ROH Best in the World (Cherry-Picked)

ROH Best in the World 2015

 (2015/6/19)

The Kingdom (Adam Cole, Michael Bennett, Matt Taven) vs. Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson)

 

Rematch from War of the Worlds, but this one was not good. It was too cute and too coincidental, and not in a lovely lucha manner, I’m talking more about too convenient setups and choreography here. Meh… AJ looks like a total non-entity in all the multi-man tags, and it certainly doesn’t help he’s shorter than just about everyone in the ring, and he’s the fucking IWGP Heavyweight Champion.

**3/4

ROH Best in the World 2015

 (2015/6/19)

NO DQ for ROH World Tag Team Championship: reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) vs. The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian)

Great, great, GREAT tussle, easily the best O’Reilly & Fish match ever as a tag team, also such a beautiful reminder of how fucking awesome Daniels & Kazarian really are. This was rough, they worked the nasty and super effective old school street fight style, Daniels & Kaz were excellent as both being pricks and isolating their opponents for vicious beatdowns, as well as bumping hard for the MMA nerds in order to make them look good. Daniels is like the US version of Negro Casas, all the bumps he’s taking at his age and state of the neck… Jeez! Fucking kudos there, man! Awesome match, The Addiction is just a pure heel tag team that gives zero fucks, I love them.

****1/4

ROH Best in the World 2015

 (2015/6/19)

ROH World Championship & TV Championship: Jay Lethal (TV)© vs. Jay Briscoe (W)©

Holy balls, this blew! I’m a sucker for matches with a sluggish pacing, and here it looked promising early on with careful, brawlish, methodical approaches, but then the entire thing fell apart miserably. What a tedious, boring and hokey match. Not a total DUD, but dangerously close. Lethal as the double champion is a disaster in the making.

bad