Ring of Honor DVD Review: Glory By Honor VI, Night Two, 11/3/07

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Ring of Honor’s sixth annual Glory By Honor double-shot took place the first weekend of November, 2007 with Night One in Philadelphia and Night Two in the Manhattan Center in New York City. Several storylines from the recent Undeniable pay-per-view continued here, including the Age of the Fall versus the world tag team champion Briscoe Brothers, Sweet & Sour Inc. and Chris Hero’s feud against Claudio Castagnoli, and the Hangmen 3 trying to destroy Delirious, Kevin Steen, and El Generico. Plus, a GHC title match pitting Mitsuharu Misawa against KENTA, and yet another battle in the bloody war between former world champions Takeshi Morishima and American Dragon Bryan Danielson.

The DVD began with a very nice video montage that told the overall story of Ring of Honor, seemingly designed for fans who may be watching ROH for the first time. This excellent package showed off the various legends, current famous performers, and international stars who have passed through the hallowed halls of ROH in the past six years. As always, the show started with a crawler at the bottom of the screen advising the viewer to select the ROH Video Wire in the “Extras” menu before proceeding with the main feature.

The Video Wire detailed the blood vendetta between the Age of the Fall and the Briscoes, then showed Nigel McGuinness’ coronation as ROH champion at the end of Undeniable, including Bryan Danielson’s interruption and Takeshi Morishima’s honorable passing of the torch to the new champ. Next we got a look at the annual Survival of the Fittest event, followed by a match pitting the Age of the Fall (Black and Jacobs) against Mitch Franklin and Ernie Osiris.

Before the contest, Jacobs cut basically the same promo he did at Undeniable in which he explained that ROH management is forcing them to earn their shot at the Briscoes’ titles by winning matches. Jacobs and Black brutalized the two kids and easily captured the victory, looking very impressive in the process. But when they wouldn’t stop abusing the jobbers after the bell, Jay Briscoe ran them off.

Next up was more footage of this war, as Jay destroyed Necro Butcher in the ring while the other members of AOTF proudly displayed Mark who was bloody, bound, gagged, and nearly unconscious. Jacobs taunted Jay from the entrance ramp, “Look at your brother!”

Talk about building a feud – I can’t wait to see these two teams in the ring together. The Video Wire came to a close, so it’s back to the show.

El Generico vs. Chris Hero (with Sweet & Sour Inc.). The crowd was rocking and singing along with the entrance music of the “Generic Luchador”, kicking things off with an enthusiastic atmosphere that made me wish I were there live. Hero is the 2007 Survival of the Fittest champion, and he and his crew were sporting t-shirts trumpeting his recent tournament victory, accept for poor overweight Bobby Dempsey, whose shirt read “Survival of the Fattest”.

Hero faked out Generico by teasing then denying the traditional pre-match handshake, and instead gave one to Sweeney and to Del Ray. He also punked out Dempsey, then pushed him off the ring apron to the floor. That face turn is going to be huge one day, as the crowd was chanting for the portly underling in support of his plight.

Mat wrestling to start, and Hero did his usual display of showing off. When Generico made a nice escape from a hold, Hero left the ring and forced the ring announcer to declare over the house microphone, “Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Hero would like you all to know that was not impressive in the least!” There’s a new one from an insecure heel. Hero’s shenanigans make you want to see him get his ass handed to him, which I believe is the very definition of generating heat. So kudos to him and S & S Inc. for the way they draw the crowd into their matches.

Ha! Hero lowered his center of gravity to deliver a deep arm drag, but Generico hit the breaks, so Hero wound up just bumping himself. Good one. According to pro wrestling axiom # 621, Generico responded with an arm drag of his own. Concurrent with some Dempsey abuse on the outside by Sweeney, Hero showed off more, and ate another arm drag.

More ridiculous showing off by the Man from Metropolis. I’m convinced that if Hero were half as concerned about defeating his opponent as he is with impressing himself, he’d be the world champion. Too much of that nonsense can take his performance from cocky, taunting heel tactics into stupid and annoying, and Hero was walking that fine line in this match. Thankfully the masked man got the actual wrestling action going again just when Hero’s antics were starting to take their toll on me.

Sweeney interjected himself into the match, and his distraction caused Generico to get driven into the steel guardrail on the outside. Ouch. Sweeney put the boots to Generico while Hero distracted the referee, and the numbers game was too much for the Luchador. With Generico lying on his back, Hero actually chopped his own stable-mate Dempsey in the chest, causing the large man to fall back directly onto Generico. That was innovative, painful, and terribly rude.

About to attempt a top rope attack, Hero dismounted the top turnbuckle instead. At the urging of Sweeney, Hero moved Generico further away from the corner, completely across the ring. He then ascended the ropes and dropped a big leg, but fell just short of his target and hurt his tailbone in the process.

Finally chaining together a few moments of actual wrestling, Hero countered a diving head butt attempt with a cravat suplex, hit a big kick, then delivered the Hero’s Welcome for the victory. Considering the comedy-to-wrestling ratio of this one, the match ran a bit long for my taste. But when Hero actually wrestles and cuts back on the excessive gamesmanship, he’s got some very good stuff.

Winner: Chris Hero via Hero’s Welcome, pinfall.

Then like a true heel stable, out came Generico’s hated rivals the Hangmen 3 to take advantage of the helpless masked man. Brent Albright brutally tossed Generico from the ring to the outside through two tables, causing Kevin Steen to hit the ring. Outnumbered four to one, Steen got some help from Delirious, leading to an impromptu tag team match.

Hangmen 3 (Brent Albright and B.J. Whitmer) vs. Kevin Steen and Delirious. This was a hallmark of the original ECW, having a match erupt from the chaos of other events, and flowing from the previous scenario. In an impressive show of strength, Albright caught Delirious flying off the top rope and executed a gorgeous swinging ura-nage. Whitmer and Albright looked vicious and dangerous as they administered the classic tag team strategy of cutting off the ring and focusing on one opponent. They kept the man who dwells on the Edge of Sanity away from his partner, and after what Delirious has endured at the hands of the Hangmen of late, it was easy to get behind him and really pull for him to make the tag to Steen.

You’ve got to love a solid feud like this one that delivers intense matches in which you can almost taste the kayfabe hatred between the competitors. ROH has done a fantastic job of building this war, much like the one between the AOTF and the Briscoes, creating a powder keg that threatens to tear the roof off the building each time the opposing sides meet. It’s so simple in concept, but when it unfolds properly, it makes the art of professional wrestling beautifully effective. Side trip over – back to the match.

When Delirious made the hot tag to Steen the big man cleaned house as expected, but communication complications between Steen and Delirious cost them the advantage, and their “malfunction at the junction” led to the Hangmen taking over once again. The faces recovered quickly, however, and after a series of high-impact moves to Whitmer, Delirious nailed my favorite top-rope dive, the Shadows Over Hell, followed by Steen hitting a HUGE Swanton. Delirious then launched himself off the top rope to the floor on both Hangmen, but their manservant Shane Hagadorn nailed Steen with a low blow as he went for the package piledriver on Whitmer. B.J. wasted no time in taking the opportunity to drive Steen through a chair with an Exploder Suplex behind the ref’s back, and that was all for Steen.

This was very good tag team formula work, with Delirious playing face-in-peril and the heels seemingly defeated until their underhanded tactics and superior numbers allowed them to sneak out with a tainted victory. If the Hangmen 3 feud with Steenerico and Delirious for the next six months, it’d be just fine by me.

Winners: Hangmen 3 via Exploder Suplex through a chair, pinfall.

Drawing a less than friendly chant from the Manhattan crowd, Hagadorn got on the mic and cut an anti-New York promo for cheap heat, then challenged anyone from the locker room to a match in honor of his absentee leader, Adam Pearce. Austin Aries, the current Ace of the promotion and number one contender to the ROH world title, answered his challenge.

Austin Aries vs. Shane Hagadorn. The rookie tried every shortcut to gain the early advantage, from attacking Aries before the bell as he entered the ring to going after Austin’s eyes. But after a nice Death Valley Driver, some stiff forearms in the corner, and a mule kick to Aries’s head, Hagadorn made the mistake of lounging on the top rope like his role model Pearce, and ate a wicked dropkick from Aries. He followed up with his patented brain buster and 450 splash, ending this one quite quickly for the number one contender.

Nothing more than a showcase match for the new Ace, and an opportunity for him to grab the mic afterward.

Winner: Austin Aries via brain buster/450 splash combo, pinfall.

Aries then cut a promo putting Matt Cross and Erick Stevens over but disbanding the Resilience, because he needs to focus on his singles career and his quest to become the first ever two-time ROH world champion. This was a very brief segment with Aries, but it was more than effective in showing off his in-ring goods, breaking him away from the trenches of faction warfare, and announcing him as the new Ace and number one contender. It nicely set the stage for his title match against McGuinness at Rising Above.

Speaking of the champ, Nigel came out in street clothes to shake Aries’ hand and congratulate him. He told Aries he respects him, and explained that his severe torn biceps injury would prevent him from defending his newly earned championship for at least a month. McGuinness promised to rehab his arm and defend it against Aries at the December ppv taping. Once again ROH built tension and excitement for an upcoming match without taking the low road. Both men have the respect of the fans and each other, and even without any animosity between them this is a match I can’t wait to see.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Naomichi Marufuji. This was the first singles match between these two talented performers. After a clean rope-break, Double C led the crowd through a few European soccer chants and offered Marufuji the chance to try the same. The crowd responded in kind for the import from Pro Wrestling NOAH, and Claudio applauded his opponent along with the sold-out Manhattan Center crowd. They exchanged holds and wrestled on the mat at first, with clean breaks rendered at every opportunity.

When Marufuji broke a full nelson, Castagnoli was so impressed that he allowed Marufuji to place one on himself, to see if he too could break the hold. And break the hold he did, as the counter-wrestling exchanges continued. After a gentlemanly series of running the ropes, the two found themselves at a standoff. So far the match was technically solid but lacking in intensity. From the apron on the outside, Marufuji delivered a Dragon Screw leg-whip while Double C was still inside the ring; an uncommon variant to say the least, and the body part work began on Claudio’s left leg.

A Figure Four leg-lock from Marufuji punished the leg more, but Castagnoli turned it over and forced the hold to be broken by reaching the ropes. After hitting a Fisherman’s Suplex, Claudio showed some nice selling. He was unable to bridge properly for the pin attempt due to the pain in his leg. Excellent.

Claudio wisely selected a unique leg-capture/armbar submission maneuver, which simultaneously wore Marufuji down and allowed Castagnoli to take his weight off his own injured leg for a bit. Once Marufuji escaped the hold the intensity picked up as each man was now in pain and feeling a bit desperate to get out of dodge before their suffering could continue. Marufuji picked up the pace with some rope-running and a few vicious clothesline attacks from multiple angles.

He landed a super kick but the Swiss powerhouse blocked an attempt at the Shiranui by simply dumping Naomichi over the top rope to the floor. Claudio countered a powerbomb try into a giant swing, which unfortunately indicated that his injured leg had magically healed. He didn’t even have the decency to sell the leg after the swing, and a devastating running European uppercut almost earned Double C the victory.

Marufuji answered with a second super kick followed by a Shiranui, and Double C saved himself by draping his leg over the bottom rope. Claudio countered out of another Shiranui attempt and nicely bridged a rolling cradle for the pinfall and the win. This was a rare loss for Marufuji in either ROH or NOAH, and may indicate (along with Double C’s victory in the Race to the Top Tournament) a serious push for the former member of the Kings of Wrestling.

Winner: Claudio Castagnoli via bridged cradle, pinfall.

Speaking of the Kings of Wrestling, Claudio’s former partner-turned hated rival Chris Hero couldn’t resist a weakened target, and he and Sweeney rained on his parade. Sweeney even dropped a nice top-rope elbow on Double C, the definition of cowardly heels taking liberties and kicking their man while he was down. The pay-off match between Castagnoli and Hero one day is going to be huge.

ROH World Tag Team Title Match: The Briscoe Brothers vs. the Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and the Necro Butcher w/Lacey). After literally only a few seconds, the hatred between the two sides boiled over in the form of swinging chairs. The referee signaled a double-DQ before things really got going. But fear not, this wasn’t the last we would see of the Briscoes/AOTF war on this night.

Winners: N/A, double-disqualification.

The crowd was NOT pleased that this advertised match didn’t really happen, and they let their dissatisfaction be heard loud and clear.

Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima. Every time the American Dragon enters the arena it feels like a big deal, and this time was no different. Strap yourself in for another chapter in the brutal saga of these two former world champions. Danielson launched himself through the ring ropes on Morishima before the Japanese import even entered the ring, obviously with a huge score to settle. Dragon threw everything but the kitchen sink at Morishima on the outside, but once they moved into the ring and the bell sounded, Morishima took over.

The heat between these two was palpable. Morishima went right to the eye of Danielson he’d injured months earlier with some huge, clubbing forearms, which just had to hurt. The Japanese juggernaut pounded his opponent mercilessly and Dragon looked overmatched and unable to handle the mass and strength of Morishima. Credit Danielson for selling his ass off – his training by Shawn Michaels was evident to be sure.

This time when they went to the outside it was all Morishima as the American Dragon bled from the mouth and got tossed from pillar to post. But he found his second wind and launched himself from the top rope over the guardrail and into the crowd onto Morishima in a spectacular spot. To say this was outside Bryan’s usual repertoire would be the understatement of the year.

Seeking revenge for his own eye damage and near loss of sight, Dragon stuck the handle of the timekeeper’s hammer into Morishima’s eye, but the foreigner countered with an ungodly backdrop driver on the floor. These two went at it like madmen. When Danielson barely made it to the apron on the outside, the former champ absolutely drilled him and launched him off the apron onto that steel guardrail, not once but twice. Dragon was bleeding profusely as Morishima ruled the ring alone.

But Danielson was not about to quit; he reentered the ring and continued to do anything and everything he could think of to the much larger monster. He almost scored the victory with a German Suplex after multiple elbows to the side of Morishima’s face. Next, Dragon stomped Morishima in the head and locked him in a triangle choke, but the big man powered out of it by lifting Danielson up and tossing him off. These two were just fiercely walloping each other!

Again the former champ targeted Danielson’s recently injured eye socket, clearly desperate and willing to do anything to win. The Japanese giant pummeled Danielson’s face and eye until a desperate American Dragon nailed his attacker in the balls just to stop the onslaught. But desperation turned to near insanity and gave way to rage as Danielson stomped Morishima repeatedly in the nuts, then tossed the referee across the ring. While ref abuse is no surprise in other US-based promotions, it’s nearly unheard of here in ROH, and that fact speaks to how far gone with fury Dragon was.

Winner: Takeshi Morishima via multi-nutcrunchers, disqualification.

Dragon’s assault on the nether regions of Morishima continued until officials charged the ring and he attacked a few of them as well. Finally, the new world champion Nigel McGuinness came out to intercede, in what was not only a second example of allowing him to appear on the show without forcing him to wrestle injured, but a good way to keep the world title in the forefront as well. Dragon played nice until the champ turned his back, then he delivered an evil kick to Nigel’s torn left biceps area. OUCH!! Dragon was brutal here. They played it like the emotional damage from nearly losing his sight in one eye (and therefore, his career) had turned Danielson into a loose cannon. Interesting character development for the Dragon.

The crowd still chanted “best in the world” to Danielson as he left with his arms raised in ‘victory’. Rebecca Bayless caught up with him backstage, and he cut a quick promo calling for “an eye for an eye”, then added, “and a ball for a ball. Your testicle for my eyeball!” That whole ordeal was ultra-violent and the next meeting between the two should be a sight to behold.

Tyler Black vs. Alex “Sugarfoot” Payne. Black obliterated Sugarfoot in about 1:30, finishing him with his sweet small package driver for the easy victory.

Winner: Tyler Black via small package driver, pinfall.

This is textbook stuff; Pro Wrestling 101 if you will. You want the new faction to make a splash and look dangerous, so you feed them some victories, allow them to stomp some undercard guys in impressive squashes and hit their cool signature moves. The Age of the Fall are here, and are not to be taken lightly.

As soon as Black stood up from covering Payne for the victory, the Briscoes stormed the ring, incensed that they didn’t get a real match earlier. Excellent storyline stuff there. The Briscoes then called for a No-DQ match against the new “movement”, to give the fans what they came to see. This match would take place later in the evening.

The No Remorse Corps (Roderick Strong, Rocky Romero and Davey Richards) vs. The Vulture Squad (Jack Evans, Jigsaw and Ruckus w/Julius Smokes). Faction warfare a-go-go! Romero and Jigsaw started with a nifty exchange of wrestling and aerial maneuvers. Name came an equally good set between Richards and Evans. His two partners assisted Evans in executing a lofty moonsault on Romero. Nice! There were multiple moves and attacks everywhere, as the Vultures were flying high.

Richards put a stop to the Vulture Squad’s momentum with a sick ura-nage on Jigsaw, and the NRC took control as they settled down into a standard tag match. Jigsaw was the unlucky recipient of the typical heel beat-down during the heat segment, as the NRC cut off the ring.

Jigsaw made the hot tag to Ruckus, whose house-cleaning efforts led to another series of highspots by the Vulture Squad. The action continued hot and heavy, and the two factions were really lighting up the ring. Imagine this: Ruckus delivered a rolling Fisherman’s Suplex to Richards, who wound up in Jigsaw’s sit-out powerbomb on his way down. Great stuff! Evans immediately followed up with a twisting, corkscrew splash, and Richards’ stable-mates made the save to keep the amazing action rolling.

Storm launched Evans through the air face-first and Romero snatched Evans in mid-air for a Cutter variation. Sick move that should have been the finish, but the other two Vultures made the save to ensure the chaos didn’t end just yet. Ruckus hit a crazy moonsault from the top rope to the floor on everybody, leaving former Generation Next partners Evans and Strong alone in the ring. Evans delivered a double knee strike from the top rope to Strong, who was tied up in the tree of woe.

After missing a high-risk move to the outside, Evans fell victim to a Gibson Driver from Strong on the unprotected floor. Strong quickly got Evans back in the ring and tied him up in a demented variation of the Strong Hold submission, nearly bending Evans completely in half.

Winners: The No Remorse Corps via Strong Hold variant, submission.

Wow. Breathtaking, fast-paced, explosive six-man action was the name of the game here, and nobody does it better than Ring of Honor.

Next up, the Age of the Fall (minus the Butcher) were outside a Toys ‘R’ Us store directly next door to a strip club. They explained that this was all the evidence anyone would need of the decaying society they seek to overthrow, or whatever it is they seek.

Back in the Manhattan Center, Sweet & Sour Inc. took the ring to announce the final showdown between Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli at the December ppv taping, with the stipulation that Claudio must leave ROH if he loses.

Hero falsely claimed he made ROH champion Nigel McGuinness tap out the night before in Philadelphia and cried about not being the champ. He also stomped stable-mate Bobby Dempsey while the crowd chanted for the fat man. Hero then turned his attention to Austin Aries, since Aries is the number one contender and Hero is out of the world title picture.

Aries made his way to the ring to answer Hero’s challenge, and Sweeney accepted the match on Hero’s behalf if only Aries would put his number one contendership on the line. Aries’ response to that stipulation was that the #1 slot would indeed be on the line, but if Aries were to win, Claudio Castagnoli would get a match with Sweeney at Final Battle. With all the terms and conditions met and all parties in agreement, the match was on.

Austin Aries vs. Chris Hero. Hero attacked from behind before the bell rang, as cowards often do. Aries lured Hero into a trap or two early in the contest, as his cooler head seemed to be prevailing. For the second time in the night, Hero had the ring announcer make a statement on his behalf. This one was, “Ladies and gentlemen. Chris Hero is professionally requesting a DO OVER.” I’ll admit that one was funny.

Hero picked the wrong Ace to show his ass to on the wrong night, because Aries was in no mood for any of Hero’s standard nonsense and made him pay early on. Still, with the aid of S & S Inc. members at ringside, Hero eventually got the better of Aries and worked him over for several minutes.

Aries finally bounced back but suffered a thumb to the eye before catching Hero attempting to skin the cat. He delivered a nice baseball slide dropkick and followed up with a plancha through the ropes onto Hero. Now the Ace was rolling, but Hero put up a hell of a fight with his variety of cravat attacks. Aries countered with a shin-breaker/suplex combo, but couldn’t maintain the momentum.

Aries countered out of the Hero’s Welcome, and both men listened to the ref count to ten as they lay on the mat. When they each regained their footing, Aries hit a brain buster then put Hero in his wicked new bridging submission move. Double C ran Sweeney off before he could interfere, and Hero tapped out. This was a hard earned victory for the number one contender, and a very good match. As I said earlier, when Hero actually wrestles he’s very entertaining.

Winner: Austin Aries via bridging stretch hold, submission.

GHC Heavyweight Title Match: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. KENTA. The match was preceded by a proclamation read by the Chairman of the Global Honor Crown Title Committee, Mr. Joe Higuchi, and the introduction of the principles. When the action began, they transitioned almost immediately from clean breaks and respect to boots in the face and aggression. KENTA didn’t hold back one bit on his more senior opponent. He struck Misawa with stiff forearms and kicks, which the champion returned in kind.

Why KENTA chose to slap Misawa in the face three times in a row is beyond me, because the seasoned veteran got angry and made KENTA pay. But Misawa didn’t keep the advantage for long; KENTA soon took over due to his speed and aggressiveness.

They say the last thing to go on an aging fighter is his punch and the older, slower Misawa was consistently able to defend himself and gain momentum with one big strike to his challenger. KENTA would land a series of kicks or strikes, and one answer from Misawa was enough to stem the tide. KENTA clearly planned to run circles around the champ and wear him down by outlasting him.

The story of the match was KENTA’s superior conditioning, speed, and agility against Misawa’s experience, ring savvy, and power. It was the epitome of ‘simple yet effective’. They didn’t try to do anything too fancy or cute; they executed a fairly basic design, and the strength of this match was in the quality they displayed throughout.

Misawa hit his legendary Tiger Driver for a close call on KENTA, who tried desperately to reclaim the advantage and did so by countering a leaping attack from the top rope with a knee to Misawa’s abdomen. He followed up with a vicious driving knee strike in the corner, and a Tiger Suplex that almost earned him the GHC title.

KENTA blocked and reversed a second Tiger Driver attempt into the GTS that almost put the veteran champ away. Misawa drilled KENTA with the Emerald Frosion and seemed shocked when the younger man kicked out. The intensity and stiffness was off the charts at this point, and after another few moments of back-and-forth action, Misawa finally turned back the challenge of KENTA with a second Emerald Frosion.

Winner: Mitsuharu Misawa via Emerald Frosion, pinfall.

It was a nice change of pace to have a Puro match on the card, and Pro Wrestling NOAH more than held up their end of the bargain. This was a very enjoyable match that made me want to watch more Japanese wrestling.

ROH World Tag Team Title Match: The Briscoe Brothers vs. the Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and the Necro Butcher w/Lacey). Take two, and this time it was a No Disqualification battle. The Briscoes brought Daizee Haze with them to even the odds and keep Lacey off their backs. The champs were on fire early, wearing out the freaky Necro Butcher in the ring and throwing caution to the wind with their high-risk offense on the outside.

Jacobs raked Jay’s eyes to knock the Briscoes’ train-o-vengeance off its tracks and swing the pendulum to the corner of the Age of the Fall. Necro threw a chair into Mark’s face, and the champs were in trouble early. In a unique innovation, Necro hoisted Mark into standard bodyslam position and held a chair behind his victim, so that as he drove Mark to the canvas, the chair was between Briscoe and the mat – wicked!

Jay artfully dodged a Jacobs dive to the outside, and the emo-king took a nasty bump. The champs then launched Jacobs to the barrier from the ring in another painful-looking landing. Lacey tried to get involved, but the Briscoes’ new alliance paid off. Haze eliminated Lacey and dove onto all three AOTFers before dragging Lacey up the aisle to the back.

Necro rolled Mark up in the floor mats like a soft taco supreme and then dove off the top turnbuckle onto Burrito Briscoe on the floor. I guess if you can’t wrestle well but you want to make it in the pros, you’ve got to wrestle crazy. A bloodied Jacobs then hit a back senton on Jay from the opposite top turnbuckle to the floor outside. These two insane suicide attacks drove home the point that the AOTF were willing to do anything and everything to capture ROH tag team gold.

Back in the ring, Necro pilled up four or five chairs and the challengers double-suplexed Jay onto them back first. Ouch! The AOTF kept Mark on the outside as they brutalized Jay in the ring. Jay nearly tapped out to the guillotine choke after suffering a DDT on the chair pile, but brother Mark launched himself over the Sergeant-at-Arms Necro Butcher to come to Jay’s aid.

Since he was now in the ring anyway, Mark started dishing out some punishment to Necro. The champs drove Necro through a chair in the ring with a tandem belly-to-back suplex and Jay threw Necro to the floor from the ring apron. Double ouch! For the next few moments the Briscoes kept Necro on the outside and went to work on Jacobs with the heavy artillery. The champs flattened Jacobs with a springboard blockbuster onto the stack of chairs and the leader of the AOTF should never have kicked out, but somehow he did so the carnage continued.

Necro placed two upright chairs back to back, and sent Mark crashing back-first into the chair backs with a perfectly placed sidewalk slam. That wasn’t nice at all! In retaliation, the champs placed Necro on the top rope and tossed him onto an upright chair in mid-ring. The chair flattened like tinfoil under Necro’s weight for a brutal bump.

They sent Jacobs through a table on the outside, which ended his evening, and finished off Necro courtesy of a Jay Driller. What a fun chapter in this blood feud between the dominant tag team champs and their newest challengers.

Winners: The Briscoe Brothers via Jay Driller, pinfall.

The arc between the AOTF and the Briscoes is only going to heat up from here, and the stage they’ve set in these early battles for the remainder of their war is well conceived, well executed, and extremely violent and intense.

Wrap up:

There’s little in the way of extras on this DVD, but who needs ‘em? With over three hours of fantastic wrestling action backed up by solid storylines, Glory By Honor VI, Night Two is an essential addition to your wrestling library. Available for just $20 online at ROHwrestling.com, this DVD is a bargain that’s well worth the money. Ring of Honor never disappoints, and this must-see show exceeded my expectations. Highest recommendation.

But don’t take my word for it – check it out and see for yourself.

Master Sergeant, United States Air Force