Saturday, January 27, 2018

Honor Roll - Ring of Honor recap for January 27, 2018

Punishment Martinez beats Dobbs. After the match, Dalton Castle and The Boys shows up, and Dalton Castle stares down with Punishment Martinez. Martinez tries to punch him, but Castle quickly gets the upper hand and suplexes him out of the ring. Martinez gets on the apron, then gets back down and walks away.

Coast To Coast (LSG and Shaheem Ali) say they will put it all on the line tonight against War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe), and says it is do or die tonight.

Caprice Coleman guests on commentary for the next match.

Coast To Coast (LSG and Shaheem Ali) beat War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) in a well-received match with a schoolboy pin on Raymond Rowe from Shaheem Ali after Ali kicks out of Fallout, giving Coast To Coast an upset win and allowing them to stay together as a tag team. Both teams shake hands after the match, then War Machine raises Coast To Coast's hands.

The Beer City Bruiser says that "The Last Real Man" Silas Young's reign as ROH World Television Champion has inspired him to find a tag team partner to win the ROH World Tag Team Championships with, and tells Brian Milonis that he is "a diamond in a haystack." Milonis says he could not think of a better way to splash into Ring of Honor than with the Bruiser. Bruiser says that the two biggest guys in ROH are now making the biggest tag team.

Bully Ray shows up. He says that Final Battle was his final battle. He says that it is said that before you die, your life flashes before you, and after he lost that night, he felt like his blood was being poured over his face, and he smiled as his career flashed before his eyes; however, he feels like he had a pretty good career. He knew that taking off the boots that are in his hands was the right thing to do, and he put his boots in the center of the ring in his hometown in New York City. He talks about how New York City was where he was born, but as a professional wrestler, he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In October of 1995, in this very building, Bubba Ray Dudley was born, and says that this is the ring, the city and the arena he should leave his boots in. He thanks the fans for everything, and God for thinking about him. He says that he is Bully Ray, and that it has been his honor. He then lays his wrestling boots in the center of the ring, and he is joined by the ROH locker room as the crowd chants "Thank you, Bubba!" Jay Lethal takes the microphone and says he has known him for a long time, and if this is the last time he will see him, he has to get something off his chest: when the locker room heard he was coming to ROH, they did not know what to think as there were some rumors about him, some good, some not so good and some bad ones. When he got here, they had their guard up, but then something amazing happened: Bubba Ray went above and beyond to help everybody in the locker room from the top guys all the way down to the guys starting out at the dojo. He watched him at the end of every Ring of Honor show make himself available to everyone in order to help them without pushing his views on everyone else. He says Bully Ray put the company first, and the best part about it is that he came here by choice and was inspired by what was going on in ROH. Jay Lethal says Bully Ray represents what ROH is all about, and while the locker room has only been around a fraction of the time Bully Ray has, Bully Ray helped everyone, even after doing things in and for the wrestling business that the locker room have only dreamed of. Jay Lethal then goes on to call Bully Ray a legend, and while it pains the locker room to see him go, the door is always open for him, and on behalf of the entire company, he thanks Bully and hugs him.

Deonna Purrazzo, Kelly Klein, Karen Q, Jenny Rose, "The Exotic Goddess Mandy Leon, Sumie Sakai, Brandi Rhodes, "Bonesaw" Jessie Brooks, and some new faces - HZK, Hana Kimura, Kagetsu and Mayu Iwatani - will be competing in the tournament to decide the inaugural ROH Women Of Honor Champion in two weeks starting in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia, TK O'Ryan) guest on commentary with Taven on the commentary headset.

SoCal Uncensored ("The Almighty" Christopher Daniels, "The Heavy Metal Rebel" Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky) beat Bullet Club ("The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes, ""The Villain" Marty Scurll, Hangman" Adam Page).

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