ROH in Danbry, CT. Attendance looked like 600 or so to me.
 
3 sides. 20 seats per row, 4 rows deep. 4 x 20 = 80. 80 x 3 = 240. Plus 3 rows on the other side. Thats 60 people. So we've got nearly 300 on the floor alone (there were some empty seats but by the end of the night when I was figuring attendance they were filled with some GA people, I suppose). Then there was a huge bleacher with a couple hundred people in it. Attendance had to be around 600, or I'm just bad at this.
 
Sorry for the armchair booker stuff, I hate it in show results sometimes too, but I originally wrote this for CZWfans.com messageboard, and they had the basic win/loss stuff already.
 
As for the rest of the show:
Jacobs was out saying nothing saves when Homicide interrupted. Fans chanted fuck TNA, and Homicide said he liked Ass and Titties. Then he asked Jacobs "What the hell happened to you?"He said he used to have fun playing with balloons and stuff. He said he used to be like Ned Flanders and now he's like a fucked up Chris Angel(s). AOTF attack, Ruckus saves (I guess Hernandez was taking a siesta?) and Homicide says that he misses J Train. segment was hilarious.
 
 
1. Ruckus defeats Jason Blade.
Match was the fun kind of opener you'd expect from these two. Ruckus did that top rope gutrench thing. Well, he missed the turnbuckle, dude's legs hit the ropes and he nearly died. He didn't though, so the visual was good. Fine match.
 
 
2. Sara Del Rey defeats Ariel.
Ariel got some short comebacks, but mostly Sarah dominated. Fine match. Despite the crazy Bull Nakano-lite makeup, I still think Sara is hot. She has an open back top and I like it, fuck you if you don't. At one point she hit the weakest capo kick ever. This was worse than the one she threw at TPI. She'd better work on that one. But she still rules. Why is MsChif still barely on the shows?
 
 
3. Rhett Titus defeats Grizzly Redwood with the Razors Edge. Titus was attacked by Haze afterwords.
Okay, so this gimmick, the lumberjack thing, is pretty sweet. Franklin has this long beard, and he fights in a flannel with SUSPENDERS over them. And he comes out to generic lumberjack music. You know. Like if you tuned into the Lumberjack station on XM/Sirius. Rhett Titus has made the Top of the Class Trophy super tall. Its taller than him side-by-side, so basically it is a six foot phallic symbol. This also ruled. Then Daizee Haze ran out to angrily attack him. I hate Daizee and all, but this was pretty cool. Hey, so I mentioned MsChif earlier... she's supposed to be in AOTF. Delirious needs to start fucking her (or torturing her, whatever it is she likes) ASAP, so that she can come in as Delirious's new crazy girlfriend and spray Daizee in the face with mist. Green mist.
So the match was okay. Franklin's still growing into the gimmick. I have a feeling he has very little actual lumberjack experience. He does a gimmick where he "cuts down" his opponent with chops, and he's always signaling for a double-axe handle. After the match Daizee attacked Rhett again.
 
 
4. Brent Albright defeats Jay Briscoe. After the match Albright asks for a match with a SNS Inc. member. Sweeney sends him Dempsey. Albright chases Sweeney off.
This was okay. Not much more to say. Albright won with a suplex. i don't even remember what kind, because I didn't think for a second that it was the finish. After the match Albright called out Sweeney and demanded he send out someone to battle him. Sweeney was pretty funny, and he sent out Bobby. Albright said These people love you and you don't need Larry! Then he left, promising to get his hands on Larry sweeney. Didn't we labor through the corny "I'll get my hands on you, larry sweeney!" angle for a year and a half with Claudio Castagnoli already? Next thing you know, Albright is going to show up randomly chasing Sweeney away from ringside like corny Claudio did.
 

5. Necro Butcher defeats Mark Briscoe & Delirious with a Tiger Driver on Delirious.
This ruled. An all over the building brawl. I took video of the wackiest bumps in my phone (don't worry ROH, I'm not going to hinder precious DVD sales by posting them online!) and rewatching them now they still rule. Lots of stuff involving chairs, 90% of which were steel and not the plastic ones. Dudes were smashed in the head with chairs, thrown onto standing chairs, splashed while laying in chairs... all that. Jay did a 20 foot dive off of the bleachers, but I dunno who he hit because I couldn't see the landing. Delirious did a fisherman's buster to Mark onto an open chair. He also caught Necro in a cobra clutch suplex, and KOBASHI'ed him into a steel railing that was propped into the corner, effectively destroying Necro's brain. Necro started bleeding from his baldspot early in the match by the way. Mark powerbombed Delirious onto an open chair and hit Necro with a MONSTER chairshot. This match was really awesome. I'm sure everyone hurts like hell today, but I enjoyed it immensely!
 
 
PRINCE NANA RETURNS! He says he has no more riches, no more crown, and just wants a job. Nana is dragged away by security. [/b]
He also said he had no more women. Huge pop for him for the 50% of the crowd that remembers. He had some long braided hair, heald up in a bob thing, but most of his head was buzzed. It was weird looking. He was wearing khakis, but he had some African top thing pulled over his shirt. I'm glad to see nana back. It was weird, as watching shitty Impact the night before I was thinking that they should bring Nana in with Booker.
 
 
6. Jerry Lynn defeats Claudio Castagnoli with a cradle.
Well, I've never liked Lynn, even in ECW, so I'm biased against this. But I'll say this about Claudio... he doesn't know how to work as this kind of heel without being boring in the worst kind of way. After seeing this match and the Sasake match, he's just not the kind of worker that can ground guys with long restholds and build heat for a comeback. I know they want to make him one of these evil main event heels for a big run, but heel Claudio seems to work best in a role like he had in KOW, where he can at least be athletic. I know he'll get some cheers that way, but Claudio working the way he works now is going to elicit the wrong kind of boos. Anyway, Lynn wins with a roll-up-ish type pin. This seemed dumb considering that Claudio should be gaining momentum after the heel turn, but whatever.
 
 
7. FIP World Championship: Go Shiozaki defeats Austin Aries with a Go Flasher to retain the FIP Championship.
...and Albright runs out to run Sweeney away! Its Claudio vs Sweet n' Sour season two! This match was really good. A notch below their NYC match, but mainly only due to a botched crucifix bomb spot, which had it gone off right would have popped the crowd and been a great momentum changer. ONE GUY chanted you fucked up. Then he got over it and enjoyed the match like everyone else. Good, hardhitting stuff. Go won with a sick Go Flasher off of the top (or middle?) rope. One problem with Go is that he doesn't adapt to the american audience. Lots of chops can get over in ROH, but its pretty clear that if your name isn't Kobashi the crowd does not dig on chops with the flat side of your hand coming straight down Great Khali style. He needs to figure something else out there, because even though I don't mind it a lot of the time, I always hear people around me groaning about it.
 
 
8. Ironman Match: LAX (2) defeat Kevin Steen & El Generico (0), Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black (1), and Chris Hero & Davey Richards. (1)
Some people on the board are saying the champs were buried because everyone got a fall except for them. I hate how that word is thrown around now. Not getting a fall in a super chaotic match where you always had 5 people trying to jump in and breakup your pinfall attempts does not bury you. They said that at the 20 minute mark the match would turn into a scramble, but because this is ROH and Sinclair is clueless it basically became a scramble around the 14-minute mark. So there were no pinfalls until MADNESS~! ensued. It isn't like Steen and Generico were left scratching their asses as everyone got pinfalls left and right. The first fall had to be maybe 18 minutes in, during the insanity... and there were only 4 pinfalls, two of which were for LAX
Apparently all that counted into a score was gaining a pinfall. It wasn't like the Crowning a champion 4-way iron man where getting a pinfall would be +1 and being pinned would be -1 or whatever it was. Homicide and Hernandez were clearly having a blast. Lots of fun spots involving homicide getting his hands on Jacobs. Crowd loved Homicide, obviously. Hernandez kept missing out on tags, and was getting frustrated. He signaled to Generico that they were both Mexican and should help eachother out. So crowd went BATSHIT CRAZY when he got tagged in and dude was the most over guy of the night. This was about 14 minutes or so into the match, and it pretty much broke down into a scramble here. It was kind of silly when Bobby Cruise announced 5 minutes later that it was now scramble rules. Anyway, Hernandez did his big dive. It was nuts. He must have hit his enemies in the equivilant of row 2, on the ramp. So much air, and for a dude his size it was crazy to see. He also border tossed Black to about the same distance that he dove, out of the ring. They did awesome powerspot after awesome powerspot here. Hotstuff hit a couple of the loudest shops ever. I felt bad for Jimmy. So then it was just madness till the end, sometimes people got pinned, but it was hard because there were always 5 guys looking to breakup falls. The match lost steam in the final five minutes. Its hard with pinfalls not ending the match to get the fans sucked in and all, but the work was fine. Hotstuff was really gassed by this point. Had scramble insanity actually started around 20 instead of 14 mins in, the ending probably would have been hotter. Awesome match regardless.
 
 
Then Homicide put over the company. Come to Edison and see the best tag match EVER he said.
 
I thought the show was really, really good and definitely worth the 2 hour+ ride there, and hour and a half home. Way better than most Edison shows, and I thought it was on par with a good portion of the Philly shows. It wasn't at normal NYC levels, but it was better than A New Level.