The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for January 30, 2016

Roderick Strong retains the ROH World Television Championship against Masada after Masada's sharp bamboo sticks backfire. After the match, Bobby Fish trolls Roddy yet again, saying that Roddy is ducking him after Final Battle. Roddy says Bobby can't handle defeat, but Bobby says Roddy is staring defeat in the face after what happened at Final Battle. Roddy thinks Bobby is a sore loser, but Bobby thinks Roddy is just running away and wants to go to war. Bobby says he's a patient man, and he has no place better to be than up in Roddy's face.

Punisher Martinez beats Colby Corino to continue to the second round of the Top Prospect 2016 Tournament. After the match, BJ Whitmer tells Colby he did good, then tells Colby to tell Mr. Wrestling III to take off his mask. He tells Colby that he has shown him nothing but love, something that Steve Corino has supposedly never done. BJ Whitmer then tells Mr. Wrestling III to take off his mask. He refuses, and BJ Whitmer almost turns on Colby for going back to his dad on Christmas. He can forgive Colby, but not the sins of his father, and attacks Colby with numerous suplexes. Mr. Wrestling III stands up and watches as officials tell him to stop, then BJ Whitmer gets out of the ring and gets in Mr. Wrestling III's face.

Nigel McGuiness replaces Mr. Wrestling III on commentary, after Mr. Wrestling III helps Colby Corino to the back during the break.

reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) beat Jay Lethal and Adam Cole after Jay Lethal accidentally hits the Lethal Injection on Adam Cole after Bobby Fish pushes him into Kyle O'Reilly, pushing O'Reilly out of harm's way and lining up Cole for the finisher.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for November 21, 2015

Moose beats Dominick Carter with a single Spear. Stokely Hathaway then sends a message to Jay Lethal: if and when he gets the opportunity, he will take the World Television Championship from him. He then says that this message sounds familiar, as "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin said this last week. He has no hard feelings towards Elgin, but tells Elgin he's bigger, stronger and just plain better than him, and that he can't even beat Moose. As soon as he tells Elgin to get to the back of the line, Elgin shows up and tells Hathaway that if Moose wants real competition and wants to speak for himself, he's standing right here. Moose grabs the mic and says he can do it right here, right now. Suddenly, The House of Truth (Truth Martini, Donovan Dijak, J. Diesel, Taeler Hendrix) shows up, and Truth Martini makes fun of everyone in the ring. Elgin says he can take down both J. Diesel and Donovan Dijak right now, and then show Taeler Hendrix a good time. Hathaway is also open to giving them a beatdown, and both Moose and Elgin end up being on the same side in an impromptu match against Dijak and J. Diesel.

Moose and "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin beat The House of Truth (Donovan Dijak and J. Diesel), despite the two of them not getting along.

BJ Whitmer, Adam Page and Colby Corino are in the ring. BJ Whitmer says that Steve Corino is scared of him and tried to quit to get out of a match with him, and calls the audience idiots for buying his speech from last week. He also verbally attacks Nigel McGuinness, saying he did the same thing as Corino. McGuinness gets in the ring and says he's sick of hearing Whitmer talk, and says that if Corino can't be at Final Battle, neither can BJ Whitmer or Adam Page. He then calls for security to get them out of the ring.

Roderick Strong beats Jay Lethal to win the ROH World Television Championship!

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for October 31, 2015

Kyle O'Reilly vows revenge on Adam Cole for screwing him out of the ROH World Champion at All-Star Extravaganza!

Mark Briscoe and ROH matchmaker Nigel McGuiness will be on commentary throughout the episode.

During their tag team match with The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), Silas Young says that the Bucks were originally supposed to face The Boys (The Tate Twins), and since he and The Beer City Bruiser fought some of the battle for them, he forces them to "finish" it against the Bucks.

The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) beats The Boys (The Tate Twins - Brandon & Brent), who are decked out in less flashy attire, may I add. Despite doing their best in the match  - Silas and BCB attack the Boys, but the Young Bucks come to their aid by superkicking Beer City Bruiser, but Silas escapes.

Back from commercial, BJ Whitmer taunts Nigel McGuiness to leave ringside, but Mark Briscoe jumps to his defense.

Kevin Kelly announces that Nigel McGuiness was handed "papers" earlier today, which means that Veda Scott is filing a lawsuit of some sort against Ring of Honor.

Roderick Strong beats Will Ferrera with the Strong Hold submission. The two adhere to the Code of Honor after the match.

"The Exotic Goddess" Mandy Leon breaks down the rivalry between Roderick Strong and Jay Lethal on this week's "Inside ROH".

Jay Lethal guests on commentary for the main event match.

Before the three-way main event, Nigel McGuiness throws out everybody in the corner of the three opponents.

Adam Cole beats Kyle O'Reilly and A.J. Styles. The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett) attacks O'Reilly afterwards, but are followed by Bobby Fish, Michael Elgin and The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), who join in on the brawl. The Bullet Club (Styles, Bucks) finish off The Kingdom with a double Metzler Driver. Jay Lethal comes back into the ring and have a stare down with A.J. Styles, holding up both his championships to end the show.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for October 24, 2015

Moose beats Donovan Dijak with the spear.

A newly aggressive Dalton Castle beats Cedric Alexander in his first match since  losing his boys to Silas Young at All-Star Extravaganza. Veda Scott grabs the mic and accuses Nigel McGuiness for "forcing" Cedric in a No Disqualification Match at ASE. She says that he should have not been in that kid of environment and that they are not barbarians. Veda says that they are going to settle this in the most civil way possible: in court. She is now looking to sue Ring of Honor for putting Cedric in the match.

Jay Lethal and Truth Martini shows up. Before Martini could get a sentence in, Roderick Strong immediately interrupts. Roddy congratulates The H.O.T. for making history, and he also congratulates Lethal - and offers his hand to him. Lethal doesn't accept. He congratulates Martini and says that if it weren't for him, Lethal wouldn't even be in Ring of Honor. Lethal grabs the mic and says that he is the best in the world. Roddy wants one more match, but Lethal turns him down, and says that he has beat him a thousand times. Lethal says that he will make the decision on who he will defend his titles against. he calls Nigel out to settle the dispute, who agrees that Roddy has to go back to the back of the line, and that A.J. Styles is the #1 contender for the World title. However, there is no #1 contender for the Television title. Nigel makes Roddy the new #1 contender for the Television title, much to the dismay of Jay Lethal.

"The Exotic Goddess" Mandy Leon breaks down the Best of Five Series matches between Matt Sydal and A.C.H. on this week's "Inside ROH"!

Michael Elgin & reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) beats The Kingdom (Michael Bennett, Adam Cole, Matt Taven). After the match, Nigel McGuiness announces that Adam Cole will face off against A.J. styles in next week's main event!

Wrestler of the Day - 10/24: Jay Lethal!

Short Wrestler and Matches of the Day posts for the rest of this week. I'm sorry.

Today's Wrestler of the Day is the current ROH World and TV Champion and one of the best wrestlers working in the world, Jay Lethal!

Here's a match of his from Impact Wrestling, when he faced A.J. Styles back at Slammiversary 2010.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for October 10, 2015

Matt Sydal beats ACH in an incredible match to tie the Best of Five Series at two wins a piece. After the match, Sydal holds up the peace sign (which ACH did earlier in the match), signifying that he's two wins in the series. Suddenly, The Addiction (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Chris Sabin) ambush both ACH and Sydal.

Frankie Kazarian claims that their ROH World Tag Team titles were "stolen" from them and calls ROH tyrannical. Kaz then mocks a "Texan accent", and they demand that justice is served. Daniels says that he is addressing the "charlottian" that interfered in their match (who turned out to be Chris Sabin, their partner). He also blames Nigel McGuiness for their title loss and still declares the team champions. The ANX (Rhett Titus & Kenny King) interrupt Daniels' rant, in which Titus says that the "ANX party is in town". King says that he and Titus are the actual unpinned, un-submitted tag team champions, and King states their claim to being ROH World Tag Team Champions once again.

During the commercial break, Nigel McGuiness signed a tag team match for Ring of Honor television next: All Night Xpress vs. The Addiction!

Silas Young, along with Beer City Bruiser and Dalton Castle's former boys are in the ring. Silas is chomping down their throats already, telling them to get actual wrestling gear and rid themselves of their trademark Castle attire. Silas then says that he's gonna teach them to be men by having them wrestle in matches, which he signals for the Beer City Bruiser to attack them and start an impromptu tag match.

Silas Young & The Beer City Bruiser quickly beat The Boys. Beer City Bruiser carries the latter out after the match.

Truth Martini and Jay Lethal says that Takaaki Watanabe is going to get the biggest English lesson of his life by saying, "Jay Lethal is the best wrestler in the world."

"The Exotic Goddess" Mandy Leon breaks down the fallout of the ROH World Title main event at All-Star Extravaganza and The Kindgom's domination on this week's "Inside ROH".

Jay Lethal beats Takaaki Watanabe to retain the ROH World Television Championship!

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for August 29, 2015

Jay Briscoe vs. Adam Page ends in no contest when the latter introduces a chair into the match. Page then lays Jay out with the Rite of Passage, before Mark Briscoe comes out and evens the odds with a steel chair of his own.

Dalton Castle says that he accepts Silas Young's challenge for "his boys", and he plans to retain them in their upcoming match.

Before Caprice Coleman vs. Cedric Alexander, Cedric says that he does not need to face Caprice since he's beaten Moose... twice. Caprice calls Veda out for helping Cedric stick to his matches. This sets Veda off, and she motions for her client to go on with the match.

Caprice Coleman beats Cedric Alexander, when he takes the wrench out the latter's hands. Moose knocks Cedric out afterwards. Prince Nana comes out to ringside and hands Caprice Coleman a mysterious envelope.

Cheeseburger beats "Brutal" Bob Evans via count--out after countering being put through a table.

Jay Lethal says that the reason that Hanson keeps talking about the past is that he is not as noteworthy as he is, and says that a few weeks after he loses this match, Hanson will be never heard of again.

"The Exotic Goddess" Mandy Leon runs down ROH's championship episode next week on Inside ROH.

Bobby Fish guests on commentary for the next match.

Jay Lethal beats Hanso to retain the ROH World Television Championship! Bobby Fish says that he will take the title from Lethal, and that latter says that he can take on both members of reDRagon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish). The team meets Lethal in the ring for a confrontation, as Roderick Strong watches from the ramp to end the show.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for July 11, 2015

Matt Sydal beats Adam Page with the Shooting Star Press. B.J. Whitmer attacks Matt Syadal and orders Colby Corino to grabs some chairs. A.C.H. runs in for the save momentarily until he gets hits with a chair. Adam Page then hits the Rite of Passage to Matt Sydal on a pile of steel chairs and he had to carried out afterwards.

Cedric Alexander, who now has the managerial services of Veda Scott, will face Moose at Death Before Dishonor XIII.

Veda Scott is at ringside. She says that Moose failed at being a football player, and that Cedric "bringing a wrench into the match" made him fail at being a professional wrestler. She says that having celebrity friends do not win matches, but ruthless aggression and being under her tutelage wins matches. With this, she vows that Cedric Alexander will take everything that he never deserved.

Will Ferrera beats Silas Young following the distraction by Dalton Castle's servants. The former lays them out afterwards.

The Briscoes (Jay & Mark) hypes the 200th episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling next week!

Mandy Leon discusses Cedric Alexander joining forces with Veda Scott on this week's Inside ROH.

Jay Lethal beats Mark Briscoe to retain the ROH World Television Championship. Jay Briscoe, who attacked J. Diesel at ringside, goes into the ring and he and Lethal go at it. Roderick Strong storms the ring to assist Jay Briscoe and attacks Jay Lethal. Roddy grabs the mic and challenges the House of Truth (Lethal, Diesel, Dijak) to a six man tag team match. But, ODB grabs the mic and instead challenges the faction to an eight man tag team match, thus adding Truth Martini to the mix.

Death Before Dishonor XIII will air on internet pay-per-view on July 24th, 2015!

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for May 2, 2015

Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith, Jr. and Lance Archer)'s debut match against War Machine (Raymond Rowe and Hanson) ends in a no contest when referee Paul Turner calls for the bell due to no longer being able to control the match. This doesn't stop the two opposing teams, as they (along with K.E.S. endorser, Michael Elgin) continue to brawl in the ring.

We recap the official debut of The Knights of the Rising Dawn, who are revealed to be Chris Sabin and the new ROH World Tag Team Champions, The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian).

Jay Lethal beats Tommaso Ciampa to retain the ROH World Television Championship when Lethal low blows Ciampa and hits the Lethal Injection while Todd Sinclair forces Truth Martini and Donovan Dijak to leave ringside. After the match, a seemingly humble Ciampa, reaches out to Todd Sinclair for a handshake - only for him the low blow Todd Sinclair and hit multiple knee strikes to the latter in the corner of the ring.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for April 11, 2015

This week's episode has select matches from Supercard of Honor IX.

Adam Cole joins on commentary as he recovers from injury.

Jay Lethal tells Jushin "Thunder" Liger that he's just a stepping stone for him and that he stands in his way towards what will be a record-breaking reign with the ROH World Television Championship.

Jay Lethal retains the ROH World Television Championship against Jushin "Thunder" Liger after Liger is distracted by the title belt, which is unsuccessfully

Jay Briscoe tells Samoa Joe that things have changed since Joe left...including Briscoe himself. Briscoe says Joe will have to kill him to take the ROH World Championship from him.

Jay Briscoe retains the ROH World Championship against Samoa Joe.

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wrestling recap for March 21, 2015

Roderick Strong beats Bobby Fish. Roddy says that whoever's the World Champion - whether it be Jay Briscoe or Samoa Joe - they are his.

This year's Top Prospect Tournament winner Donovan Dijak is scheduled to face Jay Lethal for the ROH World Television Championship. However, things change when Truth Martini runs his famous con game on Dijak, which results in Donovan is shaking Martini's hand, thus joining the House of Truth. The flamboyant Dalton Castle makes his way to the ring and calls out Donovan Dijak for not taking the Television Title natch instead. He then challenges Jay Lethal to match for the TV title, but a disgusted Lethal turns him down. When Dalton brings up challenging Jay Briscoe for his title because he heard that he's a real champion, that struck a nerve in Lethal and he viciously attacks Dalton Castle,making the World Television title match official.

Jay Lethal beats Dalton Castle with the help of Donovan Dijak to retain the ROH World Television Championship.

Knights of the Rising Dawn cut into the feed of reDRagon, they say their targets have systematically been selected both good & evil, they’re presence has been made, but it has not been felt, their power can not be stopped.

Jay Briscoe beats Jimmy Jacobs to retain the ROH World Championship. After the match, Jay offers up his hand. A teary-eyed Jacobs accepts, and shakes his hand in respect.

Next week on Ring of Honor Wrestling: Samoa Joe makes his in-ring ROH return as he takes on Kyle O'Reilly!

The Code of Honor - Ring of Honor Wresting Recap for February 21, 2015

Truth Martini sits for Steve Corino on commentary.

Alberto El Patron defeated ACH with the Cross armbar!

Footage of The Briscoes (Mark & Jay) training ODB at their farm in Sandy Fork, Delaware is shown. The training activities were exercises such as: (list exercises)

Michael Elgin defeated Mark Briscoe with his brother Jay Briscoe's signature Jay Driller. After the match, Elgin grabs a piece of the turnbuckle to use on Mark. Before any damage could be done, Jay Briscoe hits the ring and Elgin makes a run for it. However, when Jay turns around, Elgin hits Jay with the ROH World title belt. Tommaso Ciampa attacks Elgin behind, laying him out, only for Hanson to attack Ciampa from behind. Seeing Hanson holding the title belt, Jay Briscoe charges back in on the attack, taking the fight outside of the ring. Briscoe, Hanson and Elgin all go at it until Ciampa hits a diving crossbody from the tuop tirnbuckle to the outside of the ring, hitting Jay and Hanson as Elgin moves out of the way.

Jimmy Jacobs guest on commentary for the main event match.

With the attack by B.J. Whitmer on Roderick Strong, the match ends in disqualification. Afterwards, Roddy challenges Jay Lethal to restart the match, because he did not beat him the first go round. In the restart of the match, Jay Lethal retains the ROH World Television Championship. Backstage, Roddy and B.J. Whitmer brawl and other wrestlers and officials keep them off of each other. Meanwhile, in the ring, Lethal is still in, but is met with Alberto El Patron, who attacks him and Lethal and Martini flee the ring.

***No review this week. I will put all of my thoughts into my predictions for the ROH 13th Anniversary event which will take place on March 1st.***

The Code of Honor: Ring of Honor Wrestling Recap + Review for January 24, 2015

Show Results:

1. The Briscoes (Jay & Mark) defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett) via disqualification when Bennett hits Jay with the "Title of Love". The Kingdom continues to attack The Briscoes until out of nowhere... ODB MAKES HER DEBUT, hitting Taven with a steel chair and sets her eyes on Maria until Bennett takes her out of the ring, and The Kingdom makes a run for it. Kevin Kelly interviews ODB, and she says that she's here to send a message to the Queen and that she's One. Dirty. Briscoe.
2. Top Prospect Tournament (1st Round): The Beer City Bruiser defeated Mikey Webb to advance to the semi-finals.
3. A robotic voice is looking at a TV screen saying that they are coming. Suddenly, a person with a mask is revealed. Who is coming?
4. We look at Alberto El Patron's ROH TV debut from last week.
5. Jay Lethal guests on commentary for the next match.
6. Alberto El Patron defeated Christopher Daniels with the armbar. El Patron shakes Daniels' hand after the match. Jay Lethal goes into the ring and demands an apology for El Patron "disrespecting" him. Alberto attacks Lethal, but J. Diesel sneak attacks Alberto. The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) make the save and The H.O.T. flees.

Review:

Sup, everyone and welcome to the January 24, 2015 edition of the Ring of Honor Wrestling review. First off, let me just apologize for not review ROH last week. That was a total bummer on my part. Now, the key things I am going to shine some light on in this review are: a shocking debut, continuation of the Top Prospect Tournament, and Alberto El Patron's in-ring debut. Without further ado, lets get down to it!

A Shocking Debut...

This episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling started off with a bang when long-time rivals The Briscoes and The Kingdom faced off in tag team action. The Briscoes scored the DQ win when The Kingdom just blatantly attacked one of the bros with the "Title of Love". The highlight of the whole entire melee is when freaking ODB made her debut in Ring of Honor, with her eyes set on the self-proclaimed Queen, Maria Kanellis-Bennett. To take you guys back a couple years, Maria entered a rivalry with perhaps one of the best female wrestlers to ever lace up a pair of boots: Sara Del Rey. Unfortunately, their rivalry was suddenly put to a halt when Del Rey signed a contract with the WWE as the female trainer for WWE's developmental territory, NXT. Now, it seems that history is sort of repeating itself, and hopefully, we can get some length into this newly created female rivalry and hopefully we can  see a one-on-one encounter between these two ladies? Either way, I'm all for ODB in ROH, and as she says, she is One. Dirty. Briscoe.

Continuation of the Top Prospect Tournament!

Round one of the Top Prospect Tournament continues with young gun Mikey Webb taking on the 12-year veteran (and the man with insanely low levels of hygienics, so it seems) The Beer City Bruiser! Needless to say, this match was a hard-hitting one, especially with The BCB dominating a great portion of the match (it took Webb most of the match to knock the 300-pounder of his feet). Webb was able to get some offense in, but the Bruiser was almost always there to stop his momentum... yikes! The Beer City Bruiser gains the victory to advance to the semi-finals. I don't know about guys, but this guy is definitely one of my favorites to win the tournament... all bad hygiene aside.

Alberto El Patron's in-ring debut!

FINALLY! Alberto El Paaaaaaaaatron makes his highly-anticipated debut against one of the founding fathers of Ring of Honor, Christopher Daniels. Man, this match was a classic! El Patron has not missed a beat and to be perfectly honest, ROH may just be the company that can bring out the absolute best in him. I did not thikin for one second that the main event would be as incredible as it was. A definite five star match, indeed. But, the 800-pound Gorilla in the ring was the fact that the Television Champion Jay Lethal was on commentary during the match and demanded an apology for the way Alberto so-called "disrespected" him last week. El Patron won the match with his signature armbar and afterwards, he and Lethal face off in the ring once again, this time El Patron handing him a taste of his own medicine by attacking him. Lethal's H.OT. stablemates  J. Diesel and Truth Martini come down to the ring to take out El Patron but The Addiction send them running for the hills!

I must say, I am interested to see where this feud goes. I'm more than positive that these two will face off one-on-one in the ring, and when it happens, it will definitely be a match to watch!

Well, that's it for this week, folks. I'll be back next week with another ROH review. HONOR LIVES!