ThROH The Years Episode 128 - The Chicago Spectacular Night One

Whoa, a lot happens on this episode. We review the Fifth Year Festival: Philly, a show with a very significant main event, a match that changes the lives of Kevin Steen and El Generico, two horrific injuries and one heck of a hat and jacket combo. We fill the rest with old TV references and end by announcing a special new episode. This ain't Seinfeld, but you'll love it just as much.

The good times are here. On a new ThROH The Years, Matt and Trevor review the start of the Fifth Year Festival with their New York show. We talk about the beginning of Samoa Joe's ROH farewell tour and all of the reasonings behind it. We talk about the ROH in-ring debut of Takeshi Morishima and where he stood in the business at this point. Austin Aries almost dies twice and Jimmy Rave and Homicide have a hidden gem career highlight that we demand you watch. All that and talk about seasonal PPVs and a PSA to seek help. This is one of the big fancy eps, if you miss it Matt will be saying NOOOOOO.

Vomit, Grandmothers, doing the splits. On one of the weirder ThROH The Years we cover all these topics and more, as we review a fairly bizarre show known as The Battle of the Icons. Strange booking choices, violent gimmick matches, and a main event for the ages. Take your Gravol and settle in.

ThROH The Years finally starts their coverage of 2007 with our season premier! We spend a lot of time going over the coverage of the untimely passing of ROH co-founder Doug Gentry, an unheralded part of wrestling history. We then review Dedicated, a show we had a surprisingly good time watching, with an insane clap, a big goose egg, and a revelation that Trevor has never watched Good Times.

It's finally time The 2006 Year-End Show! After fourty-two episodes and over two years, we have come to the end of the year, and we cover the fantastic final show on '06, Final Battle and then give you our annual year end wrap up show full of awards, reflections, and groaning at Dave Meltzer half compliments. One of our biggest shows ever, roughly five hours. If you eat the whole thing in one sitting we put your picture on the wall.

On the new ThROH The Years we are almost at the end of 2006, starting the last double shot of events with International Challenge. It's a show with one of the scariest injuries in ROH history, the debut of a great manager, and not one, but two dated Iron Sheik references. Christopher Daniels charms us, and we sum up the dry winter of 06. GET READY FOR FINAL BATTLE.

The new ThROH The Years is here to cover the Chicago Spectacular...Night Two! It's a show that was rebooked with positive results. Trevor acts old, Matt enjoys Trevor saying a word, and the latest weird ThROH The Years syncing with modern times moment happens. We wanted to get our strap on, but were caged instead. Join us.

ThROH The Years takes on the first half of a Chicago double shot with night one of The Chicago Spectacular. The Samoa Joe/Bryan Danielson feud finally comes to a head in a cage match. How did we feel about the feud as a whole? Plus angles a plenty, a sneaky good end of show promo, and we visit Alaska. THE COUNTDOWN TO 2007 TICKS ON.

On the new ThROH The Years, first-time guest Tim Buechner (Q&T podcast) joins us to cover Dethroned, a show that gives away its biggest development in its title. We go into some lengthy digressions, compare ROH to ECW, see more weird coincidences between what we're watching and what we're living, and talk about some absolutely insane standout spots.

On a bright and sunny Tuesday Matt and Trevor came together to review Black Friday Fallout, a very B-ish ROH show. Matt plays impromptu ROH trivia! Chango loves tables! We figure out the alarm cock in real time! Who else is going to spend so much time talking about THIS show?!