2024-11-28 ROH on HonorClub [#92] - REVIEW

Commentary: Ian Riccaboni, Caprice Coleman

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Live TV Viewers: streamed online

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The Malapert Smark Podcast Review System:

🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]

🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]

👍👍 - Loved It! [+2]

👍 - Liked It [+1]

OrangeCassidy 1/2 👍- Kinda Liked It [+0.5]

👊 - Indifferent [0]

👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]

👎👎 - Hated It [-2]

🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]

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10 Angles

Totals for this episode of ROH on HonorClub:

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark 

👍 0.5

👎 5

👊 5

TOTAL SCORE: -4.5

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Angles:

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1) Pre Recorded Chris Jericho Promo After Defeating Ishii on Dynamite

TWO SEGMENTS (1:48)

-Replay: Jericho retaining ROH World Title against Ishii the previous night on Dynamite

-Backstage Segment recorded the previous night during Dynamite taping: Chris Jericho promo

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “How pathetic that the guy who claims to carry the banner of Ring of Honor won’t even bother to show up on the show for even one damn live appearance ever. Can you try to help put this show over for god’s sake?! Honestly they shouldn’t have made him champion. They could pull off some other nice feuds for the title with what they already got on the show. Shibata, Matt Taven, Mark Briscoe, Brian Cage, literally anybody but Jericho.”

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2) Lee Johnson & EJ Nduka Pick Up Tag Team Victory Over Local Talent

ONE SEGMENT (4:28)

-Match Lee Johnson & EJ Nduka vs Anthony Gangone & Cubes... winners: Johnson & Nduka by pinfall... Lee Johnson pinned Gangone

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “They’ve been giving these guys a lotta wins and time to develop but they got nothing going in terms of personality. They have a tag team name, LEEJ. Which I think could use a little hyphenation LeE-J. But god, that ain’t gonna help much. Lol. I don’t know what to say about these guys. They work well enough but if they’re just gonna keep feeding them local talent, they’re not gonna get over. Give ‘em a little feud, maybe against STP or something.”

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3) Queen Aminata Picks Up One-on-One Victory Over Local Talent

ONE SEGMENT (3:16)

-Match: Queen Aminata vs Christina Marie... winner: Aminata by submission

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Useful win for Aminata. If she is to remain a prominent figure in AEW & ROH, then i don’t mind giving h the air time to get wins like this. So no 👎. But not enough for me to say I really liked this in any way.”

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4) MxM Collection Pick Up Solid Tag Team Victory Over Iron Savages

TWO SEGMENTS (10:29)

-Pre Match Segment: Jacked Jameson promo (w/ Boulder & Bronson) on way to the ring

-Match: Boulder & Bronson vs MxM Collection (Madden, Mansour)... winners: MxM Collection by pinfall... Madden pinned Bronson

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I question the booking here. I kinda think Iron Savages are more useful than MxM Collection but if Tony Khan is going to be using MxM Collection continuing forward, I guess they can do with a damn win somewhere. But I woulda found some local talent to beat. Iron Savages actually have a cool look and a decent gimmick. I’m kinda sad to see them job here.”

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5) Matt Taven Pick Up Pure Division Victory Over Josh Woods… Post Match Jaw Jacking Ensues Between Pure Champion Lee Moriarty & Matt Taven

FIVE SEGMENTS (10:15)

-Replay: Undisputed Kingdom saving Beef & JD Drake from post match STP attack last week on ROH… Lee Moriarty was involved in STP’s assuault. Undisputed Kingdom’s Matt Taven is after Moriarty’s title

-Backstage Segment: Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels, Nigel McGuinness

-Pre Match Segment: Mark Sterling promo (w/Woods, Diavari) on way to the ring

-Match: Josh Woods (w/Mark Sterling, Ari Diavari) vs Matt Taven (Pure Rules Match)... winner: Taven by pinfall

-Post Match: ...enter Lee Moriarty

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This was all right. Nothing ground breaking but I think they’ve done a decent enough job setting up Moriarty’s Pure Title Defense against Taven. Gave Taven a couple Pure Division wins. So I think something could come of this match. I’ll keep an eye out for that one hoping it’ll be a boon for modern ROH.”

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6) Athena's Emergency Minion Empowerment Meeting and Athena World Tour Announcement

TWO SEGMENTS (2:46)

-Replay: Backstage segment from this past Saturday's Full Gear Zero Hour Pre Show w/ participants in International Women's Cup Qualifiers for WrestleDynasty

-Backstage Segment: Athena, Lexi 

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I know it’s been a popular opinion that Athena is one of the only positives of modern ROH but honestly not lately. Anything with Lexi Nair as her sidekick has been awful, plus I hate when I see Lexi on AEW shows and make us feel like all this in ROH isn’t even canon because Lexi is just a normal babyface interviewer everywhere but here. So I am not a fan of this Athena promo with Lexi behind her. I really want them to break this up. Billie Starkz with Athena was ok but Lexi I hope will end at some point because this just ain’t working.”

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7) Dutch Disrepects Dustin Rhodes, Flaunting the Cowbell Dustin’s Father Gifted During Righteous Victory Over Beef and JD Drake… Dustin and Sami Try To Confront the Righteous But Righteous Powder Out With Dusty’s Cowbell

TWO SEGMENTS (8:41)

-Match: The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch) vs Beef & JD Drake… winners: The Righteous by pinfall… Dutch pinned JD Drake

-Post Match Afterbirth: ...enter Sami Guevara, Dustin Rhodes

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This feud has been almost the only source of 👍 from me on this show but today’s wasn’t the strongest. I will give it to the idea of Dutch using the cowbell to nag at Dustin Rhodes. Liked the idea of him flaunting it throughout the match against Beef & JD Drake. But the post match with Sami & Dustin confronting the Righteous left something to be desired for me. With all the disrespect towards Dustin and bringing up his late father and all, I expected Dustin to be a little more persistent in trying to get at Dutch, but instead they just let them powder out and jaw jacked. Eh. 1/2 👍.”

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8) AR Fox Picks Up One-On-One Victory Over Dark Order’s John Silver

ONE SEGMENT (7:18)

-Match: AR Fox vs John Silver (w/Reynolds, Uno)... winner: AR Fox by pinfall

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “These guys actually put on a decent match but are any of these guys going to actually get pushed? So it seems like a waste of air time to me.”

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9) Layla Hirsch Challenges Red Velvet To Match At Final Battle For ROH Women’s TV Title

TWO SEGMENTS (0:56)

-Video Package: Layla Hirsch promo

-Announcement: Red Velvet vs Layla Hirsch for TV Title at Final Battle

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Both these two had epic hardcore matches against Diamanté and now they’re gonna face off against each other. It’s a pretty decent TV title matchup. Hopefully they can put on a decent match without hurting themselves. This video package was also a little weak so I’m not handing out any points for this one.”

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10) Conglomeration Pick Up Victory Over GYV & Pat Back in 6-Man Tag Action

ONE SEGMENT (9:09)

-Match: Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zach Gibson) & Pat Buck vs The Congolmeration (Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly & Rocky Romero)... winners: Congolmeration by submission... Buck tapped to O'Reilly

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Man, quite the downfall for Grizzled Young Veterans in AEW/ROH. Debuted at the big All In show at Wembley stepping up to the Young Bucks and now jobbing on ROH. I guess just another start/stop push for Toni Khan. Maybe he just couldn’t figure them in because if they’re willing to job on ROH I assume they’d be willing to do almost anything on AEW tv… Really seems weird to me, though, because they seem to actually be at a high level in the ring and on the mic, having already been through WWE training. So I don’t get this.”

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Other:

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A) Classic ROH: Chris Hero vs Eddie Kingston - ROH Fight Without Honor December 19, 2009