Hey there guys and girls. I’m TheCannon, and welcome to my review of the June 3, 2015 edition of Ring of Honor (ROH) Wrestling. I know this is a bit different from my usual Impact reviews, but with ROH debuting on Destination America, I decided to give it a shot. I’ve wanted to watch it for a while but haven’t been able to until now. Now remember that this is the first ROH show I’ve ever watched, meaning I won’t be familiar with any of their storylines or most of their talent. So please ignore any stupidity you see from me not understanding stuff. With that out of the way, let’s get started.

I noticed the show was rated TV-PG, which I thought was odd. Never seen a wrestling show rated that.

Show opens with the Briscoe Brothers hyping up their match against the House of Truth, and they were saying Jay Lethal has been dodging them and something like that. They sounded awful and looked like rejects from Mountain Monsters. I already hate them.

The announcers (Kevin Kelly & Steve Corino I think) hype up a match for the next PPV with Jay Lethal vs. Jay Briscoe in the “biggest match in ROH history”... okay. That’s kinda sad, but whatever. They also mention that tonight will include the Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark) vs. the House of Truth (Jay Lethal & some other guy) and BJ Whitmer vs. Moose.

Now, before we go further, let’s talk about the lighting and overall production values of this show. They were really bad. The lighting reminded me of the black hole TNA had at some of their earlier shows this year, only the arena is so small that the lighting in the ring still slightly affects the crowd and it just looked bad & cheap. It looked like it was filmed with night vision goggles. The whole show just looked awful.

Match #1 - Kushida vs. Will Ferrara

They show a little graphic for both guys before the match begins with info like their height, weight, finisher, & stuff like that, which I thought was a nice touch.

This match did not impress me at all. I wouldn’t call it a terrible match, but I didn’t see anything good either. Just very forgetting. Kushida wins after some sort of submission.

Winner via submission: Kushida

Christopher Daniels & Kazarian come down, apparently being called The Addiction now. I’m still calling them Bad Influence. Kazarian says something about another team (I missed who because the mic didn’t pick it up properly) wanting a shot at their World Tag Team Championships of the World, which I liked hearing since it reminded me of their TNA run. They say that if the other team want a shot at the belts, then they can get a shot next week and only next week as they walk away. I see Kazarian has lost all his personality since leaving TNA.

Match #2 - Silas Young vs. Watanabe

Another forgettable match. I can’t remember any moments in the match other than one moment with a suplex outside the ring. Silas Young wins, something I didn’t even remember until I looked up results online when trying to write this. So yeah, really forgettable.

Winner via something: Silas Young

BJ Whitmer w/some people vs. Moose w/some people

Never told us who their managers were, but Moose was accompanied by some redhead with glasses who was pretty hot. The highlight of the show so far.

BJ gets the mic and says that he could wrestle Moose tonight and wipe the floor with him and end his winning streak, and says more stuff about letting someone else do it and prove they belong in ROH and is the future of ROH. He then looks to the other guy he came out with and says he’s facing Moose, who’s apparently the son of Steve Corino, but I never got his first name. Colby I think? I’m not sure.

Match #3 - Moose w/some people vs. Colby (?) Corino

Squash match, and not even an entertaining one like classic Goldberg matches could be. Moose wins. Do you care?

Winner via pinfall: Moose

To be fair, Moose did have a good look and decent entrance, so he might be alright. Hard to tell from a match like this.

Backstage Jay Lethal walks up to some guy and talks about facing the Briscoes tonight. What stood out about this scene is that the background had what looked like Ryder Renter trucks, but they were blurred out. There was also a Chevrolet Impala that they blurred out a bit. Why? This makes you look bad and cheap. But given the rest of the show, they already had this issue. Why couldn’t they just film this scene elsewhere?

Match #4 - House of Truth (Shane Diesel & Donovan Dijak) w/Jay Lethal vs. The Briscoes (Jay & Mark Briscoe)

This was supposed to be Lethal & Jijak against the Briscoes, but someone made a call to get Lethal out of the match. I was actually looking forward to seeing Lethal, so that sucks. We did get him on the announce table though, which was enjoyable.

What did Mark do to this pants!?! It looks like cut off the bottom of the legs and then took scissors to cut straight lines up all around. It looks like he had to climb over a barbed wire fence to get into the building.

The match... what am I supposed to say at this point? It was the best match of the night, but still wasn’t that great or memorable. I’ve heard how great the Briscoes are, but I wasn’t hugely impressed. Maybe with better opponets they’d be better, but I wasn’t impressed. Brisoces win after Jay pins a guy.

Winners via pinfall: The Briscoes

Overall Impressions:

The show was only an hour. That’s the only positive I can say. This show wasn’t offensively bad or anything, but it had forgettable matches, bad promos, & awful production values. While watching it, all I could think is that I’d much rather be watching an episode of Raw, and it’s pretty impressive to get that reaction from me. I’ll give ROH another shot next week, but this was just an awful first impression. Not a show I recommend checking out at all.

Anyway, that’s it for the review and I hope you enjoyed it. Impact review should be up in the next hour or so, so see you then.