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The Undercard
Honestly, the action was solid, but nothing on this show other than the Round Robin Challenge mattered at all, so I’ll just kind of blow through the undercard real quick here:
-Da Hit Squad defeated The Towel Boy & Prince Nana
-Joey Matthews & Christian York defeated CW Anderson & Elax
-Xavier defeated James Maritato
-The Natural Born Sinners defeated The Boogie Knights
-Chris Marvel and Paul London fought to a no contest (This was the infamous match where, after all of about a minute, Marvel went for a dive to the floor and broke his ankle when he came down. The match was immediately stopped, and Marvel’s career was more or less over after this)
-Spanky defeated Jay Briscoe (Mark Briscoe, who was still to young to wrestle in Pennsylvania, gave Jay a hard time over the loss on their way to the back. This began a months long build where Mark would constantly run Jay down for losing matches, but Jay wasn’t legally able to get Mark in the ring and make him put his money where his mouth was)
-The SAT defeated Amazing Red & Brian XL and Divine Storm (Red and XL began arguing and got into a shoving match after the match, beginning the build to XL leaving Whipwreck’s crew and starting Special K)
The Important Stuff
-Christopher Daniels defeated Bryan Danielson in the first match of the Round Robin Challenge
Daniels had said that it took both Danielson and Low Ki to beat him in the main event of the first show, and that he could beat each of them in the same night if it was singles matches. He talked big, but Daniels started off doing a good job of backing up his mouth, defeating American Dragon in the opening match of the show. Daniels viciously worked over Dragon’s neck throughout the match, severely limiting Danielson’s ability to pull off some of his trademark moves like Cattle Mutilation. Daniels actually managed to force Danielson to tap out, hitting the Last Rites and then immediately locking Danielson in a nasty-looking crossface for the win. In an interesting break of continuity, Daniels ignored his own principle and shook Danielson’s hand after the match. ROH pretended like that never happened and officially recognized Daniels shaking Claudio Castagnoli’s hand in 2006 as the first time he adhered to the Code of Honor.
-Low Ki defeated Christopher Daniels in the second match of the Round Robin Challenge
Daniels came into the second match in the Round Robin Challenge up 1-0, and used the same strategy here that led him to victory over Danielson: working over the neck of Low Ki. Even though Daniels came in with a solid game plan and controlled most of the match, having wrestled once already had taken something out of him. He hit the Angel’s Wings, but took an extra couple of seconds to make a cover and was too tired to even hook a leg, allowing Low Ki to kick out. Low Ki took advantage of the opening and countered Last Rites to a Dragon Sleeper to force Daniels to tap out. Daniels finishes with a 1-1 record, and Low Ki is 1-0 going into the final match against Bryan Danielson.
-Bryan Danielson defeated Low Ki in the final match of the Round Robin Challenge
Ken Shamrock is once again refereeing the main event, and his constant presence makes it seem like there was some plan to have him wrestle eventually, but that obviously never came to pass. Low Ki and Danielson proceeded to have a really stiff main event, alternating between hard strikes and attempts at submission holds. Low Ki got a bit of an advantage and pummeled Danielson with kicks to the head, but he was too spent to follow up, and Danielson regained enough presence of mind to counter a Tidal Krush to a Regalplex, and then made Low Ki pass out in the Cattle Mutilation to earn the hard fought win. Great match, they went over half an hour and actually topped the previous month’s main event in my opinion.
The Round Robin Challenge gave us some great action, but all three men ended with a 1-1 record. Nothing ended up getting settled, and the score would have to be sorted out at a later date.
The Bottom Line
Nothing else on this show really mattered other than the Round Robin Challenge matches, but those matches alone easily took up half the show, and were so good that they’re worth the price of the DVD by themselves. Thumbs up for this one, and ROH would be back soon as they bid a fond farewell to Eddie Guerrero at A Night Of Appreciation.
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