Match-by-match results and television rating of this edition of ROH Television.
Show: ROH Television
Date: April 28 2012
Location: Baltimore MD
Commentary: Kevin Kelly & Nigel McGuinness
Reported By: Jacob Gilbert
TV Rating:
1. Non-title: Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander def. Jay & Mark Briscoe when Alexander pinned Mark.
2. Rhino def. Vinny Marseglia.
3. ROH TV title: Roderick Strong def. Adam Cole due to interference from Truth Martini & Michael Elgin.
We open with a recap of last week's tag title match between the Briscoes and Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team. The champs retain, but Jay paid a price post-match with an ambush by Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin......
1. Non-title: Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander.
Coleman has done some rent-a-jobber work for WWE in the past, but it's been a while since I've seen him. Very even match early on, as the champs don't seem to care about the Code of Honor for this one, and that might be a decision they'll regret later. Mark walked the ropes and hit an elbow drop for 2. Variation on the 3D for 2. Late in the match, Jay was ambushed on the floor by Haas & Benjamin and left lying after a low blow. WGTT then left, and no one was the wiser. Mark is left all alone. Coleman & Alexander finished with a hands-free huracanrana and a top rope splash. Winners: Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander.
Post-match, the victors seem a little confused. This was a proving ground match for them, but they have no idea that Haas & Benjamin gave them a helping hand with bad intentions in mind....
Kevin Kelly finally acknowledged ROH debuting on local television in the Albany NY market. Well, it's been 4 weeks......
2. Rhino (w/Truth Martini) vs. Vinny Marseglia.
Squash. Martini's promo took longer than the match itself. One thing about Martini. He's a fashion victim. He has Don Callis' hair, the Grand Wizard's taste in clothes, and is about as charismatic as a dead tree stump. Rhino, in his first TV match since joining ROH, needed three moves. Clothesline. Belly-to-belly suplex, which looked crisper than it has in the last few years, followed by the Gore. Winner: Rhino.
Kevin Kelly is with Jim Cornette, and this leads to a face-to-face between Davey Richards & Kevin Steen (w/Jimmy Jacobs) headed into Border Wars in 2 weeks. Both men sign a waiver exempting ROH from liability due to injury. The trash talking's soon going to end, to be sure, and I've a feeling a title change is nigh........
3. ROH TV title: Roderick Strong (w/Truth Martini) vs. Adam Cole.
Until last week, I'd only seen Strong once, and that was when he was in TNA, and that wasn't much to go on. I can't see why a man of his stature needs a geek like Martini as a mouthpiece anyway. Cole took the fight to Strong early and often, and there were a ton of near falls on both sides. The difference was Michael Elgin, who faces Cole at Border Wars. He had to stick his nose where it didn't concern him, and that distraction enabled Martini to clock Cole with the Book of Truth, a hardcover probably hallowed out with a weapon hidden inside. Strong capitalizes with the same backbreaker he used on Jay Lethal last week, and retains. Winner: Roderick Strong.
