“Defy or Deny II”
Milwaukee, WI
January 18, 2013

1.Non-Title: World TV Champion Adam Cole pinned Silas Young

2.Bobby Fish submitted Tadarius Thomas

3.Charlie Haas defeated Rhett Titus

4.S.C.U.M. (Steve Corino, Jimmy Jacobs, & Rhino) beat The Briscoes & Jay Lethal after Rhino Gored Mark

5.Matt Hardy beat BJ Whitmer after Rhett Titus threw in the towel for Whitmer; Following the match Titus & Whitmer got into an argument while Adam Cole came out to confront Hardy which led to Hardy laying out Cole with the TV Title belt

6.Davey Richards pinned Kyle O’Reilly in another must-see battle

7. Defy or Deny II: World Champion Kevin Steen beat Eddie Edwards, Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin; As a result of being the last man eliminated, Edwards cannot receive another World Title match during Steen's title reign
Order of Eliminations:
-Strong eliminated Elgin via a release suplex backbreaker
-Edwards eliminated Strong when Strong passed out in the Achilles Lock
-Steen eliminated Edwards via Package Piledriver on the apron

All of the live reports I have read about this show has said that the old ROH is back.

Big Red Machine wrote:All of the live reports I have read about this show has said that the old ROH is back.

gonna be honest, ever since Best in the World, i feel like watching a ROH show

cero2k wrote:

Big Red Machine wrote:All of the live reports I have read about this show has said that the old ROH is back.

gonna be honest, ever since Best in the World, i feel like watching a ROH show

Glory By Honor was what got me back into it, quality-wise, but I know the feeling. I probably would have ordered Final Battle anyway if I hadn't been going to the show, but the more that I think about it, the only matches there that I was super-hyped for were the Ladder War and Roddy vs. Elgin. These two shows (especially Defy Or Deny II, but also the Dearborn show) were the first time I have felt excited about more than one match at a non-iPPV since Glory By Honor last year, and that felt like a clear signal to me that the days of house-shows like we got last year (especially everything from Battle of RIchmond until Killer Instinct) are gone. I head someone say recently that under Cornette it felt like only one match per show was "allowed" to deliver, and even if that match did deliver it might not be enough to sell the DVD, and the ones that did sell were shows like Brew City Beatdown which kind of just got lucky that the rest of the card was so solid.