After over a month hiatus, the Silverdome Match of the Week is back and better than ever. Within the past month, we have had close to four PPVs (one from TNA and three from WWE), numerous title changes, good amount of news and sadly only a handful of good matches. Many of these matches have come from the new kid on the televised wrestling show block, Ring of Honor. At the end of September, ROH launched their new TV show with the Sinclair Broadcasting Group. If you do not get any of the channels under the SBG banner much like yours truly, ROH airs each episode for free on their website, rohwrestling.com every Thursday. ROH has a much different style from WWE and TNA. ROH is more focused on the wrestling rather than the entertainment. Not saying the storylines are bad (because some of them are better than what WWE and TNA are doing), but you will see that there is evident focus on competitive wrestling matches than storytelling. At this point, you are probably wondering why I am talking a lot about Ring of Honor. The reason is that winner of the first Silverdome Match of the Week in over a month is Roderick Strong vs. Kyle O’Reilly from last Saturday’s ROH show. Roderick Strong vs. Kyle O’Reilly beat out strong competition from the All Night Express vs. the Briscoes also from ROH and Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes in a Street Fight from Smackdown.
A few weeks back, Roderick Strong fought Davey Richards for the ROH World Championship in one amazingly competitive and intense wrestling contest. At the end of the contest, Strong ended up tapping to Davey’s ankle lock. Strong was booked to face one of Davey Richard’s training partners and one half of the Future Shock tag team, Kyle O’Reilly. Before the match, Roderick made it a point to say he was going to make an example of O’Reilly and get some revenge for Davey beating him a few weeks back. The match starts with Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly shaking hands for the Code of Honor. Immediately after the Code of Honor, the two wrestlers lock-up and begin trading holds trying to get the early advantage in the match. Strong eventually takes control with a wristlock on O’Reilly, which Kyle reverses into a heel lock leading to crossface counter from Roderick. O’Reilly gets to the bottom rope causing Strong to break the hold. From there Strong and O’Reilly start trading kicks and chops. O’Reilly takes control with a sweep of Roderick’s legs. O’Reilly’s newfound advantage leads into a flurry for the Team Richards member as he hits a running elbow smash followed by a Northern Lights Suplex on Strong for the two count. O’Reilly tries to keep his advantage going with a kick to Strong while in the corner. O’Reilly sends Roderick to the opposite turnbuckle to hit another kick, but gets caught in a flapjack by Strong. Roderick looks to be in control of the match, but O’Reilly fights back and gets a kick and an enzigiri hit on Strong after sending him into the corner. Strong battles out of a near fall and locks Kyle in an abdominal hold. After a few moments, O’Reilly battles out of the hold and hits a thunderous German Suplex on Strong. Both men get up from the big move and O’Reilly attacks strong with a flurry of kicks and chops. O’Reilly ends his flurry of strikes by hitting a hurricanrana. O’Reilly continues his offensive flurry with a big missile dropkick after Roderick sends him to the apron, which results in another near fall for the young wrestler. Both wrestlers start bringing out their big moves as they both try to get the win. Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly exchange some big moves like three Butterfly Suplexes, a Swinging Sit out Powerbomb and a Double Knee Gutbuster trying to get the win. Roderick even locks in his signature Boston Crab that he calls the Stronghold, but to no avail. O’Reilly becomes a big nuisance for Strong as the young gun continues to fight out of his moves, even getting some very close two counts. Eventually Roderick gets the victory with an amazing Sick Kick to O’Reilly’s face thus bringing an end to this very competitive and highly entertaining match.
Make sure to keep watching ROH. This week’s episode will have Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team, Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas fighting the new team of Coleman and Alexander in a Proving Ground Match and the No.1 Contender for Davey Richard’s ROH World Title will be announced. Not much has been announced for this Monday’s Raw Supershow other than it will be in Liverpool, England. On the flip side, TNA has already announced ever match for this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling. There will be some aftermath of Bobby Roode’s heel turn and winning of the TNA World Title, AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels, Robbie E & Robbie T vs. Eric Young & Ronnie, Gail Kim & Madison Rayne vs. Velvet Sky & Mickie James for the TNA Knouckouts Tag Titles and Jeff Jarrett, Bully Ray & Scott Steiner vs. Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson and a mystery partner. Talking about TNA, I am still debating on doing a preview for Turning Point next weekend or another edition of the Silverdome Match of the Week. Let see what you guys think so chime in the comment section below. So until next Saturday dear readers have a wonderful week. Cheers.
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