Low Ki v AJ Styles

[Loss]

Low Ki v AJ Styles - ROH Honor Invades Boston

 

This match is proof that you can do all the moves in the world, but if they're not sold, they're meaningless. This makes a nice contrast to the Funk/JYD match I'm going to get to eventually that doesn't have even a fraction of the moves on display here, but because even the small things are put over huge, that match translated better. What good are Low Ki's kicks and Styles' inverted indian deathlock if they don't actually send the match anywhere? I guess they were trying to do as many moves as they could that end with the word "driver" as well, and AJ's double pump brainbuster is just stupid. Yeah, it's explained by the announcers, but come on, what's wrong with doing a vertical suplex? The submissions on display are nice, specifically the dragon sleeper, but both guys are up and running in no time. Styles does sell Ki's brutal looking Kawada kicks to the face, but I doubt he had much choice in that regard, as his eye swells up afterward. They morph into WWE mania toward the end doing not much more than repeatedly trying finishers over and over. The announcers are still going on about the "match of the year candidate" bullshit and it's distracting from what's going on in the ring, but then again, there's not really anything there worth watching.

[Mad Dog]

Their first RoH match was better and the dumbed down TNA version was better as well.