ROH TV Workrate Report: 11/29/10

Just noticed a month ago that I get HDNet now, so figured I would check out the current ROH product.

Homicide wants BLOOD from the Necro Boootcher! Violence is coming! Carlos Colon vs. Abby! He's going to be more crazier than EVA!

Corino is on the stick and his shirt is GREAT with a bloody El Generico mask on top of a folding chair, dripping blood down the legs of the chair. Great, great shirt. Steen is going CRAZY (Steen doesn't do "crazy" very well, cutting shitty Horatio promos on Generico's mask and doing lame kooky stuff like licking steel cages) and that Generico is out of control (cut to Generico looking really non-threatening with his mask inside out making growly faces). Generico is OUT and he is PISSED and Corino offers to give him a free pass and avoid an assbeating if he gives him his mask, but Generico takes his shirt off and THROWS it at Corino and silently declines with a SLAP!!

1. And we're on, and Corino laces right into him on the outside with great right hands, then we roll back into the ring and Generico wins with a small package. Ohhhh burn that's disappointing. Generico continues to brood and make statements and be REAL dark, and Corino leans way into the yakuza kick and stumbles down to a knee, selling it really well. Prazak working heel is pretty fucking unbearable on commentary.

I'm excited about Papa Briscoe getting his hand on Shane Hagadorn.

And now the Prodigy is out without the Prodigette but I have no idea who this guy is. Brutal Bob is a really crummy Burgess Meredith and this is the least captivating shit ever.

Lots of Michael Buble ads. Moms are moist everywhere.

2. Rhett Titus vs. John Davis is on the way after the break! And they run through some listless and none-too convincing matwork. We run ropes, we do Edge offense, Davis hits an alright powerslam and more Edge-y stuff and then Rhett Titus hits the finish which is somehow a worse version of The Play of the Day. It's like Titus saw Elix Skipper and ran a workshop on "How to be worse than Elix Skipper". Man this wasn't good.

We have a Davey Richards promo that might be a SHOOT because he's SERIOUS and he's getting that belt! The American Wolves are the HUNTERS and opponents are the PREY. Durrrr. The promo photo of Wolves vs. KOW is the worst thing ever as Davey is pointing at the camera with a Billy Idol scowl and it is as goofy as you can imagine.

3. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly vs. Grizzly Redwood/Mike Sydal is on and Sydal has some really lousy tattoos and bad highlights on his perm and some uninspiring kicks to the stomach. Grizzly Redwood really ain't too bad and throws his tiny little self into a lot of moves. One of the guys takes a tornado DDT really nice, bounces off his head and doing a little 180 and it's the right level of goofy. Sydal got none of Evan Bourne's ability. This match was not much.

4. Necro looks so awesome with the shaved head and scraggly beard and bedazzled pants and super boss robe. Chairshots start us off and Homicide cracks him in the ear and Necro slumps over holding his ear like his eardrum just exploded. Homicide throws some awesome punches and Necro is busted open. Homicide is tearing off metal from ringside barriers beating Necro with it and Necro is still selling the ear like he has the nastiest case of swimmers ear ever. His ear might legitimately be busted. Necro gets tossed through some set-up chairs and flattens them painfully with his body because this is what he does, this is the path he's chosen. He's bleeding all over at this point and Homicide suplexes him through a table and Necro is just taking a beating here. I'm as shocked as you are.

Osiris runs in and takes a nasty Cop Killer allowing Necro to punch Homicide and it is BACK ON! Necro sets up two chairs back to back and plants Homicide with a backbreaker and MAN does it look painful. Necro folds up Homicide with a powerbomb on chairs and we rewound 4 times because man that was a nutty bump. It ain't over though and Homicide is pissed and Necro is pretty damn beaten up as it is and of course the Embassy's interference screws up and Necro takes whatever Homicide calls his Diamond Cutter for the pin.

This match was awesome!! Homicide just lit Necro up. I can see why ROH needs to not use Necro for awhile to let his character "freshen up" a bit. Lord knows we won't miss his completely awesome matches. His character was just too stale. He looked like all the other guys, wasn't bringing anything fresh to the table. Whatever. This fucking ruled and is well worth going out of your way to find. Necro bled and took a beating, Homicide took some nasty bumps on chairs, and this was all intensity, all the time. Great match.