BS With Honor 2007 Year in Review
Posted on April 27, 2008 by Steve Kriske
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Before moving on to Ring of Honor’s 2008 DVDs, the BSWH crew takes a look back at 2007 with our first year in review show here on the Chron. Among the topics we discuss:
- The departure of several top-level talents
- The arrival of others to fill the void
- ROH’s debut on PPV and its implications
- Continued expansion into new live markets
- The roster engages in faction warfare
We also present our annual awards (check out Brian’s and Steve’s ballots here; final tallies will be posted in print form later this week) and welcome John Philapavage to the show for his own perspective on the year.
MP3 file (70 minutes) (Right click to download)
April 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I’m about 10 minutes in. Wanted to make a note of agreement as far as other things that would have been done. First off, Joe was the franchise player. They were “holding him back”, as you guy mentioned, because at times his reign loomed larger than everyone other than Danielson (and that was played into their title feud).
But in addition to being able to do more with Morishima had he stayed, there was also a good fued with Nigel to be had with him playing a gate keeper to the title in essence. There is also title matches with the old champ. There were new angles we can only book in pretend land (a truce and super group with Briscoes or even an uneasy alliance with Danielson are just two ideas).
The big one we’ve all left out is they were building to Joe taking on Misawa at the Glory By Honor show in Nov. where KENTA ended up getting the match. Joe, as coincidence would have it, did get a big match with Misawa a week before he came to ROH. Thankfully it stayed in Asia is all I can say, though different results/effort could always happen in a rematch.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Good points. I remember thinking at the time that they had to be building to that match. I did see their NOAH match and thought it was alright, but nothing special, and probably not the match Joe had been waiting pretty much his whole career for.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:08 am
The eventual Joe-Misawa match was definitely something I sensed would be the blowoff to the angle, based on rumblings made by friends. Definitely should have been mentioned when discussing the angle. Cue airhorn of shame ::WAH-WAH::