WEEKLY OVERVIEW – ROH (thru 5/8): Top stories of week, major show lineups, live event results, schedule of live events, noteworthy social media posts, more

The following is the latest in a new series of weekly in-depth articles exclusive to PWTorch which will help put in perspective major wrestling promotions with a weekly overview, looking at news and roster developments, results, future line-ups, social media activity, key interviews, plus a timely commentary at the end. We will be featuring similar features on other promotions each week and each will be updated weekly.

•Top Stories of the Week

This week ROH and NJPW are putting on the co-branded War of the Worlds tour. See below for the up-to-date cards for each stop of the tour.
Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI), the parent company of Ring of Honor, agreed to a deal with Disney to acquire the current Fox Regional Sports Channels that Disney is unable to keep control of once their acquisition of Fox is complete. The deal is for a reported 10 Billion dollars. At the moment, it doesn’t appear that this news will affect ROH in a positive or negative way.

•Live Event Results

There were no live events this week

•Upcoming Major Show: The Crockett Cup

ROH War of the World Worlds Tour (4 stops)

Night 1 Buffalo, NY (5/8/19)

Guerrillas Of Destiny vs. Lethal & Gresham for the tag titles
Villain Enterprises vs. Jeff Cobb, Yuji Nagata, & Satoshi Kojima for the six-man titles
Bandido vs. Flip Gordon
Rush vs. Silas Young
Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams vs. Evil & Sanada
Shane Taylor vs. Hikuleo
TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia vs. Clark Connors & Karl Fredericks
PJ Black vs. Alex Coughlin

Night 2 – Toronto, ON (5/9/19)

Matt Taven vs. PCO for the world title
The Briscoes vs. Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams
Jay Lethal vs. Satoshi Kojima
Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Taylor vs. Brody King vs. Hirooki Goto
Silas Young vs. Yuji Nagata
TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia vs. Evil & Sanada
Rush vs. PJ Black
Hikuleo & Guerrillas Of Destiny vs. NJPW Young Lions

Night 3 – Grand Rapids, MI (5/11/19)

Lethal, Cobb, Goto, Kojima, & Nagata vs. The Plague
Kelly Klein vs. Stacy Shadows for the women’s title
Rush vs. Tracy Williams vs. PJ Black vs. Eli Isom for a world title match
The Kingdom vs. Hikuleo & Guerrillas Of Destiny
The Bouncers vs. Evil & Sanada
PCO vs. Mark Haskins
Coast 2 Coast vs. NJPW Young Lions
Cheeseburger vs. Clark Connors

Night 4 – Chicago, IL (5/12/19)

OH Champion Jeff Cobb vs. Rush vs. Jay Lethal vs. PCO
ROH & IWGP Tag Team Champions G.O.D vs. The Briscoes
NWA National Champion Colt Cabana vs. James Storm
Evil & Sanada vs. Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata
NWA Women’s Champion Sienna vs. Marti Belle

•Upcoming Events

ROH War of the Worlds (Honor Club Event) 5/8/19 in Buffalo, NY at Buffalo Riverworks
ROH War of the Worlds (Honor Club Event) 5/9/19 in Toronto, ON Canada at Ted Reeve Arena
ROH War of the Worlds (Honor Club Event) 5/11/19 in Grand Rapids, MI at Deltaplex
ROH War of the Worlds (Honor Club Event) 5/12/19 in Chicago, IL at The Odeum In Villa Park
ROH State of the Art (Honor Club Event) 6/1/19 in Kent, WA at Showare Center
ROH State of the Art (Honor Club Event) 6/2/19 in Portland, OR at Viking Pavilion
ROH Best In The World (PPV Event) 6/28/19 in Baltimore, MD at UMBC Event Center
ROH Best In The World (TV Taping) 6/29/19 in Philadelphia, PA at 2300 Arena
ROH Manhattan Mayhem (Live Event) 7/20/19 in New York, NY at Hammerstein Ballroom
ROH Mass Hysteria (Live Event) 7/21/19 in Lowell, MA at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

All current live events are located on rohwrestling.com

•Latest TV Highlights: 5/5/19 ROH Wrestling

ROH TV Results
May 5th, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA at Stage AE
Airing on Sinclair Networks and rohwrestling.com

PJ Black defeated Eli Isom at 8:34
Kelly Klein (c) defeated Ray Lynn at 4:03 in a non-title match
The Allure come out and took out Klein and “tagged” Jenny Rose with Lipstick
Dalton Castle comes out and asks the Boys to come to the ring. He turns on them again, and fully becomes a heel.
Lifeblood (Mark Haskins & Tracey Williams) defeated The Kingdom (TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia) at 9:56

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•LATEST “TALKING HONOR” PWTORCH LIVECAST COVERING ROH

“The Stench.” This week, Emily Fear, Megan Nielsen, and Lisa Brank discuss weekly ROH television including The Kingdom vs. Lifeblood, PJ Black vs. Eli Isom, a lack of motivation for Bully Ray, Kelly Klein as a babyface, Dalton Castle as a heel, and the core reasons why The Allure isn’t working. They also answer listener mail on this week’s War of the Worlds tour. (NOTE: Some of the language on this episode may be NSFW.)

•Social Media Scene

Below is this week’s round-up of social media posts from ROH personalities.

Always be yourself, Todd.

pic.twitter.com/TUmX1mQlkN

— Todd Sinclair (@sinclairtodd) May 8, 2019

This is a weird, RT.

Great!! https://t.co/1IDTOBEOZQ

— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 8, 2019

The end of an era.

I gave them the World and got nothing in return pic.twitter.com/VaKwrNfNZM

— Dalton Castle (@theDALTONcastle) May 8, 2019

•Closing Commentary

I am not going to lie to you; I am in a bit of a slump in my wrestling fandom. At the moment, ROH is beyond lackluster from a fan perspective. Not to mention the near unwatchable WWE product, along with NJPW’s Super Junior Tournament (full disclosure, my least favorite New Japan tournament). This is always a tough time of the year.

The big build to Wrestle Kingdom in January and the build to WrestleMania (as well as every other US promotion’s biggest shows) in early April always lends itself to a less than desirable few weeks after.

All of that being said, I find this time of year to usually be a bit of a drag. Watching wrestling is never work, but I will be honest; there are weeks at a time where I will follow the product, but I choose to not watch anything wrestling related in order to reset my fanhood.

Do any of you have times of the year where you feel this way? Or am I the only one who has the unique perspective on this? If you feel the way I do, what do you do in the meantime? What brings you back into the fandom after a bit of a layoff?

Tyler has been a wrestling fan for 20 years. He’s from Columbus, Ohio. Check him out on Twitter @ringoftyler and check out his podcast @tandbwrestling.

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