You Either Die A Party Marty, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain

Marty Scurll VS Flip Gordon - ROH 01/06/2018

CJD: When searching for a Scurll match for this week I wanted it to check a few boxes. Not an epic, not against someone he was extremely familiar with, where the Villain looks great without having to do a ton, and makes his opponent look great in the process. I honestly have never seen a Scurll performance that fits that description, but in this one he knocked it out of the park. I'm starting to think he's grown a lot this year between these two matches. I'm going to have to start giving him a fair shake again. Oh and hey I watched a Flip Gordon match for the first time in the process.

JJZ: The cagey vet versus the energetic green horn. This was a nice titty for tatty match. Watching Flip trying to get the huge victory in his young career was the story unfolding the whole time. I think him going so fast with everything worked really well to showcase it. The crowd was white hot and was buying into everything. The super kicks were so fucking stiff!!! But for the love of god ROH please stop main event wrestlers from wearing the same color trucks!

CJD: You had two guys in purple in your last match there buddy!

JJZ: Haha. This has been a ROH problem since we were going to shows. That's why I didn't call out the wrestlers.

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Gonna Fly Now

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Will Ospreay (c) VS Marty Scurll - NJPW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 4/1/2018

JJZ: This was a no brainer for me. In my top three matches of the year. Ospreay is one of the best in the wrestling world right now, he has evolved into a complete wrestler that tells you a story that you never want to end. Now Marty, I'm 50/50 on the Villain. He can be great or he overstays his welcome. But that isn't the case in this match at all. This match is a present for you Chris. I hope you enjoy it.

CJD: I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. There's a lot about this match I loved. But as was the case with previous Ospreay/Scurll matches I've seen, I think they took things too far. This match told a complete story, reached a logical conclusion. Then it kept going for a few more minutes and it made so much of what they worked so hard to build feel less important. Make no mistake that for almost a half hour these are the best babyface Will Ospreay and maestro Marty Scrull performances I've ever seen. I feel similarly on the Villain, I often think he's a great entrance and cool character on paper who doesn't translate in the ring. That wasn't the case here, he was methodical, nasty, everything he did in the ring had purpose. Ospreay's selling and sometimes inadvertent continuous punishment to his neck was reminiscent of an action movie like Die Hard or Shoot 'Em Up. It just kept getting more ridiculous but it worked. But by the end I wanted a little less. I know you don't feel the same, but that's my honest opinion.

JJZ: I knew the only way I could get you to watch this match was to force it on you. I couldn't disagree with you more about the end stretch. I think they nailed it with this match. These two always went too far. Sometimes so far I didn't even want to watch the finish. But when the finish happened in this match I was like "Yes! They got it perfect this time."

CJD: In order to continue this conversation I'm going to have to touch on some vague spoilers, so if our readers don't want to know how this match ends, then proceed no further until you WATCH THE MATCH...