It's that special time of the year again, Ring of Honor at the Manhattan Center. ROH put on a great show with highs and lows, so let's get crackin'.

First of all before the show I had some pizza, and it sucked. NO BUYS.

Alex "Sugarfoot" Payne asked me if I needed help getting my seat too. I declined.

1. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw vs. Erick Stevens & Matt Cross: This was a really fun opener. Crowd LOVED Quackenbush. Lots of power movez~ from Stevens, some wacky CHIKARA lucha from the wacky CHIKARA lucha guys. Some flipz~ from Cross. Match ended with Stevens pinning Jigsaw. I can't remember what he won with and the internet has FAILED ME with a solution to this problem so let's say he won with a Dragonrana. ***1/2

2. Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mitch Franklin: Mitch won the TOP OF THE CLASS TROPHY~! last night. Tonight he was murdered by Jimmy Jacobs to the cheers of Manhattan. It was short and ended when Jimmy hit a senton followed by a guillotine. He should have skipped the guillotine. (** 1/2)

3. BJ Whitmer, Adam Pearce, & Brent Albright vs. Nigel McGuinness, Delirious, & Pelle Primeau: The only way the first team could be any more laughably bad is if Davey Richards replaced the awesome Adam Pearce. Mr. Pearce is the greatest wrestler ever by the way, because after the people started chanting REPO MAN, he applied a NERVE HOLD. YES. Rest of the match was boring as shit. Match ended when BJ gave Pelle an inverted piledriver. Then BJ beat on him forever, powerbombed him to death, then Pearce did, then Albright gave him a Half Nelson German. He gigged. (**)

4. Davey Richards vs. PAC: Horrible. Just fucking bad. Crowd pretty much hated it a minute in and it was completely Davey's fault. He was trying to be Chris Benoit circa 1986 with a black vest, 5 o clock shadow, long tights, and doing his spots. Way to go champ. The match had kicks and flips and keylocks and who the fuck cares, Davey Richards fucking sucks. (1/2 *)

Cary Silkin & Ryu Nakata from NOAH came out. They shook hands and announced for the next shows in Philly and NYC (Glory By Honor VI): KENTA, Naomichi Marufuji, Takeshi Morishima, and MITSUHARU~! MISAWA~~!~!~!~!~!~!~!. Half the crowd knew and half the crowd didn't know who he was so it wasn't a giant pop. GOT MY FRONT ROW SEAT~~~~

5. Austin Aries vs. Jack Evans vs. Roderick Strong: Jack came out first and said the last time he was in NYC in February, he said he was going to form a stable. But he's lazy. But he's going to start tonight. JULIUS SMOKES came out and announced the formation of The Vulture Squad, a name so wacky it works. These three proceeded to have a great match with a table setup between the ring and the barracade. There was a ref bump and the place died but it led to awesomeness. Aries was going to do the 450 but Roderick pushed him through the table. Then Davey came out to beat on Jack with Roderick. Then Julius called for help and amazingly, RUCKUS came out. He did a ton of cool stuff onto everyone. Aries asked what was up and Julius said "Forget the past, beat them up now" or something and they ganged up on Aries. Then the Resilience came out to even the odds. I assumed this was a no contest but then Aries pinned Strong with the 450. (****)

Intermission.

6. Ruckus vs. Eddie Edwards: Showcase of Ruckus, nothing more. He won with some awesome corkscrew move thing. (NR)

7. Chris Hero vs. Claudio Castagnoli: This was a grudge match, although there was really 0 hate. But it worked because it was worked like a wacky CHIKARA match so they get a pass. I was 100% positive that it would end in a fuck finish which was why it was so amazing that when Claudio hit the Ricola Bomb, Sweeney didn't move. (*** 3/4)

8. ROH World Title: Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson: All you need to know is that this is the 2007 Match of the Year and you need to go out of your way to see it. Great match, ELECTRIC crowd. Danielson focused on leg kicks like an MMA match and Morishima responded by beating the shit out of him. The pop when Cattle Mutilationw as cinched in was amazing. Match ended with the craziest lariat ever followed by a Backdrop Driver. You all need to see the bump Danielson took from the lariat. If you remember when Big Show hit his Cobra Clutch Backbreaker on Tony Mamaluke and then tossed him like a rag doll and he flew around in midair, that's what it was like. (*****)

9. ROH World Tag Team Titles (2/3 Falls): The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico: The placing of this match was retarded. The only reason this should have gone on last was if Steen & Generico were going to win the titles, because Morishima vs. Danielson was THE big match and clearly the main event. Now the match these guys had was great. If Steen & Generico had won, I'd give it ***** 1/4-1/2. Then the Briscoes won in two straight falls, the last ending in a Jay Driller and Cutthroat Driver. I feel the 2 straight falls finish is stale and the fact Steen & Generico couldn't get one fall on the Briscoes is dumb. So I'll say (****)

Afterwards apparently Steen & Generico took out the Briscoes with a ladder and stole the belts. How goddamn creative Gabe. NO BUYS.

Overall this was a great night of pro wrestling. Everyone needs to get the DVD and watch the world title match. {plug}