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Kevin Kelly & Nigel McGuinness did the commentary tonight, with McGuiness also running backstage several times during the show in his authority figure role. Kelly doubled as the ring announcer as well, and Veda Scott was also at ringside as the bell ringer. Just guessing here, but it seemed like they may well be using some of this footage for a few "road rage" TV episodes in the coming weeks.

1. Jay Briscoe beat QT Marshall with a double underhook piledriver. Solid opener.


2. Jay Lethal beat TaDarius Thomas with the Lethal injection. Good for the most part, but fell apart a bit down the stretch.


3. Mark Briscoe beat "Spyder" Nate Webb with a top rope elbow. Goofy fun had by all here.

4. Roderick Strong beat ACH with a reverse gutbuster, so I guess a backbuster. Very entertaining match, the crowd really took to ACH.

Intermission


The second half opened with a Truth Martini talk show segment called "Hoopla Uncut", and had two "Hoopla hotties" with him, one of whom was independent lady wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux. Martini ramped up the sexual talk here, and eventually brought out Adam Cole as his guest, and Cole eventually superkicked Martini to bring the segment to a merciful and overdue conclusion. This more or less bombed with the live crowd, which was a responsive crowd for most of the night.

5. Charlie Hass beat Pepper Parks after squirting a shaken up beer in Parks' face, and holding his trunks for good measure. Hass came out drinking beer, and being a total asshole here. Parks has radically changed his look from how I remembered him, he's now almost bald, and in really good shape. After the match Hass gave the skinny young Black trainee they call "Cheeseburger" about ten giant swings hard into the metal barricades after Cheeseburger squirted a beer in Hass' face.

6. BJ Whitmer beat Kyle O'Reily by submission. The crowd was subdued here, cept for a few big spots, but this was a Hell of a good technical contest. I was surprised to see Cincinnati area native BJ Whitmer win this one clean with a submission move that cranked hard on Kyle O'Reily's neck and back.

7. S.C.U.M .(Kevin Steen, Steve Corino & Jimmy Jacobs) beat Adam Cole, Davey Richards & Michael Elgin in a 6 man elimination match. The crowd didn't seem to care about the "S.C.U.M vs the ROH All-Stars" theme of the match at all, so the concept of it failed, but they loved it anyways cuz it was such a wild and strong match. Adam Cole took a really horrific beating here, and was eventually carried out after taking a spike piledriver on the floor. Davey Richards was the first man eliminated at about the 25 minute mark via the Kevin Steen package piledriver. Cole came back out and rejoined the match, but he too was pinned following an F-5 from Steen, which was set up by Jimmy Jacobs stabbing Cole in the groin with his spike. Michael Elgin finally rallied the troops by pinning both Corino & Jacobs in short succession with spinning powerbombs. Corino was an awesomely effective heel this whole match. It was then down to the two big bulls, Steen vs Elgin, and both guys broke out impressive power moves on each other. Jay Lethal ran down to thwart Corino's attempted interference, but Steen pinned Elgin with a small package to win it for S.C.U.M. at around the 37 minute mark. A fan with Downs syndrome, or something of that ilk, tried to hit the ring after the match, but Steen did a masterful job of getting the guy back to crowd unhurt. Very well handed by all involved.



Kevin Kelly announced that ROH will be in Columbus, Ohio on June 8th, and that they will be returning to Cincinnati within this calendar year.

One again, for those who missed you- if you need a reason to buy this show, look no further than the following:

The second half opened with a Truth Martini talk show segment called "Hoopla Uncut", and had two "Hoopla hotties" with him, one of whom was independent lady wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux.

I know that I'm sold. By buying this DVD and showing support for Scarlett, it justifies all of those fun comments people leave on the Throwdown Lowdown videos.