Global Wars 2015 - Night 1

ROH/NJPW Global Wars 2015

(2015/5/15)

1.       Silas Young & Takaaki Watanabe vs. Moose & Gedo

Fun opener that served its purpose, it was a decent match with some nice plots and subplots. I don’t get the Moose hype. Watanabe is ready to come back to NJPW. IMO.

**3/4

2.       3-WAY: Chris Sabin vs. Kyle O’Reilly vs. KUSHIDA

Yuck! Boring, moronic, o’reillysh.

bad

3.       Michael Bennett & Matt Taven vs. Jushin Liger & Matt Sydal

Solid midcard tag, Sydal looked fine, Liger owned the crowd, but Bennett and Taven sucked as usual. Also, Maria is the ugliest.

**3/4

4.       Cedric Alexander vs. Kazuchika Okada

Really good match, Cedric was such a pleasant surprise, great performance here, he fucking knows how to sell and adds nice subtlety to it, he has awesome attacking moves and comeback spots, he’s very athletic, but unlike most of other black guys, he uses it super well. And yet they picked WOAT Lelgin for the G1, lmao…

***3/4

5.       3-WAY: Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero & Beretta) vs. BJ Whitmer & Adam Page vs. The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian)

Another 3-way tag with one team waiting on the apron, smh… Daniels getting wasted in all these irrelevant tags but at the same time WOAT Elgin gets Naito, KUSHIDA and Tanahashi, lmaooo… Fuck Ring of Honor.

bad

6.       ACH vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Good match overall, but nothing I’d call great or special. Just… a match! ACH stopped being a fresh, innovative act a long ass time ago, and now is just another black dude who can jump very high and not much else. No substance, no depth, just jumping around and flash. Crappy comedy doesn’t count. Nakamura just went through his motions here, but those are good motions, mind you.

***

7.       ROH TV Championship: Tetsuya Naito vs. Jay Lethal ©

A Jay Lethal match.

**

8.       WOAT Michael Elgin vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

Not even the Ace of the Universe could carry WOAT to a good match.

**3/4

9.       ROH All Stars (Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe, Roderick Strong, Hanson, Ray Rowe) vs. Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson)

Hokey much?

bad