ROH Episode 387 (Review)

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6 Man Mayhem:  Shane Taylor gets the Victory

This week’s Ring of Honor television show kicks off with a 6 Man Mayhem Match.  There’s no introductions or entrances.  We get straight to the action.  The rules for this match are Lucha Rules.  If a man leaves the ring, another one can enter without a tag.  Anyone can tag anyone.  Chris Sabin, Kenny King, Rhett Titus, Flip Gordon, Shane Taylor, and Luchasaurus.

The match starts off with Luchasaurus and Chris Sabin in the match.  After a quick back and forth, Rhett Titus and Kenny King both wind up in the ring. This is a matchup of former tag team partners.  They go through a quick series of moves, reversals, and near misses only to have Shane Taylor wind up in the ring.  He goes for a double clothesline.  King and Titus duck.  King and Titus bust out some old All Night Xpress double team moves.

After some mayhem, Gordon winds up in the ring and hits a nice spring board cutter.  Taylor takes out Gordon with a HUGE shoulder block on Gordon.  After a commercial, we get back and the match has broken down.  Titus hits a dive on the outside.  King with a block buster on the outside.  Luchasaurus hits some impressive kicks.  Shane Taylor hits a massive cannonball on the outside.  Finally, Flip hits a flip dive on the outside to everyone else.

After all the chaos, we enter the final segment of the match.  Gordon somehow winds up hitting a 450 for a near fall on Shane Taylor.  Kenny King pulls Gordon out of the ring to stop the count.  Gordon’s back in and is going for a springboard move when King nails him with a chair.  The referee ejects Kenny King. I guess multi-man matches in ROH are not no disqualification.

Chris Sabin Injured

Complete ACL tear. 8 – 12 months.

— chriSabin (@SuperChrisSabin) January 23, 2019

Somewhere in all this mess, Chris Sabin is injured.  He took to twitter to announce he’ll be out for 8-12 months.  He did not have any action the last few minutes of this match.  The final moments came with Shane Taylor no selling a Samoan Drop from Rhett Titus.  Taylor pops up and hits Greetings from 216 for the win.

Overall, a pretty fun match.  Luchasaurus is impressive.  I’m not so sure about that gimmick, but he’s an agile big man with a moveset that could get over.  It’s a shame for Chris Sabin.  With ROH in roster overhaul, he may have had a chance to move up the card.  Shane Taylor gets the victory, but I’m not so sure a returning Flip Gordon didn’t need it more.  All in all, a very solid opener.

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