ROH Time To Man Up Review

The night before their World Title Match, Bryan Danielson & Samoa Joe face off in separate singles matches. Plus, KENTA & his American Protege MAN UP!

ROH Time to Man Up

Long Island, New York 8/4/06

1.) Bryan Danielson vs. Jack Evans: ***

Weird seeing the World Champ being in the opening match, but it's a non-title match so that's fine. These two met back at Survival of the Fittest 2004 (I believe...) and I heard that match was good so I expected a good match. It did turn out good, with Danielson stretching Jack Evans in ways the human body shouldn't be stretched. Of course, since it was the opener, it was just good, but still enjoyable.

2.) Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal vs. Irish Airborne: ***

How many different partners has Sydal had at this point?? Anyway, this was a pretty decent tag team contest, on par with the opener in my view.

3.) Colt Cabana vs. Claudio Castagnoli: **3/4

This was a fun little match. Nothing Special. The match ends on an exchange of pin-falls, which kind of came out of nowhere. The match was still fun though.

4.) ROH World Tag Team Titles Ultimate Endurance Match - Austin Aries & Roderick Strong vs. Homicide & Ricky Reyes vs. BJ Whitmer & Adam Pearce vs. Jimmy Rave & Sal Rinauro: ***1/4

So if I got the rules right, the first elimination must be by pin-fall, the second by submission, and the third is just two on two for the belts. It was an interesting & decent match. Pearce & Homicide went right after each other (since Pearce helped Cornette beat up Homicide at Death Before Dishonor IV). It comes down to The Rottweilers & Generation Next but Steve Corino comes down & hits Homicide with a roll of quarters, costing him the match. There were several odd points in this match (such as the submission part of it not even mattering because of a DQ) but it was still decent.

After the match Aries talks about how someone stole their belts. He suspects The Briscoes & demands they be returned by the next show.

Steve Corino interrupts a match before it began & calls out Homicide. This leads to Homicide, Pearce & Whitmer all coming out. This was a good way to integrate Corino back into ROH (and in the Cornette/Homicide feud) and set up things for the future.

5.) ROH Pure Title Match - Nigel McGuinness vs. Delirious: ***

This was a good Pure Title Defense. One of Nigel's better ones, in my opinion.

6.) Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. KENTA & Davey Richards: ***3/4

Although this could have been a little better, it was still a very good hard hitting bout. Match of the Night.

7.) AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe: ***1/2

This is the last ROH Match for AJ Styles, as he goes to focus more on TNA. This was a little shorter than I expected, but it was still pretty good. This made Joe look good going into his World Title Match the next night. 

Overall: 7.0/10

This was a step up from the last Long Island show. Although there is nothing must-see on here, it's a good night of wrestling, without a single bad match. I wouldn't go out of your way to get it, but it is still a good ROH show.