[Mr. Monday Morning]

Originally Posted by Alienoid06 Ah, yes, I forgot about Shingo. He is indeed awesome. I'd love to see The Briscoe Brothers defend the ROH World Tag Team Championship against KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji. That would be a sweet ass tag team match. For some reason, I also get excited at the prospect of a Ricky Marvin vs. Matt Sydal match.

I don't know why but I didn't really enjoy their match in September all that much. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, but I've seen so many really good Briscoes matches in the last year or so it doesn't really stack up. For whatever reason when they're in there with KENTA it just doesn't seem to click.

I am right there on Marvin vs Sydal though. Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone who's come along more than Sydal in the last 6 months, and Marvin is 31 flavors of awesome. Sign me up for that one.

Anyway, here are my predictions for what is confirmed for ROH this Friday in St. Paul: The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew will take on the team of The Dangerous Angels. The Wrecking Crew (Rain & Lacey) are the hometown girls, and SHIMMER and ROH appear to be increasing their association with SHIMMER. What better way to solidify that relationship than to have Allison Danger and Sara Del Ray lose their first match as a tag team in ROH? I think Rain & Lacey should get the win here.

No argument here, although tbh Sara is the only one who has consistently impressed me. Lacey can be a bit hit or miss, Allison is all over the shop and IMO overrated, and I've never really seen anything from Rain (though I have heard good things)

BJ Whitmer will face Shingo in a "Special Challenge" on Friday. As he is heading into a ROH World Title match the next night, I think Shingo should get a little bit of momentum. This will be a hard-hitting affair, but Shingo should ultimately go over.

I don't really like Whitmer, to be honest. BUT, I do appreciate the fact that he seems to have realised what he can do well (take ridiculous beatings) and is working at just being the best he can be at doing that. I don't like the idea of these two matching up, truthfully, but yeah I can see Shingo getting the duke to get the 'rub' from the ROH resident tough guy.

Colt Cabana will team with Homicide to take on Brent Albright and Adam Pearce. I love Albright, but I just don't see his team taking it. Cabana has lost every match on his farewell tour, he should get at least one win. Pearce will get to go over Cabana the next night in Chicago. I expect to see Homicide get the pin on Adam Pearce.

Dunno, I can't see Pearce needing to go over Colt to be honest, he's fine in the little niche he's carved for himself. But, I can't see Cabana winning here either. Who knows, maybe more Cornette shenanigans?

In the Four Corner Survival, Rocky Romero and Erick Stevens should cancel each other out. That leaves either Jack Evans or Delirious for the win. Evans seems to be picking up lots of little victories here and there, but I think Delirious will take it. Evans already has the push to create his own faction to war with the No Remorse Corps and The Resilience. Let's get Delirious in there. You also can't go wrong with putting your Survival Of The Fittest Tournament Winner over.

Sound reasoning. I could maybe see Stevens getting the win as he needs something to establish himself (Aries is basically leading a couple of ROH n00bs right now) but Delirious shows his usefulness here, as he can realistically win or lose a bunch of different matches and not be hurt at all.

The Ultimate Endurance Match will be a proving ground for all the challengers. The Briscoes retain, but hopefully it won't be the end of Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw.

Get Pelle's team out early, have 'Wicked and Akuma hang for a bit before Akuma turns on him and walks out (or somesuch) and then let them go for 10-15. PLEAAAAAASE.

Roderick Strong will hopefully retain the FIP World Heavyweight Championship against Christopher Daniels. They've only ever had Homicide and Bryan Danielson as former Champs, I don't see why FIP would want to pollute that by adding a TNA guy to the list. Hopefully Strong defends the belt on the Japan tour, and gets it a little more notoriety. I want to see Erick Stevens bring in the FIP Florida Heritage Championship, as well. At least momentarily. The Briscoe Brothers could also at least wear their FIP Tag Team Championships. With some defences of the FIP Tag Titles in Japan, they could become seen as belts worth holding.

Not sure of the logic here and I don't really like Daniels all that much. I think he's playing heel now too, so this could be a real mess.

There is a little part of me that would mark out for sticking it to the man, and putting Austin Aries over Takeshi Morishima, showing Aries where his home is. The SuperStarr has always been better in ROH than in TNA, in my opinion. Putting the ROH World Title on the leader of The Resilience will also make them credible. Then they just bring in the FIP Florita Heritage Championship for some defences, and The Resilience is actually looking pretty good. Not bad for a stable lacking credibility. There is a lot of attention in Japan because of Morishima's possession of the belt, so that is probably a good thing for ROH. Morishima will in all likelihood retain here, and that's the way it should be.

Now that he's been suspended AGAIN, I can't see him going back to TNA to be honest. He'll put up a cagey fight but there's no way he beats Mori.

Now for my Chicago thoughts: Man, The Resilience have been taking a fucking beating. Austin Aries should beat Rocky Romero, as he is the leader of the group. Plus he will need to save face after losing to Morshima the night before.

I can see this being some sort of schmozz. Not sure if Davey and Matt Cross are booked but it could easily turn into a tag, which I'd then assume means Aries over Davey.

It's kind of cool that Christopher Daniels is facing the FIP World Heavyweight Champion one night, and then the FIP Florida Heritage Champion the next. They should have Stevens put his belt on the line here, and successfully defend it.

Don't really know enough about Stevens at this point, but again I don't really have high hopes.

Roderick Strong doesn't seem to be defending his FIP World Heavyweight Title against Jack Evans. Boo! Make the match for the Title, and have Davey Richards and Rocky Romero help Strong retain, which is eventually what pushes Evans over the edge into creating his own faction to battle in this developing war.

I need to see the FIP Evans vs Strong match Gabe always raves about. It's probably not half as good as he makes it sound, but I can see how it might work. Roddy apparently brutalised Jack last time around, and it could easily happen again.

Mike Quackenbush, Gran Akuma, Jigsaw and Hallowicked will get another chance to prove themselves in a Six Man Mayhem Match. I doubt either will get the win, nor do I think Pelle Primeau will get it, so that leaves Delirious. Once again, you can't go wrong with putting over your Survival Of The Fittest Tournament Winner. Mike Quackenbush winning to establish notice isn't beyond the realm of possibility, though.

6 Mans are never easy to call. Jigsaw will probably win just for the hell of it.

Homicide, BJ Whitmer and Brent Albright will clash in a three-way match. I'm going to rule out Homicide as a winner, as he goes over the previous night. It's either going to be Whitmer or Albright, methinks. Seeing as Whitmer loses more often than Albright, and because Albright only loses in a tag team match the previous night, Whitmer should take it here.

Whitmer's kinda stuck with nothing to do now Jimmy's gone and torn his ACL (for love) so I'm not sure exactly what they're planning with him, but 'cide and Albright definitely have a thing going, so I can see 'cide picking up the win but paying for it afterwards.

The Briscoe Brothers vs. The Motor City Machine Guns will be awesome. Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley won't likely win the belts, but they apparently work splendidly as a team. After this defence, and Ultimate Endurance, I honestly believe that The Briscoes will have qualified for a successful World Tag Title reign. I think they could lose the Championship the next night, and it wouldn't be a big issue. It's good to see ROH giving the tag team division some love.

I honestly don't see the big deal about Sabin, but I love me some Alex Shelley. And from the little I've seen of them they work extremely well together, so hopefully this will come together and be a beauty.

Adam Pearce is getting quite the rub going over Colt Cabana. Good on him.

As noted above, I don't think he needs it. Cabana goes over in his hometown on the way out after thoroughly embarrassing Pearce.

Shingo will make a fun challenger to Takeshi Morishima. I don't think Shingo is yet established to take the ROH World Championship. This will be a good showcase for him, though.

I think it's Shingo's final ROH date, so there's no chance he's going over. Then again I thought there was no chance of him and Doi winning the tag titles, so what do I know?