Ring of Honor TV 11/16/2013

Ring of Honor TV 11/16/2013

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ring-of-honor-tv-1192013.html

Steve Corino and Kevin Kelly are on commentary.

Champions vs All Stars - Adam Cole, Matt Taven, Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish vs Michael Elgin, Jay Lethal, Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman

The person who pins Cole gets a title shot. Cole rolls out and Elgin goes after him. Taven and Jay then get in. Jay hits chops on Taven and Taven goes out. Fish gets in and waistlocks Jay. Jay chops him. Ced gets in and wristlocks Fish. Fish pulls him down and does a facelock. Ced knees him in the gut then baseball slides him in the head. Coleman hits punches on Fish then leg lariats him. Fish atomic drops him. Kyle gets in.

Kyle side headlocks Coleman and shoulders him over. Coleman hits armdrags then dropkicks Kyle. Elgin gets some shots in on Kyle then sends him hard into the buckles. Kyle jawbreakers Elgin. Taven gets in and suplexes Elgin.

Elgin no sells it then tries for a delayed suplex but the champions break it up. We go to break. Veda Scott does a promo. She says the wait of injustice is off her shoulders. She says Steve Corino is back on commentary and says Nigel Mcguinness has been beaten. She promises RD Evans will return next week and says he will be more focused and physical.

We return and Outlaw Inc are bothering Red Dragon from the front row. Taven boots Elgin. Cole comes in and gets dropkicked throug hthe ropes by Elgin. Taven is back body dropped on the floor by Elgin and Elgin gorilla presses Red Dragon into each other. Things break down as everyone fights and we end up skipping ahead.

Jay hits shots on Kyle and Cole. Jay is knee'd in the gut and Cole basement dropkicks Jay. Jay takes corner attacks then a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Kyle then knee drops him from the ropes while he's in the backbreaker.

Taven foot chokes Jay. Taven suplexes Jay. Ced gets in and springboard lariats Cole. Kyle flying forearms Fish on accident then Ced flying dropkicks Kyle and Fish. Ced knocks Cole down then walks up the buckles and enzugiri's Taven. Ced totally misses a GTS with a kick on Cole for 2.

Ced sends Cole out, goes for a dive and is enzugiri'd. Coleman then 2nd rope inside to outside moonsaults Cole. Fish spears Coleman into the rails then Kyle runs the apron dropkicks Coleman against the rails.

Kyle gets into it with Outlaw Inc and Outlaw Inc beats up the heels. Taven then does a suicide dive onto everyone. Ced then tope con hilo's out. We cut ahead as Outlaw Inc. is escorted out. Ced springboards into a Cole superkick. Cole pins Cedric Alexander. We go to break. Kevin Steen congratulates Michael Bennett for getting under his skin. Steen says he's better than anyone else at getting under people's skin. Steen says he dreams of dropping Bennett on his head. He says all it does is spell Bennett's doom. Steen says he will make sure Bennett doesn't get back up when he package piledrivers him. He says he will put him on a stretcher.

We go to back to the match. Taven takes a double enzugiri from Coleman and Jay. Coleman is back body dropped outside then Jay hits a lethal combination on Taven. Maria distracts Jay on the apron and kisses him. Jay then hit a lethal combination on Taven. Casey Rae (Truth Martini's female side kick) grabs Jay up top. Jay grabs Rae then Taven superkicks Jay off the top with Rae through a table outside.

Coleman rolls up Taven for 2. Coleman headbusters Taven for 2. Coleman drops Taven with a punch then does locomotion northern lights suplexes. Taven headlock drivers Coleman. Cole argues with Taven and tells him to get out. Cole then gets a 2 count on Coleman. Elgin takes a double superkick from Elgin and Taven. Cole straightjacket germans Caprice Coleman and pins him.

Jay Lethal is still down outside and Cole's team has the 4v2 advantage. Elgin is surrounded 4v1 with Jay down outside. Elgin gets group stomped. We are told we are at the 41 minute mark (meaning at minimum we missed 11 minutes so far).  

Elgin misses a corner charge and Kyle gets a 2 count on Elgin. Kyle armbars Elgin but Elgin powerbombs him out of it. Elgin beats up the heels on the apron then takes a flying kick from Kyle. Kyle tornado ddt's him. Elgin hits a pendulum side slam on Kyle for 2.

Nigel and the refs are still checking on Jay outside as we hit 47 minutes. Fish is on Elgin's back with a sleeper and Elgin germans Taven with Fish on him. Elgin rainmakers Kyle O'Reilly and pins him.

Fish pounds on Elgin. We go to break and return. Elgin superplexes Cole into the ring from the apron. Jay Lethal then comes back out. Jay is tagged in and hits lariats on his opponents. Taven is lariated over the top. Jay throws Cole over the top. Jay springboard dropkicks Fish off the apron then he topes him. Jay then topes Cole and Taven.

Truth Martini gets in the ring and is superkicked by Jay too. Jay texas cloverleaf's Taven. Cole superkicks Jay from behind and hits oblivion. Cole pins Jay Lethal. Taven misses a top rope frogsplash on Elgin. Elgin then crossfaces him but the heels break it up. Elgin back body drops Cole onto Kyle outside. Elgin reverses Taven's headlock driver with a crossface. Elgin submits Matt Taven. Fish buzzsaw kicks Elgin for 2. Elgin hits a big punch on Fish then does a samoan drop + fallaway slam combo to Fish and Cole. Elgin buckle bombs Fish then spinning sitout powerbombs him. Elgin pins Bobby Fish.

We cross the 1 hour mark on this match. We go to break and return. Cole running boots Elgin. Elgin rolls him up for 2. Elgin hits a chaos theory german on Cole for 2 then holds on for another german. Cole hits an ushigoroshi on Elgin and running leg knees him.

We cut ahead again. Elgin corner uranages Cole. Elgin running lariats Cole. We cut ahead again. Cole figure fours Elgin. Elgin cradles Cole off the figure four attempt. Elgin crossfaces him. Elgin buckle bombs Cole. They reverse moves and Elgin backhands him.

We reach 71 minutes. Cole top rope hurricanrana's Elgin. Cole then hits a panama sunrise on Elgin for 2. Elgin knocks Cole off the buckles. Elgin backhands him while he's up top. Elgin hits a top rope sitout powerbomb and pins him. Michael Elgin wins the match for this team.

Thoughts: We really only saw close to half the match. I liked what we did see though. I thought they put Elgin over well here and the finish of him ending up 1v1 with Cole and beating him fit the storyline of Cole trying to avoid Elgin. The heels used the advantage they had on Elgin for a while and even had help from Truth Martin and the girls. I would say what we saw was a good match, but it's hard to know without seeing the whole thing.

Jay Briscoe comes out after with a bag. Elgin and Jay argue as Jay says he needs to settle things with Cole. Elgin grabs him then Jay hits Elgin and Cole with the bag. Jay gets on the mic after. He asks how you can have champions vs all-stars without the real world champ? Jay then pulls out his own version of the ROH Title with confederate flags.

Thoughts: I had no issues with the angle. Jay never lost the title and was just stripped of it. 

Overall thoughts: We only had one match here. I liked what we saw of the one match but the one match was too long for TV to be shown in full. I think I understand why - ROH had a limited budget, wanted to show at least some of it and wanted you to buy the DVD of it to see the rest. I think what we got of the match was enough to make you satisfied, but we missed close to half of it so it's hard to know how good it really was. I wouldn't recommend this one and would just recommend seeing the full match instead.