ROH Back to Basics 2005 Review

-Colt Cabana gives a good promo and has the Ring Crew Express on his talk show much to the dismay of his partner Nigel McGuinness.

-Special K alliance segment and Lacey tries to motivate her team.

-Colt Cabana vs. Delirious:

Mostly a comedy match at the start. Nice change up to wrestling in the middle. Colt wins with the Twirly Bird. Good match.

-Dunn and Marcos vs. Alex Law and Ricky Landell:

Better than expected tag team match. Ring Crew Express wins it. Lots of great double team action in this one.

-Spanky vs. Jack Evans:

This was a really good match. AMAZING moves by these two. This has been BY FAR the match of the night. Post-match Spanky is told he will get a title shot bu Davey Richards shows up and insults him. Evans thn ambushes him from behind.

-Azariel and Dixie vs. Deranged and Izzy:

Better than I expected it to be. This was almost as good as the last match. I wasn't expecting much going in but it surpassed all expectations I had about it. Really, really good match.

-Homicide vs. Roderick Strong:

Another really good match. This show is starting off very well. Match had action both in and out of the ring. Very solid match overall.

-Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers vs. Daizee Haze vs. Lacey:

Non-stop action. All of them got in their big moves and the match was very solid. Thus far there has not been a bad match on this show which is a rarity.

-ROH Tag Titles, Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer vs. Colt Cabana and Nigel McGuinness:

Another solid match. Story was Colt tweaked his neck in his match earlier so the champs went after the injury. Excellent wrestling from all four guys. Nothing but good things to say about this match.

-Rocky Romero vs. James Gibson:

Gibson wins with a Front Guillotine. This match was really good. Lots of action and it was non-stop from start to finish. Post-match had a Gibson/Homicide confrontation with steel chairs.

-Gary Michael Cappetta out and announces Gibson gets a ROH World Title shot. Jack Evans and Roderick Strong ambush him but Spanky makes the save. Spanky.

-Lacey and her goons are now Lacey's Angels.

-CM Punk and Spanky vs. Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal:

Really good match. Lots of action and STEVIE RICHARDS! Every guy in this match did an awesome job. Very solid.

-Ends with Nigel McGuinness breaking up his tag team with Colt Cabana, a video montage of the Rise of Fall of Special K, and an announcement that the week after the show Dan Maff was in a serious car accident and has to retire so new tag champs will be crowned at the next show.

-Overall the best of the ROH DVD's I've watched but the two best matches were on the Trios Tournament DVD. However EVERY match on this DVD was solid and that made up for that. Going to recommend this DVD.