I'll admit it, I was really hoping that they would get Rob Van Dam for one night in to wrestle Jerry Lynn in the old ECW Arena. A match against Bryan Danielson is nothing to complain about, though.
The card looks uniformly good, but a definite interest point is the whole Austin Aries/Tyler Black fighting over the next ROH World Title PPV shot thing. Aries is taking a more prominent role backstage, so I think he definitely puts over ROH's new golden boy, and FIP World Heavyweight Champion, Tyler Black. If he doesn't, things could be taken a bit politically. Then, next year, I think Tyler Black goes into the match against Nigel McGuinness as FIP Champion, but loses when Jimmy Jacobs turns on him, triggering a feud between the two, while McGuinness does some stuff with Bryan Danielson, Jerry Lynn and even Chris Hero.
Just a little prediction as to the possible direction of ROH heading into 2009.
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