Taso the Greek’s “Bumpin’ Heads 2008″

Dragon Gate Challenge- Detroit, MI 3/30/06
1. Homicide beat Colt Cabana in a Falls Count Anywhere Match
2. Ricky Reyes beat Chad Collyer
3. BJ Whitmer beat Jimmy Jacobs
4. Ryo Saito defeated Jimmy Yang
5. Alex Shelley & Jimmy Rave beat Bryan Danielson & Delirious
6. Claudio Castagnoli beat Shane Hagadorn
7. AJ Styles & Matt Sydal beat Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi
8. Blood Generation (CIMA, Naruki Doi, & Masato Yoshino) defeated Generation Next (Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, & Jack Evans)
9. Christopher Daniels defeated Samoa Joe

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The Whitmer/Jacobs match is memorable, and not just for the botched powerbomb off the top rope.. but I would suggest people see this match for that spot anyway. Plus, Lacey spits on someone.

I also felt that in many ways the Blood Gen vs. Gen next tag was just as good as the 6 man DG match Meltzer pimped. The heat wasn’t there and of course they didn’t work together as well as the DGate guys do together, but the match really got rolling towards the end… and that fucking kid Jack Evans always steals the show to some degree, even when he doesn’t.

WEW should be recognized as the worst promotion in the world. Too bad, or maybe not, it is such an insignificant niche piece of shit that no one with any integrity would watch it. Except me. Hey man, Eric Gargiulo, my favorite announcer in the game, calls the action. With tons of sarcasm. You almost feel bad for him, but I think it’s probably a very interesting gig.

Tara Bush gets my vote for biggest waste of space, by the way. If you’ve never seen her, imagine a bulimic in knee high boots that probably outweigh her by 10 pounds, with the IQ of a prehensile tail skink, at ringside.

credit results to rohwrestling.com:

1. Ricky Reyes defeated Delirious, Flash Flanagan, & Shane Hagadorn
2. Jimmy Rave & Alex Shelley beat Claudio Castagnoli & Jimmy Yang
3. Ace Steel beat Chad Collyer in a First Blood Match
4. AJ Styles & Matt Sydal beat Austin Aries & Jack Evans
5. Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi, & Ryo Saito) beat Blood Generation (CIMA, Naruki Doi, & Masato Yoshino)
6. MsChif beat Cheerleader Melissa, Allison Danger, Daizee Haze, Lacey, & Rain in a SHIMMER 6 Way

7. Homicide beat Mitch Franklin. Colt Cabana came out afterwards for his match with Homicide. Both men fought until Homicide put Cabana’s head between a ladder and smashed it with a chair.

8. The CZW-ROH angle continued when Chris Hero & Necro Butcher called out Adam Pearce. Pearce and Necro brawled until Claudio Castagnoli came out to even the sides.

9. Samoa Joe beat Christopher Daniels & Jimmy Jacobs in a Three Way Match

10. Bryan Danielson defeated Roderick Strong to retain the ROH World Title in 56 minutes
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***1/2 A good card all around that makes me want to watch everything ROH has put out so far this year. My interest in Bryan Danielson was peaked when I heard Gabe Sapolsky on WOL and he commented that Dragon was wrestler of the year. Well, he had a good match here, but it didn’t light my fire. I want to blame Roderick’s blandness, but I don’t want to take away from alot of what he does which I feel is very solid.