Injuries Force Changes To Ring Of Honor Mid-west Events And More Roh News And Notes

The non-spoiler lineup for this Monday's ROH on HD Net will feature ROH champion Austin Aries vs. the "winner of his Lucky Lottery", Bryan Danielson & KENTA & Roderick Strong vs. Chris Hero & Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards (This looks awesome), Erick Stevens vs. Brandon Day and Jimmy Rave vs. Necro Butcher.

Ring of Honor has shuffled the lineups for their Dayton and Chicago events this weekend. Before we go over the changes, here are the new official lineups for the events:

Friday 9/18 in Dayton, Ohio at Montgomery State Fairgrounds
*Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. The Young Bucks - First-ever meeting
*Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero
*ROH champion Austin Aries & Rhett Titus vs. Petey Williams & Colt Cabana
*ROH Tag Team Champion Eddie Edwards vs. Brent Albright
*Claudio Castagnoli vs. ROH Tag Team champion Davey Richards
*The Dark City Fight Club vs. The House of Truth
*Also appearing are Jimmy Rave, Necro Butcher, Silas Young and “Skullkrusher” Rasche Brown

Saturday 9/19 in Chicago Ridge, IL at the Frontier Fieldhouse
*ROH champion Austin Aries vs. Bryan Danielson
*Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. ROH Tag Team Champions The American Wolves
*Dog Collar Match - The Necro Butcher vs. Jimmy Rave
*Colt Cabana vs. Claudio Castagnoli
*Dark City Fight Club vs. The Young Bucks
*Petey Williams vs. Rhett Titus
*The House of Truth vs. Brent Albright & TBA
*Also scheduled are Silas Young and “Skullkrusher” Rasche Brown
*Bret Hart, Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness meet and greet.

As you can see, the lineups have been changed around a bit due to injuries. Tyler Black has still not been cleared to return to the ring following his neck surgery. He isn't booked for next weekend as he's attending a wedding so he'll have until 10/10 in St. Louis to recover. With Black out, the decision was made to match ROH champ Austin Aries against Bryan Danielson so they could get that match in one last time before Danielson's departure. Erick Stevens went down with a knee injury while wrestling in Germany, so he is also out this weekend. While he won't be wrestling (well, at least advertised as wrestling), Nigel McGuinness was added to the Chicago return this Saturday to take part in a meet and greet.

KENTA will be in for the 11/5 and 11/6 HDNet tapings in Philadelphia and the 11/7 Edison, NJ, 11/13 Detroit, Michigan and 11/14 Toronto returns.

ROH is selling a "Final Countdown" tour to commemorate Bryan Danielson's final shots with the company. They have also announced that both Danielson and Nigel McGuinness will be available for photos and autographs at their final appearances.

ROH is still working on developing a Video on Demand website.


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