Ring of Honor Power Rankings: Bullet Club is Too Sweet

Although there ere just three matches this past week on Ring of Honor, the stars were out as New Japan’s warring factions, Chaos and The Bullet Club, took up a big bunch of real estate on the show.

Check out this week’s ROH Power Rankings to see how well former TNA stars The Young Bucks and AJ Styles fared in their return to United States television.

5: Shinsuke Nakamura: Talk about a wild character. Although his assortment of Knees isn’t the most devastating, his energy and unpredictability in the ring and sheer passion makes up for any deficiencies any unfamiliar American fans may have with what he does in the ring.

4: Michael Elgin: He’s like concentrated badass. Not the biggest guy in the dance, Elgin has surprising power and defeated Gedo, a 20-year veteran of the business, with relative ease. Expect big things from this dude moving forward.

3: Roderick Strong: It was only a matter of time until Strong got on ROH TV and even in defeat, he marveled. A master of the Backbreaker, Strong threw out several variations and a ton of fortitude against the wild, wacky but deadly Shinsuke Nakamura. Although he’s without a title right now, he’s always be one of the most important performers on the ROH roster.

2: The Young Bucks: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, these guys are indie stars and while they haven’t been able to be as successful in the states as they would have liked, Japan loves them and for good reason.

1: AJ Styles: What can be said about Styles that hasn’t been said already? One of the most enigmatic and exciting performers of this generation, Styles continues to carve his legacy as the IWGP Champion, in one of the most dominant factions in New Japan pro wrestling history. Is there anyone that can take the strap?

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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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