ROH The Bitter End Review

The Fight Without Honor returns as Homicide & Steve Corino look to settle their rivalry once and for all...

ROH The Bitter End

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11/4/06

1.) Christopher Daniels vs. Matt Cross: ***

This was a VERY good opening contest. Daniels is one of those guys who can make his opponents looked good, and Matt Cross looking freaking awesome in this match. A very entertaining opener. After the match, The Kings of Wrestling attack Daniels, even striking Allison Danger! Roderick Strong, Austin Aries & Matt Sydal come out & chase the Kings off.

Jim Cornette & Shane Hagadorn come out and talk about the Main Event. This leads to The Rottweilers & Konnan (who is a part of LAX in TNA with Homicide & Hernandez) coming out. Cornette then goes into Vince McMahon mode and stacks the deck against Homicide, saying that Homicide will get DQ'ed if he cheats, has to pin Corino for a 10 Count, and that Hagadorn will be referee. Konnan then complains about Ricky Reyes not getting used because he's Cuban, but Cornette says he's not used because he sucks, and sets up the next match.

2.) Ricky Reyes vs. Shane Hagadorn: *

Reyes pretty much kills Hagadorn. Nobody Cares.....NEXT!!

3.) Four Corner Survival: BJ Whitmer vs. Colt Cabana vs. Pelle Primeau vs. Tank Toland: **3/4

Here we have a Four-Corner Survival with a unique array of opponents. This wasn't the best match, but it was fairly decent. Primeau gets a huge upset win and does some crowd surfing to celebrate.

4.) Bryan Danielson & Jimmy Rave vs. Nigel McGuinness & Samoa Joe: ***1/4

This was a good tag team match. Nigel really shined here, and Rave & Danielson looked like they were a regular tag team. After the match Rave freaks out after having toilet paper thrown out him and Nigel basically calls him a joke.

Jim Cornette comes out with The Briscoes and says that since Hagadorn was injured by Reyes earlier, he's canceling the Main Event and fires Homicide. Konnan and The Rottweilers come back out and Konnan announces he had a meeting with ROH officials and they said ROH is about the people and asked the crowd if Cornette or Homicide should stay. The crowd chooses Homicide, who then lets Cornette know that he's fired. Cornette then gets dragged out by Security. This is certainly an interesting dynamic. Cornette is a heel here with Homicide & Konnan as faces, but in TNA the roles are completely reversed. These segments overall were just there. The firing of Cornette could have been handled better in my opinion.

5.) Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Davey Richards & Delirious: ***

The ROH Tag Team Whore of 2006 strikes again!! This was another good tag team encounter, except for freaking Bobby Cruise telling someone to move their car on the microphone DURING THE MATCH!! So Bush League..

6.) ROH World Tag Team Titles - Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong: ***

Aries & Strong get their rematch here against the Champs after losing the titles in September. This under delivered a little bit in my view. The match was good, but nothing special. Aries getting DQ'ed after using Claudio's Briefcase didn't help.

7.) KENTA vs. Matt Sydal: ****

This is KENTA's last ROH match of 2006, and he goes out in style. He & Sydal had a very good match here. The Match of the Night.

Afterwords KENTA thanks the ROH fans, leading to Samoa Joe coming out. He compliments KENTA on his ROH success and wants him to take a message back to NOAH for him, and slaps KENTA in the face, which leads to a brawl that needs to be broken up. Afterwords KENTA thanks the ROH fans again before leaving.

8.) Fight Without Honor - Homicide vs. Steve Corino: **1/2

I was really looking forward to this, but it turned out to be a letdown. I usually enjoyed these Hardcore Brawls from ROH, and although it was decent. It was just really lacking in fire & intensity. It went WAY to long and just dragged at parts. Homicide wins, and afterwards decides that since he won the feud, he want's to shave Corino's head. Corino calls Homicide one of the toughest guys he's ever faced, and starts to shave his own head, with Homicide finishing the job.

Overall: 6.75/10

This show was the true definition of a mixed-bag. You did have good stuff on here, like the opener, the Rave/Danielson vs. Joe/McGuinness tag & the KENTA match. All the other matches were just there, and the Main Event, which should have been a great end to the feud, totally under-delivered. The weird way the Cornette firing was handled didn't help matters.