The Indie Corner: Will Final Battle Be a Turning Point?

I have to agree with all of that. The Wolves are really great.. but as far as top tier of singles.. they don’t really pull me in. Once the bell rings.. they are fierce, but there isn’t any extra… and Strong isn’t adding it. I wonder how much longer the Briscoes can go there.. they have done it all. The titles don’t add anything more to them really.

The booking can’t be the only thing to blame. The problem is most of their top talent have left in the past two years and gone to either TNA or WWE. Add to that you have Davey Richards who is just a bad ass but hasn’t really defended the ROH belt since winning it. As soon as he won, he went to Japan so ROH was left without a champion except for when he does an interview or whatnot. Edwards and Richards had a good feud which should of been done and over with. For some reason, ROH likes to overkill their feuds which leads to kinda getting tiresome. Their focus has been on the tag teams more than anything because of the other companies that don’t do any focus and have become almost like a past time. The same could be said about the mid card titles but later with that. I can’t stress enough that ROH has a great tag division but they need to add alittle more to their tag teams. Atleast they aren’t bringing in family members like TNA does just fill up a show cause they have no actual leadership or how WWE lets some douchebag prick contradict himself every week while putting someone on tv who can barely talk but because he’s so good at sucking dick, he gets air time and says I’m the executive vice president of talent relations. No shit. Or how we get to see chickenheaded sluts in both companies make a mockery out of the what they want to consider a womens division. If the sheeple call that the color you want to see in wrestling than go ahead and be like everybody else. I’ll stick to spending money on the companies that deserve to be noticed like ROH, CHIKARA, SHIMMER, etc. Unlike other companies, ROH gives people you don’t really know a place to show what potetial they have while eventually making them into a star. Would WWE even know who Tyler Black if not for his time in ROH? Aries has had stints in the past with TNA and it’s only cause they are trying to build their X-division they nearly let that fuckhead Hogan and Dixie who is like a little lost dog who doesn’t know how to run a business nearly destroy it, he’d still be in ROH. Now that Claudio is gone. Hero is in line to be a potential world champion. If booked right, him and Davey could have one hell of a feud. 2011 will go down as ROH losing two favorites which WWE didn’t have to really do anything but still felt they just had to go to FCW cause they weren’t “good” enough to be put on one of the brands right away. What’s even worse is that they’ll probably go on that shitty ass NXT show. A show that has NOTHING TO DO WITH BECOMING A WRESTLER except minor things here and there but either way, it’s a waste of time. Anyone that prefers watching any MMA stuff to wrestling must enjoy being bored. How someone can make a comparison to wrestling is being ignorant. All MMA does is makes the crowd say ohh and ahh when they do a big hit but how long do you wait to see that and most of the time they are just rolling on the ground and trying to put a submission lock on them. I get more action when I take a piss. Anyways the ANE have come into their own and wouldn’t mind seeing them be tag champions. As far as ROH is, anyone that says they aren’t worth watching is just as ignorant the people who think WWE is the greatest company in the world….or whoever wrote this negative blog to begin with. If ROH should change anything, it’s their way of getting to a larger audience and adding the lovely women from SHIMMER more often in their bookings.

but so help me, that’s what I think when I glance over the top of the RoH card these days. I like Eddie Edwards a lot, but his feud with Davey should be over, not just simmering. There’s a place for technical, “strong style” in pro wrestling – but it should be one aspect of a promotion, not the main thing. Pro wrestling shouldn’t try to be MMA. Embrace other kinds of characters, other styles of performing, and throw them in the mix with shooters and mat based guys. STEEN will help A LOT, but he can’t do it alone. Use Generico more. Push the Bravados – who are great with their gimmick on the mic and in the ring. Poach guys like Gargano, Taylor and Swann. Other promotions would kill for semi-national TV exposure like Sinclair affords RoH; it should make them a notch above “indy”. For the sake of pro wrestling fans, I hope they start to use that platform & those resources to try different things, and not just give us more of the same stuff that made for a pretty boring product for most of 2011.