCGUINNESS PROMO- Nigel cut a promo with all of the babyfaces (as well as Roddy, Kyle, and Fish) standing around the ring. He postpones Hardy vs. Cole to next week and makes it a #1 contendership match for the TV Title. He announces that Adam Cole, BJ Whitmer, and the Briscoes will all have ROH World Title matches coming up (Mark at the 3/30 show in North Carolina and Jay at Supercard of Honor VII. He also announces that Jay Lethal will face Michael Elgin at Supercard of Honor VII with a World Title shot on the line. Nigel then says that ROH management has bared SCUM from the building tonight, but he wants to fight so he will try to convince ROH to let them in next week. Overall, a good segment that got a lot of business out of the way very quickly.

AMERICAN WOLVES PROMO- decent, but it starts the build to Supercard of Honor, which is important because of how little time they have.

AMERICAN WOLVES vs. TADARIUS THOMAS & ACH- 7/10
GREAT match! Lots of great action in here, Go check this one out.

BJ WHITMER vs. Q.T. MARSHALL (w/R.D. Evans)- ROH-style squash where the loser gets in some offense to not look completely incompetent.

INSIDE ROH- the 11th Anniversary Show recap was good, and they did a good job not covering things that the earlier recap had covered (they focused more on the ROH World Title match here, whereas earlier the focus had been on the aftermath. Jay Lethal and reDRagon, and the American Wolves’ promos were all good.

CHARLIE HAAS PROMO- good

HOOPLA WITH TRUTH MARTINI- for Standards & Practices reasons, they cut to commercial right after Truth told the Hoopla Hotties to take their pants off. A more full version of this segment is apparently available on the ROH website. One of the Hoopla Hotties in question was Scarlett Bordeaux. Hopefully the fact that they are using her for a second time (the first was in Cincinnati at Honor vs. Evil) means that this will be permanent roster spot for her. This is good for two reasons: 1) we might get to see Scarlett wrestle, and 2) we will definitely get to see Scarlett take her pants off.

RODERICK STRONG vs. JAY LETHAL- 5.75/10
This is ROH… and the main event only goes seven minutes? BOOO! They should have the switched the card position of this and the opener.

Overall, a pretty good episode of ROH, but it would have been a lot better if they had switched the main event and the opener.