ROH Supercard of Honor

Overall rating: ★★★●★★☆

This was an excellent show. Even if you don't normally watch pro wrestling, the Tag and Pure championship matches were fantastic and might win you over. And if you do like pro wrestling and want to see what ROH is like, this is a perfect example.

ROH Final Battle

Overall rating: ★★★●★☆☆

I wouldn't normally have bothered watching Hour One but, since this was potentially the last Ring of Honor PPV ever, I decided to make an exception. Probably shouldn't have bothered. It wasn't bad, but the main show was already long enough and there was nothing amazing on Hour One. As for the main show, there were a couple of really good matches to start and the tag championship was amazing, but for a grand finale it was a little lacking.

ROH Honor For All

Overall rating: ★★★●☆☆☆

The show started well, but the second half was a real letdown. Disappointing matches and confusing storytelling. 

ROH Death Before Dishonor

Overall rating: ★★★●★☆☆

A couple of pretty good matches and nothing that wasn't worth watching if you have the time - except maybe the Pure Championship, but that one might be worth watching just for how unusual it was. But nothing that I'd say to go out of your way for either.

ROH Glory by Honor Night 2

Overall rating: ★★★★★☆☆

This was better than night one, but still a lot of filler. And the main event cage match was just a bit too much, and a bit confusing at times with all the people who ran in to interfere. I feel like I've seen way too many people, recently, do the thing where they get some supposedly sharp implement and very deliberately cut their opponent's forehead and it always looks real weird and unnatural. Stop doing that.

ROH Glory by Honor Night 1

• Singles (Silas Young vs. Rey Horus): 4/7. I don't understand the point of having these regular, one-on-one, no special rules matches for no stakes on big shows like this. Just do it on the weekly TV show.
• Six-Man Mayhem (Demonic Flamita vs. Eli Isom vs. Dak Draper vs. PJ Black vs. Mike Bennett vs. Danhausen): 4/7. I really wish they'd explained the rules of this match because I didn't know what was going on. Two people are legal at a time, but there's no teams and no tags, you can just come in any time there aren't two competitors in the ring, and whoever gets in first becomes legal. That much I figured out fairly quickly, but I didn't know if it was first-fall or elimination. And that's pretty important to establishing stakes. As it went on I figured out it was first-fall, but why not just say that at the start? This is not a common match type. Anyway, the rules are weird and I don't think this match type works well at all. But Dalton Castle was very good on commentary, and Danhausen is very fun.
• Tag Team (The Allüre vs. Vita Vonstarr & Max the Impaler): 4/7. Max the Impaler is very cool but this was just another regular match for no stakes.
• Singles (Brian Johnson vs. EC3): 4/7. If they didn't have enough interesting matches for a two-night event, maybe they should have just done one night.
• Singles (Bateman vs. Mark Briscoe): 4/7. This was supposed to be a tag team match, which would have been a little more interesting since the Briscoes are a good team, but Jay Briscoe got covid so it was another disappointing match. Actually, I'm pretty frequently disappointed by Bateman; I keep waiting for him to be as cool as he looks like he should be and he's just not.
• Pure Championship (Rhett Titus vs. Jonathan Gresham): 5/7. Finally something interesting. These two are both members of The Foundation, so that automatically changes the dynamic, and Pure Rules is a neat twist on a standard match. Not as cool as Heritage Rules from NXT UK, but still neat. And the championship on the line, so there are actual stakes! Still, not a particularly great match.
• 8-Person Tag (VLNCE UNLTD vs. La Faccion Ingobernable): 4/7. A lot of faffing about and time-wasting at the start of this one, and too many people in the match. Even the commentators seemed genuinely confused about what was happening at times.
• World Championship (Flip Gordon vs. Bandido): 5/7. I expected this to be a lot faster and more spectacular, tbh. It was ok, but not really main-event worthy, you know?

Overall rating: 4/7. An extremely long and unremarkable show. Nothing terrible, but nothing great either. And there's still another night to go.

ROH Best in the World

• Tag Team (PJ Black & Brian Johnson vs. the Briscoes): 5/7. It was fine. I like the Briscoes.
• Singles (Flip Gordon vs. EC3): 4/7. Slow.
• Six-Man Championship (Dak Draper, Dalton Castle & Eli Isom vs. Shane Taylor Promotions): 6/7. Not really sure what's going on story-wise, here, but I think that's intentional. Dalton Castle sabotaging his own team for reasons that are not yet evident. Lot of cool wrestling though.
• Last One Standing (Josh Woods vs. Silas Young): 4/7. Last One Standing matches can be really cool, but usually they're just long and slow.
• Singles (Jay Lethal vs. Brody King): 6/7. This is the one that should have been a Last One Standing match.
• Pure Championship (Mike Bennett vs. Jonathan Gresham): 6/7. Pure Rules is really cool. You can have a slow match that's still really engaging and builds intensity as it goes.
• Television Championship (Dragon Lee vs. Tony Deppen): 5/7. Possibly should have been rated higher but felt like a step down after the last one.
• Tag Team Championship Fight Without Honor (Violence Unlimited vs. The Foundation): 6/7. "Give up or I'll stab you with this fork" is a novel way to take advantage of a No-DQ match.
• World Championship (Rush vs. Bandido): 7/7. Extremely impressive. 

Overall rating: 5/7. Some of it was very good, but it was very long. It didn't need to be so long.

Ring of Honor 19th Anniversary Show

• Television Championship (Tracy Williams vs. Kenny King): 2/7. I think the lack of a crowd really hurt this one. It's just hard to really get into a match when there's no crowd response. I dunno, maybe I'd have enjoyed it more later in the show, but maybe not.
• Flip Gordon vs. Mark Briscoe: 2/7. I barely paid attention to this one, to be honest.
• Dalton Castle vs. Josh Woods: 2/7. At this point I was starting to think I was just wasting my time watching this show.
• Grudge Match (Jay Briscoe vs. EC3): 3/7. I'm not sure what the actual grudge behind this was, and I don't know what EC3 actually wanted, but he did keep yelling about honour a lot. I do like EC3, but yeah, just not sure what was going on here.
• Triple Threat (Flamita vs. Bandido vs. Rey Horus): 6/7. This was incredible. The lack of an audience hurt it a bit, but it was still super cool. Three luchadores just doing non-stop luchadore stuff. I'd watch this all day.
• Unsanctioned Match (Matt Taven vs. Vincent): 2/7. I've got to give them credit for not having an "unsanctioned" match on the premises or during the actual show. Makes much more sense this way - even if showing the video still kind of makes it seems like they actually did sanction it... But the match was dumb. Listen, AEW tried having some guys fight each other in an empty building for no clear reason and it was dumb. This was a different building, and there was a better excuse for the ring being there, but it was still dumb.
• Pure Championship (Dak Draper vs. Jonathan Gresham): 5/7. Pure Rules is a neat twist on an otherwise standard match, and this match was fantastic. Again, the lack of an audience brought it down a little, and I felt like the end dragged on a bit, but still a very good match.
• ROH Tag Team Championship (The Foundation vs. La Faccion Ingobernable): 4/7. Just an OK match, but made slightly more interesting by the ongoing drama between LFI and their manager.
• ROH Championship (Jay Lethal vs. Rush): 5/7. Rush is very entertaining, but this match too would have greatly benefited from a live audience, and went on a little long.

Overall Rating: 3/7. This show could have got a decent overall score, I think, if it had an audience. Put other wrestlers around the ring like AEW, do masks and social distancing like NJPW, or do some kind of remote/fake audience like WWE, but do something. The empty, silent room just doesn't work for wrestling.