After both women make their way to the ring, they graciously shake hands as the referee calls for the bell. They briefly circle the ring before Daizee secures Rachel into a side head lock. Rachel then slowly backs her up into the turnbuckle, forcing Daizee to break the hold before hitting her with a back elbow. Rachel tries to take advantage of the cheap shot by running to the other turnbuckle and then charging back at Daizee, who gets her feet into the air and knock Rachel down. Daizee gives Rachel time to gather herself and tries to go after her before being taken down by a drop told hold.

Rachel then applies a headlock of her own to Daizee. They both get to their feet when Daizee tries to squat down and break the hold, but Rachel counters it into a wristlock. She is able to keep the hold on for about a minute before Daizee does a front roll and reverses the wrist lock on to Rachel. She then twists Rachel’s arm and flips her on her back while keeping the arm hold applied. Daizee switches the hold to where she is able to put more pressure on the upper arm of Rachel before putting her in another headlock.

Rachel punches Daizee in the gut in attempt to escape the hold, but decides to swing Daizee’s arm into the suplex position. She hooks Daizee’s leg, trying to give her the fisherman duplex, but Daizee keeps herself grounded. Realizing that the fisherman suplex wasn’t going to work, Rachel settles for the swinging neck breaker. She keeps the leg hooked for the pin, but Daizee kick out at two.

After the failed pin attempt, Rachel stalks Daizee to the nearest turnbuckle, delivering a kick and a couple shots to the face. Rachel irish whips Daizee to the opposite turnbuckle, charges after her, but Daizee moves out of the way causing her to run into the turnbuckle chest first. Daizee takes this opportunity to roll Rachel up for the pin. After going after Daizee again, Rachel is taken down by the legs from Daizee going for another pin, but Rachel is able to bridge and get her shoulders off the canvas. The two women spend a good amount of time with their arms hooked, back to back, trying to force each other into a pin, but Rachel is the winner of this “test of strength” as she is able to hit the Gory Bomb on Daizee.

Rachel thought for sure she was going to get the win in her ROH debut, but Daizee kicks out! Daizee gets some time to get back to her feet while Rachel questions the ref about the count and kicks her in the midsection followed by a couple of chops. Rachel chops her back and pushes her up against the rope for an irish whip, but Daizee reverses, kicks Rachel in the midsection before running back to the ropes and coming back with the Yakuza kick. She then tries to pick up Rachel from behind for what looks to be a belly to back suplex. Rachel plants her feet further onto the mat for resistance following a sit down and rolling Daizee up for the pin.

Daizee kicks out of the pin goes for a headlock. Rachel quickly counters it and tries to go for the big back body drop. Daizee flips over onto her feet before giving Rachel the Heart Punch following the German Suplex for the win.

A much more competitive match than last week’s, wasn’t it? It really doesn’t surprise me, though. Rachel Summerlyn is a very solid wrestler who continues to get better and better each time I see her. Could this be something we see more of in coming weeks? Well, if you haven’t read or heard about the blog Daizee wrote on the ROH website, Daizee talks about her and Sara Del Rey wanting more women coming into ROH and challenging them. All signs are certainly pointing that way. Do you recall the last time these two made a similar challenge in CHIKARA? Let’s hope history repeats itself and they get what they ask for.

The match starts off with Taeler making the ultimate mistake by falling for Sara’s attempt of a handshake. Sara reels her right in, sending her to the nearest turnbuckle followed by a Coppo kick to Taeler’s head. Sara doesn’t slow down there as she begins to deliver vicious forearms to the face of Taeler. Sara then drags Taeler out to the middle of the ring by her hair where she executes a gut wrench back breaker. Thinking that Taeler is already done for, Sara kneels on her chest for a very cocky pin, but Taeler is able to get the shoulder up.

Sara wastes no time and goes back to Taeler’s hair and take’s her to the ropes, using them as leverage while still pulling on the hair of Taeler. Sara then steps out on to the apron, pulls Taeler’s upper body through the ropes, and begins to kick her viciously right on the chest.

Taeler tries to slither away from Sara, who continues to stalk and kick her before grabbing both of Taeler’s arms and bending them back in a submission hold. Taeler is able to work her way up to her feet, reversing the hold, and dropping down on her butt for a jaw breaker to Sara! Sara bends down, clutching her jaw while Taeler takes the opportunity to give Sara a dose of her own medicine by delivering a powerful kick of her own.

Taeler continues to feel the effects of Sara’s kicks from the earlier in the match and doesn’t recuperate in time before Sara knees her in the gut. Sara tries to Irish Whip Taeler to the ropes, but she reverses and hits Sara in the face with a spin kick, knocking Sara off of her feet for a bit. Sara quickly regains her composure and charges after Taeler, before being taken down by a elbow to the chest.

Taeler is on a wave of momentum and tries to get the crowd on their feet before climbing the top turnbuckle. She comes flying off with a double ax handle attempt, but is met with a stomach full of Sara’s boot. If anything was going to put a stop to Taeler’s momentum, that was it! The crowd (and I) begin to sense that the end is near for Taeler as Sara yanks her up and rolls her into a cross arm bar where Taeler submits within seconds.

Now, don’t get me wrong. This was a solid match, but it was a glorified squash. Clearly the message ROH is trying to send across is can anyone come into ROH and stop Sara Del Rey? Or atleast push her to the limit? I think they are going to bring in someone soon who will be able to do it. I wouldn’t mind seeing Jamilia Craft come back & making Sara humble. We shall see, but until then make sure you check out ROH’s sister promotion, SHIMMER (I’m sure you’ve heard of it) on ROHwrestling.com for their newest DVDs.

After a week long hiatus, we are back with the ROH Recap! Two weeks ago, we seen the impressive rookie, ‘Jumpin’ Jamilia Craft, take her mentor, Daizee Haze, to the limit. This week she faces a bigger (literally and figuretively) task, having to grapple with one of the strongest women in the business, Sara Del Rey.

The bell rings as Jamilia proceeds with the code of honor, extending her hand to Sara, but instead gets a huge boot upside her head. Sara takes advantage of a dazed Jamilia by hooking her from behind and delivering a belly to back suplex, keeping her fingers locked for the pin. Is the match over already? Jamilia doesn’t think so as she rolls her shoulders off the mat before the three count. Sara’s jaw drops in disbelief and her facial expression screams “This b!tch did not just kick out?!”. Sure enough, she says “This bitch?!”. Sorry Sara, but it’s going to take more than that to keep this woman down.

Sara gets up and kicks at Jamilia like she’s dirt on the side of a road. Sara then takes her to the ropes, shoving her head through the middle, and proceeds to choke Jamilia out with the most pressure coming from her legs. While this is happening, Sara and her cronies taunt the crowd.

Sara decides to make her way to the apron and delivers multiple kicks to the chest of Jamilia. Jamilia crumbles to the mat as Sara goes for another quick pin. Jamilia shows she still has some fight left as she kicks out again.

Sara immediately picks her up and delivers a beautiful snap suplex before sitting Jamilia up, trying to rip the mask off of her face. Realising that she is unsuccessful, an angry Sara gives a stiff kick to the back of Jamilia. She sends Jamilia to the turnbuckle following a charge, but charges right into Jamilia’s elbow. Sara tries to give her a right handed punch to the face, but Jamilia comebacks again with a pair a feet to Sara’s face.

Jamilia runs toward Sara and is picked up for what looks to be a sidewalk slam by Sara, but quickly counters it into an inverted DDT. Jamilia tries to get the upset and goes for the pin, but isn’t even close as Sara kicks out after one.

Jamilia tries to continue the momentum and runs to the ropes only to have her momentum stopped by a big boot to the face courtesy of Sara Del Rey. Not wanting to give her another chance to get an upset, Sara picks Jamilia up and delivers a piledriver for the win.

I’m not going to lie. I was immediately dissappointed when I seen the run time for this match, but looking at the line up of the show it is understandable. There were three other matches (one being a streetfight I believe) and not to mention the interview segments in between. That is a lot to squeeze in the span of an hour.

That said, Jamilia got very little offense in, but it is better than nothing which is what I initially thought it was going to be after Sara pinned her at the beginning of the match. As advertised during the match, Sara has a big rematch against Amazing Kong. Kong will definitely be looking for revenge after what happened in their last meeting. It was important for Sara to look strong and focused in this match before this weekend. I think we will be seeing a rematch between Sara and Jamilia in the future where the match will be given more time and Jamilia will be given the chance to display more of her offensive weapons.

In this edition of the ROH Recap, we have 18 year old “Jumping” Jamilia Craft going up against seasoned veteran Daizee Haze. Watch below:

This match starts off with Jamilia already waiting in the ring wearing her Macho Man-esque gear while Daizee makes her entrance.

The women shake hands in the middle of the ring before referee Bryce Remsburg orders for the bell. Daizee tries to engage a lock up with her opponent, but Jamilia has other things on her mind as she does a front roll. The two women circle a ring for a few more seconds before Daizee initiates the first move by securing a waist lock and then converting to a wrist lock before forcing Jamilia down on to her back. While she has Jamilia on the mat, Daizee begins to knee her in the arm while still latching on to her wrist.

Daizee sits Jamilia back up and begins to wrench her arm. Jamilia stands back up momentarily, but Daizee takes her down quickly with a hip toss. Daizee continues to work Jamilia’s arm by instilling an arm bar. Jamilia make her way back up again and again Daizee takes her down by the arm, but this time she locks her in a head scissors. Jamilia tries to use her legs to thrust out of it, but despite her efforts Daizee keeps the submission secured.

That doesn’t last very much longer as Jamilia rolls around on the mat and is able to capture Daizee into a side head lock. Daizee works her way back up to her feet and tries to escape the headlock by sending Jamilia off the ropes, but she continues to keep Daizee in that side head lock. Daizee delivers a jab to the midsection and tries to send her off the rope yet again, but is unsuccessful for the second time as Jamilia maintains the side headlock.

Jamilia decides she wants to ground Daizee Haze and executes a headlock hip toss. This does no good for the rookie as Daizee shows off some more of her technical skills by rolling her shoulders off of the match and securing Jamilia in another wristlock. Jamilia shows some technical skills of her own by rolling out of the wristlock and securing Daizee Haze in another side headlock.

Instead of trying to twist and turn her way out of the submission again, Daizee backs Jamilia up into the nearest turnbuckle and follows up three shoulder thrust into the midsection of Jamilia. Daizee then sends Jamilia into the opposite corner, bouncing her off the turnbuckle, and delivering a dropkick.

Jamilia quickly gets back up, but Daizee catches her by the wrist, throws her down, and goes back to work on Jamilia’s arm again with another armbar. Jamilia tries to scoot her way to the ropes, but is halted when Daizee starts to drive her knee into Jamilia’s repeatedly. Daizee begins to wrench Jamilia’s arm harder while Jamilia begins to inch her way to the ropes again and this time she’s got it!

Despite the break, Daizee Haze continues to secure the submission while up until the referee’s four count. Daizee gets up and has a few words for the crowd before going right back to the arm by grabbing Jamilia by the wrist and driving her own shoulder into her arm. Daizee drives Jamilia down to the ring face first puts her in a submission where she is able to put pressure on the back and arm of Jamilia. Jamilia rolls her way out of the roll causing both of the wrestlers to get to her feet where she is met with by forearms to the back from Daizee.

Daizee tries to pick her up for a body slam, but Jamilia jumps down and delivers a beautiful inverted DDT! A hazed Daizee (see what I did that there?) slowly gets back on her feet and tries to deliver a right hand, Jamilia blocks and comes back with a right hand of her own! Daizee tries to deliver another right hand, but again Jamilia blocks it and counters with her own.

At this point, Jamilia starts to catch fire, delivering several right hands to Daizee while backing her up towards the ropes. She attempts to Irish whips Daizee to the opposite side, but Daizee reverses hoping to catch her in a clothesline. Jamilia ducks, running to the ropes and comes back with a flying clothesline to Daizee Haze! Jamilia is completely fired up as Daizee tries to run at her but is picked up and hit by a spinning side slam from Jamilia.

Jamilia stays on top of her for the first pin of the match up, but Daizee is able to kick out before three. Jamilia looks at the referee a little bit shocked. Her loss focus costs her as Daizee, hits her with a chop, heart punch, and a double under hook belly to back suplex for the win.

At first, I wanted to say I was bit underwhelmed with this match, but then I quickly remembered that Jamilia has only been wrestling for about a year. With that said, this was a very basic match. They kept each other grounded for a majority of it with some technical wrestling, but towards the end is where I really thought the crowd was starting to get into it and both wrestlers were starting to catch fire.

I do advise you all to pick up SHIMMER Vol. 29 where Jamilia debuts against Mercedes Martinez in a good match. Mercedes brings the classic “taking the rookie to school” concept while Jamilia pulls some tricks out of the bag and is able to hold her own against the more experienced Mercedes Martinez.

Jamilia has impressed many after wrestling for just one year and we at Diva Dirt wish her the best!

Out first is Portia, who is playing the babyface role in this match. At first, the image of Portia slapping fives with the fans kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, she is one of the most hated heels in SHIMMER after all. Even though Del Rey is the bigger heel in this instance, I would have liked Perez to still keep her heel persona, if only to keep some consistency between SHIMMER and ROH.

Sara Del Rey hits the ring next accompanied by… um… well, I don’t really who he is to be honest. I’m sure his name was mentioned a time or two, but let’s be honest: We’re not watching this match for him, are we? The ladies adhere to ROH’s Code of Honor and shake hands, but as soon as the bell sounds Del Rey goes on the attack, forcing her smaller opponent into the corner and taking her to the mat with forearm strikes and a few stomps for good measure. Referee Bryce Remsburg tries to pull Del Rey off of the pint-sized Portia, but Sara is having none of that.

While Del Rey is busy with the ref, Portia takes the opportunity to roll Sara up with a schoolboy for a two count. Portia tries to get of the offensive but is laid out by another vicious forearm. Del Rey tries for a wheelbarrow but Perez reverses it for another near fall and pays for it with a kick to the head. Sara keeps on her opponent, pulling her up by the hair and tying her up in the ropes. Del Rey proceeds to level Portia with some nasty (in a good way) kicks to the chest folowed by a snap suplex for a two count.

Sara continues to bring the hurt to Portia, utilizing her trademark headbutts and hip attacks to wear Perez down. Del Rey is on fire until she misses a Capo Kick in the corner and Portia capitalizes with a few stiff punches and a impressive tilt-a-whirl into a tornado DDT. Portia hulks up and hits a low dropkick for a two count, but is stopped in her tracks by Del Rey, who takes her out with a very unique suplex for a near fall. Before Portia can regain her composure, Sara hits her Capo Kick followed by a piledriver for the win.

I have to admit this was an impressive showing for the Women of Honor in their first match of 2010. When I read this match on paper, I thought it would be a total squash match, but I was pleasantly surprised. Portia more than held her own, and managed to take the fall without coming off as weak, which would be not be good for a current champion. Another high point in this match was watching Sara Del Rey’s unique offense, her piledriver finisher in particular. I honestly cant remember the last time I’ve seen woman use a piledriver, Del Rey executed it perfectly and had me cringing on Portia’s behalf.

I find it amazing that ROH can put on a match of this caliber in six minutes, yet WWE and TNA can’t even come close for a PPV. Seriously, WWE and TNA should take note. This is how you you put on a women’s wrestling match. Hopefully this match wasn’t a one-hitter quitter and we’ll see more from the Women of Honor on a regular basis. Before this match, the last time they were featured on HD Net was in September of 2009, which is a crying shame. I could see this turning into a series of squash matches, culminating in Sara facing (and possibly losing to) an opponent of equal stature, but judging from past experience, I’m not holding my breath.

So, what did you guys think of the Women of Honor’s return to HD Net? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

PS: Make sure you follow Portia Perez (@pperezninja), Sara Del Rey (@SDRpyoo) and referee Bryce Remsburg (@dabryceisright) on Twitter!

Making her way way to the ring first (and looking great, I might add) is Nikki Roxx, followed by Sara Del Rey, who is being accompanied to the ring by her ridiculous eyebrows (Don’t tell her I said that).

Straight out of the gate, the two women get into a shoving match. Unfortunately for Nikki, the exchange ends when Sara slaps the taste out of her mouth. Nikki tries to get the upperhand with a dropkick and a chop in the corner, but is taken out by a unique rolling heel kick from Del Rey.

In typical ‘Death Rey’ fashion, Sara takes control of match using kicks and stomps to keep Nikki on the mat. She even takes time out to verbally abuse the referee. Now’s that’s  multitasking. After a flurry of offense and a near fall, Del Rey goes for a submission and the crowd goes wild for Nikki. Nikki easily powers out of the submission just to be taken down by a handful of hair and a nasty knee to the head. Ouch.

After narrowly escaping defeat, Nikki avoids a big boot from ‘Death Rey’. She goes for a boot of her own, but Sara has the same thing in mind. Both ladies connect and I wince in front of my monitor. Double ouch. Nikki follows up with some stiff elbows to the head and a beautiful fall away slam for a 2 count.

Looking to finish Del Rey off, Roxx goes for the Barbie Crusher, but Sara escapes with a knee to the head and a sick roundhouse kick. Wasting no time, Sara locks in the Royal Butterfly and hits it to pick up the win.

Not a bad match from the veterans in my opinions. A little short for my taste, but still a good match. When I first saw this match on paper, I expected a total squash match for Del Rey. Thankfully, ROH let Nikki get in some solid offense against the former champ.

Best spot of the match goes to the sick double boot. Such a simple move, yet it had me cringing when I saw it. That had to hurt.

Outside of the actual wrestling, I loved how supportive the ROH fans were of Roxxi. Kinda sad that such a small venue makes more noise for the SHIMMER girls than a huge arena makes for the Divas.

On a unrelated note, WWE or TNA really need to scoop up Dave Prazak. He’s a genius on commentary: “You know what that look means? SHE DON’T LIKE YOU!” Priceless.

Fellow ROH and SHIMMER fans, I hope you enjoyed that. Knowing ROH it’ll be the last SHIMMER match we’ll see for a while. Oh well, there’s always the DVDs…

After weeks and weeks of waiting, SHIMMER fans are finally treated to some SHIMMER-lite goodness on HDNet. This week the team of Neveah and Daizee Haze take on former SHIMMER Champion Sara Del Rey and current SHIMMER Champion MsChif. Check out the match below:

The heels enter first to a cheap plug for SDR’s new Twitter page followed by Neveah and Daizee. Will someone please get Neveah some new ring gear!!! She seems to be wearing that same outfit everytime I see her. Anyway, onto the match.

Neveah and MsChif start things off with a lockup. Neveah with a slam from behind into a hammerlock into a really pretty bridge. After an questionable armdrag,  Neveah tags in Daizee and executes a double hip toss for a near fall. Daizee goes for an arm wringer but MsChif reverses with an impressive frontflip. Sidenote:  I think it amazing that a woman of MsChif’s body type can pull off such graceful maneuvers. Not that she’s fat or anything, but she doesn’t strike me as the type to be so agile and flexible.

Daizee counters with a reversal of her own into a couple of armdrags. Daizee tags in her partner who hit her trademark necksnap/sliding clothesline combo. She goes for the pin, but it’ s broken up by Del Rey. Neveah goes back on the attack with a scoopslam, but her momentum is halted by Del Rey once again. MsChif takes advantage and hits a perfect standing moonsault for a two.

Sara is back in the match and takes it to Neveah with a headbutt and several stomps. After one last stomp to the face (ouch), Del Rey gets Neveah back to her feet and whips her to the corner. Nevaeh attempts a bottom rope crossbody (…really Neveah?), only to be planted by Del Rey’s modified suplex.

Quick tags by the heels, working over Neveah, who needs a tag desperately. After a reversal, Neveah finally manages to get to her corner and tag in Daizee, who lights a fire under this match. After a Gail Kim-esque drop kick, Daizee hits a flurry but only gets a two count. After a failed monkey flip, Neveah blind tags Daizee. Here’s where things get really cool.

Oblivious to the tag, Sara sets up Daizee for a powerbomb while MsChif goes to the top rope. Daizee counters with a hurricanrana, simultaneously avoiding MsChif Green Mist. Very nice spot, ladies.

Neveah uses the confusion to her advantage, rolling Sara Del Rel up for the near fall. Del Rey gets control of the match with a headbutt into one of the most impressive finishers in women’s wrestling today: The Royal Butterfly.

All four women involved in this match put on a great show, as always. I do, however, have one complaint. I feel like I’ve seen this match before. In fact, I did. A few weeks back we saw the same match, with Sassy Stephie taking MsChif’s place. I can’t help but feel like ROH is overusing these four women. There are plenty of girls on the SHIMMER roster that could put on awesome matches. Why not put some of them in ROH? Rumor is that a certain ‘Hardcore Knockout’ will be making her debut in Ring of Honor soon, so maybe we’ll have a new matchup on HDNet soon.

Another thing that could be injected into ROH’s women’s division is some storyline development. I realise that these girls have storylines in SHIMMER, but I don’t think a little storytelling would go amiss.

So what did you guys think? Vote and comment below.

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DAIZEE HAZE VS. SARA DEL RAY

Next up is the team of Daizee Haze and Neveah against Sara Del Rey and Sassy Stephie:

Last but not least, Mixed tag action. Daizee Haze and Delirious vs MsChif and Jimmy Jacobs:

Hope you enjoyed! Sound off in the comments, guys!

 

MSCHIF VS. NEVEAH

When I initially heard about this match, I was positive it would be a total squash match for the champ. After all, Neveah is a relative newcomer to SHIMMER and ROH, and is used to competing in a tag team. Much to my delight, Neveah put on a great showing in this match. I was sure she’d fall flat without  Ashley Lane aka Madison Rayne, but thankfully I was wrong.

Neveah starts off the match, keeping MsChif grounded with a series of headlock takeovers and forearms. A well-placed backfist a la Awesome Kong puts the Champion in control and she lets Nevaeh have it with a sick looking double stomp to the back.

Neveah tries to get back in the game, but is taken out by a stiff clothesline. Here’s where things get a bit sketchy. MsChif executes a awkward looking standing submission into a (botchy) modified gourdbuster. The submission reminded me of Melina vs Beth at the Royal Rumble or MsChif vs Melissa on SHIMMER Vol.1, just not as good. Nice try, though.

In a attempt to dust Neveah off, MsChif eats mat on a beautiful moonsault. Neveah takes advantage, executing an impressive flurry of attacks and awesome german suplex.

Fast forward to Jimmy distracting the referee, which allows MsChif to hit Neveah with the green mist followed by The Desecrator for the win.

Steven’s Thoughts:

Once again, the SHIMMER girls impress on Ring of Honor. Like I said above, I expected a squash match to put over the Champion, but was proven wrong. Neveah managed to prove herself as a singles competitor, and I see big things for her in the future. I would even put her ahead of her former tag partner, Madison Rayne, in terms of skills. I wouldnt be shocked to see her competing in TNA sometime in the near future.

MsChif was impressive as usual, save for the slightly botched finisher at the end. My only gripe would be MsChif’s association with Jimmy Jacobs. I don’t care for the way she’s used him as a crutch to win her last two matches. MsChif is more than capable of handling herself; having Jacobs there to cheat and distract just takes away from her as a Champion. Besides that, he’s just really weird and creepy.  

What did you think of the match? Do you want to see more of SHIMMER on ROH? Sound off in the comments!

I know that we don’t usually cover Ring Of Honor on Diva Dirt, but they’ve thrown us a curveball in the form of a triple threat match. Watch below as SHIMMER Stars Sara Del Rey and Daizee Haze take on SHIMMER Champion MsChif in a 3-way match:

ROH/SHIMMER 3-WAY

Steven’s Thoughts:

If you aren’t a SHIMMER fan yet, this should definitely make you a convert. From bell to bell the match was action packed. Del Rey started thing off taking out Haze and MsChif, but MsChif got back in control quickly with a gorgeous standing moonsault. The ending saw MsChif take a page out of Tajiri’s book, hitting Haze with the Green Mist and finished her off with her cradle DDT dubbed The Desecrator.

My favorite thing about this match was how they played up the fact that there were three women in the ring. Often in WWE, Triple Threat matches play out like several small one on one matches. Rarely do you see all three competitors involved at the same time. Here there was rarely an instance where all three girls weren’t involved.

Coolest spot in the match goes to MsChif. Locking in the hurricanrana armbar, then avoiding the reversal by switching to the opposite side. Genius! Why more of these girls are not a part of mainstream promotions is beyond me. Maybe WWE needs to send a few scouts to SHIMMER, or at least make it a training camp.

What did guys think of the match? Sound off in the comments!