BRM Reviews the 3/26/2016 ROH

[Big Red Machine]

FOUR CORNER SURVIVAL MATCH: Roderick Strong vs. Adam Page vs. Matt Sydal vs. Moose (w/Stokely Hathaway)- 7/10
Not that this match wasn’t great or anything, but I really wish they would tone down the interference.

ADAM COLE PROMO- he says he is going to be the guy to take the ROH World Championship from Jay Lethal. Then Matt Taven showed up and heeled on Cole for not getting the job done and winning the title. Now Taven is talking about how tough he is for wrestling with his injury, etc. etc. so I guess he is trying to be the babyface? Then Taven says he will rebuild the Kingdom in his own image. This whole thing was not good. Putting aside the fact that neither of these guys should be a babyface right now and the fact that no one wants to see a Taven-led Kingdom, why would you even do this segment now when Taven is still months away from returning?

DALTON CASTLE PROMO- sounded like the first minute or so of a really good promo except that we only heard the set0up and never got to the part where it got really good.

FOXX VINYER vs. CHEESEBURGER- no rating.
The match was fine while it lasted, although I don’t think ROH needs yet another guy whose only quality seems to be that he looks like a freak. Can we please go back to the days of guys who were professional athletes and looked like it rather than guys with weird names who are weird for the sake of being weird?
So ANX showed up and attacked Vinyer. Then they cut a promo that, while not bad, definitely went on a bit too long. I’m sure this was Rhett and Kenny getting some legit frustration off of their backs. Then they attacked Cheeseburger. The Briscoes and War Machine eventually came out to save Cheeseburger. This whole thing ended with a spot where the Briscoes picked the tag titles up off the ground, angering War Machine. I thought this was kind of douchy of the Briscoes, just because I’m sure they know how they would feel if someone did that to their tag title belts. War Machine snatched the belts back from the Briscoes and we had a stare-down.

JAY LETHAL & TRUTH MARTINI PROMO- good.

ROH WORLD TITLE MATCH: Jay Lethal(c) (w/the House of Truth) vs. Hirooki Goto- 7/10

POST-MATCH SEGMENT- Donovan DIjak shows up and takes out Lethal, then hits Truth with his spinning big boot and Truth sells it like he is paralyzed.


A good show from ROH.