DVD Review - ROH Chaos at the Cow Palace‏

Submitted By James Walsh on 08/04/08

Thanks to OnlineWorldofWrestling.com for the following: INTRODUCTION: The DVD started with a promo from Nigel McGuinness expressing his pride on recently becoming ROH World champion. McGuinness also pointed out that he never thought about what it would be like AFTER he won the championship. McGuinness talked about Samoa Joe’s legacy, and said that his legacy has just gotten started. The legendary Cow Palace was made famous by the Roy Shire promotion from the 50s all the way up to the 80s. It was also the site of Eddie Guerrero’s one and only WWE world title victory. On this particular weekend, San Francisco played host to one of the biggest fiascos in the history of pro-wrestling. A massive fan convention was promoted and arranged by a couple of pathetic idiots, and the entire thing turned out to be the most disastrous events in the history of earth. I don’t even know what happened to the criminals who put this event together but they should be in jail. Ring of Honor was not an official part of this convention, but they just happen to be in town taking advantage of so many wrestling fans being in one place at the same time. It turns out Ring of Honor was the silver lining on an otherwise abysmal weekend for thousands of wrestling fans. SINGLES MATCH Chris Hero w/Larry Sweeney vs. Human Tornado: The Survival of the Fittest champion, Chris Hero, didn’t waste time taking advantage of the bragging rights that he earned two days earlier in Las Vegas when he defeated Claudio Castagnoli in the SOTF finals. Hero was beaming with confidence, even more than usual, as he wrestled California’s own, Human Tornado. Chris Hero did a fine job of making the Tornado look good enough to hopefully get invited to the east coast for future ROH events. Hero forced Tornado to submit via the Hangman’s Clutch. Larry Sweeney jumped into the ring and proceeded to insult and degrade the history of San Francisco wrestling until Claudio Castagnoli hit the ring to chase the Sweet & Sour kids away. FIP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH Roderick Strong (c) vs. Claudio Castagnoli: Claudio Castagnoli cut a promo saying Ring of Honor was honored to be in San Francisco at the legendary Cow Palace, inciting a loud “ROH!” chant. Castagnoli said that he wanted to make some more history tonight (by winning the FIP title). Despite their physical differences, these two actually had a lot of good chemistry. Roddy won with a Gut-buster, followed by a Gibson-driver, to retain his FIP World championship! SINGLES MATCH “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce w/Shane Hagadorn vs. Karl “Machine Gun” Anderson: Adam Pearce would be slightly less entertaining if he didn’t have that foolish man-servant, Shane Hagadorn, hanging around all the time. I never noticed this before, but Karl Anderson totally has an old-school look about him. He would have fit in with any promotion from the 1970s or 1980s. It was a good showing by Mr. Machine Gun but Adam Pearce was victorious at the end of the bout. Shane Hagadorn did his job and patted his mentor on the back for a job well done. Delirious ran down and Adam Pearce pushed Shane Hagadorn in his path of fury. Pearce retreated while Delirious proceed to bite Hagadorn’s forehead until the blood began to flow! Brent Albright ran down to attack Delirious and before you could say “Crippler Ray Stevens” another match had begun. GRUDGE MATCH Delirious vs. Brent Albright w/Adam Pearce: Adam Pearce stuck around ringside, while his bloodied man-servant was helped backstage by some members of Cow Palace security. Delirious is working his way through the HANGMEN 3 faction, trying to get his hands on Adam Pearce, but isn’t having much luck with that mission! The problem is that he’s going to war all by himself against four very large angry men. I want to go on record that I absolutely hate the orange Anvil-like beard that Delirious has grown. He should totally dye it green! Delirious applied the Cobra-stretch, but Brent Albright escaped and cinched in the Crowbar submission. After a couple more reversals, Delirious looked to have the match won but Adam Pearce got up on the apron to distract the referee. Delirious went after Pearce, but was nailed by Albright with a Half-nelson-suplex - giving Albright the victory! Delirious needs to reload, and get some more guns to back him up! :: DISCUSS THIS POST ON THE FORUMS! :: SEE MICKIE JAMES & THE DIVAS NUDE! :: BUY WRESTLING DVD'S THROUGH OUR STORE! :: GO BACK TO THE HOME PAGE WRESTLING EPICENTER STORE IS OPEN! THE HOTTEST WRESTLING DVD'S ARE NOW AVAILABLE! We've got hundreds of pro wrestling DVD's at your fingertips! 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