Milestone Series
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In 2006, Ring of Honor ran seven shows known as the Milestone Series. The series included ROH’s fourth anniversary, ROH first time running a show at the ECW Arena, ROH’s first triple shot weekend (three back to back shows), and ROH’s 100th show.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Fourth Anniversary Show
Ring of Honor begun the Mileston Series with the celebration of their fourth anniversary on February 25, 2006 in Edison, NJ.
- The Briscoe Brothers defeated Tony Mamaluke and Salvatore Rinauro and Jason Blade and Kid Maikze in a three way match.
- Adam Pearce defeated Claudio Castagnoli, Jay Fury and Azrieal in a four corners survival match.
- Samoa Joe defeated Jay Lethal.
- BJ Whitmer vs. Christopher Daniels with Allison Danger and Lacey ended in a no contest.
- During the match, the two wrestled to the floor and into the crowd. While they were in the crowd, CZW wrestlers, led by Chris Hero, ran into the ring halting the show. Hero got on the microphone and antagonized the fans while the CZW wrestlers kept the Ring of Honor roster from getting into the ring. Adam Pearce managed to get and grab a hold of Chris Hero. While the CZW wrestlers attempted to get Pearce off of Hero, the ROH wrestlers managed to get into the ring, creating a massive brawl. When the ROH and CZW wrestlers spilled out to the floor, Hero ran back into the ring and proclaimed on the microphone that nobody could stop him, causing Samoa Joe to appear and answer his challenge. Eventually the CZW wrestlers were ejected from the arena, but that did not stop the brawl. As soon as things had settled down a little, and the ROH wrestlers were left standing in the ring, the Briscoe brothers attacked the ROH Tag Team Champions Generation Next (Austin Aries and Roderick Strong). Jack Evans and Matt Sydal came in to save their teammates, chasing away the Briscoes. Things appeared to be settling down again until Colt Cabana and Homicide came brawling from the back to start their match.
- Homicide with Julius Smokes defeated Colt Cabana in a Ghetto Street fight.
- The referee ended the match after Cabana was no longer in any condition to continue. As Homicide was leaving, Cabana got on the microphone and said the way Homicide was going to when the match was if he killed Cabana. The match restarted, but the referee stopped the match again after Homicide, along with Smokes and Ricky Reyes, tied Cabana to the ring ropes and beat on him. As Homicide was leaving again, Cabana got back on the microphone and said he wasn’t dead yet. Homicide yelled “It’s over” and continued walking out, but Cabana brought up his son, enraging him. Homicide ran down to the ring and the match was restarted for the second time. Despite piledriving Homicide through a table, Cabana lost after the referee stopped the match for the third and final time.
- Bobby Dempsey defeated Mitch Franklin.
- This match was not released on the dvd.
- ROH World Championship match: Bryan Danielson defeated Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana to retain the title.
- Ricky Reyes defeated Jack Evans.
- ROH World Tag Team Championship match: Generation Next (Austin Aries and Roderick Strong) defeated AJ Styles and Matt Sydal.
- After the match, the Briscoe Brothers ran down and attacked Generation Next for the second time. AJ Styles and Matt Sydal helped chase them off, and the Briscoes left saying they wanted the tag titles.
[edit] Arena Warfare
Arena Warfare took place on March 11, 2006 at the famed ECW Arena in Philadelphia, PA. ROH ran a double show with Combat Zone Wrestling, with ROH fans sitting on one side of the arena and CZW fans sitting on the other. The two companies agreed to run the show months before hand, but a feud had begun between the two companies, which led to several problems before and during the show. Also, ROH decided to honor the ECW Arena by having a Three Way Dance, a match that help make ECW famous, as the main event. However, Samoa Joe had transportation troubles and arrived late to the arena, and ROH was forced to alter the match.
- Homicide and Ricky Reyes beat The Ring Crew Express, the Briscoe Brothers and Jason Blade and Kid Mikaze in a three way match.
- BJ Whitmer , angry about CZW invading the Fourth Anniversary Show, called out CZW’s Necro Butcher, but he did not show. Whitmer responded to his absence by saying “That’s what I expected from a CZW wrestler.”
- Roderick Strong defeated Jimmy Yang.
- BJ Whitmer again called out Necro Butcher, who showed up this time. The two began to brawl until Super Dragon came out to help Butcher. The two continued to attack Whitmer until members of the ROH locker room came out and chased them away.
- Austin Aries defeated Matt Sydal.
- After the match, the Briscoes came out and attacked Aries before Roderick Strong came out to save his partner. Matt Sydal challenged the Briscoes to a tag match at the 100th Show.
- The Dempsey Brothers defeated Pelle Primeau and Shane Hagadorn.
- This match was not released on the dvd.
- Irish Airborne defeated Tony Mamaluke and Sal Rinauro.
- ROH World Championship match: Bryan Danielson (“The best technical wrestler to ever wrestle in the ECW Arena!") defeated Alex Shelley with Prince Nana to retain the title.
- During the match, Shelley became so annoyed by a fat fan chanting “Boring” that he challenged the man to get in the ring and do better (which the audience responded to by chanting “Let’s go fat guy”). When the fan didn’t except the offer, Shelley responded by saying “You know what that makes you, sir? A pussy!”
- Colt Cabana defeated Christopher Daniels with Allison Danger.
- Samoa Joe would face the winner of the match.
- Samoa Joe defeated Colt Cabana.
- Joe arrived late to the arena and didn’t have time to change, so he wrestled in his street close.
- As soon as Joe vs. Cabana was over, BJ Whitmer hit the ring. Angry over being outnumbered by the CZW wrestlers earlier, Whitmer planned to call out CZW, but before that happened, a CZW fan through a roll of toilet paper at Samoa Joe. Joe calmly walked over the guard rail and grabbed the fan, who tried to run away but was held back by other fans, and handed him to security who carried him out of the building. Whitmer then called out the CZW, resulting in a massive brawl. At first, a few CZW wrestlers emerged and began to brawl with Whitmer and Joe, until Generation Next and students of the ROH Wrestling School showed up to even the odds. The rest of the CZW wrestlers entered the fight, followed by the rest of the ROH locker room. The two companies fought for several minutes, until John Zandig (along with a barbed-wire baseball bat) and Wifebeater (with his trademark weed whacker) entered the fight. Wifebeater ran off the most of the ROH wrestlers with his weed whacker, but BJ Whitmer was held in the ring by the CZW wrestlers. While the Ring of Honor wrestlers fought with some of the CZW wrestlers in the parking lot, the rest tortured Whitmer in the ring. Whitmer, after being ducked taped to the rope, was left defenseless as John Zandig used a staple gun to staple tickets to the ROH show to his back, stomach and forehead. The CZW wrestlers the began to destroy the ROH set, while Zandig held his barbed-wire baseball bat to Whitmer’s head and threatened to kill him if he wasn’t handed a microphone. As soon as he was handed a microphone, Jimmy Bower screamed on commentary to cut filming, as the dvd faded black.
[edit] Best in the World
Best in the World took place on March 25, 2006 at Basketball City in Manhattan, NY. This show featured the second appearance of KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji from Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan.
- The dvd started out with what happened on Arena Warfare after they faded to black. The CZW wrestlers and John Zandig continued to torture BJ Whitmer, while Zandig complained about the ROH show running long and cutting into CZW’s time.
- Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana defeated Pelle Primeau.
- After the match, Rave complained about having to face a ROH student, then said began to badmouth Bruce Leroy, who was sitting at ringside. Jimmy Yang came out to support Leroy.
- Jimmy Yang with Bruce Leroy defeated Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana.
- SHIMMER match: Allison Danger defeated Lacey, Daizee Haze and Mercedes Martinez in a four corners survival match.
- Chris Hero and Necro Butcher defeated Jason Blade and Kid Mikaze.
- Blade and Mikaze had issued an open challenge to any CZW wrestlers.
- ROH granted Hero the opportunity to challenge any ROH wrester, so he chose Adam Pearce, the self-appointed leader of the ROH locker room.
- Adam Pearce vs. Chris Hero with Necro Butcher ended in a no contest.
- After the match, Hero and Butcher continued to attack Pearce. Hero got on the microphone and called out his best friend and tag team partner, Claudio Castagnoli, to help attack Pearce. Castagnoli showed up, but attacked Hero and Butcher, siding with ROH. As Hero left in disbelief, Castagnoli got on the microphone and said “Fuck CZW!”
- Christopher Daniels with Allison Danger defeated Alex Shelley with Prince Nana and Daziee Haze.
- ROH Pure Championship match: Nigel McGuinness defeated Claudio Castagnoli to retain the title.
- This was Castagnoli’s final shot at the title while McGuinness.
- Austin Aries defeated Ricky Reyes with Julius Smokes by disqualification.
- Reyes had caught Aries in a dragon sleep, but when Aries reach the ropes, he refused to break the hold, causing a disqualification. Reyes kept the hold until Roderick Strong and Jack Evans came in to save Aries. The Briscoe Brothers then ran down and attacked Generation Next, starting their match.
- Generation Next (Roderick Strong and Jack Evans) defeated the Briscoe Brothers.
- KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Bryan Danielson and Samoa Joe.
- Joe refused to shake KENTA’s hand. After losing, Joe told KENTA the match didn’t mean anything because he hadn’t pinned Joe and he hadn’t beaten Danielson in a singles match.
[edit] Dragon Gate Challenge
At the end of March, Ring of Honor, for the first time ever, ran three shows in three days. The first show, Dragon Gate Challenge, was on March 30 at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit, MI, and featured three matches between Ring of Honor and Dragon Gate.
- (Dark match): Mitch Franklin defeated Smash Bradley, Derrick Dempsey and Bobby Dempsey in a four corners survival match.
- (Dark match) SHIMMER match: Lacey and Tiana Ringer defeated Allison Danger and Shantelle Taylor.
- Colt Cabana came out and said he could wait until after intermission for his match with Homicide.
- Homicide with Julius Smokes defeated Colt Cabana.
- Homicide sandwiched Cabana in between a ladder on the ground, then hit it as hard as he could with a chair.
- Ricky Reyes with Julius Smokes defeated Chad Collyer.
- BJ Whitmer defeated Jimmy Jacobs with Lacey.
- There was a scary moment in the match when Whitmer, after having picked Jacobs up from a powerbomb off of the top rope, slipped and fell backwards causing Jacobs to fall, bouncing his head off of the top rope and the edge of the ring. Despite the fall, Jacobs got up and continued the match without any sign of injury. Despite it being a show stealing match, Jacobs refused to shake Whitmer’s hand. After Jacobs left, Whitmer got on the microphone and said if Chris Hero and Necro Butcher were in the building he’d be ready for them.
- Ryo Saito defeated Jimmy Yang.
- This was the first match in the Dragon Gate challenge. Dragon Gate -1; Ring of Honor – 0.
- The Embassy (Alex Shelley and Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana and Daizee Haze) defeated Bryan Danielson and Delirious.
- Claudio Castagnoli defeated Shane Hagadorn.
- After the match, Chris Hero and Necro Butcher jumped over the guard rail and confronted Castagnoli. Hero told Castagnoli he would forgive him for what happened at Best in the World if he would join CZW in their fight against Ring of Honor. BJ Whitmer ran out to attack Hero and Butcher, but was outnumbered and beaten by them as Castagnoli looked on. Castagnoli made his decision, and attacked Chris Hero and Necro Butcher, staying with Ring of Honor.
- AJ Styles and Matt Sydal defeated Dragon Kid and Genki Horiguchi.
- This was the second match in the Dragon Gate challenge. Dragon Gate – 1; Ring of Honor – 1.
- Blood Generation (CIMA, Don Fuji and Shingo defeated Generation Next (Austin Aries, Roderick Strong and Jack Evans).
- This was the final match in the Dragon Gate challenge. Dragon Gate – 1; Ring of Honor – 1.
- Christopher Daniels with Allison Danger defeated Samoa Joe.
- This was the first time ever that Christopher Daniels had pinned Samoa Joe in a singles match.
- After Daniels and Danger left, Chris Hero and Necro Butcher appeared again and attacked Samoa Joe. BJ Whitmer ran down and save Joe, and while Hero and Butcher retreated Joe declared war on CZW.
