ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds report: Kenny Takes Toronto
Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks had the Ted Reeve arena eating out of their hands. Will Ospreay makes people go heart-eyed. Naito throws the belt (again)
Dark match: Cheeseburger and Will Ferrara def The Fraternity (Trent Gibson and Channing Decker with Alexia Nicole)
A Fraternity member tried to get Cheeseburger to drink a beer, he started but spit it in the frat guy’s face.
Taped for VOD, commentators Kevin Kelly, Colt Cabana and Ian Riccaboni
1: Rebellion def MCMG with Rhett Titus frog splash
Shane Taylor interfered, after they cut a promo where they talked up Taylor and called out…
2. Hirooki Goto def Shane Taylor with GTR
Taylor looked good, crowd popped as Goto got him up for the ushigoroshi
3. Dalton Castle and the Boys def. Gedo and RPG Vice with Castle’s Bangarang
Lot of posing. Dalton and Trent were great
4. Bully Ray def. Punishment Martinez and Hangman Page in a three-way with a Bubba Bomb
Before, Bully cut a promo about how he appreciates ECW chants, but is currently about ROH. Mentions the Code of Honor and tries to get Page and Martinez to shake his hands, Page turns him down then jumps him. Later, Page did the Wassup headbutt with Bully but superkicked him when instructed to get the tables.
5. Cody defeats Will Ospreay with Cross Rhodes
Great match. It was Ospreay’s birthday. Ospreay did his posing spot; Cody did his spot where he teases a dive and flips off fans instead. Cody motioned that he’d be the next champ a lot. Personal match of the night.
6. Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI def. Matt Taven & Marseglia with Naito’s Destino
Taven cuts a promo where he claims to have beaten Los Ingobernables all over the world. Gets lots of heat, they just pose during a “shut the fuck up” chant. “We’re not even talking.” Naito plays babyface in peril for the first half then takes over. Finish was cool
7. Briscoes def. Silas Young & Beer City Bruiser and EVIL & SANADA in a three way with Mark’s Froggy Bow
Great match, action evenly displaced, Briscoes hit most of their big spots
8. KUSHIDA def. Jay Lethal with small package driver
Great match, built around counters to the Lethal Injection. KUSHIDA got cross-armbreakers off that and Hail to the King, and hit a Lethal Injection of his own. Lethal hit a crazy cutter counter, but KUSHIDA got the pin from nowhere.
9. Kenny Omega & Young Bucks def. Tanahashi, Kazarian and Daniels with Kenny’s One-Winged Angel
Crowd ate up Kenny and the Bucks. Their autograph line before the show stretched around the arena floor and dwarfed all others. Crowd chanted “ohh, Kenny Omega” to Seven Nation Army. Fun spot where everyone misses elbows. Tanahashi back raked Nick and they sold it huge, then back raked the other two. Ref Paul Turner was bumped and rolled to the outside where there were then multiple splashes, including Tana’s high fly flow to the outside, then Ref Todd Sinclair came out. Kenny picked up the ROH belt to clock Daniels. Sinclair eventually got superkicked, Daniels went to hit Kenny with the belt, but Cody interfered and pulled the belt away. Kenny and the Bucks hit a three way indytaker on Daniels that transfered to OWA for the win.
Kenny cut a promo where he said that there were supposed to be no unapproved promos, but that only applied to ROH talent. But after praising the crowd, he admitted that he was losing his voice, so he said the Bucks were the best tag team, he was the “highest-rated singles wrestler” in the world, then threw it to the Bucks to plug their merch before hitting his Good Bye and Good Night signoff. Great night overall.
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