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ROH Final Battle 2022 - Armbar Audio
Armbar Audio is a professional wrestling podcast for fans by fans!
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Hello, and welcome to another
episode of Armbar Audio.
I'm your host, Tim Farley, and
across the screen from me is my
trusted committee, John Churns.
What's up, everybody?
Today we are here to do discuss
Ring of Honors Pay-per-View.
Tonight's death before Dish.
and give our predictions.
Yes.
John has the card, so he
will be bringing those up.
I do have for us to
discuss, to have the card.
They won't be, he's got
all the Pokemon cards too.
I don't have Pokemon cards.
Do you want his address to steal 'em?
I damn it.
I don't have any Pokemon on cards.
I have.
I have some my hero academia cards.
I have, I believe that are mine.
I have mine too.
. I have, um, I do have, I
believe, one Pokemon card.
It's a squirrel card that I got
from a McDonald's Happy Meal.
So shocks.
Shocks is right.
So we're go, as we talk about the matches,
we will talk about the build to them.
We're not gonna talk about the build
to this pay-per-view beforehand.
We're just gonna jump right into,
yep, we're jumping right the fuck in.
With some pre-show matches.
We have Alison K versus Willow
Nightingale, Cole Cabana versus
Anthony Henry, and then Shinobi
Shadow Squad, which is Eli.
Eli Isam, how do you say that?
Eli Isam and Cheeseburger
Burger versus the Trustbusters.
Devar and Slim J Oh and
another pre show Match.
Uht Bunch of Enterprises, Brian Cage and
the gates of agony, which are con and to
Leona own a versus three of our favorites.
Alexander Blake, Christian and Tony Depen.
So the pre-show looks pretty fucking.
Uh, is there, is there anything you
wanna discuss with the pre ship?
Yeah, I would like to discuss
all of, let's go for it.
Alison.
K will you Very, very, very
happy to see AK 47 on this.
Uh, I hope that coming out of this
pay-per-view, the idea of r o h
becoming a show or maybe a monthly.
Extravaganza or something will happen
because I am a big fan of AK 47.
I'm also a very big fan
of Willow Nightingale.
Um, so I'd like to see them more often.
Um, we do get to see Willow in, uh, in
supportive rules and jobber rules in a w.
Uh, she is the babe with the power and,
uh, she's gotten some more experience
under her wing by going to Tokyo, Josie
Pro with Thunder Rosa this past month.
Um, just for the sake of that,
we've seen her on a w Moore.
I would say Willow's gonna win this,
but, uh, it's not gonna be a squash.
No, it, it's gonna be a damn good.
Uh, women's Division Contest, women
of Honor, as it were, uh, AK 47.
Alison K is one of the best in the
world, uh, as is will and night go,
but like you said, will and Night Go
has been getting the dynamite spots.
So I do expect her to come away
with the victory, but swerving
us with Alison K winning would
not be a negative in my opinion.
. Um, I, I agree her to appear more often.
Uh, col.
Yeah.
It could build, it could build a number
one contender type of feud for the
women's title Col Cab and Anthony Henry.
You can't have Ring
Honor without col Caba.
That's true.
Anthony Henry, uh, is
a fantastic wrestler.
Uh, I watched.
and most recently in, uh,
Southeast or the, the big Southern
promotion now that AC Mac made beyond the,
uh, I, I mean the uncharted territory.
I, I forget the name, but, well,
uncharted territory is beyond, but I, I.
Is it Honor Moore?
No, no.
AC Mack.
AC Mack.
When he won the, after he won the
title, he put the title on the
line against someone and said if
he retains the title beyond, uh,
uncharted territory goes to the South.
Oh, shit.
Because he's trying, he's trying
to blow up Southern wrestling.
Yeah.
Um, so, so it's been going on there.
I, I want to say the promotion's called
Southeast, but I, I don't, I don't.
I didn't, uh, but I watched
him wrestle Daniel Mabe.
I've been watching him wrestle for
years and he is such a good worker.
That's why he's in the tag team
with JD Drake called the Warhorse.
Oh yeah.
But, uh, I've seen him in Bat
Black Label Pro all over the place.
He's even been on a e w Um, it's hard
to go against Colt Cabana because
he's an a w contracted wrestler,
and he's a Ring of Honor mainstay.
. Yep.
But it all depends on
what Tony's plan for.
Ring of Honor is just like we talked
about with Willow and Allison.
K I would really love to see
Anthony Henry get the win here.
Yeah.
Um, I'm gonna also say Anthony Henry,
but if he gets hit with that Superman
pin, ain't no escaping from that.
Shabi Shadow Squad Cheeseburger and
Eli, Eli Isam versus the Trust Busters.
Ari Dari and Slim J.
Now, uh, I read somewhere that the
Ari Dari, I don't know if it's hap if
it happened like on New Japan Strong
or whatever, but like, apparently,
you know, the, the, his, they're
called the Trustbusters because.
inherited his family's money.
Um, I don't, I don't like
to go against Eli Isam.
I think Eli Isam before Ring of Honor
folded Eli Isam was a shining star of
ring, like up and coming, shining star of
Ring of Honor along with Dak Draper and.
I'm, I have to go with
the Shinobi Shadow score.
Yeah.
I'm gonna agree with you.
Um, I can't go against you
Eli Iso or Cheeseburger, to
be perfectly honest with you.
I just, I love everything about that guy.
Yeah.
I, I like how whenever he was on
the independence after Ring of Honor
Forward, he wasn't by world famous cb.
Yeah.
World famous cb.
Yeah.
Take them a little bit
more serious, you know?
And then our last pre-show contest.
Tulley Blanchard, Tulley
Blanchard Enterprises, uh, the
gates of agony and the machine.
Brian Cage against a trio of John's
favorite j c w wrestlers, Alexander
Blake Christian and Tony der . Well,
I'm gonna start by saying Tony Depen
has been making a lot of moves for him.
Uh, of Honor Unfolded.
He was, he was in the Ring of
Honor, he was television champion.
He was, uh, I want to say he was the,
the TRIOS champions, but I'm not sure.
Um, he recently went over to the
UK and was wrestling for RevPro
and over the top in Ireland.
So, um, right.
And Ring of Honor has had all
three of those men on their.
But Brian Cage and Totally Blanchard
have, have been with a w for a long time.
Um, Khan and Leno, Leon, Leona,
yeah, have been shown on the sh
on the shows, whether it was Dark,
dark Elevation, rampage Dynamite.
Um, there if you want to establish
Tulley Blanchard Enterprise, , you
have them go over here, but it's going
to be a fun spot fest type of match,
especially when you have Blake Christian,
um, Alex Zane and Brian Cage, right?
Um, I have grown to really, really
enjoy trio's matches over the past year.
, um, with everything a W's doing with
them, uh, watching them in New Japan.
And we actually, yeah, we actually
have the Ring of Honor trio's
titles being defended on this show.
We'll get into that later.
But I love the focus on trios that is
being presented right now, and Tony
Depen shared the tweet about, Himself.
Blake and Alexander were supposed
to be a trio, uh, I believe
before the, the hiatus came.
Um, but it fell through.
So he is very happy and excited
and I am too, to get this
opportunity, to get this trios going.
But like you said, yeah, all the, all
these guys are getting good opportunities.
Yeah, man.
Like if you look at the past, Of Blake and
Alex and Tony, uh, and considering where
Alex and Blake went for a little bit,
just everything that these guys are doing.
Zane finally got to be in the best of
super juniors and Japan loved them.
Blake is, is putting himself in the
upper echelons of G C W and Warrior
Wrestling, and he's been on impact, like
these guys are on the bubble, you know.
It just sucks that they're, they're gonna
be against Poly Blanchard Enterprises
Yes.
Because you really, they need,
they need this victory more
than anybody, like, for sure.
Well, it, it, it's good that
they're getting the exposure.
Yeah.
You know, but yeah.
Gotta go with Poly Blanchard on this one.
Always been on blanch.
Totally.
B blanch.
You're at the hper view.
Hey, roast me,
Rick, the media roasted you enough?
Oh my God, that's last year.
I got better things always
to do with , with the hands.
Always.
I never thought about it
until you just did that.
Yeah.
So.
. Yeah.
Pre-show looks pretty
fucking good, honestly.
And the pre-show is kind of min a lot
of the time on every show, but holy
god damn, usually this is a damn good.
Like this whole thing is
like a man car, right?
Let's get into the man car.
I was just gonna save that.
Let's first talk about the Battle
of the Brothers that was just added,
uh, within the past couple days.
Versus Dragon Lee.
Very excited to see Dragon
Lee back in the United States.
Uh, he and his brother Jako
have been in Mexico for aaa.
Uh, I really hope this means that we
get to see more of Dragon Lee in the
cross, the crossing of Ring of Honor
in a w, especially since Ingo Noles
are back together in an capacity.
I think Dragon Lee will be able to
show his stuff in this match, but
Roche will come out with the victory.
Yeah.
Roche is definitely going to win.
Um, I think he has to because like
they're trying to get Lewis and Gar
Oways going Well, well, fio Andwe and.
We can see the f we're probably
gonna get, see the fist thrown
up at the end of this match.
Maybe even at the beginning.
I, I'd be very happy.
I would be very happy.
So, yeah.
Gonna go with Rosh on this one.
I wonder if their father
will be in attendance.
Uh, beast.
Yeah.
Maybe.
And I think definitely we're
gonna see on draw day in Ru's
corner or in a backstage cap.
, um, what's So yeah, Rouge on that one.
We're both in agreement.
Uh, we talked about it
a little bit before.
Let's get into it.
The Trio's title is being defended by
the Righteous Vincent Bateman and Dutch,
um, with Vita V, and they are facing
Dalton Castle and the Boys, the Tates.
what do you think?
I think that Dalton Castle and the
boys shouldn't be in this position.
I think that Dalton Castle should
be on his own and in a better match.
This match gives the feeling to
me of an R o h reunion type show.
Right.
And not a r o h rebi removing head.
Right, exactly.
Um, I think, um, you know, we've
seen Bateman in New Japan strong as
the leader of the Stray Dog Army.
Dutch has been doing his thing.
Vincent has been in honor no more for
the past few months in, uh, impact.
And I think this going away from the
negative things that I talked about, this
is a very good match with people with
very strong and established gimmicks.
There's gonna be a lot of high
jinks shenanigans and fun.
Um, yeah, it all, the winner all depends
on, like I said earlier in the pre-show
matches where Tony wants to take this.
But I feel like you keep
the titles on the righteous.
Yeah, for sure.
Vincent is just, you know, like
when I first saw Vincent in.
Role as he is now.
I thought, oh, he is just
a bra Wyatt impersonator.
But he is become so much more, he's
like, he's like a cult leader in the
desert and like peyote type dude.
Yeah.
Like I, I, I don't know.
It, it, and like Bateman has the look
and Dutch has the look as his followers.
It's a strong, it's a strong gimmick.
And like I said, Dalton cast.
is, uh, what I would like to see for
Dalton Castle, honestly, is they run
into tag team titles with one RJ city.
Ooh.
Um, I, I don't know if you
saw that Family Feud that they
were on with David Arquette.
I, I remember, I, I, I remember seeing RJ
sitting and David Arquette on family food.
I didn't watch the whole thing.
I know I didn't, but I
definitely saw the place.
Right, right.
I only saw clip.
. Uh, but you take Dalton Castle
and his ability on the mic and his
wrestling acumen and you mix it with
RJ City's charisma, that, that there
could explode an entire promotion.
And, um, I don't know if RJ City
wants to be a wrestler anymore,
but if he does, that is he's kind
of busy right now with take case.
So what I.
I would suggest after the match,
after the righteous win, the
Tate Brothers turn on Dalton.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And didn't that, didn't that kind
of, um, get teased a little bit ago?
The boys turning on Dalton?
Well, when Ron Ring of
Honor was still alive.
Dalton kind of stopped relying on
them so much, and then he would
bring them out as he needed.
And he was kind of like in a,
uh, he was in a character crisis.
Yeah.
Uh, not, not, not because
of ca like in Kfa.
Yeah.
You know, he didn't know
what to do with himself.
So, uh, yeah.
I say you pulled the trigger on that.
So trio's titles, staying
on the Righteous, the Boys
Turning On Dalton Castle.
Dalton Castle.
Moving into a better position and
being, you gotta let the peacock fly.
He's a peacock.
You gotta let him fly.
Let me see your peacock.
Cut.
Cut.
Oh, see you were doing a different thing.
I was doing it from.
No, no, that's a, that's
like an old Katy Perry song.
No, it's uh, absolutely awful.
Is it Katy Perry?
I thought it was Kesha.
Yeah, it is.
Oh, absolutely not.
I never owned a Kesha album.
Oh.
Oh, you know what that was Katy Perry.
Uh, that was a dark time.
It's dark time.
I, Hey man, Katie Perry was
catching was hell, and I.
I bought that, that album,
that the song sucks.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Atrocious.
Moving into some more championship.
Action.
Let's talk about sin.
Sin, sin against Music.
Music.
And there's, there have been many.
Let's get back on track.
Huh?
I mean, full, full disclosure, my
mother walked in, threw her debit card
at me and said, order us Papa John's.
And I was like, I can't do that right now.
I can't do that.
Don't you see?
I have headphones on the day of reckoning
the green screens up for Christ The Day,
day of Reckoning, the same in every day.
Day of Reckoning has not yet come.
We're not quite at 40 and 30 days yet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Every match now that we're gonna
talk about is a championship
match, which is cool.
Let's talk about Mercedes Martinez
defending against the professor Serena D.
Oh yeah.
Serena D laid the trap and
she got what she wanted.
A W Tony Conn.
Have a lot of faith in Serena de
and that's, that's a good thing.
Um, Mercedes, Martinez and
Serena de can be compared to each
other really, really thoroughly.
Um, I think because of the feud
with Sheda, because of the professor
challenges the five minute challenges.
Of the development over the past year or
so of Serena de de will come out with,
uh, her first big singles, uh, title.
I agree.
I think Serena Dee is winning this one.
Uh, she's washed every FD so far
and it's time for her to come out.
, did she really lose the sheet?
Well, she didn't really lose the
sheet of you, but like she hasn't
held a title yet, is what I'm, is
more what I'm getting at, right?
Um right.
Yeah.
It's time for her to do that.
And not that I don't love Mercedes
Martinez, cuz I do, but like eight.
And I don't blame any issues that I
have on the talent at all with this yet.
It's just that Ring of honor hasn't.
, they still seem to not really know
what they want to do with it, right?
There's no, there's no two us.
There's nothing to base on.
Just random, random, just
two random wrestling fans.
We don't know the future of what r o h is.
Yeah, so nothing that we're talking
about, it's still going to be our talent
if, if it's still going to be Ring
of Honor wrestlers showing up on a w.
Showing off their titles,
putting on title matches, right.
Or starting storylines
on a w for an r o h feud.
You put that title on Serena.
Yeah, right.
Precisely.
Serena dude, uh, moving into pure
title territory Wheeler You to
Defending Against Daniel Garcia,
this is one that could go either way.
Um, with what we've been talking
about with the a w influence,
both of these guys are.
Heavily featured on Dynamite
Rampage, even on dark.
So how do you see this one going?
Shit for a while Daniel Garcia
was Daniel Rampage Garcia.
He was the main event.
It was him on Rampage for long.
It was him and Hook for a long time, and
they r and for the past, uh, three or
four months, they've really built up you.
Yeah.
Um, And I, you know, I've talked about
this on our last show, their, their
I W T V 100 match that went to a 60
minute job was absolutely amazing.
And I'm sure that a lot of wrestling
fans were confused by Daniel Garcia
being in the Jericho Appreciation Society
and not the Blackpool Combat Club.
Yeah.
Uh, and we've talked at length about.
and how we feel like that it's good
that he's in Jericho Appreciation
society because, uh, we all know that
he can wrestle, you know, um, this
is my most, this is the match I'm
looking most forward to on this card.
Um, this is the future of Ring.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's a perfect way to put it.
I'm gonna let the people know real quick.
Uh, just a fair warning, it
just started thunderstorming.
If this ends suddenly, that's why
I can't call it.
That's, yeah, that's,
that is a, and that's.
That's something that doesn't
happen often with prediction shows,
but it does happen sometimes.
I mean, UDA UDA was in that badass
tag team match, and he got the brunt
of the beating from the best friends.
And, you know, he, he just came back from
Japan from the best of super juniors.
Garcia on the other hand, you
know, he's, he's relatively
fresh, uh, you know, bodily and.
Uh, you'd have brought up the
whole, the whole thing about him
being in the hospital and almost
losing his life or whatever.
Yeah.
I mean, Garcia Garcia is a hound dog, man.
You don't want it now, now
that it's pure rules though.
You to bring that up is smart because
Garcia's gonna wanna punch you.
Yeah.
Garcia's gonna wanna not listen
to the re so it comes down to.
. It comes down to those pure rules.
Oh, it al it almost happened.
It almost happened.
It almost almost happened here.
It almost happened.
again.
Uhoh.
Oh no, I think it did happen.
Oh, I've lost Timothy.
He's gone.
Oh, no.
So Will or Yuda, uh, Daniel Garcia.
Um, they're both great.
I can't really call this one.
Daniel Garcia's gonna want to act
like a, uh, sports and retainer,
and he is not gonna be able.
Uh, let's see here.
Samo Joe defends the TV title against Jay
Lethal with Sanjay Du and Santo Singh.
Uh, for that reason, I do believe that
Jay Lethal might just come away with
a victory here, um, unless the referee
has to throw out Santo Sing and Sanjay.
because like one-on-one
Samoa Joe clears Jay lethal.
But with that, with that big ass,
something sing at ringside, things
could go us south for Samoa.
Joe, uh, do Jonathan Gresham
defends the Ring of Honor World
title again, it's Claudia Castin.
Uh, this is gonna be sort of another
coming out party for Claudia.
Um, he debuted at, shit, I don't
remember the name of that show.
It was the last Paperview
Dub War, nothing.
Was it Dub War?
Nothing.
Is that where debuted, I think it was.
But then he came into the Blood
and Guts match and looked like.
Goddamn machine cuz he has a goddamn
machine that's Swiss Superman.
But, uh, does Gresh lose here?
Interesting.
Does Gre , uh, does Gresh lose?
I don't think so.
Not this time, but if Claudia does come
away with the victory and win that.
Then I think Claudia's Feud for that
title should be with Lee Moriarty.
I think that makes the most sense.
Um, so I am predicting a cla win
and I'm hoping for Claudia win, even
though I absolutely love Jonathan gre.
I mean, I got my little man right here.
This is it.
It's an octopus.
Tim bought me this before he, uh, before
his house blew away in, in a thunderstorm,
which will shortly happen to me.
Um, , uh, finishing it off with
FTR versus the Briscoes two take.
FTR in Briscoe's one is my favorite
tag team wrestling match that I've
seen, uh, in recent memory maybe ever.
They have this match, has big shoes
to fill to live up to the first one.
I think they're gonna
have no issue doing so.
Uh, FTR is defending the Ring of
Honor world titles or world tag
team titles against the Bris.
The Briscoe's just recently
signed a long-term deal,
and there, here's the power.
It's back on.
The power is on, but
not like all the way on.
Uh, it is dark right now, but you
know, I think I'm still alive.
Uh, Tim is not here with.
, but I think we're okay.
I'm gonna try to turn up
my brightness and see.
No, that just made it worse.
Uh, you can kind of still see me . This
dream is going off the rails, but
I think we're still doing fine.
I think the, uh, that fuse blew
the fuse blew, uh, the fuse.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go check it.
Yeah, go check that out.
Because like, we have power, but
I have no lights, and no ac.
So.
There's lights in the basement.
She says, uh, this is a weird stream, but
you know what, what does arm audio do?
We persevere, we push forward and
we predict that FTR keeps the titles
because they are starting their
boat collecting journey and it's
going to be long, a long, long rain.
Um, let's see if I can do something here.
Now, the Briscoe's did just
sign a long-term ring of owner.
So, oh no, we got it.
We, oh, and look at that.
Uh, let's turn this back down now.
Hey, there I am.
That looks so weird.
Why does the background look lighter?
It doesn't matter who chairs.
Um, so.
I hope you enjoy.
I, I, I hope you enjoyed this.
Um, I hope this was good.
It's, uh, 37 minutes of semi
coherent rambling about Ring of
Honor, but you know, when you make
plans and they follow through and.
, then they come back.
The fuse was warm to the touch.
The fuse was warm to the touch.
Yeah.
That doesn't sound like
a thing that is safe.
Whatever.
Zapped through must
have zapped everything.
Was our house potentially
struck by lightning?
I don't think so.
I think we would know.
Would've heard that if that happened.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, well, there you have.
Uh, I'm gonna get to work building my arc,
and we will see you on the next video.
Take it easy.
Enjoy Ring of Honor Death
before Dison tonight.
Um, it's gonna be a damn
good show, top to bottom.
Like all, all stream.
Chaos aside, this, this card is fucking
phenomenal and it's worth the price of a.
So check it out.
Watch Ring of Vonner.
If you don't watch Ring of Honor,
they won't be able to do it anymore.
And like, we all want it so bad.
We, we, we gotta hold up our end of the
bargain and make it happen, you know?
So yeah, that's gonna do it for myself.
Uh, Johns and, uh, Tim Foley.
You wanna say something?
I guess.
So thank you for joining us, and
we will see you on the next episode
of ABR Audio, wherever you are in
the world, whether it's morning,
noon, or night, you have a great one
and peace and love to all of you.
Bang.
Yeah,
ho.