Ring Of Honor TV Recap: Jay Briscoe Vs. Jay White, CMLL Debut And More

RING OF HONOR TV

EPISODE #257

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TAPED AT THE 2300 ARENA ( FKA The ECW Arena) IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Ring of Honor is coming off a highly eventful pay per view this past friday with Death Before Dishonor XIV. A new world champion in Adam Cole and normally the TV show that follows a PPV has great interest based on the fallout and the potential followup. Unfortunately in this case, This show was taped weeks ago . Despite the quality of wrestling in this week’s ROH TV show, No mention or followup to what took place at the ppv. Instead, this episode features three singles matches with an emphasis on the future of the company.

ADAM “HANGMAN” PAGE DEFEATED JONATHAN GRESHAM

The 25 year old Page is coming off of the best performance of his career against Jay Briscoe friday. With the exception of what Brock Lesnar did to Randy Orton at the end of their match on sunday. The most violent match of this past weekend took place between Page and Jay Briscoe friday night in Vegas.

This was a simple showcase match for Page. Gresham who has wrestled in Philly with CZW and as “Suicide” under a mask, had a decent showing in this one but this was all about Adam Page. Page wins this match with his finisher a back to belly type piledriver he calls, “The Rite of Passage”. The same move he beat Jay Briscoe with at the ppv.

-The Cabinet does a promo complete with presidential music. Running with the theme of “Making Wrestling Great Again”… Somehow they forgot about Darren Young. The Cabinet continues their message of being on a mission to clean up wrestling. They plan on continuing their campaign next week on ROH TV when they face Dalton Castle and his boys.

– Kevin Kelly at ringside promotes next week’s ROH show. He announces that The Addiction will defend their titles against The Young Bucks and that The War Machine will face off with Keith Lee and Shane Taylor. Next week’s ROH TV will be the last from these set of tapings in Philly before the recent tapings in Vegas begin to air in September.

– An NJPW on AXS TV ad airs. A few of these ads actually aired during ROH’s PPV on friday. The cross promotion continues.

KAMAITACHI DEFEATED STUKA JR

This was billed as a New Japan vs CMLL match with Stuka Jr. being the first CMLL wrestler to ever appear in ROH. Stuka Jr. is a veteran CMLL wrestler who adopted the junior tag from his brother. Stuka Jr. had an …

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