Ring of Honor Wrestling Volume 1: The Best of Episodes 1-100 Review

The best from the first 100 Episodes of the SBG Era!

Ring of Honor Wrestling Volume 1: The Best of Episodes 1-100

Disk 1

ROH on SBG Episode 1 - ROH World Tag Team Titles - Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) vs. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli with Sara Del Rey & Shane Hagadorn): ***1/4

ROH on SBG Episode 2 - ROH World TV Title - El Generico vs. Jay Lethal: ***1/4

ROH on SBG Episode 23 - Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander vs. The Young Bucks: **3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 29 - March Mayhem Finals - Adam Cole vs. Tommaso Ciampa (with The Embassy Ltd.) vs. "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett (with Maria Kanellis & "Brutal" Bob Evans vs. Jay Lethal: ***1/4

ROH on SBG Episode 38 - Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards: ***1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 44 - ROH World Title - Kevin Steen (with Jimmy Jacobs) vs. "No Fear" Mike Mondo: ***1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 45 - ROH World TV Title - Roderick Strong (with Truth Martini) vs. Adam Cole: ***1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 46 - "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett (with Maria Kanellis & "Brutal" Bob Evans) vs. Lance Storm: ***

ROH on SBG Episode 58 - 2012 Survival of the Fittest Finals - Adam Cole vs. Mike Mondo vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jay Lethal vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Davey Richards: ***3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 61 - ROH World TV Title - Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly: ***1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 63 - Davey Richards vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin: ****

Disk 2

ROH on SBG Episode 75 - Top Prospect Tournament Finals - Matt Taven vs. TaDarius Thomas: **1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 75 - Roderick Strong & reDRagon vs. The American Wolves & "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin: ***3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 76 - ROH World Tag Team Titles - If WGTT lose, they must disband - The Briscoes vs. Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team: **3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 79 - Adam Cole vs. Matt Hardy: **3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 81 - ROH World Tag Team Titles - reDRagon vs. The Forever Hooligans: ***1/4

ROH on SBG Episode 85 - Karl "Machine Gun" Anderson vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin: ***1/4

ROH on SBG Episode 85 - ROH World Tag Team Champion Kyle O'Reilly (with Bobby Fish) vs. Davey Richards (with Eddie Edwards): ****

ROH on SBG Episode 88 - Roderick Strong vs. Taiji Ishimori: ***3/4

ROH on SBG Episode 90 - The Briscoes vs. The American Wolves: ***1/2

ROH on SBG Episode 98 - ROH World Tag Team Titles - reDRagon vs. The Forever Hooligans: ***1/2

Overall: 8.5/10 

This is a very interesting set. Disk 1 covers the first sixteen months of the ROH on SBG TV Show, while Disk 2 covers only the first seven months of 2013. Interestingly enough, the DVD Cover advertises mostly the Disk 2 Matches, so perhaps ROH was looking to put most of the Jim Cornette Era behind them. I'd say this was a pretty good compilation of matches. Disk 1 seems to be the more consistent of the two in terms of match quality. The latter half of Disk 1 is especially good, with Adam Cole's TV Title win, Survival of the Fittest 2012, and Richards vs. Elgin being the highlights. Disk 2 is very solid as well. The highlights of that one were definitely the Six-Man Tag from Episode 75, Richards vs. O'Reilly, Strong vs. Ishimori, andThe Forever Hooligans' World Tag Team Title Win. The majority of the matches aren't very long (most are 15 Minutes or less expect for the 2012 Survival of the Fittest Finals), which makes the DVD an easy one to sit through. Once again, a very solid compilation from ROH. Lots of very good wrestling.