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WEEKLY OVERVIEW – ROH: Latest news, live event results, schedule of live events, next PPV line-up, noteworthy social media posts, closing commentary on Cody & Bucks

By Tyler Sage, PWTorch Specialist

October 12, 2018

ROH ring (photo credit Wade Keller © PWTorch)
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The following is the latest in a new series of articles exclusively at PWTorch.com which will help put in perspective major wrestling promotions with weekly overviews with a look at developments, results, future line-ups, social media activity, interviews, plus some a timely commentary at the end. We will be featuring similar features on other promotions each week and each will be updated weekly – WWE, NXT, ROH, Impact, and New Japan.

•Top Stories of the Week

-We are coming off ROH’s latest pay-per-view event Death Before Dishonor, which took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday Sept. 29, 2018. The event had featured a number of championship matches, as well as the injection of New Japan talent in a ten-man tag match.

Death Before Dishonor did not feature any title changes on the night of the event. However, the next night during a television taping Jeff Cobb defeated Punishment Martinez to become the new ROH World Television Champion. This is Cobb’s first reign as Television Champion, as well as his first championship with the promotion. Punishment Martinez’s first reign as Television Champion lasted 105 days, during this time he defended the title 4 times.

-The next pay-per-view event Glory for Honor XVI takes place only two weeks after the previous PPV event. The ROH World Championship will be defended by Jay Lethal against his bitter rival SIlas Young. Lethal and Young will not have much TV time in order to push this angle further. As of yet, not much has been made except for media on the official website ROHwrestling.com.

-On the latest episode of Being The Elite. Cody Rhodes, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson discussed that their current exclusive contracts with ROH are up at the end of the year. The three briefly discussed the topic and moved on with the rest of the episode. In the end an countdown clock was introduced, the clock is assumed to be a countdown to when they are official free agents.

-On the subject of contract talks, it was reported by multiple outlets that ROH-signed talent Adam Page was offered a contract by WWE. While there are conflicting reports that have not been substantiated with named sources, it appears that Page has not completely turned down an offer by WWE. The latest reports are that Page is simply requesting more time to make a decision. The expiration of Page’s as well as other members of the Bullet Club’s contract could be Page’s reason to wait on making a decision.

•Live Event Results

Death Before Dishonor XVI Originally aired on 9/28/18

  1. Kenny King defeated Jushin Liger at 12:06.

  2. ROH World Tag Team Championship Match: The Briscoes (c) defeated S.C.U (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian w/Scorpio Sky) at 17:41.

  3. WOH Championship Match: Sumie Sakai (c) defeated Tenille Dashwood at 12:34.

  4. ROH World Television Championship Match:  Punishment Martinez (c) defeated Chris Saban at 8:00.

  5. Bully Ray & Silas Young defeated Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana at 13:35.

  6. Bullet Club (Cody & Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson & Hangman Page & Marty Scurll w/Brandi Rhodes) defeated CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Chuckie T & Barreta & Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero) at 21:17.

  7. ROH World Championship Match: Jay Lethal (c) defeated Will Ospreay at 22:46.

Read our full detailed report on the event HERE.

•Upcoming Major Show Line-up: Glory by Honor XVI

ROH is Glory By Honor XVI
October 12, 2018 (8 p.m.)
Baltimore, Md. at UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Md.

  1. ROH World Championship Match: Jay Lethal (c) vs. Silas Young

  2. ROH World Six-Man Tag-Team Championship Match: Bullet Club (Cody & Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) (c) vs. SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky)

  3. Marty Scurll vs. Shane “Hurricane” Helms

  4. Hangman Page vs. Shane Taylor

  5. The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) vs. The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser and Brian Milonas)

  6. Bully Ray vs. Jonathan Gresham

  7. Jeff Cobb vs. Eli Isom

  8. Kenny King & Flip Gordon vs. The Kingdom (TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marsegila)

Check to ROHWrestling.com for the updated card information.

•Upcoming Events

•Glory By Honor XVI (PPV Event) 10/12/18 in Baltimore, Md. at the UMBC Event Center. (See above for the announced card.)

•Glory By Honor (TV Taping) 10/14/18 in Philadelphia, Pa. at the 2300 Arena. (Performers signed to appear. Jay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Shane Helms, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, and Shane Taylor.)

•Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager 10/27/18 on International Waters. (A Sea of Honor tournament that will give the winner a future ROH World Title shot.)

•Steel City Excellence (TV Taping) 11/3/18 in Pittsburgh, Pa. at Stage AE. (Performers signed to appear. Jay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, and Shane Taylor.

•Survival of the Fittest (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 11/4/18 in Columbus, Ohio at Express Live. (The event will feature a Survival of the Fittest tournament, in which the winner will receive a future ROH World Title shot. Performers signed to appear. Jay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, and Shane Taylor.)

•Global Wars: Lewiston (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 11/7/18 in Lewiston, Mass. at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. (This is the now Annual live tour in which ROH and New Japan talent compete in live events. Performers signed to appear ay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, Shane Taylor, and TBA New Japan Talent.)

•Global Wars: Lowell (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 11/8/18 in Lowell, Mass. at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. (This is the now Annual live tour in which ROH and New Japan talent compete in live events. Performers signed to appear ay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, Shane Taylor, and TBA New Japan Talent.)

•Global Wars: Buffalo (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 11/9/18 in Buffalo, N.Y. at the Buffalo Riverworks. (This is the now Annual live tour in which ROH and New Japan talent compete in live events. Performers signed to appear ay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, Shane Taylor, and TBA New Japan Talent.)

•Global Wars: Toronto (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 11/11/18 in Toronto, Ont. at the Mattamy Athletic Centre. (This is the now Annual live tour in which ROH and New Japan talent compete in live events. Performers signed to appear ay Lethal, Cody, The Young Bucks, The Briscoes, Jeff Cobb, Sumie Sakai, Marty Scurll, Adam Page, S.C.U, Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Chris Saban, Shane Taylor, and TBA New Japan Talent.)

•Final Battle (Pay-Per-View Event) 12/14/18 in New York, N.Y. at the Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom.

•Saturday Night At Center Stage (TV Tapping) 1/12/19 in Atlanta, Ga. at Center Stage.

•Honor Reigns Supreme (Live event streamed on HonorClub) 1/13/19 in Concord, N.C. at Cabarrus Arena.

•G1 Supercard (PPV Event) 4/6/19 in New York, N.Y. at Madison Square Garden.

All current live events are located on ROHWrestling.com

•Latest TV Highlights: 10/7 ROH Wrestling

5)   10/7/18 ROH TV Results. From Philadelphia, Pa. airing on Sinclair Networks and ROHWrestling.com. You can see a full report at PWTorch.com

  1. Coast 2 Coast (Shaheem Ali & LSG) defeated The Kingdom (TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marsegila) (12:04)

  2. Shane “Hurricane” Helms defeated Marty Scurll (12:27)

  3. Cheeseburger defeated Will Ferrara (10:33)

•ROH in the Media

-Cody appeared on the ever popular “Ross Report,” released Sept. 26. The interview with Cody begins at the 37:23 mark. Cody was on to promote the NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed in Long Beach, Calif. Ross went on to discuss Cody’s NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship and how that would affect him appearing for events put on by New Japan.

-The Young Bucks appeared on Booker T’s podcast “Heated Conversations,” which was released on Sept. 28. The show starts with Booker explaining why he had heat with the Bucks after their first interaction. The conversation than leads to the Bucks discussing how Booker then helped them get over when there were nobodies. The group go on to talk about All In and the story of why Nick Jackson almost didn’t wrestle at All In. The other noteworthy discussion focuses on the speculation if All In 2 will happen.

•Social Media Scene

Below are this week’s funny, weird, and controversial social media posts from ROH personalities.

Everyone needs a Dalton Castle dad jokes:

New Young Bucks merch alert!

Silas Young’s Promo to sell his match with Jay Lethal on Friday:

John Mayer Marking out with S.C.U:

https://twitter.com/ScorpioSky/status/1049025762919993345

The Infamous Young Bucks countdown clock:

Chuckie T with a standard Chuckie T tweet:

•Closing Commentary

-Ring of Honor is at a crossroads, and no I am not making a cute reference to Cody’s finisher. ROH is arguably as popular as it has ever been. For as long as the promotion has been around it has been a haven for hardcore fans of wrestling, those who can’t support the machine that is WWE. ROH champion after champion have gone on to financially greener pastures since the inception of the company.

ROH’s most popular wrestlers have an active bit on their weekly YouTube show about when they will be free agents. Is this a joke to try to work people like me who write recaps on the internet? Is this a great marketing campaign for an already powerful brand? Is this pent up resentment that only one member of the Bullet Club has been ROH Champion? No matter the reason, ROH is on an upward trajectory at the moment. But, If it’s five most popular performers leave the promotion within the next calendar year, it won’t matter what the countdown clock meant. It will mean it will be a long, long time before the company can sell out Madison Square Garden again.

Do I think that the Bullet Club will sign WWE contracts and have a run in at WrestleMania 35 to prevent Roman Reigns from retaining the WWE Universal Championship? No, no I do not. However, I am saying that if I were in upper management at ROH I would focus on placing its most popular performers in more prominent roles in all aspects of the company.

NOW CHECK OUT THE PREVIOUS OVERVIEW REPORT: WEEKLY OVERVIEW – NXT: Latest updates on injuries, live event results, schedule of live events, next Takeover, noteworthy social media posts, closing commentary

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