Buddy does his kip up routine and gets smashed up by Rogers for his troubles. Borne and Rose took over on Rogers, with Rose hitting his sweet back elbow. Heel control segment is really good with some stiff knee drops, some great looking suplexes and some really nice double team moves behind the refs back leading to the opening fall.

 

Second fall starts with the babyfaces in control and Borne ends up doing a nice weeble wobble and frantic sell job off an atomic drop. Sawyer hits some great dropkicks and Rose ends up tied up in the ropes. Rose takes a pounding and does his awesome backwards between the rumps head first bump! Rose ends up "accidentally" kicking Borne in the guts in the corner but they appear to make ammends. Then Borne accidentally does a diving double axe which was shockingly well done. Sawyer cleans house and there is a great sequence with Rose taking a nasty shot off of a dropkick and then a huge bump over the top that results in Buddy arguing with an old lady in the front row. Borne ends up taking over with a nasty arm takedown and then fucking kills Sawyer with a forearm leading to another "accidental" shot between the heels. Interesting hope spot with Sawyer locking on a full nelson and Rogers accidentally hitting him when trying to take a shot at Rose. Sawyer hits an awesome looking double sunset flip for a hope spot but gets cut off and Borne knees him in the face. Sawyer gets the hot tag off of a floatover escape and Rogers lights up Rose and goes for a top rope splash but Borne gets a cheapshot from the apron and he face plants. Rogers escapes a double team with a double dropkick and then Borne accidentally dropkicks Rose and the faces take a really good second fall.

 

Third fall starts with babyfaces in control working a headlock. Really strange sequence with a monkey flip by Sawyer and then an attempt at another monkey flip that is sort of half way countered. Not really a flub but an odd stalemate moment. Sawyer ends up battling and hitting a suplex and then Buddy goes up for a diving knee but hits Borne leading to the faces taking the fall and the match. Post-match Borne turns on Rose and destroys him with a chair. Damn good match that told an awesome story and had a good post-match angle.

Brett Sawyer & Tommy Rogers vs. Buddy Rose & Matt Borne (20:55)

- This one had some good stuff in it but also had some weaknesses. The first fall was marred by a botched finish as Borne got tangled in the loose ropes before what was supposed to be a double elbow drop. The 2nd fall seemed really disjointed and I couldn't get into it. Sadly, it seemed really off when Rogers was in the ring and I thought he would have been awesome in a Portland setting. Maybe there are better matches with him in Portland.

 

Post-match breakup between Rose & Borne (4:09)

- The post-match was much more interesting than the match itself. EXTRA

 

Lynch 7

I thought the work here was sloppy and really uninteresting here. With the talent involved it should have been a barn burner of a match.

I fall in the middle on this one. The first fall was fine but bland, without the usual strong shine to open. Will mentioned the awkward double elbow. That might've been a flub, but it actually worked well with the ultimate theme of Buddy and Borne not being on the same page. They really picked it up in the second fall, with strong momentum swings, some nice offense from Sawyer and a clearer focus on the Buddy-Borne miscommunication. In fact, if the second fall had been a standalone match, it might've worked as well as the total product. The third fall was short and designed to lead into Borne's post-match assault on Buddy. But it certainly paid off the main storyline. I'm not sure on this one. Though I don't think it's an easy choice for the set, I did like the second fall quite a bit. I guess I'll go low-level yes. I'm guessing Dylan would have to use a personal pick to get this on.