Pride, Glory, Honor, The Meteoric rise of ROH

[Chuck]

*Chants are heard* Ring of Honor Ring of Honor Ring of Honor!! This is something special. Something that wrestling can be proud of. Something thats full potential has yet to have been tapped. Something that people want to be a part of... Thats all I could think about all day... It was January 1st 2006. Gabe Sapolsky said he wanted to focus on building up Full Impact Pro and give someone else ownership of ROH. I could not believe it. Gabe has made something so great and now he wants to give it to someone else. I had to make sure that with all my power it went to someone deserving. I got my initial start with Ring of Honor in May of 2005. I started out as Ring Crew learning some behind the scenes things. Gabe one day came up to me and said we were short a referee. I asked him what I could do and all he did was gave me a shirt and told me to get the job done. I was ecstatic. I refereed Matt Sydal vs. El Generico the opening match of Final Battle 2005. It was awesome. I talked with Gabe some more and more over the next few weeks and had lots of booking ideas. Gabe then promoted me up to assistant marketing director. Then it happened. I was backstage and Gabe told everyone what he was doing. There was a lot of shock. At the end of the show Gabe told everyone his three choices for the new booker and owner of Ring of Honor. Myself.. Joshua Montgomery, Ace Steele and Raven. The next day the whole roster had a meeting to vote in the new owner and booker. Raven resigned from the race. The roster voted for me with a 59 percentile. I was so ecstatic. Here is my chance to shine and show everyone what Ring of Honor is about. Its time for Ring of Honor to be able to do there shows on TV and PPV. Its time for Ring of Honor to make people proud to say they are a wrestling fan again. Well here goes... Roster: Main Event: [COLOR=Blue]Steve Corino Aj Styles Bryan Danielson[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Chris Daniels Samoa Joe Homicide Low Ki[/COLOR] Upper Midcard: [COLOR=Blue]Colt Cabana Jimmy Yang[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Austin Aries Alex Shelley[/COLOR] Midcard: Jimmy Jacobs Jay Lethal Matt Stryker Chris Sabin Azreal Chad Collyer Ace Steele BJ Whitmer Izzy Tony Devito Abyss Roderick Strong Rocky Romero Ricky Reyes Nigel Mcguiness Milano Collection AT Jimmy Rave HC Loc Jack Evans Tony Mamaluke Adam Pearce Lower Midcard: Marcos Matt Sydal Puma Dunn Jerelle Clark El Generico Deranged Salvatore Rinauro Phil Davis Sterling James Keenan Sean Davis Kevin Steen Claudio Delirious Fast Eddie Opener: Dazee Haze Anthony Franco Matt Turner Davey Andrews Cheech Shane Hagadorne Cloudy Manager: Allison Danger Prince Nana Julius Smokes Lacey Jade Chung Tag Teams: Titles: ROH World: Bryan Danielson ROH Tag: Rinauro and Mamaluke ROH Pure:Nigel McGuiness Special Attractions: Jushin Lyger Dr. Wagner JR. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- My ROH Game messed up after my most recent post because I did not shut it down properly. So now I will be restarting. Basically the same stuff but the fueds and stuff will be essentially different. Storm vs. Danielson is still on though! I am sorry for the inconvenience. Also each House Show will now have a correct title to it. January Week 1 Newswire: The fued between The Eymbassy and GenNext has not settled down at all in recent months. After both teams took some time off from ROH Shelley and Aries got into a match at a recent TNA PPV in which Rave and Nana got involved in as well. ROH is pleased to announce the aquisitions of the following. Arik Cannon, Lance Storm, Larry Sweeney, Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush. Jushin Lyger has expressed interest in doing more ROH shows in the future. ROH is looking into expanding its market to the Florida area. There will be a special number 1 contenders tournament for the ROH Pure Title the following weeks on the House Shows. Aj Styles's attitude has been very different over recent weeks. He seems to have more of a ****y and brash attitude and a lot of stars are beggining to notice. ------------------------------ ROH House Show Number 1 Preview (Reign of Honor) Lance Storm will be in attendance. Bryan Danielson vs. Jimmy Jacobs for the ROH Title ROH Pure Wrestling Tournament begins. Alex Shelley vs. Austin Aries ------------------------------ ROH Reign of Honor [B]Alex Shelley vs. Austin Aries[/B] Alex Shelley and Austin Aries had a what I would call a *** opening match in this one. Shelley hit the Shellshock on Aries and that was all she wrote. Who is she I wonder? [COLOR=Red]Time: 19 Minutes[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Rating: B-[/COLOR] Danielson is about cutting a promo in the ring. He goes over and shakes Lance Storm's hand. Danielson says he challenges Storm to a match but Storm just sits there and smiles saying no thanks. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: B-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Adam Pearce vs. Larry Sweeney[/B] Pearce and Sweeney had an old school heel battle in the opening match of this tournament. Pearce wins with the ultimate old school move the IRON CLAW! [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 12 Minutes[/COLOR] Jerrelle Clark and Jimmy Rave are in the ring. Rave inducts Clark into the Eymbassy to which the fans boo him for. "DIE JIMMY DIE" [COLOR=Blue]Rating: D[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 3 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Izzy vs. Cloudy [/B] Tournament Match: Basic spotfest match you would expect from these two. Izzy nailed his trademark moonsault sitout reverse X Factor. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 6 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Sabin, Hero and El Generico vs. Delirous, Kevin Steen and Samoa Joe[/B] Pretty good six man tag match. Joe gets the win over Sabin after an Island Driver. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 23 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Jimmy Jacobs vs. Bryan Danielson[/B] This match went for about 20 minutes until Justin Credible jumped the guard rail from the crowd and nailed Danielson with a superkick. Jacobs attempted to make the save until Peter Polaco ran in and attacked him. Peter and Lance reunite the Impact Players as the House Show ends! [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 23 Minutes[/COLOR] Final: C Attendance: 2,000 Notes: Hurt Popularity Perhaps Bank Balance: Up to $201,250 Newswire: Jushin Lyger is expected to be in attendance at an upcoming house show. Lyger has stated that he talked with ROH recently at a TNA Event he was at. He says he is coming back to ROH because he is unpleased with the attitude of a certain ROH Star named AJ Styles. He says AJ has tons of potential but a mouth that holds him back. What will become of this? ROH is beginning to negotiate with some networks about carrying ROH programming. Nothing big just kind of like a preview thing. Maybe one ROH Classic Match. The Impact Players mean business. They have come into ROH to resparkle the old Hardcore fire that a lot of fans have. ROH Honor, Pride and Glory will be held in the Sunshine State of Florida! ROH Honor, Pride and Glory Preview Card: The Impact Players vs. Bryan Danielson and Chris Hero ROH Pure Title Tournament Continues Jimmy Rave, Fast Eddie and Jerelle Clark vs. Aries, Strong and Evans Rinauro and Mamaluke defend against the Ring Crew Express!

[Oldschool]

I'm a HUGE Ring Of Honor fan, in fact if you ever get the chance to check out my ECW diary it is essentially filled with ROH guys. Anyways about you... I like the signing of Larry Sweeney (love his entrance:More, more, more) and I like how you're getting the students (Andrews, Hagadorn) involved Look forward to seeing your first set of results I'll be reading

[ERstyle]

From a HTML Point of view, colors or bold would be nice From a Fan point of view, I don't know, how about rumors or the newswire. You know what it is right?

[NickC13573]

here are my suggestions. 1. Mirror the Embassy/ Generation Next Fued thats going on. 2. Hire Arik Cannon 3. add a bank balance to the end of every month. 4. have a Quack/hero/Joe/Daniels/AJ fued

[Chuck]

ROH Pride Glory Honor: Davie Florida [B]Rinauro and Mamaluke vs. The Ring Crew Express:[/B] Basic opening Tag Title defense. The RCE looked a little frustrated after losing this and rightfully so. Rinauro and Mamaluke are using a unique Powerbomb/Reverse DDT finisher. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 11 Minutes[/COLOR] Your Winners and still ROH Tag Team Champions: Mamaluke and Rinauro! [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/tonymamaluke/03.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/s/salvatorerinauro/01.jpg[/IMG] Danielson and Hero are backstage talking about there match against the Impact Players and going over strategies. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] Jack Evans is backstage with Aries, Strong and Sydal. He says tonight is going to be the 630 vs. The Corkscrew 630. He hypes up GenNex as they are about to go to the ring. He says Matt will also win the Pure Number 1 Contender Tournament [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Evans, Aries and Strong vs. Rave, Clark and Eddie[/B] This match really got the crowd pumping with some intense high flying moves. At one point Aries hit the 450 but it was not enough. Evans went for a 630 on Eddie but Clark moved Eddie out of the way to nail a 630 of his own on Evans. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 16 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: Jerelle Clark [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/j/jerelleclark/01.jpg[/IMG] Shelley hits the ring after the match and starts to advance toward Aries. Aries does the same. As soon as this happens all of GenNext and The Eymbassy start to hold there respective members back. Soon Samoa Joe and other stars come out to hold them back [COLOR=Blue]Rating: D[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 4 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Matt Sydal vs. Claudio Castagnoli ROH Pure Title Number 1 Contender Tourney[/B] Sydal and Claudio had a rather decent average match with this one. Claudio went for a Top Rope powerbomb that Sydal reversed to the Belly to Belly Moonsault. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 19 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/m/mattsydal/03.jpg[/IMG] [B]Cheech vs. Tony Mamaluke[/B] Pure Title Contendership Tournament Match: This match served its point. Mamaluke is shown as a true Pure fighter and makes Cheech tap out to an Italian Crab. [COLOR=Blue]Rating; C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 6 Minutes[/COLOR] Storm and Polaco hype up the Impact Players as the true revolutionaries in the wrestling world. Rating: C+ Time: 6 Minutes [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/i/impactplayers/01.jpg[/IMG] [B]Danielson and Hero vs. Polaco and Storm (Impact Players)[/B]Danielson and Hero work really well as a team and showed it here tonight. Danielson locked in the Mutilation on Storm and Storm had no choice but to tap. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: B[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 24 Minutes[/COLOR] Overall: C+ Notes: Sucess! [QUOTE]ROH Newswire: ROH is pleased to announce the Main Event of It All Begins Lance Storm vs. Bryan Danielson Also signed for It All Begins is Austin Aries vs. Alex Shelley For the First Time Jushin Lyger vs. AJ STYLES! Rinauro and Mamaluke vs. ???? GenNext: Strong, Evans and Sydal vs. Rave, Eddie and Clark Low Ki and Homicide vs. Generico and Steen![/QUOTE] Thoughts?

[Oldschool]

Aries is the man, good stuff here in that match with Shelley I'll take lyger over Styles Salmaluke will defend against mystery team, probably too early for title change Gen Next wins Ki and Homicide destroy Generico and Steen just my thoughts

[Chuck]

I completely forgot I had another House Show to do before It All Begins. ROH Total Nonstop Honor Week 3 January Thursday 2006 Nashville Fairgrounds [B]Tony Mamaluke vs. Cheech[/B] In what should have been an easy tournament win for Mamaluke ended up being a huge upset victory for Cheech. Mamaluke and Rinauro talked after the match and went to the back. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 12 Minutes[/COLOR] Your Winner with a really crappy picture of him because there is only one of OWW: [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/c/cheech/01.jpg[/IMG] [B]Adam Pearce vs. Izzy[/B] Pearce and Izzy battled it out for a good 9 Minutes in what is a good TV Style match. Pearce picked it up with an intense Piledriver by reversing one Izzy's silly moonsault moves [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 9 Minutes[/COLOR] And the winner who has a better picture of Cheech would could help his career in the end. ADAM PEARCE [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/a/adampearce/01.jpg[/IMG] Matt Sydal hypes up his upcoming match with Cheech. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: D[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 3 Minutes[/COLOR] Samoa Joe is walking backstage about to leave the arena. He looks inside of Jim Cornettes office and sees the mystery tag team talking with Jim Cornette. He looks shocked and keeps walking [COLOR=Blue]Time: 3 Minutes[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Rating: C[/COLOR] [B]Matt Sydal vs. Cheech[/B] Sydal picks up the win with the Belly to Belly Moonsault. Sydal vs. Pearce tommorow at It All Begins with the winner facing Nigel [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 9 Minutes[/COLOR] Your winner who has the best picture I have posted from the ROH Roster: Matt Sydal [IMG]http://www.mattsydal.com/images/rightgraphic2.jpg[/IMG] [B]Peter Polaco vs. Chris Hero[/B]This match was made by ROH Matchmakers as a little preview of tommorow nights Danielson vs. Storm. Palaco gets a win with the Thats Incredible at 21 Minutes. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 21 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: Justin Credible [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/j/justincredible/02.jpg[/IMG] Austin Aries and Jack Evans are talking backstage. Aries said that Evans should be pissed off about what Jerelle did last week. He brought shame to the 630 and the only way to bring it back to its full potential is by having Evans do it to Jerelle tonight. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: D[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Jerelle Clark vs. Jack Evans[/B] Master of the 630 Match. Evans hits Clark with the Corkscrew 630 for the win in this overall decent match. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 13 Minutes[/COLOR] Kevin Steen and El Generico are attempting to talk backstage. Steen tells Generico besides there past he wants him and Generico to focus on taking down the Rottweilers. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: D[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Generico vs. Ki[/B] Generico beats Ki with a BRAINBUSTAAA. Decent Match [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 14 Minutes[/COLOR] ROH It All Begins: ROH has just learned that both Low Ki and Jushin Lyger have Japanese commitments tonight. To make sure the fans get what they want we have booked a match with Styles teaming with Chris Daniels against Samoa Joe and Mike QUACKenbush [IMG]http://www.highspots.com/www/stores_app/images/images_125/zk2_roh_begins.jpg[/IMG] Opening Match: Scramble 6 Way [B]Generico vs. Milano vs. Arik Cannon vs. Claudio vs. Izzy vs. Jimmy Jacobs[/B] Milano Collectoin AT picks up the win with a AT Lock on Cannon [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 20 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/m/milanocollectionat/01.jpg[/IMG] [B]Sydal vs. Pearce[/B] Sydal wins with a Belly to Belly Moonsault at 22 Minutes [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR][COLOR=Red] Time: 25 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: [IMG]http://www.mattsydal.com/images/rightgraphic2.jpg[/IMG] [B]Briscoes vs. Salmaluke[/B] The Briscoes make there surprise ROH Return tonight. They end up owning Salmaluke and get major babyface poppage. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 20 Minutes[/COLOR] Winners and NEW ROH TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/b/briscoebrothers/01.jpg[/IMG] GenNext and the Eymbassy mouth each other backstage. Shelley and Aries get into each others faces and are held apart from a brawl. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] Daniels and Styles vs. Quack and Joe Styles hits Quack with the Clash after a MOTN candidate. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: B-[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 23 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: AJ STYLES [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/a/ajstyles/09.jpg[/IMG] Storm mouths Danielson and his ROH Title Reign backstage. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: B[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 2 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]GenNext vs. Eymbassy[/B] Rave hits the Rave Slash on Evans for the win in a good fast paced six man match. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C+[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 25 Minutes[/COLOR] Winner: Jimmy Rave [IMG]http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/j/jimmyrave/05.jpg[/IMG] [B]Sydal vs. McGuinnes Pure Title Match[/B] This is Sydals third match of the night. He is basically thrown around by Nigel for a while and beaten down. Sydal however pulls a roll up out of his ass and wins it. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: C[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 17 Minutes[/COLOR] [B]Danielson vs. Storm[/B] Danielson successfully defended the ROH Title in this one. He makes Storm tap out to the isngle legged crab. [COLOR=Blue]Rating: B[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]Time: 30 Minutes[/COLOR] Final: C Thoughts?

[Oldschool]

I like Sydal getting the win, he seems like he is poised to be one of the Indy's breakout stars of 2006. I should have known that the Briscoes would be the mystery tag team. Every ROH is clamoring for the day when/if they return to ROH Good stuff Diary is definately becoming more appealing to the eye!

[theunholyicon]

1) Rave can't use the clash anymore. 2) Low Ki doesn't lose, well, ever. To have Generico beat him would be unrealistic ;)

[Chuck]

1. Crap I forgot 2. Generico is the man

[theunholyicon]

Meh, hes comedy, and a finisher. To me anyways. Was an ROH flavour of the week. Much like James Gibson, and everyone saying he was MVP of 2005 was mainly because the ROH fans on the ROH forum went crazy over him and I don't know why. And if you look, Low Ki rarely EVER loses. People call him the HHH of ROH, meaning he doesn't want to do the job, but I just think thats how Gabes booking him, on purpose. Gave Lethal the rub when he beat him, thats for sure.

[Chuck]

I still enjoy Generico. He has a lot of skill in my honest opinion. Ki yes could be considered the Triple H of ROH but I hate booking a no lose character. Ki is also undependable for me because every big event on Friday or Saturday he has prior commitments. Lyger always has Thurdsay commitments as well. Heres a little preview for the card going up tonight: 4 Way ROH Pure Wrestling Title Number 1 Contenders Match in which the winner will face Sydal in a best of seven series Chris Hero vs. Mike Quackenbush vs. Aj Styles vs. Alex Shelley ROH Tag Team Champions state an open challenge to any tag team for a non title match Austin Aries and new ROH Pure Champion Matt Sydal vs. Alex Shelley and Fast Eddie Homicide vs. Kevin Steen!

[Ultima]

Card looks good, but did you mean to have Shelly wrestle twice?

[Chuck]

Well I am having to shut it down AGAIN! MY TEW keeps messing up the files. However I promise I will start again sometime later this week. THIS IS GAY