last week's ROH on honor club had 9 matches, 5 of those women's matches. out of the 10 women's division wrestlers competing, 3 of them are black, which includes the 2 women in the main event.
total wrestling time (bell to bell) on this 1hr47m show, according to cagematch, is 1hr13m, or 73:17 mm:ss total. 45:52 of that is from the women's matches. so 63% of this show is women's wrestling. that's not counting the women's promos (billie, taya, aminata), the video packages for the main event title match (nyla vs athena) or the women's tournament, or the clip of queen aminata's sit-down interview with renee available in full on youtube.
I was watching NJPW NJRiot - great matches and all, please have more tours around the world, but let's get to the meat and potatoes:
I jumped from my seat during the Jack Perry vs Shota Umino match because Jack did the UNPRETTIER - that was Christian Cage's move. I know everyone was talking about CM Punk's move the GTS or whatever I don't give a shite, but I saw that Unprettier, and I was like... can Christian appear in NJPW? He doesn't have to fight, just sits amongst the audience, smirking, watching Jack, and then the young man notices him and freaks out.
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The match between Matt Riddle and Zack Sabre Jr... hoo-boy, that wasn't good. It wasn't bad, but I was like... they could do better than this. What the hell was this... Like, NOBODY CARED about this match. I was happy though that the crowd and the fans were behind Zack all the way, even I could see that ZSJ was jetlagged and definitely needed a stiff drink. Good performance from Zack, as always, and I am not being biased or anything. But Riddle... yiiissshh... Glad he lost, please get lost, Zack won, and all is well in the world now. But Zack seriously needs a better rival because Riddle is just not even at the top of the chain. Blergh. In the end, Zack was talking to the audience and being his charming and funny self.
🎶He’s a rebel🎶: a non-comprehensive fanvid of Bryan Danielson’s “I have till five” moments, set to The Crystals with Bonus Samoa Joe (1:22)
Bonus: a scaled down video edit which contains each time where you can (mostly) hear him say “I have till 5” (the sound isn’t super clear in every clip, so I had to pick and choose which parts were audible in the fanvid) Watch on YouTube:
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eta: And a longer version updated version
Want another Bryan-centric fanvid? I got you (and his legs) covered here
Rewatching the ROH video of Billie and Athena’s full story and im getting so emotional I wanna cry I love them so much. (One day I’ll write out the entire ship idea of Athena being unable to admit to liking people and why she doesnt let anyone get close to her and sabotages her chances everytime its sad and heartbreaky) omg the way Athena has put Billie under her ring while simultaneously carrying not only the women’s division of roh but also all of roh cause shes so fucking incredible. Like I loved her in wwe and she was great in aew but roh is such a perfect fit im just. Im legit fucking emotional. And watching Billie grow watching her moves become cleaner and crisper. Watching her character develop and watching as her promos have fucking grown just Omg. Im sad for the break up idk if I believe Billie will lose tonight but im excited to see more of this story and no matter what im so grateful to have had them at all.