It all lasted about twice as long as it should have, and I don’t know who goes to a wrestling show in 2019 to see a segment built around Bully Ray. The following descended into a 3 on 3 schmoz where … the best thing I can say is that it was a brawl with lots of plunder and Mark Haskins was there. Then the lights hit and Juice Robinson showed he’s still alive, bringing Mark Haskins with him to go after Bully Ray’s trio. To make the subsequent long, convoluted story bearably short, Bully would … bully the MC, who was saved by … Flip Gordon, before Shane Taylor and Silas Young made it a 3-in-1 against the doof who really wanted to be friends with his Elite buddies who are absolutely nowhere to be found. While it really didn’t make sense, it was the kind of moment I could excuse. I blinked a bit, but who knows? Maybe Ring of Honor will do something good with a heel King screwing with legends. Unfortunately, Honor Rumble gave the promotion another moment to be the new, depressing ROH, as The Great Muta’s surprise appearance and face-off with Jushin “Thunder” Liger was cooled by the hot, brash … and I guess comparatively young … Kenny King. Not the phrasing I want to use when talking about Madison Square Garden, but whatever. As a fan of both who wanted each to have a real spot on the card, it was better than nothing. I will give ROH some credit for signing Tracy Williams and giving the former stalwart of the north-east independent scene a nice moment in the pre-show “Honor Rumble,” squaring off with Minoru Suzuki. Ring of Honor built its name on excellent pro wrestling, and while the night had featured many decent-to-great women wrestlers, it capped all of that by signalling that the Women of Honor division was pivoting in the direction of TNA’s Knockouts division’s low point. I hate to say that because I try to be positive in my writing, but this is not the time to be nice. Not only have neither Sky nor Love ever been anything on the mic, but they’re also just not that great at wrestling. A giant title card on the monitors alerted us they’re supposed to be “The Allüre.” Anyone who stuck through TNA through its harder days knows better than that, as this is just the latest version of the weakest Mean Girls Posse ever: The Beautiful People. But it was a SWERVE and they all ganged up on Klein, drawing the Anarchy A on her forehead in lipstick. Then Ring of Honor’s Mandy Leon, who is like fetch in that she’ll never, ever happen, came down to seemingly even the numbers. In a sign of trouble on its way, two of the last wrestlers I expected to see that night, Velvet Sky and Angelina Love, walked down the ring, looking intimidatingly at Klein. Not only did the slower and more labored Klein win, but the post match angle was so bad that I started laughing, loudly, once it happened. If only the Women of Honor title match that followed it - ROH’s Kelly Klein vs Stardom’s Mayu Iwatani (the WOH champ) was as even or ended well. Those who didn’t know anything about how Ring of Honor’s Women of Honor division is run might have been fooled by the sheer mass of talent in the Women of Honor pre-show 6-woman tag, which featured Stardom’s Kagetsu, Hazuki, and Hana Kimura facing WOH’s Jenny Rose, Sumie Sakai, and Stella Grey.
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