ROH TV Report: Elgin vs Young For the ROH World TItle

Tonight’s show starts off with comments from Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. Daniels says that ever since they were little kids, they watched professional wrestling. They drank it in before they knew what they were watching. As they got older, they knew that they needed more. It did not matter if it was Mid-Atlantic, Mid-South, or World Class. At first it might have been one of those places, but then it became all of those places.

Then it became the international stuff. A little bit of Lucha, a little bit of Japan. Some stuff from Europe. It didn’t matter where we got it from. It mattered that they got it. They were addicted to it. Then there came a point where watching it wasn’t enough. Then they started doing it.

First, a little at a time. Then it grew to two, three, or four times a week. They did it everywhere and then came Ring of Honor. When they wanted it so really bad they could taste it, they knew Ring of Honor was where to get it. That was the place where the pure stuff was.

The rush that they got from being in a Ring of Honor ring was the best they ever felt. Each time is better than the last. It is like that not just for them, but the fans have the same reaction. They need us to feed that need and satiate that hunger. They need to see us against the best of the best in the ring. That look in their eyes and the rush that they feel when they walk that aisle, do that dance, and then win and win again. That is when they know that they are not the addicts. The fans are the addicts. Daniels says that they are the Addiction.

We are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and your announcers are Kevin Kelly and Caprice Coleman.

Match Number One: Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian versus Michael Bennett and Adam Cole (with Maria Kanellis)

Daniels and Cole start things off. They lock up and Cole with a wrist lock. Daniels with a single leg take down into a side head lock and Cole gets a near fall. Cole tries for a head scissors but Daniels gets to his feet. Cole gets to the ropes and Daniels releases the hold and Cole talks strategy with Bennett.

They lock up and Cole backs Daniels into the corner. Cole with kicks in the corner. Cole with a back elbow and he gets a near fall. Cole with forearms to Daniels followed by an Irish whip but Daniels floats over and he gives Cole a hip toss followed by a slam. Kazarian and Daniels pinball Cole. Kazarian tags in and Daniels with a clothesline and Kazarian with a slingshot leg drop for a near fall. Daniels with a clothesline to the back of the neck to Bennett followed by a leg drop from Kazarian. They throw Bennett over the top rope onto Cole.

Daniels and Kazarian with pescados but Cole moves. Kazarian with a splash onto Cole. Daniels slams Bennett’s head into the apron and Daniels with a punch to the midsection followed by a rolling neck breaker from Kazarian. Daniels with a springboard moonsault for a near fall.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Daniels punches Bennett. Daniels with an Irish whip and running forearm into the corner. Cole makes the tag and Cole with a drop toe hold but Bennett attacks Kazarian on the apron. Bennett with a spinebuster to Daniels and Cole gets a near fall. Cole with a neck breaker and he gets a near fall. Daniels is sent into Bennett’s boot in the corner and Bennett tags in and he connects with shoulders to the midsection.

Bennett tries for a suplex but Daniels counters with an inside cradle for a near fall. Bennett with a drop kick for a near fall. Bennett with a front face lock and Cole tags in and he kicks Daniels and snap mares him into a reverse chin lock. Daniels with elbows but Cole runs Daniels into the corner. Cole taunts Daniels and Daniels fights his way out of the corner but Cole with a kick. Daniels with an STO and both men are down.

Bennett makes the tag and he keeps Daniels from making the tag. Maria pulls Kazarian off the apron and Bennett pulls Daniels into the center of the ring. Bennett punches Daniels. Bennett with a forearm and chops. Daniels makes the tag and Kazarian knocks Cole off the apron and then Kazarian with a clothesline and drop kick to Bennett. Kazarian with a springboard back elbow to Bennett. Kazarian sends Cole into the middle turnbuckle. Bennett with a kick and Irish whip but Bennett runs into the turnbuckles.

Kazarian with a blockbuster for a near fall. Cole with a knee from the apron but Kazarian takes care of Cole and brings him into the ring and hits an Ace Crusher. Daniels with an elbow to Bennett and then Daniels with a curb stomp. Kazarian gets a near fall. Cole sends Daniels over the top rope to the floor.

Cole with a super kick and Bennett with a spear for a near fall. Daniels with a jawbreaker to Cole while Bennett gets Kazarian up but Daniels stops him. All four men battle in the ring. Kazarian with a flying boot to Bennett. Cole tries for a super kick on Kazarian, but Kazaran blocks it. Daniels with a palm thrust and Kazarian with a clothesline that sends Cole over the top rope to the floor.

Maria gets on the apron. Maria tries to slap Daniels but they knock her off the apron. Kazarian sets for a belly-to-back suplex but he sends Bennett over onto Daniels’ knees and Kazarian gets the three count.

Winners: Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels

We are back and Silas Young tells Michael Elgin that he likes to talk a lot about how people have to prepare for matches with him. He talks about how no one trains harder than Michael Elgin. Well trained athletes fail. Athletes have an expiration date and your expiration date is tonight.

Steve Corino has taken over on color commentary for this match.

Match Number Two: Silas Young versus Michael Elgin for the Ring of Honor World Title

Before the match starts, Silas has something to say. He tells Elgin that he hopes he spent the last weeks sleeping with that title, spending every spare moment that you got with it. Because when you decided that you wanted to be a wrestling champion and you wanted to give a shot at your title against the Last Real Man in pro wrestling, you basically put yourself on a timeline for defeat. The problem with a guy like you is that you grew up as an average kid who had to work hard to be a true athlete. Silas says that Elgin’s work ethic shows for the wrestling machine that you have become. You are not Unbreakable. Even with all of the hard work, you are just average. Just like these average people in their average town living their average lives who think that just because they live in the same city that they have some kind of connection. Silas says that they have no connection.

It is real simple, Silas says that he is greatness while Elgin is average. When he beats Elgin for this title, it will afford him the ability to move out of this s***hole of a town.

Silas kicks Elgin after the handshake to follow the Code of Honor and the referee starts the match. Silas with forearms and he sends Elgin into the turnbuckles. Silas with forearms but Elgin with an Irish whip. Elgin with a slam and he sends Silas to the floor. Elgin sends Young into the guardrails. Elgin sends Silas into the guardrails on the other side of the ring.

Elgin goes for a piledriver on the floor but Young counters with a back body drop onto the ramp and we go to commercial.

We are back and Young chokes Elgin in the ropes. Young with a rake of the eyes. Young with a chop. Young with a kick when Elgin does not go on an Irish whip. Elgin picks up Young and turns it into a delayed vertical suplex and he gets a near fall. Silas rolls to the apron and Elgin sets for the Gorilla superplex but Young crotches Elgin and then hits a lung blower.

Young with elbow drops to Elgin and he gets a near fall. Young tries for a neck breaker but Elgin sends Young into the turnbuckles. Elgin misses a splash into the corner. Elgin with a side head lock and then he tries for a belly-to-back suplex but Young lands on his feet. Elgin sends Young to the floor and Elgin tries for a dive to the floor but Young returns and he gets Elgin onto his shoulders for a moment but Elgin gets back to his feet.

Elgin gets Young on his shoulders but Young gets to his feet and he sends Elgin shoulder first into the ring post. Young chokes Elgin and then follows with a forearm to the back. Elgin with punches but Young punches back. Young with a sleeper but Elgin backs Young into the corner. Young holds on the first time but the second time is the charm. Young returns to the sleeper but Elgin with a snap mare. Elgin with forearms.

Elgin misses a discus forearm but he trips Young and hits a slingshot splash. Elgin runs into a boot in the corner but Young misses a clothesline. Elgin with an enzuigiri and then he hits a Codebreaker off the turnbuckles and Elgin gets a near fall. We go to commercial.

We are back and Elgin sends Silas into the turnbuckles and then he sets for the Gorilla superplex but Elgin lands on his feet and he connects with a forearm to the back and sets for a German superplex. Elgin with elbows and Elgin with a boot but Young pulls Elgin off the turnbuckles. Silas with a TKO for a near fall.

Silas sets for the Finlay Slam but Elgin escapes the hold. Elgin puts Young in the ropes and he connects with a discus forearm and then Elgin has Young on his back and he flips him over for a modified X Factor and Elgin gets a near fall. Elgin with clotheslines to the front and back and then Elgin sets for a lariat but Young with a forearm. Elgin with a forearm of his own. Young gets back dropped to the floor. Young with a shoulder and he flips into the ring and hits a clothesline but Elgin stays on his feet. Elgin with a kick to the midsection. Young tries for a backslide but Elgin rolls through and Young with a kick to the head. Elgin and Young exchange clotheslines and Elgin is down.

Young gets a near fall. Young puts Elgin on the turnbuckles and sets for a superplex but Elgin blocks it. Elgin with punches to the midsection and Elgin gets Young on his shoulders for a Death Valley Driver from the middle turnbuckle but Young kicks out.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Elgin signals for a clothesline but he misses with the right, but he does not miss with the left. Young counters the buckle bomb attempt and he hits the Finlay Slam. Young hits the Pee Gee Waja Plunge but can only get a near fall. Young goes under the ring and he grabs a table and sets it up on the floor in front of the ramp. Young sets for a suplex from the ring through the table but Elgin blocks it and Elgin with a kick to the midsection.

Elgin goes to the turnbuckles and hits a Harlem Hangover from the second rope, sending Young to the floor. Elgin goes for a suicide dive but Young hits Elgin in the head with the table. Silas sets up the table on the floor after the referee does not disqualify Young for using the table. Young picks up Elgin and takes him to the apron for a piledriver through the table. Elgin blocks Young’s attempts and Young with a kick.

Elgin with a kick of his own and Young returns to the ring. Young punches Elgin and Elgin hangs from a rope. Young runs into a boot from Elgin and then Elgin hits a belly-to-belly suplex that sends Young over the top rope and through the table. Elgin rolls Young back into the ring and Young with an inside cradle for a near fall. Young with a sunset flip but Elgin rolls through. Young with a Finlay Slam and Elgin with a back fist while Young does the headstand on the turnbuckles.

Elgin with a buckle bomb and sit out power bomb for the three count.

Winner: Michael Elgin

We go to credits.