G1 Supercard of Honor 2019 - Madison Square Garden

Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling pulled out all the stops to deliver a memorable and definitely a weekend stealing show. One night after nXt light up the big apple at the Barclays Center, ROH/NJPW came to Madison Square Garden and tore it down. Title changes, surprise returns, surprise debuts and surprise appearances mixed with over the top entrances (yes I'm looking at you PCO) and match of the year candidates, the G1 Supercard of Honor did something WWE hasn't done in years....... put on a 5 star show Wrestlemania weekend.

The Jushin Thunder Liger retirement tour made it's way to New York so wrestling faithful could say their goodbye's to one of the legends. The Great Muta made his debut in the worlds most famous arena and G.o.D. debuted a new entrance video. Jeff Cobb and G.o.D come out of the event as dual champions while Kelly Klein wins back the ROH women of honor championship and then gets beat down by the debuting faction Allure. Ishimori, Dragon Lee, and Bandito put on an instant classic and both companies crown new world champions. 

Bully Ray's open challenge allows for the return of Flip Gordon and all hell broke loose with a 6-man tag team New York Street fight. Ibushi versus Naito was an incredibly fun display of two of the most underrated talents in NJPW. A couple of creative missteps in the NJPW camp were completely counter balanced by one great decision by ROH and Kenny King wins the battle royal to become the new #1 contender for the ROH world championship.

In my opinion the NEVER Openweight Championship and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship should never have changed hands. Will Ospreay was the right guy to hold the belt and give it some legitimacy with a long reign. Same with the Heavyweight belt. Taking it off Jay White at this point in time was a bad call especially when it was just done to send the crowd home happy. A long run by the Switchblade would have given him the kind of heat and momentum to make him a top notch star for the rest of his life. Instead he takes a major step back in his creative development for really no reason at all.

However, ROH was able to counteract these horrible decisions by finally giving the devil his due when Matt Taven won the ROH World Championship.The hottest heel in the company finally took home the championship and can now truly call himself the REAL WORLDS CHAMPION. Personally I was hopping for a Marty Scurll win but I really can't argue with this brilliant decision.

All in all though this show was one of the best of the year and a couple of matches (including the IWGP main event) are must watch matches.