Every Major Weekly Wrestling Show Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Ring Of Honor

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Scheduling and taping issues make keeping up with Ring Of Honor television a pain in the ass. The show doesn't have a national timeslot, with the day and time depending on local listings, and that it is taped several weeks in advance means it's easy to get spoiled. In addition, the show recently aired a delayed Angelina Love Women of Honor championship defence two weeks after she'd lost the belt. It gets messy.

These problems aside, the show is fine. There are a lot of fundamentally sound but boring wrestlers working fundamentally sound but boring matches (such is the promotion's roster), but the likes of Rush, Bandido, and Jay Lethal regularly raise the bar. Every now and then you get a gem like 6 November's Alex Shelley vs. Jonathan Gresham clash and the 26 July bout pitting Dragon Lee & Rush against the Briscoes was legitimately one of the year's best TV matches*.

ROH TV needs to start reflecting the pay-per-view product if it's ever to move up the rankings. At the moment, there are few incentives to watch beyond "hey, that match was cool."

* it's free on YouTube. Watch it.

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