BRM Reviews the 8/30/2014 ROH

[Big Red Machine]

WAR MACHINE vs. THE BRISCOES- 6.25/10
The match is thrown out and ruled a “no-contest” after the match devolved into an out-of-control brawl, furniture flying all over the place (no one actually hit anyone with any of it, though). Hanson wound up putting Mark Briscoe through a table with a running sideslam off the apron. Prince Nana informed us that such an action is actually illegal in Ghana. That’s some good trivia to know.
I think this should have been called a double DQ or a double count-out, but other than that semantic nit-pick, I think this match did its job perfectly: I now REALLY want to see these two teams fight again. Hopefully they’ll bring back the Relaxed Rules match first before jumping to something crazier.

CAPRICE COLEMAN PROMO- good. He is going to guide Watanabe so that he doesn’t fall under the influence of the Decade.

SILAS YOUNG PROMO- “I’m getting awful tired of all these anti-bullying campaigns. If it wasn’t for bullying kids out of their lunch money on the school yard, I wouldn’t have been able to put myself through college.” FANTASTIC!

ADAM PAGE & TADARIUS THOMAS (w/BJ Whiter) vs. R.D. EVANS & MOOSE (w/Veda Scott & “Ramon”)- 3.25/10
Prince Nana still wants revenge on R.D. Evans for stealing The Embassy from him back in 2012. He says that Moose is actually a good friend of his whom gas convinced to come to ROH to take out R.D. Okay… well… I’m sure that his evil plan will remain a secret now that he has announced it on broadcast television.
Stuff happened. Moose was big. R.D. made a blind tag as Moose was going for the spear, and while Moose was posing, R.D. “stole” the pin.
After the match, Whitmer started to paintbrush Page and Thomas. They (literally) stood up to him... so he slapped them both right across the face. They got angry, but still accepted his scolding.

ALL-STAR EXTRAVAGANZA VI HYPE- very good.

ROH WORLD TITLE MATCH: Michael Elgin(c) vs. Cedric Alexander- 8/10
They told a great story of Elgin working over Cedric’s knee while Cedric worked over Elgin’s back. Another awesome title defense for Elgin, and another pretty awesome show from ROH.