[2017-02-26-NJPW/ROH-Honor Rising: Night One] Jay & Mark Briscoe vs Adam Cole & Kenny Omega

[bradhindsight]

Kenny's first appearance since 1/4 and the crowd is certainly receptive. A stellar main event with an underlying story of Cole and Omega potentially spitting. But their character work never undermind the Briscoes, who were great as usual. This goes 22 minutes - a very worthy last match to night 1. Two big Omega "wow" moments - the springboard moonsault off the guardrail onto the Briscoes in the crowd and then the big reversal at the end where he powerslams Mark coming off the top as he's on Jay's shoulder for the doomsday device. That was sweet. ****

[ShittyLittleBoots]

Meeehhh. The beginning was good, but after that the match just went on & went on & went on. Those 22 minutes felt like 40 minutes. *

[soup23]

This was my MOTN for night 1. I thought Omega did really good in keeping up his momentum and mystique from the WK show by being serious Kenny here and hopefully doing away with the wacky pants for good. This structure did a good job of portraying the BC faction as the biggest stars individually in the match but that the Briscoes are a better cohesive unit team that is able to thwart their individual attack. A couple of minor moves prevent me from calling this great like the Panama City Driver and the big kick from Mark. Finish worked for me in showing the BC coming together and hopefully making Cole a little more over in NJPW. ***3/4