Match-by-match results and television rating of this edition of ROH Television.
Show: ROH Television
Date: November 1, 2015
Location: San Antonio, TX
Commentary: Kevin Kelly, Nigel McGuinness, Mark Briscoe, Jay Lethal
Reported By: Jacob Gilbert
TV Rating:
1. The Young Bucks def. Silas Young, the Beer City Bruiser, and the Boys.
2. Roderick Strong def. Will Ferrara via submission.
3. Adam Cole def. Kyle O'Reilly & AJ Styles, pinning Styles.
Final episode of the block from San Antonio. Mark Briscoe joins Kevin Kelly & Nigel McGuinness on commentary for the first half.
1. Silas Young & the Beer City Bruiser vs. the Young Bucks.
The Bucks are way over, and easily the faces in this match. The boys are out with Young & Bruiser, sporting shades and wifebeater (tank top) t-shirts, which Kevin says Young thinks is how a real man should look. Yeah, if you're from the wrong side of town. Frustrated by his inability to gain an advantage on the Bucks, Young gets a mic and subs in the boys. Nigel's sitting right there, taking it all in, and lets it go. I call BS. Clear case of Young having jobophobia. The anonymous boys, who apparently are twins, actually give a good accounting here. Kelly mentions that they've trained with Young, and previously with Dalton Castle. Unfortunately, Young gift-wrapped the match with the illegal switch, since he claimed the boys had been contracted to face the Bucks in the first place. Bait & switch mid-match? Did Delirious leave the book with Young? Anyway, a double dose of More Bang For Your Buck ends it.
Winners: The Young Bucks.
Post-match, Young berates the boys, and begins to beat them down. The Bucks made the save. Double superkick to Brusier, but Young, like a coward, bails before eating a double superkick of his own.
Between matches, BJ Whitmer came out demanding the dismissal of Steve Corino. Kelly also brought up Veda Scott filing a "legal action" against ROH. That ain't gonna work.
2. Roderick Strong vs. Will Ferrara.
Showcase match for Strong, who is in line for a TV title shot vs. Jay Lethal. Ironically, Strong, with an assist from Tomasso Ciampa, beat Lethal for the TV title back in 2012, right around the time ROH-TV debuted in my area. Lightning will strike again, but under different circumstances. Ferrara got a couple of hope spots, but then Strong applied the Stronghold. Ferrara tapped.
Winner: Roderick Strong.
Inside ROH looks at Lethal vs. Strong.
3. AJ Styles vs. Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly.
The show began with O'Reilly cutting a promo, mostly on Cole, and saying he has respect for Styles, the former TNA & IWGP champ. The match was the best on the show, as all 3 jockeyed for position. Lethal replaced Briscoe at the desk, sans Truth Martini. The support teams for all three men were sent to the back by Nigel, and only the Kingdom raised a fuss. One of the Bucks actually shook hands with Nigel on the way out.
All three men hit their usual spots. O'Reilly had Styles in a guillotine, but Cole broke that up. O'Reilly put Styles in Armageddon, but when Cole went to break that up, O'Reilly transitioned into a leg lace. The end came when Styles tried to hit the Clash, countering out of a combination triangle choke (Hell's Gate) and Armageddon, but Cole superkicked Styles, and tossed him from the ring. He then hit the brainbuster on the knee, miscalled by Kelly as a neckbreaker on the knee. I'm given to understand this is known as the Cole-ateral.
Winner: Adam Cole.
The Kingdom came down to gang up on Styles and O'Reilly after, but Bobby Fish, Michael Elgin, and the Bucks made the save, and it turned into a pier six brawl to end it.
