ROH on HDNet Tapings 6/19/09 LIVE Results (Spoilers)
Posted on June 19, 2009 by Steve Kriske
Brian is at The Arena and in his front-row seat, which is under the crane camera. He says that the sheet metal barricades have protective tape on the edges. The first taping starts at 8:00.
Pre-Show
1) Brandon Day defeated Tony Neece
2) The Set defeated Jon Moxley & Aaron Scott
3) Bobby Dempsey defeated Andy Ridge
HDNet Tapings
1) Kenny King & Rhett Titus defeated Kenny Omega & Erick Stevens King pinned Omega after Titus grabbed his leg from outside of the ring.
2) Roderick Strong defeated Jay Briscoe and D-Lo Brown Strong countered Brown’s Sky High powerbomb into a roll-up for the win.
Intermission. Joey Eastman is filling in for Bobby Cruise as ring announcer.
3) Claudio Castagnoli & Jimmy Rave defeated Brent Albright & Colt Cabana Albright was pinned following a low blow by Prince Nana and a Ricola Bomb by Claudio.
4) Delirious defeated Silas Young Delirious won with Shadows Over Hell.
5) Mark Briscoe defeated Alex “Sugarfoot” Payne Mark used a powerbomb for the win in his return match.
6) El Generico vs. Davey Richards was a No Contest Kevin Steen and Eddie Edwards got involved, then all four men brawled into the crowd.
The third hour started with “an epic Aries promo” that Brian will detail later.
7) Kevin Steen defeated Eddie Edwards Steen used a chair and then hit a Steenton Bomb to win.
8 ) Cheech & Cloudy vs. Sal Rinauro & Tony Kozina was a No Contest The Dark City Fight Club did a run-in and attacked both teams.
9) Necro Butcher defeated Sami Callihan Necro won with a Tiger Driver. After the match, Cabana, Albright, and Grizzly Redwood invited him to join them in an 8-man elimination match against the Embassy.
10) Tyler Black defeated Nigel McGuinness They did a lot of mat work. Nigel attempted three lariats, but didn’t hit any. Black used God’s Last Gift to earn the victory.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Fun night, with the the three-way and Generico-Richards being very good matches, and the third main event of Black-McGuinness being a little less what we’re used to, but still good. I was very interested in how Nigel would work this match, and he ended up doing a lot of work on Tyler’s arm to build up to the London Dungeon. Good stuff similar to what he’s done before and what Danielson (notably absent tonight) does. This match had the only dive on my side.
Austin Aries’ segment was something else. The 2001 theme hit, people were expecting Flair, and Eastman even announced “the multi-time World Champion” before The Fucking Man walked out. He had a lollipop in his mouth, showed off the World Title under his jacket (”Excuse me while I whip this out.”), and thanked the fans for their support, only to follow up by saying if they believe that, they’re just what he has in his mouth now: a sucker. He paraphrased the late John Tolos, saying how you can now spell World Champion A-R-I-E-S. He ran down the Phillies for getting swept by the Blue Jays, talked about how tight he is with Tommy Lasorda, and ran down a bunch of fans in the crowd. He dared one guy in the corner to come into the ring, but he played it cool. A little bit later, he dared two scrawny guys in my section - whom I can only describe as the ticking time bomb type - to come in, and it looked like they were about to before ref Paul Turner came out to ringside. Aries was smiling ear-to-ear at these two guys at first. Eastman attempted to close the segment, but Aries closed it himself. Fantastic heel work by this man, and I assume/hope most of this will make TV.
Albright was clean shaven. Following his loss in the tag, Claudio successfully stomped a steel chair into Albright’s head. Very safely done, and Albright came up bleeding. Necro and Grizzly ran out to prevent any further damage. Following Necro’s match in the third hour, Cabana, Albright, and Grizzly came out requesting Necro’s services in the 8-man elimination match I assume we’ll be getting Saturday night. Cabana asked if he was crazy enough and hardcore enough for the match, so Necro took a staple gun to poor Sami Callihan (still laying in the ring at this time). Cabana said, “A simple Yes would suffice,” and made sure that Necro wouldn’t use the staple gun on any of them. Also, people chanting USA against The Embassy is apparently catching on with some people.
The post-match melee following Generico vs. Richards was hard to see from where I was, but very crazy, with Sara Del Rey punching a bunch of scrubs trying to break it up (including Bobby Dempsey!) and Steen punching Del Rey! One of the wrestlers threw a garbage can towards the ring. The Steen-Edwards match later was announced as having their respective partners banned from ringside.