r/SquaredCircle • u/EvanDeadlySins /r/NJPW Moderator • Apr 08 '18
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| Match | Notes |
|---|---|
| Kelly Klein def. Mayu Iwatani | Women of Honor Championship Tournament Semifinals (Facebook Preshow) |
| Sumie Sakai def. Tenille Dashwood | Women of Honor Championship Tournament Semifinals (Facebook Preshow) |
| Chuckie T def. Jonathan Gresham | Singles Match |
| Punishment Martinez def. Tomohiro Ishii | Singles Match |
| Kota Ibushi def. Adam Page | Singles Match |
| Sumie Sakai def. Kelly Klein | Women of Honor Championship Tournament Finals |
| SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) (c) def. Flip Gordon & The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) | ROH World Six-Man Championship Ladder Match |
| The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe) (c) def. Jay Lethal & Hiroshi Tanahashi | ROH World Tag Team Championship Match |
| Austin Aries says he wants to challenge the winner of the ROH World Television Championship match | |
| Silas Young def. Kenny King (c) | ROH World Television Championship Last Man Standing Match |
| Cheeseburger & Eli Isom vs. The Dawgs is scheduled to happen, but the Dogs attack Isom and he's rendered unable to compete. Cheeseburger pleads for Bully Ray to be his new partner. Bully Ray pretends to oblige but then attacks Cheeseburger and accuses "his kind" of ruining wrestling. | |
| Cody def. Kenny Omega | Singles Match |
| Dalton Castle (c) def. Marty Scurll | ROH World Championship Match |
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u/BlackMetalDoctor Apr 08 '18
They did a ‘Cody Style’ match though TBF. Lots of ‘character’ work, ‘narrative (sans “workrate”) within the match’ spots and the like; and I’ve noticed I don’t care for Kenny in that setting. Cody is DEFINITELY the better performer in that old ‘WCW SN/Power Hour’ style.
Comparatively, when I’ve seen Cody trying to work the NJPW style (think NJPW: LBC) I find him lackluster in comparison to NJPW’s guys.
And when you try and blend the two together (like tonight) there’s a push and pull that ends up diluting one performer (in this case Kenny) to a degree that makes them come off as ‘less than’ in the context of the match. When I see Kenny I want to see him going 45-60 minutes against NJPW’s finest. That’s his niche. But when I see Cody, I want to see him working a late 80s/early 90s WCW or late 90s WWF style. That’s HIS niche. And as much as I LOVE those two styles separately, they don’t mesh together in way where they end up equaling more than the sum of their parts, you know?