Frankie Kazarian def. Cedric Alexander with the Unprettier. A good opening match that made Kaz look good and even in defeat made Cedric look strong. Kaz hasn't had many singles matches since joining ROH but the ones he has had hes looked really good in. Daniels on commentary was also a welcome addition.
Donovan Dijak def. Jake Dirden with a Burning Hammer turned into a GTS. Yup, a BURNING HAMMER turned into a GO TO SLEEP. Dijak looked really good, these are both big men too, Dirden's 6'8 and Dijak is 6'7. Dirden's wrestled for NOAH in Japan, Dijak was trained by Hanson. The Decade were out to watch on the aisle and looked really impressed by Dijak.
A CHIKARA advertisement on an ROH show. It was weird, especially weird since it was promoting a CHIKARA show in Philly, but ROH is only in one market in Philly. They are in three markets in Pittsburgh though so maybe that was the intention.
A vignette of a shadow playing over clips of different ROH stars plays and the shadow says, "we have been watching, we are coming, we will bring change". I have no idea who this is, could be a CHIKARA linked thing, could be a totally new stable. I'd love if it was a new stable formed of guys off the indies people would recognize.
ALBERTO EL PATRON makes his ROH debut. He's crazy pumped, jumps into the crowd and the fans don't really let him speak for a couple of minutes, lots of "Ci!", "Alberto" and "Él Patron" chants. Alberto says that somebody told him he wouldn't be able to wrestle for one year, but he's right here in Nashville, Tennessee and he's in ROH because the best wrestlers in the world come to ROH, and to be the best you have to beat the best. Alberto says, "I AM NOT A FUCKING SPORTS ENTERTAINER, I AM A WRESTLER!" He calls the ROH World Championship the most respected title in wrestling today, and he says that he knows Jay Briscoe is the man in ROH, so he calls out Jay Briscoe, but instead gets Jay Lethal.
Lethal feels disrespected by what Alberto says and tells him to apologize. Alberto says he didn't mean to disrespect him but the way he and the fans see if, Briscoe's the ROH World Champion which makes Briscoe the man. Lethal tells him that he's the man in ROH, the ROH World TV title is the tit;e in wrestling and that if he doesn't apologize that his first night in ROH will be his last. Alberto says if Lethal has the, "cahones, perro", that in Mexico they have a saying, "lets dance, perreta", and challenges Lethal. It looks like they're going to do it but Truth Martini stops Lethal.
Truth says that unlike other places, in ROH Alberto has to climb his way to the top, so if he wants to face Jay Lethal, he'll have to earn it. Bit of a shot at the rumors TNA wanted to put the World title on him?
We come back from commercial break and Nigel McGuinness comes out to address what happened in last weeks main event. Nigel says that hes made a decision and calls out Jay Briscoe. Briscoe comes out and tells Nigel that since they'll be in Vegas and Vegas is a gambling city and he's a gambling man, he'll face all three of them. He tells Nigel to take some time to make his decision, but while he's thinking, he tells the sound guy to hit The Kingdom's music so he can, "whoop that mother f#cker Matt Taven's ass!"
Jay Briscoe def. Matt Taven w/ The Kingdom to retain the ROH World Championship. A pretty good main event that the crowd was into. Maria and Bennett were constantly interfering in the match whenever Briscoe for the advantage but Jay still picked up the win with the Jay Driller.
After the match Bennett attacks Briscoe from behind and Maria tells Jay that he hasn't got the balls to fight a woman. Mark Briscoe makes the save and tells The Kingdom that he's had enough. He says that next weeks show will start with The Briscoes vs. The Kingdom and that The Kingdom will fall.
