411's ROH on HDNet Report 12.17.09: Black vs. Dutt (12.14.09)

Posted by Aaron Hubbard on 12.17.2009

The Pick 6 Contenders Series begins and Steve Corino "debuts".

We get a brief recap of Austin Aries defending his title last week against Davey Richards, Roderick Strong and Kenny Omega, and Tyler Black showing up afterward, and then we the opening. Dave Prazak and Mike Hogewood are your commentators and we are getting things going right away.


Pick 6 Contender's Match: Delirious w/Daizee Hazevs. Kenny King w/Rhett Titus
Delirious gets a green streamer and starts eating it. Standard Delirious opening. King gets back in the ring and jumps when Deli goes for the legs. Delirious gets a drop toehold which leads to a beautiful exchange of holds while Prazak pimps his recent success in Japan. Kenny escapes a headscissors and grabs a headlock, knocks Deli down with a shoulder block, and gets caught with a series of armdrags. King goes to converse with Titus so Deli does the same with Haze, and then chases the heels outside. All three men duck clotheslines and Titus and King chase Deli, and Titus gets knocked down by Haze, who he has quite the history with. Terrific. Deli gets two inside, hits a fireman carry slam and follows up with FOUR sentons to the back, but it only gets two. Delirious licks his hands and then smothers King with them. Rhett is looking for revenge on Daizee and Deli heads out and chases him, and runs into a clothesline from King. Well, at least they took a round-about way to get to that clichéd spot.

Kenny slams Deli's body into the barricade and then his head. Back inside, Deli hits a few headbutts to the gut but King gets a spinebuster for two. Kenny whips Deli into the turnbuckles and applies a surfboard clutch, but Delirious bites his fingers to escape. Deli gets a suplex but Kenny gets a jawbreaker. Deli throws forearms and Kenny hits a knee, King goes to the ropes and Deli gets an elbow, Deli goes to the ropes and runs into a kick, King hits the ropes and Deli hits an elbow and an inverted Roll the Dice for two. Delirious whips King to the ropes and NEVERENDING STORY CLOTHESLINES! BAS-TION! Delirious climbs up top and gets a flying clothesline for two. Kenny escapes the Cobra Stretch and Delirious backdrops him to the outside, and Kenny drops Deli's throat across the top rope. SPRINGBOARD BLOCKBUSTER! 1…2…NO!

Deli reverses a whip to the corner and then headbutts King when he tries to leapfrog over and gets two off an O'Connor Roll. A small package gets two more. Kenny rests in the corner to bait Delirious into trying the Panic Attack and then hits the Double Knees, but it only gets two even with Kenny's feet on the top rope. Kenny argues with the referee and punches Deli, but Deli comes back with a clothesline and a German Suplex for two. Apparently, Hog understands Delirious-speak. PANIC ATTACK! Shadows Over Hell, CORKSCREW ENZUGIRI BY KING to the ribs as he comes down! Awesome! Blue Thunder Driver with tights! 1…2…NO! King goes for the Royal Flush but Delirious rolls through into a crucifix and that gets 3! Wow, great TV match out of nowhere from these two. Delirious is your first Pick 6 Contender in a mild upset.
Winner: Delirious (via crucifix) ***1/4

Kyle Durdan is here to interview Jim Cornette, but that doesn't really get going before Aries comes in. He says they got off on the wrong foot and proposes that Cornette become his manager. If he was, the world would explode from the pure concentrated awesomeness. But he declines, saying he's the only one in wrestling who knows he's too old to be anywhere near a match. But he promises to help Aries prove that he is the Greatest Man that Ever Lived by giving him the best competition. When he walks through fire with gasoline britches on, he will prove he is the best.

Steve Corino is out but not dressed to wrestle Lance Whatever-his-last-name-it's-not-important. I, uh, mean Lance Lewd. Corino cuts a promo saying that the ROH Office never returned his calls, but in times of need, Cornette called him and said if he wants to be on TV, he needs to make a major impact. And he can't make a major impact against Lance. He kind of sarcastically puts Lance over and then says he's going to walk out and give Lance a win, and then it's his time to make a major impact. Your winner by forfeit, Lance Lewd. Corino gives the non-match five stars. He says nobody has ever made him look better and he didn't get hurt. They should do this around the circuit. He congratulates him…and kicks him in the gut. MODIFIED JIG & TONIC! Sliding clothesline! He calls himself Mr. Ratings. Well, I'll give ROH credit. They needed a guy with good promo skills and Corino is a good promo.

Sonjay Dutt says that all that matters to him is the ROH World Title, and it's his time. Ok, keep telling yourself that. I'm sure it helps you get over the fact you used to be The Guru.

We get promos from The Briscoes and The American Wolves to hype their Final Battle Match

Erick Stevens vs. Remy Marcell
Marcell dodges and weaves, then tries to slide through Stevens legs and gets caught, and Erick hits a waistlock takedown and unleashes crossface forearms. HUGE CHOP! Stevens his a back elbow but Marcell gets a boot to the face, tries a crossbody but Stevens catches him and then just delivers a German Suplex. Choo Choo. Lariat. Gutwrench Powerbomb. SLAP THE PORPOISE!
Winner: Erick Stevens (via destructicity) 1/4*

Durdan is back for an interview with Tyler Black, who says he's glad to be back because he has a chance to face Aries and that's all that matters to him. Everything from this day on is about him getting to his goal. Wow, I guess Black hit puberty because he has his intensity back.


Pick 6 Contender's Match: Sonjay Dutt vs. Tyler Black
Tyler gets STREAMERS. Remember when you had to EARN those? Sheesh. I'm not one of those who irrationally hate Black, but that's just ridiculous. Sonjay offers a handshake and Tyler, more foolish than Sting, accepts it and Dutt goes on the assault. Black throws punches and Sonjay goes to the eyes and stomps a mudhole in Tyler. Black gets back into it with armdrags and punches, tries a dropkick and lands on his feet when Sonjay bails. Tyler fakes a dive and throws some chops before systematically beating the piss out of Dutt. I approve. Back inside, Black gets a kick to the spine for two. The edginess continues with an eye gouge and a neck vice, and he slams Sonjay to set up the stomp to the face, which only gets one. Tyler slams Dutt into the top turnbuckle and then hits a dropkick to the back of the head for two more. Black hits a neckbreaker and goes back to the neck vice, but Dutt hits a jawbreaker. He goes to the ropes and Tyler hits the dropkick he wanted earlier. Black hits a suplex and goes up top, but Sonjay gets to his feet and climbs up, Tyler knocks him back down, and Dutt hits a palm strike. Sonjay has a fireman's carry and he just drops Tyler gut-first on the turnbuckle bar.

Sonjay slams Black on the apron, and hits a legdrop. Vintage. Sonjay rakes Tyler's eyes with his boots and then pulls Tyler by his hair. Black fires back but Sonjay goes to the abs with a knee and hits a rolling senton for two. Body scissors follows and Sonjay wraps up an arm and then uses his hand as a corkscrew to do more damage to Tyler's ribs. Black starts getting close to the ropes and Dutt rolls him into a cover for two. Sonjay stays in control with jabs and eye pokes. Sonjay gets a schoolboy for two and goes back to the bodyscissors. Black lays back to get a pin for one. Somewhat humorously, Black's left boot says "EVOLVE" on it. Black gets to his feet and rams Sonjay into the turnbuckle and then drives him into the mat. Black runs into Sonjay's boots but hits a back body drop and whales on him with punches. Sonjay gets a knee but Tyler just throws him outside and follows with a hilo.

Tyler hits the springboard clothesline for two. Sonjay drops an elbow, and Black hits a military press slam, and follows with a quebrada. What work on the midsection? Hit a legdrop or something. Dutt hits shoulders to the midsection in the corner, Tyler reverses a whip and blocks the seesaw kick, but misses a clothesline and Sonjay drops his throat across the top rope. Dutt hits a missile dropkick and stalks Tyler, tries the Asai DDT, avoided, Sonjay lands behind Tyler to avoid the Paroxysm, Asai DDT again but Tyler puts him on his shoulders for the F-5, Sonjay with elbows, hits the ropes and connects with a tilt-a-whirl DDT. The Asai DDT follows and only gets two. Sonjay goes for the Hindu Press, Black moves, Sonjay lands on his feet but Tyler hits the F-5! Black tries the Phoenix Splash but Sonjay moves, Black rolls through to his feet. Dutt tries to take him down with a headscissors but Tyler stays up, but Sonjay prevents a Buckle Bomb with a hurracanrana. Superkick by Black! Superkick by Sonjay. Spinning enzugiri by Black, NOT a Pelé Kick. Sonjay tries the Jig ‘N' Tonic, but Black counters, BUCKLE BOMB! Dutt with chops, Black with punches and a yakuza kick. He goes for the Superkick but Dutt ducks and gets a roll-up for two, Black rolls through and lifts Sonjay up, GOD'S LAST GIFT! Dutt is finally done.
Winner: Tyler Black (via God's Last Gift) **1/2

Not the best follow-up to last week's show, but the main event had Sonjay dogging it and it was ten minutes too long. That said, Final Battle looks awesome.