Kazuchika Okada vs Moose
They tie up, and Okada maneuvers skillfully around Moose before getting drilled with a dropkick to the face. Okada gets the boot up on a pair of charges by Moose, but Moose just lifts Okada onto the top rope and dropkicks him to the floor. Okada avoid a baseball slide, but Moose plows Okada over with a running forearm and giant swings him into the guardrail, then the ringpost, then the guardrail again. Moose charges Okada, but gets backdropped into the crowd and then Okada gets a running start and dives over the rail onto Moose. They go back into the ring where Okada keeps up the pressure, catching Moose with a basement dropkick for 2. Moose suddenly fires up and mounts a comeback, hitting a shoulderblock and turning Okada inside out with a clothesline. Moose powerbombs Okada, picks him up, hits a buckle bomb, a bicycle kick, and covers for 2. Okada dodges the spear and sends Moose into the ringpost, then flapjacks Moose, and both men are down. They’re up and trading blows in the middle of the ring, Moose gets the advantage, Okada ducks a clothesline and hits an Air Raid Crash over the knee for 2. Okada with a Shawn Michaels elbow, and he’s ready to hit the Rainmaker. Moose ducks, climbs the corner, and springboards out with a crossbody. He waits for Okada to get to his feet and goes for the spear again, and he misses when Okada leapfrogs. Moose ducks another Rainmaker, but Okada with a pair of dropkicks, he hits the Rainmaker, and that’s all she wrote for Moose.
Winner: Kazuchika Okada
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs ACH, Matt Sydal & KUSHIDA
This is Omega’s first appearance in ROH in nearly six years, which blows my mind. Nick and KUSHIDA start us off with a quick, back and forth sequence that ends in a stalemate. Matt and ACH tag in for some of the same, and ACH comes out ahead and cleans house on all three Bullet Club guys. Omega and Sydal tag in for what I think is their first ever in-ring confrontation, and also a sort of clash of different eras of ROH. All heck breaks loose as Omega German suplexes Sydal onto the entry ramp, then the Bucks take out ACH and KUSHIDA with stereo dives. Omega and Sydal head back in and Omega keeps the pressure up, trapping Sydal in the Bullet Club corner. Sydal finally makes the hot tag, and KUSHIDA tags in to clean house on Omega and the Bucks. KUSHIDA hits a backbreaker and takes the Bucks out with a dive to the floor, then takes Omega out with a basement dropkick. KUSHIDA hits a moonsault on Omega for 2, then goes to a short armscissors. Omega powers out, powerbombs KUSHIDA into a double enziguiri from the Bucks, and gutwrench sitout powerbombs KUSHIDA for 2. KUSHIDA connects with a dropping enziguiri, then everyone winds up back in the ring again. ACH hits a twisting Flatliner on Matt, then he goes to the top, Matt dodges a double stomp, ACH hits a stunner, but Nick breaker the cover at 2. The Bullet Club goes to the floor and ACH takes them all out with a somersault dive. We do the compulsory match-ending spotfest that continued until the Bullet Club kills Sydal with a triple superkick for 2. The babyface team mounts a comeback, Omega tombstones ACH on the floor, the Bucks double superkick Sydal, give him the springboard assisted Tombstone, Omega hits the One Winged Angel, and Matt covers for the win.
Winners: Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
