ROH Revelry #254: Thank you Elg!n?????

SPEAKER_1 (0:13)

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Tom (0:31)

And honored to be part of.

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SPEAKER_4 (1:13)

Of honor.

Tom (1:14)

Revelry with Will and H5, Tom.

Will Mercier Jr. (1:23)

And then maybe you just say hi to him if you can't have passed it.

SPEAKER_4 (1:25)

It's impossible. It's impossible to say hi. Hi, Tom.

SPEAKER_3 (1:29)

We're sure here you have a good friend, Sarah, who's bought you this limited edition, one of only a couple left here in Winnipeg, Look, he does have a podcast, he talks about you all the time.

Will Mercier Jr. (1:42)

He talks very highly of you on there.

SPEAKER_3 (1:44)

So I just wanted to join you, give you one of those. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_4 (1:47)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_1 (1:48)

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SPEAKER_6 (2:33)

This is High Five Tom, saying this week we have the correct intro in the episode.

Tom (2:39)

And one.

All right, what up, High Fivers? It's your boy, High Five Tom, and I'm joined by my good friend, the Oakland-nominated podcast co-host, my good friend, Mr. Will. Will, how are you today, my friend?

Will Mercier Jr. (2:53)

We're recording Ring of Honor, unlike what Zoom says, which is recording in progress.

Tom (2:59)

That's funny.

Will Mercier Jr. (3:00)

Well, Tom, I've got a question for you. Brittany asked me this question. Okay. A little wrestling question for you, probably a harder question for you to answer, because I'm not a good wrestling watcher anymore. So she asked me if I can only watch one company. You have the full catalog, we can only pick one company to watch.

Who would you pick? I said, despite, it might be sounding like a bias, because I do a podcast about it. I probably would pick Ring of Honor.

Just as far as, obviously we haven't watched all of it, but as far as consistency of catalog, and just what is there in that catalog?

Tom (3:53)

There's a lot of great stuff. Obviously, we love to put over our good friend Kyle over at the Apron Bump. I know there's a couple other podcasts that started at the beginning, but there's a lot of good shit from the beginning from Ring of Honor.

We definitely started to get-

Will Mercier Jr. (4:07)

I'm certain someone on this podcast did a review of the very first show, but another show.

Tom (4:13)

Show it to Phil.

Will Mercier Jr. (4:13)

You can find if you go way back.

Tom (4:16)

Yeah. Obviously, there's some dog shit, and we definitely started in a weird point for Ring of Honor.

Will Mercier Jr. (4:24)

The 2012 sucked.

Tom (4:26)

There was some decent stuff, but like we always say, fighting February always killed us. But yeah, and you got 20 years of catalog.

It'd be hard not to pick Lucha Underground, but it's only 127 episodes. So personally, I would have to stick with New Japan. I mean, it's the only thing I watch currently.

Will Mercier Jr. (4:47)

That's a really good picture.

Tom (4:50)

And you said like the catalog. Yes, they've had some down years. They're definitely kind of on a resurgence now, but I think bad New Japan is better than a lot of good other stuff. So I don't think you could go wrong with either New Japan or Ring of Honor. So you got 20 years of catalog for Ring of Honor.

So technically longer, but actually I think the current Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions, I wonder if it's Blake Christian and Lee Johnson? Because they had a really nice showing in Junior Tag League.

Will Mercier Jr. (5:27)

Let's pull it up. I'm not up for who's champ besides.

SPEAKER_4 (5:38)

Who is current?

Tom (5:41)

But real quick, I do want to mention, obviously, once again, congratulations to former guest of this show, my co-host over on Going Underground, who I owe an humongous apology because I deleted this month's episode. But Josh and Shannon, once again, congratulations.

I was glad I was able to make the wedding. It was a good time, so it's good to see it's been a world-running relationship. I'll let Josh tell them more of that story on Going Underground. But congrats, I'm really happy for them.