4.09.2009

ROH Report for April 9

- Tonight, Ring of Honor will tape another episode for their show Ring of Honor Wrestling which airs Saturday nights on HDNet. The show debuted on March 21, 2009, and this weekend's episode will be the fourth of the series. Matches slated for the show are Austin Aries Vs. Roderick Strong, Bryan Danielson Vs. Tyler Black, and Kevin Steen/El Generico Vs. Kenny King/Rhett Titus. The biggest event, though, will be Ric Flair's appearance, which will be his first in the company and at The Arena, tonight's taping site which is widely known as the ECW Arena. It has been rumored hat this is one of many scheduled ROH appearances for the "Nature Boy." Tomorrow night, tapings will continue when two more episodes will be filmed. Matches planned are ROH Tag Team Champions Steen/Generico against The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards/Davey Richards), The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs/Brodie Lee) vs. Necro Butcher/Delirious, and Chris Hero Vs. Eddie Kingston. Other than the wrestlers listed previously, also said to appear will be ROH World Champion Jerry Lynn, Nigel McGuinness, Jay Briscoe, Brent Albright, Colt Cabana, Claudio Castagnoli, Kenny Omega, and the Dark City Fight Club.
- This Saturday night on Ring of Honor Wrestling:
Austin Aries Vs. Kenny Omega, Delirious Vs. Ernie Osiris, a SHIMMER tag team match, and Jerry Lynn Vs. Brodie Lee in the main event.
- As reported by the Wrestling Observer, Bryan Danielson's contract with Ring of Honor ends in May. Once his contract does expire, he plans to travel to Thailand for extensive training. Recently, he has been training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas several hours a day.
- After taunting ROH Tag Champs Steen and Generico for weeks on the Canadian sports station RDS, Sylvan Grenier has confirmed the American Wolves as his partners to combat the Champions and their partner selection Bryan Danielson when ROH returns to Montreal on April 17th.
- ROH's "Buy 3, Get 1 Free" DVD sale continues on rohwrestling.com until Friday morning.
- Mike Quackenbush returns to ROH on May 8th in Boston and on May 9th in Edison.
- ROH will be in Dayton on April 24th. Matches include Chris Hero, and his "loaded elbow", versus Colt Cabana and ROH World Champion Jerry Lynn defending his belt against Roderick Strong. Also, just added, Claudio Castagnoli, Brent Albright, Matt Cross, and Rasche Brown will compete in a Four Corner Survival match.
- ROH returns to Chicago on April 25th. Matches include a three-way pitting Claudio Castagnoli, Jimmy Jacobs, and Roderick Strong against each other and another World Title defense when Colt Cabana, the hometown favorite, tries to dethrone Champion Jerry Lynn.
- Visit www.myspace.com/larrysweeney for ROH manager Larry Sweeney's repsonse to recent claims of his disappearance due to depression.
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