We are in Dearborn, Michigan and your announcers are Kevin ‘Eminem’ Kelly and Nigel ‘Two More Weeks’ McGuinness.
Match Number One: Adam Cole versus Rocky Romero
They lock up and Romero backs Cole into the ropes. Romero with a clean break. Cole with a wrist lock but Romero with a reversal. Cole rolls through and he is able to reverse the wrist lock. Romero with a kip up but Cole with a punch and Romero is knocked down to the mat. Romero with a forearm and then they go back and forth. Romero with a thumb to the eyes.
Romero with a head scissors and Cole goes to the floor. Romero goes to the apron and Cole moves to the other side. Cole calls a time out, but there are no time outs in wrestling and Romero with a suicide dive to a stunned Cole. Romero sends Cole back into the ring and he connects with a knee drop and he gets a near fall. Romero chops Cole as they go around the ring. Romero tries to send Cole into the turnbuckles. Romero goes to the turnbuckles and Cole pulls him to the mat.
Cole sends Romero shoulder first into the ring post. Cole sends Romero into a second ring post. Cole goes to the floor and he pulls Romero to the floor and Cole Irish whips Romero shoulder first into the guardrails.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Cole tries for a belly-to-back suplex and Romero gets to his feet. Cole goes to the floor when he tries for a shoulder when Romero is in the ropes. Romero with a knee off the apron and Cole is down. Cole is sent back into the ring and Romero goes for Sliced Bread but Cole lands on his feet. Cole with a clothesline, but Romero with a series of clotheslines into the corner until Cole gets out of the corner. Romero with a clothesline that flips Cole.
Romero puts Cole on the top rope and Romero with a springboard drop kick to the temple for a near fall. Romero misses a round kick and Cole with a kick to the leg. Cole takes the knee pad down but he misses a Shining Wizard. Romero with a rollup for a near fall. Cole with a drop kick to the knee followed by a Shining Wizard for a near fall. Cole goes to the turnbuckles to wait for Romero to get up. Romero with a drop kick to the ankle and Romero with a springboard rana followed by a Shiranui for a near fall.
Romero with a round kick but Cole kicks out at two. Romero tries to pick up Cole but Cole is not moving. Cole was playing possum and he tries for the figure four but Romero with an inside cradle for a near fall. Cole has a kick blocked. Romero goes into the ropes and Cole with a super kick followed by a brainbuster neck breaker and he gets a near fall. Cole with the figure four leg lock and Romero tries to get to the ropes or roll through to reverse the hold but Cole rolls through and Romero has to tap out.
Winner: Adam Cole
We go to commercial.
Match Number Two: Adam Page (with Roderick Strong) versus Tommaso Ciampa
Strong tells Page not to follow the Code of Honor before the match.
Page charges at Ciampa and Ciampa moves and Tommaso goes after Strong. Page with a shot from behind. Ciampa sends Page to the floor. Ciampa goes over the top rope when Page drops down. Page with a running shooting star head butt. Page with a forearm in the corner followed by a wrist clutch belly-to-back suplex for a near fall. Page misses a cross body when Ciampa moves. Ciampa with a clothesline and then he sets for Project Ciampa but Page with a rana to counter.
Ciampa and Page alternate near falls until Ciampa locks in the Sicilian Stretch and Page tries to fight through the pain and he gets his foot on the ropes. Ciampa releases the hold. Page goes to the apron and he connects with a forearm but Ciampa with a forearm of his own. They go back and forth. Page with a thumb to the eyes and he returns to the ring but Ciampa with a kick. Page slingshots in and he connects with a clothesline. Page gets Ciampa on his shoulders but Ciampa escapes. Page with a drop kick and back breaker from a fireman’s carry position and Page gets a near fall.
Strong yells at Page and that allows Ciampa to recover and he hits a running knee followed by Project Ciampa for the three count.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
After the match, Ciampa gets on the mic. He says that a lot of people call him crazy, but what is crazy is that every single guy in this company does not have the balls to say what they have to say. Everyone sugar coats things. Everyone is afraid to make a definitive statement and live by their words.
Tommaso tells Michael Elgin that the bullseye is on his chest and he loves it. He has challenged anyone for a shot at the title. Tommaso says that he knows that Michael was not thinking of him. He was not thinking of the Sicilian Psychopath. Everyone has overlooked him since he entered Ring of Honor.
Silas Young comes out and he tells Tommaso what you can about Michael Elgin and his open challenge. On August 22nd in Milwaukee, he walks in the Number One Contender and he walks out the next Ring of Honor Champion. There will be no more open challenges. You will have to earn your opportunities. To a lot of people, earning an opportunity is a foreign concept and he does not think Tommaso has it.
Ciampa head butts Young and then Young gets out of the ring.
We go to commercial.
We are back with footage from Ring of Honor’s show in Minnesota on July 12th, including footage of Michael Elgin’s title defense against Matt Hardy.
Before the main event, Michael Elgin tells Bobby Fish to shut up. He says that he got all too used to the numbers game trying to get the Ring of Honor World Title. Since we are in Dearborn, across the river from Windsor, so he called his mentor to make sure that Bobby stays out of his business. Michael brings out Tyson Dux.
Bobby wants to know if Nigel knew about this and Nigel says that of course he did and mentions that since Bobby is in Kyle’s corner, Tyson is in Michael’s corner.
Match Number Three: Kyle O’Reilly (with Bobby Fish) versus Michael Elgin for the Ring of Honor World Title
Elgin has his thigh wrapped and Elgin tries to keep it as far away from Kyle when it looks like Kyle is going to kick him. They lock up and Kyle with a wrist lock. Elgin with a reversal into a wrist lock. Kyle with an arm drag but Elgin holds on to the wrist lock. Kyle with a drop toe hold into a front face lock but Elgin with a hammer lock to escape.
Kyle with a side head lock and shoulder tackle but Elgin stays on his feet. Kyle with a knee and punch but Elgin with a shoulder tackle. Elgin rolls up Kyle for a near fall. Elgin with a knee and Elgin tries for the delayed vertical suplex but Kyle lands on his feet and Kyle with a kick. Elgin with a power slam for a near fall. Elgin puts Kyle in the turnbuckles and Elgin with a splash into the corner.
Kyle rolls to the floor and Elgin goes to the apron for a flying shoulder tackle. Elgin rolls Kyle back into the ring. Fish gets on the apron and Dux pushes Fish away. Kyle pulls Elgin off the turnbuckles and we go to commercial.
We are back and Kyle continues to work on the arm. Kyle pulls down the knee pad and he connects with a knee drop to the arm in a hammer lock. Kyle pulls the knee pad up and he kicks Elgin. Elgin with chops and forearms. Kyle returns to the arm. Elgin misses a back fist and Elgin avoids an O’Connor Roll. Elgin with a Bossman Slam and both men are down.
Elgin with forearms followed by an Irish whip but Fish holds on to Kyle. Dux pulls Fish off the apron and Elgin with a baseball slide to Fish followed by a clothesline to the back of the head and a slingshot splash. Elgin with a deadlift German suplex and bridge for a near fall. Elgin sets for a suplex but Kyle with knees to the head. Elgin with a forearm and Elgin with a side slam for a near fall.
Kyle backs Elgin into the corner but Elgin tries for another power bomb. Kyle counters into a guillotine but Elgin runs Kyle into the corner to try to get out of the hold. Kyle holds on to the guillotine but Elgin with a suplex to escape. Elgin runs into a boot from Kyle and Kyle hits a DDT for a near fall.
Kyle tries to lock in the cross arm breaker but Elgin tries to use his strength to prevent Kyle from locking in the hold. Kyle with kicks to the head and then Kyle turns it into a triangle choke. Elgin gets Kyle up but Kyle with an axe kick and forearm. Elgin with a sunset flip and he rolls through into a power bomb. Elgin tries for a sunset flip but Kyle locks in the cross arm breaker. Kyle switches to the other arm.
Fish holds the ropes to keep Elgin from getting to the ropes and Dux interferes in the action to force Fish away from the ropes. Elgin makes it to the ropes to force Kyle to release the hold. Kyle with a kick to the chest. Kyle with another kick and Elgin wants more. Kyle with a third kick. Kyle with a fourth but Elgin with a chop. Kyle with a kick while Elgin responds with chops. Kyle with a back heel kick but Elgin with a back fist.
Kyle counters a spinning back fist into a guillotine but Elgin counters with a power bomb and we go to commercial.
We are back and Elgin has Kyle on the apron for a Gorilla superplex but he cannot get Kyle up and Kyle drops Elgin on the ropes. Elgin with a drop kick to stop Kyle. Elgin gets Kyle on his shoulders and Kyle with elbows to the head. Kyle with a triangle choke while on the turnbuckles. Elgin picks up Kyle and hits a super power bomb and then Elgin with a spinning sit out power bomb for the three count.
Winner: Michael Elgin
After the match, Silas Young attacks Tyson Dux and then he comes into the ring and he attacks Michael Elgin. Tommaso Ciampa attacks Silas while Adam Cole comes to the ring and he attacks Elgin. Cedric Alexander makes his way to the ring and he goes after Adam Cole. The Briscoes enter the ring and then Hanson and Rowe make their way into the ring and we have a bit of a cluster going on because security has no control.
Mark Briscoe goes up top and hits a moonsault off the turnbuckles. Alexander with a plancha that goes over everyone, but they all fall down.
Adam Cole holds on to the belt and he waits to hit Elgin but Elgin ducks him and Elgin with a back fist. Elgin picks up Cole and he power bombs Cole onto everyone.
We go to credits
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