Source: PWInsider.com
We are in Baltimore, Maryland and your announcers are Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino.
Match Number One: Roderick Strong versus Papadon
They lock up and Papadon with a wrist lock but Strong with a cartwheel and reversal. Papadon with a side head lock and shoulder tackle. Strong with a leap frog and rollup for a near fall. Papadon with a punch and chop to Strong. Papadon with a forearm followed by an Irish whip and Strong floats over and hits a leg lariat for a near fall.
Strong goes for a half nelson back breaker but Papadon blocks it. Strong pulls Papadon out of the corner and hits a back breaker for a near fall. Strong sets for a Gibson Driver but Papadon blocks it and Papadon hits a tilt-a-whirl back breaker and reverse DDT for a near fall.
Strong blocks a suplex with a knee to the head and then he connects with a series of kicks to Papadon. Papadon crotches Strong in the ropes and hits a running European uppercut followed by a DDT while Strong is hanging from the middle rope. Papadon gets a near fall.
Papadon with kicks to the midsection but Strong ducks a third attempt and Strong with a jumping knee strike followed by a discus forearm and the Strong Breaker for the three count.
Winner: Roderick Strong
After the match, Strong tells whoever is champion, he is coming for him.
We go to commercial.
We are back and before our next match, we see footage of what happened at Glory By Honor when Michael Elgin attacked Hanson.
Michael Elgin comes to the ring with his own personal videographer. Elgin gets on the mic. He says that it seems like his message has been misinterpreted. His issue is with Ring of Honor, not with the people in the crowd or in the locker room . . . unless they get in his way. He says that everything he says and everything he does is because he wants to say and do it.
Elgin tells Hanson that it looks like people want to see a fight. Elgin says that he came here for a fight. Elgin goes after Hanson and the referee calls for the bell.
Match Number Two: Hanson versus Michael Elgin
Elgin and Hanson with punches but Hanson gains the advantage. Elgin with a kick and punches to the jaw. Hanson pushes Elgin and Elgin with a shoulder tackle, but Hanson does not move. Hanson tries for a shoulder tackle and Elgin does not move. Elgin with another shoulder tackle attempt and Hanson does not move. Elgin clotheslines Hanson over the top rope but Hanson pulls Elgin to the floor and sends Elgin into the guardrails. Hanson with a suicide dive.
Hanson rolls Elgin back into the ring and puts Elgin on the turnbuckles. Hanson with forearms across the midsection but Elgin with knees. Hanson with a clothesline into the corner followed by an Irish whip. Hanson runs into a boot but he blocks it. Elgin with an enzuigiri. Elgin has a clothesline blocked. Hanson with a cartwheel followed by a clothesline for a near fall.
Hanson tries for the Spin Kick of Doom but Elgin blocks it and he hits a power bomb. Hanson rolls to the apron and rests on a ringside table. Elgin sets to superplex Hanson back into the ring but Hanson stops him with a forearm. Hanson tries to get back into the ring but Elgin with a kick. Elgin goes to the turnbuckles with Hanson hanging on the middle rope.
Elgin hits a Harlem Hangover on Hanson and then he goes up top and hits a frog splash for a near fall. Elgin sets for a double underhook DDT but Hanson runs him and Elgin through the ropes. Hanson punches Elgin and connects with a knee to the midsection. Hanson sends Elgin into the guardrails and then he pulls up the mats to expose the floor. Elgin with kicks to Hanson and Elgin decides to pull up some mats on his own.
Elgin sets for the double underhook DDT on the floor but Hanson with a back body drop. Hanson goes under the ring and he pulls out a table that is covered by captured streamers. The camera guy climbs on Hanson’s back and Hanson with a snap mare and then he is thrown into the guardrails.
Elgin picks up a side of the table and sends it into Hanson’s face. Elgin sets up the table and he sends Hanson face first into the table. Elgin gets on the apron and he picks up Hanson for the double underhook DDT through the table and the referee calls for the bell.
No Contest
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
