BRM Reviews the 12/8/2012 ROH

[Big Red Machine]

THE BRAVADO BROTHERS vs. BOBBY FISH & KYLE O'REILLY- 4.5/10
Very good for such a short match, but I question the logic of putting Fish & O'Reily in a competitive match here, rather than a squash. They are about to go up against THE AMERICAN WOLVES. If you are building them up for Davey and Eddie, should they really be having trouble putting away the Bravados here?

SCUM PROMO- okay

STEEN VS. GENERICO VIDEO PACKAGE- GREAT!

JAY LETHAL PROMO- pretty good. Sets some semi-interesting possibilities up for Final Battle

JAY LETHAL vs. CHRIS SILVIO- 3.25/10
Why the hell was this not a squash? We have Jay Lethal, whose new angle is that he is on a mean streak... but he has trouble putting away a crappy nobody from OVW?

I know this thing is a few weeks (or maybe even months old), but I really feel like ranting about it now. The commercial that they always play to advertise becoming a Ringside Member on the ROH website is just SO lame. The voice-over parts are fine, but the parts where they cut to wrestlers throwing in little one-liners like "you heard the man, what are you waiting for?" is just so damn early nineties (and for maximum corniness, it is finished off by Maria saying "think you can handle it?", as if people will say "OMFG A HOT CHICK! I MUST ORDER THIS!"). Hopefully Delirious will get them to make a new one that doesn't scream "out of touch!"

INSIDE ROH SEGMENT- The O'Reilly & Fish promo was okay, Davey's promo was great, Coleman & Alexander were good, the Briscoes were okay.

TRUTH MARTINI PROMO- fun.

ROH WORLD TITLE MATCH: Kevin Steen(c) (w/Jimmy Jacobs) vs. "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett (w/"Brutal" Bob Evans)- 6/10
Very good for just a seven minute match, but not good enough for a main event (especially not in ROH) and not good enoughnf for an ROH World Title defense. I really wish they would cut out some of the commercials for ROH and just use that time for matches.

CLOSING SEGMENT- not bad, but it feels very odd that they are building to Steen vs. Lethal when they have STEEN VS. GENERICO IN A LADDER WAR coming up first.

Overall, an okay episode of ROH.