The Official ROH Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by borman_48

It just finished up. A few burps in the stream today as well as they "lost power" for about 20 minutes and lost the entire O'Rielly/Cole match. Main Event was worth the money though. Good wrestling, even though the vast majority of the show came off amatuer with the production of it.

When did the second ANX/Young Bucks match happen? I was watching the replay earlier but had problems with my internet during the Lethal/Roderick match and wasn't able to finish. Did they squeeze it in in between the TV and World title matches, or did I miss something?

[borman_48]

Originally Posted by The Final Countdown

When did the second ANX/Young Bucks match happen? I was watching the replay earlier but had problems with my internet during the Lethal/Roderick match and wasn't able to finish. Did they squeeze it in in between the TV and World title matches, or did I miss something?

They came back from intermission with it. I think it cut out a bit of the ending of it too, because I dont remember the ending.

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Originally Posted by borman_48

They came back from intermission with it. I think it cut out a bit of the ending of it too, because I dont remember the ending.

...now that I think about it, I don't think there even was an intermission on the replay.

The replay feed cut out during TJP/Fire Ant, and came back in the middle of Bennett cutting a promo. I guess more was missing than I thought.

[borman_48]

Originally Posted by The Final Countdown

...now that I think about it, I don't think there even was an intermission on the replay.

The replay feed cut out during TJP/Fire Ant, and came back in the middle of Bennett cutting a promo. I guess more was missing than I thought.

Wow, that does suck. I got the stream back in time to hear the announcement of gong to intermission, and got about the first half of the street fight or so. Then came back in time to catch the end of Bennett's speil. They probably took that bit of the street fight out to avoid everything looking weird, and salvage some footage hopefully. Or something.

[Self]

I really hope they sort this out for the replays. I really want to see the Elgin/Richards match, but I'm not paying for a bad overall product.

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I finally watched the Richards/Elgin match. Absolutely blown away. It was easily my favorite ROH match since Danielson left.

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ROH will be back on iPPV with Border Wars in Toronto on May 12th. The main event is already official, but I guess it will be "announced" on their TV show, so I won't spoil it here.

The real reason I'm posting this is that Kevin Kelly confirmed on his Twitter that the show won't be broadcast through GoFightLive. They're still finalizing the details, but for those of us who were frustrated with GFL's handling of Showdown in the Sun (and really, who wasn't?), this is welcome news.

[guyver3]

if it's not through GFL and with the main event I'm tempted to give them another try depends how the rest of the card shapes up if it is indeed as awesome as they're hyping up.

[Teh_Showtime]

So I hear meltzer gave Davey and Elgin 5*...

Haven't watched much ROH since the summer but that intrigued me. Heard it was worth watching prior to seeing it was a five star match (allegedly)

[BHK1978]

Now that I get to watch ROH on a weekly basis I have a question about something minor. Now I know that Prince Nana is the leader of the Embassy and that Tommaso Ciampa is the wrestler of the group. What I want to know is who in the heck are the other people in the group and why are they there backstory wise. To me none of them seem to serve any kind of purpose.

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Originally Posted by BHK1978

Now that I get to watch ROH on a weekly basis I have a question about something minor. Now I know that Prince Nana is the leader of the Embassy and that Tommaso Ciampa is the wrestler of the group. What I want to know is who in the heck are the other people in the group and why are they there backstory wise. To me none of them seem to serve any kind of purpose.

Ernesto Osiris (the short bald dude) is basically just a manservant. He's the only carryover (aside from Nana, of course) from the HDNet-era Embassy.

RD Evans (the guy who wears the turtleneck) was brought in by Nana as a financial advisor. He later brokered a deal with new "investors" who pumped more money into The Embassy (and renamed the group Embassy Limited.) This change was seemingly made to shift the focus away from Nana (who had always been the focal point of The Embassy) and onto Ciampa.

Mia Yim was brought in by Nana as his "princess"/eye candy. I haven't seen her recently though, so she may be out.

[TakerNGN74]

I agree with BHK in regards to the fact that the people that he mentioned (Ernesto Osiris, and RD Evans) are pretty much pointless. The focus has always been on Prince Nana and more recently Tommaso Ciampa who when I first saw him wrestle I knew he had that "It" factor (at least in my opinion) and since I have been watching his matches has become my favoriote wrestler in ROH.

but yeah back to the origional point Ernesto and RD seem pointless and the chick in the group seems even more pointless and to me it just takes the focus away from the people that should be focused on (Ciampa and Nana).

[BHK1978]

Originally Posted by The Final Countdown

Ernesto Osiris (the short bald dude) is basically just a manservant. He's the only carryover (aside from Nana, of course) from the HDNet-era Embassy.

RD Evans (the guy who wears the turtleneck) was brought in by Nana as a financial advisor. He later brokered a deal with new "investors" who pumped more money into The Embassy (and renamed the group Embassy Limited.) This change was seemingly made to shift the focus away from Nana (who had always been the focal point of The Embassy) and onto Ciampa.

Mia Yim was brought in by Nana as his "princess"/eye candy. I haven't seen her recently though, so she may be out.

Thank you for clearing that up, I know it is a minor thing but it was something I needed to know.

When I went to an ROH show last year my drunk friend kept yelling at Mia Yim you're a tranny. We kept on telling him to stop but he would not, the thing is he yelled the same thing to Truth Martini so he didn't know what the heck he was saying.

[Jaysin]

I finally get to watch Showdown in the Sun tomorrow and it will be the first ROH show I've watched since the HDnet days.

I absolutely hated Mike Bennett. I remember him being awful, but he faces one of my all time favorites at that show. Has he gotten any better? I'd like to know what I'm getting into.

[borman_48]

Originally Posted by Jaysin

I finally get to watch Showdown in the Sun tomorrow and it will be the first ROH show I've watched since the HDnet days.

I absolutely hated Mike Bennett. I remember him being awful, but he faces one of my all time favorites at that show. Has he gotten any better? I'd like to know what I'm getting into.

I never really had a problem with Bennett, so I may not be the best to comment, but the match with Storm was solid. Bennett hasn't really made marked improvements, but it seems like his heat has gone from "You can't wrestle" heat to the useful kind of heat, or at least it seemed that way at the last couple iPPVs. I guess he may have, and I just don't see it.