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Ringside with Demolition (DVD-R)

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Youtube is down right now but I will be putting it up in vid form but here is the url

http://www.you-tube.com/watch?v=8VqTxBRNWz8

Much thanks to Seabs

Go Shiozaki vs Erick Stevens - Northern Navigation
(188.01MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7I02RCWW

Bryan Danielson vs Claudio Castognoli - Northern Navigation
(246.03MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7Q3V6EET

Jay Briscoe & Austin Aries vs AOTF - Northern Navigation
(205.37MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9F6BRF23

Naomichi Marufuji vs Roderick Strong - Northern Navigation
(167.08MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KHJCGZ5T

Nigel McGuinness vs Kevin Steen - ROH World Championship - Northern Navigation
(300.84MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IZ6R0HN7


This is what we had this time last year, well almost a tad more ahead but close enough.  Have times changed?  Not that much.

http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/109532

Cary states that ROH will be in Arizona during WM26.... I might actually get a chance to see ROH for a second and third time since I do plan on going to WM26.  Plus other interesting tidbits.  Great stuff.  Check it out guys.

http://nationalsportsreview.com/sports/us/pwp/2009/07/07/pro-wrestling-ponderings-west-coast-pop/

Check it out and leave comments.  Thanks for the support.

Thanks for the comments coming from here over at PWP, please keep it up.  We have a great PWG review up right now.

As a thank you here are some of the great matches from 2009 uploaded to Mega upload by Seabs of wrestlingforum.com fame.

Nigel McGuinness vs Jerry Lynn - ROH World Championship - Supercard Of Honor IV
(270.89MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8VXUVR3T

KENTA & Tyler Black vs Katsuhiko Nakajima & Austin Aries - Take No Prisoners 2009
(216.22MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HH8U11BI

Austin Aries vs Roderick Strong vs Jay Briscoe vs Kenny Omega - The Hunt Begins
(165.94MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=15TOV387

Jimmy Jacobs vs Delirious - Markham Street Fight - Tag Title Classic
(190.67MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZ0EQQC6

Roderick Strong vs Jay Briscoe - Tag Title Classic
(154.41MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LJEXTTLF

American Wolves vs Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black - ROH World Tag Team Championships - Tag Title Classic
(520.57MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FIZE2EIC

American Wolves vs Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black - ROH World Tag Team Championships - ROH on HDNet 27.06.2009
(247.5MB .avi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8Y91PV74

As always keep up the awesome comments and definitely listen to the ROH podcast that will be up on PWP and I'll put the link up here monday night/tuesday morning which will have me, Kevin Ford, and Jerome Cusson discussing everything ROH and possibly more.

Also definitely check out all the great sales over at ROHwrestling.com and buy up some great DVDs.  They also are now selling PWG DVDs there as well.

http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/108643

Great stuff from the writers at 411mania.com with fantasy cards of wrestling promotions they have created including Column of Honor and long time ROH Lj community advocator  Ari Berenstein.  Check it out folks, it's awesome.

Check the whole article by me out here

As always comments are appreciated and will automatically enter you into a drawing for a chance to win the ROH DVD Double Feature 2.
I'll post the winner here.  Thanks for your support.

Here it is folks, sorry for the delay
it is in dl form though the ability to view it on Megavideo always comes up and I will be uploading it to megavideo officially pretty soon here after so expect it soon.

Also I will be having a review of this ep + an new article about ROH over at Pro Wrestling Ponderings as well as all the other great columns we have there about CHIKARA, PWG, and much more including exclusive podcasts with Kevin Ford and Ari Berenstein of 411mania.com fame.

http://nationalsportsreview.com/sports/us/pwp/

So please support us and leave comments on the articles and as an incentive I will be doing give aways of recent ROH shows. Puro and custom figures to those that leave comments on the articles I write or any by any of the other great writers there. Just leave a good comment and be sure to put that you came from here at the ROH LJ community.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A7UFJLIO <-- for download

Source: ROHwrestling.com

Quote:
PreShow:
- "Dirty" Ernie Osiris and Tony Kozina v Grizzly Redwood and Even Scott: Ernie and Kozina won after an "international object" shot by Dirty to Grizzly for the pin.
- Andy "Right Leg" Ridge and Big Muscular Balck Guy (Sampson) v Sawada (My Bad) and Bobby Dempsey: Sampson pretended to poop Kawada. Dempsey pinned Ridge afer a DVD.
-Josh Raymond v Mikey Nichols: Armdrag! Raymond won with a Trouble in Paradise

10 Bell Misawa Tribute: Twit for pics

Main Show:
-6 man mayhem: No Daizee with Deli. Titus rubbed his crotch pre shake, Sami licked it. Indy Standoff, Deli and Payne. Deli chasing Titus under the ring, comes out with thong showing, hid behind Sinclare, Ego kicks Titis bare ass, thrust into Sinclare. Awesome. Sami stole Fire Helmet Hat Guy and wore it in the corner. Top rope release German from Silas to Ego. Duel dive by Payne and Deli. Ego sentons on all, but missed completly. Tower of doom!!! Titus w a top rope xfactor. All men hit Finishers. PAYNEs WAS AWESOME!!! Deli wins with Shadows Over Hell on Silas. Awesome Match!

-"HD Ready" Rasche Brown v Erick Stevens: Slow. Hard Hitting. Intense. Tyipical big man power match. Awesome Spear by Brown. Real nice Chockslam by Brown. Stevens wins with a Dr Bomb. Better than I expected, but I expected nothing, take that for what it is.

-Flair Time: Puts over Cicago as the greastest city he ever wrestled in. Puts over fans. Puts over himself. Crowd is totally into this. I'm not. Puts over ROH. Puts over workrate. Puts over fans again. Puts over locker room. Puts over ROH again. Puts over Cary. Puts over how much money he spent in Chicago. Puts over his catchphrases. Crowd wooos. Flair wooos. Time wasted.

-Kenny "Pretty Boy Pitbull" King v Petey Williams: Kenny dances like MJ. Awesome! Nice spine buster by King. Springboard Dropkick by King countered by Petey with his own dropkick, King landed on his face. King with a Pele. Step up Inzeguri by Petey, I can't spell. Catatonic by King. Titus distracts Ref, King hits Elijiah Express, and an inverted FU for the win. Petey hits Canadian Destroyer post match. Please come back chants. Promo by Petey. Calls the locker room a bucnh of bad ass mofos. Says stars are born and stars are reborn again. F TNA and Fire Russo. Very soild match.

- Tyler Black v KENTA: No play by play for this. I want to see this one. It took 2 GTSs but KENTA pinned Black. Amazing match. Needs to be seen

- AotF Attacks! 10 on 1! Jimmy ties Tylers feet together. Calls for the device that held belts at Man Up! They almsot hang Black, Steenamd Generico make the save. Gods Last Gift to Jacobs! Tying Jacobs legs together, Hang Jacobs by his ankles. Deli come out also. Black grabs mic and declares AotF DEAD! Twit for pics. Jimmy pissed at his followers. They leave him in the ring. Na na na chant for AotF. Jimmy leaves thru the front.

- Intermission: Bret Hart annouced for next show. Eastman puts over Rosas post show, says Pearce likes it when people buy him beer. Gonna slow down on play by play. Phone slowly dying. I'll update things at Rosas. Look for more pics to be coming soon. Attendance was 1000 easy.

- Street Fight: awesome brawl. Colt pins Ryan after a Flying Assshole thru a table set up in the corner.

- Dlo Brown v Roderick Strong: Chicago is Down With the Brown, big time! DLo go a better pop than Roddy. DLo wins with a roll up as he holds the ropes. DLo is like Sugarfoot. He is mad over.

-Kevin Steen and El Generico v The American Wolves: Both teams in matching gear, nice. Steenerico win the best tag match I've seen since Return Engagment. Generico hits the top rope Brainbustahhhhh on Davey for the 3. Awesome, awesome match.

-Austin Aries v Nigel McGuiness: Kick ass dueling promo pre match, very funny, very graphic. Nigel hit a coue of signature lariats. Aries wins a very good match with a kick to the head and a brainbuster. No where near as good as the last 2 title matches, but very fun.

This show was awesome. I can't belive I'm typing this, but Nigel/Aries, IMO, was the worst match of the night. And that's just insane to think about right now and it was still very fun. My MOTN was the Wolves/Steenerico. Just brutal and my first Brainbustahhhh live. Terrific match. Very good show. I'll post a review tomorrow. I'm going to twitpic some others and I'll update the fan gathering there as well. Hope you all enjoyed the results. This was a great night!

Good crowd, maybe 500

Pre Show) Alex Sugerfoot Payne defeated. Jobber
Pre Show) Micky Nicolas defeated. Kozina (names could be wrong)
Pre Show) Da Gangsta Samson defeated. Jobber

Ten Bell Salute to Misawa

Match One: Grizzy Redwood defeated. Silias Young
Match Two: Kenny King & Rhett Titus defeated. Albright & Stevens
Ric Flair promo, puts over ROH and their talent
Match Three: Nigel McGuinness vs Claudio Castagnoli went to a double count out.
Match Four: Steernerico deafeated. Josh Raymond & Christian Able
Intermission: Michael Jackson music is played
Match Five: ROH Champion, Austin Aries won a six man mayham match pinning Delirious.
Match Six: Colt Cabana defeated. D'Lo Brown
Match Seven: ROH Tag Champions, American Wolves defeated. Roderick Strong & KENTA
Main Event, Steel Cage: Tyler Black defeated Jimmy Jacobs.


Seems like a worthwhile DVD

and almost all of the former cast of The Cool Kids Table along with me, yes your admin is now a writer on a semi professional wrestling review website about ROH, CHIKARA, DGUSA, PWG, and almost everything else pro wrestling over at Pro Wrestling Ponderings

Check us out and please leave comments on the podcasts and columns. I will be writing and debuting my first column very soon so please show some support.

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The more you guys comment there, the more I will feel inclined to post vids here not only from ROH on HDnet but matches from all over. Of course I will be giving out credit when it's due.

http://www.declarationofindependents.net/doi/pages/rohstuff62509.html

The Latest on Ric Flair/ROH/DragonGabe

The following press release was issued yesterday by Ric Flair's agent:

GILLESPIE TALENT BOOKING & PUBLICITY
F O R I M M E D I AT E R E L E A S E
June 24, 2009

We’ve had several inquiries since Ric Flair began to appear frequently on RAW again as to whether or not Ric is still available for appearances outside of WWE, so here’s a statement from The Man himself:

“I will always be a part of the WWE family, however I am still anxious to get out there and meet my fans in person. I have had a great time doing just that since my retirement! My agent is currently negotiating appearances across the US and several abroad that will allow me to meet my fans around the world. I am very excited about these new opportunities! WooooOOOooo!”

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
Elaine Gillespie, President
Gillespie Talent
803-779-2126
elaine@gillespietalent.com
3007 Millwood Avenue, Columbia, South Carolina 29205
www.GillespieTalent.com

As you can tell from the above, what is not mentioned is Flair's status with Ring of Honor. Maybe Elain Gillespie didn't even think much of ROH to even mention them in her press release. Basically what has happened is that Flair wants to keep on good terms with the WWE and to stay on good terms with the WWE, Flair has removed himself from appearing on ROH Television.

As reported/broken earlier on the DOI, Flair was paid up front for all his dates, as he was paid very handsomely up front by ROH owner Cary Silken. It is stated in Flair's contract with ROH that he must stay until the end of the events he's booked on which has not been a problem until as of late.

On 6/12, in Virginia, Flair wanted to leave after his promo. Flair wanted to do his business and be gone, as Flair is booked to sign autographs for fans every show, as that is one of the ways ROH is trying to make back the exorbitant amount of money they paid for Flair in advance. Flair was thinking about leaving early on Friday after he finished his promos and signings, but thought better of it and stayed.

On 6/13, in NYC, Flair was booked to be a referee, but he pulled out because he didn't want to appear on ROH TV, in an effort to remain on good terms with the WWE. Flair did do his autograph signing. Flair was also booked in the main event, to do something that wouldn't be filmed for ROH TV. However, after Flair cut his first promo at the show, Flair returned to the locker room and made his way out a door when nobody from ROH management was around. Flair 100% snuck out, despite what else is being put out there by sites that take ROH money for advertisements.

Cary Silken was furious when he found out Flair was not in the venue, as that violated terms of his contract with Flair. Cary was upset and calling people trying to see if Flair was coming back or not. One person Cary called about all this contacted the DOI to see if we heard any more information when this was going on at the time. Cary did not know Flair had left and felt betrayed.

One must also remember that Flair was booked to help get ROH noticed on television, as Flair was going to be the hook to get casuals to check it out and the ambassador for business. ROH paid alot of money thinking that Flair would help turn around their business and get them noticed by casual wrestling fans. However, in that time, Flair has considered coming back to the ring and has done everything possible to make sure he doesn't piss off the WWE.

The Flair in ROH business idea has to be considered a failure because Flair won't appear on their TV anymore and has rejected ideas from ROH management. ROH invested 6 figures in Flair, and to not get him to do what they want is a kick in the balls, as you can imagine how much money that is not, just to have your investment not to hold up his end of the agreed deal when it was first signed.

Just think, all the money ROH used on Flair could've gone to a multitude of other people or ideas. Flair was being paid from start to finish and to ROH was going to be booked in a way that would elevate ROH. However, mid-way in, the wind was taken out of the sails and ROH had their legs cut off because of Flair's desire to return to the ring and not offend the WWE. ROH had to change all their plans, and to change their plans on a 6-figure guy is not something anyone would welcome.

The ironic thing in all of this is that Flair has NOT signed with the WWE. Of course, Flair has removed himself from being on ROH television in an effort not to piss off the WWE, but as of now, the WWE has nothing for him and Flair is not under contract. While we can't confirm this, a wrestler in ROH told the DOI, that "Flair is just here for the money and walks all over Cary because he perceives Cary as a money mark."

Someone close to ROH told the DOI that Flair's original intention of going to ROH was not for his own career, but to jump start the career of his son Reid Flair. However, once Reid was busted for drugs and his wrestling dream put on hold, Flair could give two shits about ROH.

The press release above confirms Flair is free to work anywhere, but it is Flair's choosing not to appear on ROH's TV.

Not only has ROH lost money on the Flair deal, ROH is losing a lot of money each time they run the TV tapings, due to the expenses for a double shot, the equipment, the hotels, the flights, rents for venues, etc. However, ROH has cut corners by not paying job guys, as ROH basically uses mark wrestlers who want to say they worked for ROH to fill job guy spots. Due to the expenses of the TV, ROH canceled their July set of tapings.

Of course this will all read as "gloom and doom", but the fact is ROH never canceled shows regularly under the Feinstein days or Sapolsky days, but ever since Adam Pearce has taken over, ROH has been canceling shows left or right. As one person to the DOI put it, "Gabe like a rat, jumped off that sinking ship."

Losing the PPV deal was mostly because the PPV's were hardly doing any buys and that can be because of many reasons. Most fans who buy PPVs don't want to buy a taped PPV. The ROH product does not draw casual fans at all and ROH basically has the same fan base they have had for years and has not grown. Trying to leave the DVD-model of business was a big jump and ROH has not landed on the side of profitability since the jump.

I wouldn't expect a live ROH PPV anytime soon, which is contrary to what others think, as a live PPV costs alot of money up front, which is something ROH does not have, unless Cary goes into his own personal money.

When Gabe Sapolsky was fired, Cary thought Adam was the key to change. If anything, they have lost fans and they have definitely lost their buzz. Their television show has been anything but "must-see TV" and the only people watching it are the people who know about ROH anyway.

Flair is scheduled to appear on three more shows for ROH, but don't look for him to do anything in the ring, unless he is doing the "I love ROH, this is the next big thing, blah blah blah, buy my autographs at intermission" promo. He won't appear on the TV show, so it's not like ROH can even write him off by elevating a heel who could leave Flair in a bloody heap. Shit, for $300, ROH could've paid Nikita Koloff to do the same thing and Koloff probably wouldn't have sneaked out the back door in NY. ROH of course is spinning that they knew about Flair leaving to save face.

As far as Dragon Gate, the company which abuses animals than posts pictures about it laughing about what they did, they have booked alot of ROH talent. It should be mentioned that alot of the original ROH contracts have expired and alot of ROH wrestlers are "free agents" so to speak.

On Dragon Gate, I heard PETA has been contacted. I have heard rumors they will be there to protest, but don't know if that is 100% on. I understand that the monkey abuse occurred in Japan and different cultures treat animals differently (Dog fighting is legal in most places in Latin America, while Cows are worshiped in certain places in India), but there is no way an American could look at those pictures of the DG guys beating up a monkey and say "hey that's great for biz!"

You know if someone like a Rob Feinstein, Zandig, Ian Rotten, or any other indy promoter was caught beating up that monkey, there would be public outcry and fans screaming for their head, but of course there is no morals in wrestling, so fans have publicly said on message boards that they'd rather ignore the issue and put their head in the sand, just so they can see some guys from Japan roll around in a ring in America in their underwear. Good to see these fans have their priorities straight.

American Dragon & Davey Richards are already booked for upcoming DGUSA shows and we have got it on good authority that Colt Cabana & Paul London will next. With ROH not offering contracts to new talent, ROH wrestlers are now looking for work in the area, even offering promoters a cheaper rate to promotions they have spurned in the past due to working for the ROH machine.

A well known money mark in the area told the DOI that he talked to Cary this week to see if there was interest in selling the company, but there seems to be no legs to this story in regards to anything of that nature actually happening.

ROH has also turned their backs on the guys who helped build the ROH name up, as even guys like J-Train, one of the most charismatic managers in all of wrestling today, has been unbooked. Just ask Larry Sweeney his thoughts on ROH these days.

There has also been a strain between Shimmer and ROH, as Gabe Sapolsky was a big fan of doing Shimmer matches and worked hand-in-hand with Prazak in making sure Shimmer was represented on the events. However, whether it is because of what Cary does in his personal life or not, womens wrestling in ROH is on the back burner and several women who were previously booked have been taken off shows. The women in Age of the Fall are no longer there, as perhaps the owner of ROH is more interested in the "Age of the Balls", as there are less females in ROH than any other wrestling company around today.

Several ROH wrestlers, two of which ROH management "forbade to talk to DOI", told the DOI that ROH is crumbling and can't see ROH lasting until the end of the year. One prominent ROH star said, "ROH will be done in three months." However, this is not the first time this has been said and ROH has been able to stay around all this time despite many people thinking they were going to go out of business. At the same time, I can't remember ROH having so much negativity and stories of lost money than at this point in time.

It is basically thought that if Dragon Gate can take off, it will be another nail in ROH's coffin, as fans dollars will go to DG rather than ROH, especially if ROH is being perceived to be stale. It is safe to say that Pearce did not change ROH around, he's driven it into the ground.

We'll have more on this huge story as more news becomes available.

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