Ring of Honor (ROH) has shown a willingness to go places other televised promotions here in the States won’t go. Sometimes that’s bad (chair shots to the head), sometimes it’s good-bad.
The second match on their June 23 pay-per-view (PPV) Best in the World was the latter. The strap match between Frankie Kazarian and Adam “Hangman” Page was not for the squeamish. Even before Kaz won by literally hanging Page with the strap to earn a submission win, the Bullet Club member produced one with nails and thumbtacks embedded in it.
Nails and thumbtacks! @theAdamPage is a twisted man. #ROHBITW pic.twitter.com/Id4vJpRs6D
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) June 24, 2017
And it wasn’t one of those times when something is introduced in a match but never used. Page whipped Frankie with it.
He actually used it! #ROHBITW pic.twitter.com/cf87w3s9Eg
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) June 24, 2017
And when that happens... this happens.
2nd ppv in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium that I've shed blood. How was your night? #ROHBITW pic.twitter.com/TZNjv6UjrB
— Frankie Kazarian (@FrankieKazarian) June 24, 2017
Gnarly.