BRM Reviews the 10/12/2013 ROH

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ADAM PAGE vs. ACH- 2/10
It's not that the match was bad. It's just that it got no time. With two up-and-comers like these guys, I really would have preferred that they just not do the match than they do what they did here and give them three minutes. At least it was a roll-up finish, so the loser doesn't look like a total chump.

NIGEL MCGUINNESS PROMO- he announces the main event of Glory By Honor XII: A Champions vs. All-Stars 2 Hour Time Limit 8-Man Elimination Tag Team match. Really? That's the main event for Glory By Honor? Champions vs. All-Stars is one of those gimmicks that you use as the main event on a b-show, not for one of your biggest shows of the year!
Anyway, Jay Briscoe comes out and demands to know how Nigel can have a Champions vs. All-Stars match without the real ROH World Champion. Jay tells us that according to the doctor, he will be cleared to wrestle five days before Glory By Honor. Nigel says he can't put Jay in the match because it has already been booked.
Jay then says that he has beaten Cole but Elgin hasn't. Elgin comes out and says that he had Cole pinned but the ref was down (which is true). Elgin and Jay have slightly disappointing confrontation. Elgin then says that for six months, he fought for Nigel's definition of honor, but he is sick of it, so now he is fighting for his own definition of honor. I'm really not sure what this means, but turning Michael Elgin heel would be a horrible mistake for ROH right now. Jay says that he is the "Real World Champion," and Elgin says that he is the "Uncrowned World Champion."
This was a good segment, and it effectively announce part of the main event at Glory By Honor XII and it seems like we might get Cole vs. Jay vs. Elgin at Final Battle 2013

MIKE BENNETT & MARIA PROMO- hype for next week's match against Brutal Bob & Cheeseburger

RODERICK STRONG vs. MIKE MONDO- a squash

RODERICK STRONG PROMO- I'm confused. Did Roddy just cut a good promo? What kind of Bizzaro World have we fallen into?

reDRagon PROMO- decent. Apparently they will defend the belts next week against Forever Hooligans and Coleman & Alexander. Why is this a three-way match? If C&C's whole angle has been that they want a one-on-one match with the champs, why not just give them a one-on-one match with the champs? Why do you have to throw them in with the Hooligan's return match?

VEDA SCOTT & R.D. EVANS PROMOS- decent. They are, of course, suing ROH. Apparently R.D. is going to wrestle tonight's tag match against Outlaws Inc. even though he has broken fingers wnich is uncharacteristically brave of R.D.

OUTLAWS INC. (Eddie Kingston & Homicide) vs. MARSHALL LAW (w/Veda Scott, Esq.)- no rating. Okay segment. After the match, they break more of R.D.'s fingers.

EDDIE KINGSTON PROMO- he says Outlaws Inc. are here to "clean up" ROH, but first they have business with reDRagon. Kingston says that he and Homicide will sit at ringside until reDRagon comes out.
Apparently, during the commercial break, a billion security guards came out and made Outlaws Inc. go backstage. That seems like it would have been awesome to see.



ROH TV TITLE MATCH: Matt Taven(c) (w/Truth Martini & the Hoopla Hotties) vs. Jay Lethal-5.75/10
The hometown listed on the graphic for Jay Lethal did not match up with the hometown that Bobby Cruise announced. This needs to be fixed. Early on in the match, Lethal claimed that Truth tripped him up, so Todd Sinclair ejected Truth and his entourage from ringside... which means no Hoopla Hotties. F*CK YOU JAY LETHAL!
The match was way too short for a title match. They should have just cut the openers and given it's time to this match. After the match. Truth comes out and tells everyone that Selesyia is a "licensed professional bodyguard," that Casey Ray is a "licensed professional wrestler" and that Scarlett is a "licensed professional professional." He then says that Taven will be the greatest TV Champion ever.

Overall, an okay show from ROH.

STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. Kevin Kelly- "It's great to see Mike Mondo back in action"
No it's not.

2. Kevin Kelly- "Mike Mondo looked great"
He basically got squashed! The only way you can possibly say he "looked great" is if you are talking about the fact that he got rid of that idioitc haircut