Ring of Honor Coverage: Bullet Club Destroys Chaos

June 26, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

Ring of Honor proved itself in the ring yet again this past week with three solid matches, but with a lack of storyline development and no Jay Lethal or Jay Briscoe following Best in the World, or even the mention of what happened during their match, Ring of Honor feels like a dated wrestling show, stuck in the mid-90s PPV era.

Again, it’s great in the ring and if you watch it for the love of the “sport,” you won’t be disappointed, but with Lucha Underground, TNA and WWE doing so much more away from the in-ring action, it’s hard to get a casual wrestling audience to watch this show. If ROH can survive on their dedicated fan base, then who cares, but wasn’t the main reason for going to Destination America in the first place was to build the brand?

At this point, it feels like ROH needs a shakeup in storyline or at least better planning of their cards.

Matches:

Roderick Strong vs. Shinsuke Nakamura: An excellent back and forth that saw Strong use his variation of Backbreakers while Nakamura used knees and submissions. Strong nearly got the win with his Brainbuster/Backbreaker combo and then kicked out of a massive Nakamura Knee at one, but after another crazy Knee to the face, Nakamura got the win.

Gedo vs. Michael Elgin: Gedo got in some offense, but Elgin got the win with the Turnbuckle Powerbomb, followed by a Sit-out Powerbomb.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks, Matt and Matt Jackson and IWGP Champion AJ Styles w/ Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson vs. Okada and Roppongi Vice, Rocky Romero and Trent Barretta: A high-energy match with plenty of offense, counters and near-falls. After the Bucks and Roppongi Vice took themselves out of the match with some wild high-flying moves both in and out of the ring, Styles hit a wonderful Brainbuster, but Okada hit the Tombstone Piledriver. Styles got the Bucks back into the match. After the Turnbuckle Powerbomb, Enzigieri, the bucks followed up with a Leg Drop, but they couldn’t put Romero away. After Barretta hit the top ropGerman, Styles got back in the match and after a pair of Super Kicks from Matt Jackson and more offense, the match was still deadlocked. After six more Super Kicks, Styles and the Bucks beat Barretta with two Tombstones and The Styles Clash.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13856 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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