-AR Fox worked the dark match in tag team action. That’s interesting because it’s the first time Fox has worked in ROH, and it was just reported a few days ago that Lucha Underground wanted to bring him in.
-Nigel McGuinness announced Lethal vs. Strong for the ROH world title at ‘Death Before Dishonor’ on 7/24. He also announced a four-way for the tag titles with The Addiction defending against War Machine, The Kingdom and reDRragon.
-This is the 200th ROH television taping.
EPISODE #1
(1) Dalton Castle def. Watanabe.
-Jay Lethal came out with Truth Martini, J. Diesel and Donovan Dijak behind him. The crowd set in with “you deserve it” chants, so Truth drew some heat by trashing the crowd and the city. He called Lethal the greatest first generation wrestler in history and the undisputed champion of the world. Lethal calls himself the “best in the world”, and refuses to vacate the TV title after working so hard to raise its value. Nigel tells him if he wants to have two titles he has to defend two titles, and the House of Truth freaks out and says the GM is “stack the deck” against them. Lethal vs. Mark Briscoe is official for the TV title on next week’s episode. Roderick Strong came out and had a staredown with the champ.
(2) Michael Elgin & reDRagon def. Adam Cole & The Kingdom. They might be building some tension between Cole and the other members of The Kingdom, in particular Maria. Go out of your way to see this match when it airs on TV.
