The Briscoe Brothers: Sandy Fork Originals
From the Second Navigation on March 2nd, 2008
For the GHC Heavyweight Championships
Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji (champions) vs. the Briscoes
This was an incredible match. About eleven minutes in Mark missed a jump off the ropes and almost broke his neck. He was fine though and the match actually got s bit more even after that. It got less technical and more roughhouse brutal. The ending was odd but awesome. I was going to make a "this match happened in Japan so it gets five stars joke". But the joke is too close to the truth. First match in the set and I'm already about to cancel the WWE Network.
Winners: Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji
From Northern Navigation on July 25th, 2008
No Disqualifications
Jay Briscoe & Austin Aries vs. the Age of the Fall
This was your classic off the hooks brawl. But I haven't seen on of those in a while so I was glad. Necrobutcher and Mark Briscoe came in early to make it a three-on-three match. Then it was chaos. Necrobutcher is a nut.
Winners: Jay Briscoe & Austin Aries
From Death Before Dishonor VI on August 2nd, 2008
The Briscoes vs. Jigsaw & Ruckus w/Julius Smokes
This was a pretty entertaining, hype match but it was only about five minutes long. Jigsaw and Ruckus seem like they could be entertaining but they try to be a little too flashy too.
Winners: the Briscoes
From Ring of Homicide 2 on October 25th, 2008
The Briscoes vs. LAX w/Julius Smokes
The biggest part of this match was Mark getting a vicious head-butt in the right eye five or six minutes in. Now you know where he gets those dashing good looks. This was another excellent match. Not as perfect as the first one on the set or as insane as the second but damn...
Winners: the Briscoes
From Final Battle 2008 on December 27th, 2008
The Briscoes vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
This was ANOTHER awesome match. I love seeing these guys from overseas who I've never heard of. I get something I'm familiar with in the Briscoes and something I never know what to expect. There was an INSANE super-kick flurry about twelve or thirteen minutes into this one that sold me. The camera work on this match was excellent too. It really showed how hard these guys hit.
Winners: the Briscoes
After the match the American Wolves attack the Briscoes. Kevin Steen and el Generico come to the rescue but too late.
From Tag Title Classic on April 18th, 2009
Jay Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong
This was an okay match. There were moments but the previous five matches made it look not as impressive by comparison. The ending was very sudden and flat too.
Winner: Jay Briscoe
From Validation on May 9th, 2009
For the Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Championship
Jerry Lynn (champion) vs. Jay Briscoe w/Mark Briscoe
This match was alright. After seeing so many of his matches I've just never been too sold on Jerry Lynn. He's good but his matches are always the ones on sets that I tune out during and forget even happened. Like when I wrote up this review I was like, "oh yeah, that match happened".
Winner: Jerry Lynn
From Ring of Honor on HDNet #25
The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen & el Generico
This was a TV match so obviously it was structured a bit differently. It was still good (better than whatever you'll see Monday) but these teams are capable of and can do (and did) much better. The commentary was horrid too. It ends when the American Wolves interfere.
Winners: no contest
From the Final Countdown: Dayton on September 18th, 2009
The Briscoes vs. the Young Bucks
This was definitely a different Young Bucks during this match. There were glimmers of the showboating twerps that divide the crowd so much nowadays but they more or less just went hold for hold and move for move with the Briscoes here. I believe they were still very new on the scene here and didn't have the crowd behind them like they do in 2017. I didn't like the commentators during this match either. Okay match.
Winners: the Briscoes
From Final Battle on December 19th, 2009
For the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships
The American Wolves (champions) w/Shane Hagadorn vs. the Briscoes
This match was okay. But for being in Hammerstein Ballroom and at Final Battle the crowd really didn't seem to care at all. I've seen way better from both teams.
Winners: the Briscoes (new Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions)
After the match the Kings of Wrestling attacked the Briscoes.
Disc 2
From Ring of Honor on HDNet #48
For the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships
The Briscoes (champions) vs. the Young Bucks
Much like the previous match with the Bucks this was a different Young Bucks. They still have the high flying crazy offense but they didn’t have the showmanship (some say "spotlight stealing") and they sold the Briscoes offense. The crowd was firmly getting behind them at this stage. This was a really good match.
Winners: the Briscoes
From the Big Bang on April 3rd, 2010
For the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships
The Briscoes (champions) vs. the Kings of Wrestling w/Shane Hagadorn
This wasn't even a full match? It came in towards the end with the crowd on their feet chanting, "this is awesome". It ends after five minutes and I feel ripped off.
Winners: the Kings of Wrestling (new Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions)
The final shot before the next match is Jay puking.
From Supercard of Honor V on May 8th, 2010
The Briscoes vs. the All-Night Express
Rhett Titus was wearing a chip'n'dale bow tie during this match. They played up the male-stripper/gigolo angle a bit with him. I swear I kept thinking he was Steven Richards. This match was solid but not essential.
Winners: the Briscoes
*the commentators said during that match that Jay had suffered a concussion during the previous match due to s loaded elbow shot from Chris Hero. So that explains the vomit*
From Death Before Dishonor VIII on June 19th, 2010
No Disqualifications Match for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships
The Kings of Wrestling (champions) w/Shane Hagadorn vs. the Briscoes
Everyone bled like a fucking pigs during this match. Mark got especially mauled. I've seen crazier no disqualification matches but this one seemed especially rough. It was extremely enjoyable except for the annoying kid close to the commentary booth screaming and swearing his head off for most of the match.
Winners: the Kings of Wrestling
From Bluegrass Brawl on July 22nd, 2010
The American Wolves vs. the Briscoes
That last match was a hard one to follow. This was a good match but I found my mind wandering and wanting to see the conclusion to the feud with the Kings of Wrestling.
Winners: the Briscoes
Pretty nice promo setting-up the following match: a six-man match with the Kings of Wrestling and Shane Hagadorn facing Mark, Jay AND POPPA BRISCOE! I FUCKING LOVE POPPA BRISCOE!
From Final Battle on December 18th, 2010
The Kings of Wrestling & Shane Hagadorn w/Sara Del Ray vs. the Briscoes
Fuck, Poppa Briscoe is pretty built. The crowd wasn't very behind him though. I dunno; I've seen worse untrained family members in the ring. Well...maybe not many. This wasn't a very good match.
Winners: the Briscoes
From Manhattan Mayhem IV on March 19th, 2011
The Briscoes vs. the All-Night Express
This was another match that they came into towards the end. I don't feel as ripped off as I do about the earlier Kings of Wrestling match (since in every match after that the commentators were saying what a great match that was) but still...
Winners: the All-Night Express
After the match the Briscoes aren't happy they lost so they beat down the All-Night Express and a bunch of other wrestlers who come from backstage to break it up. I guess this was a heel turn. After one and a half Briscoes DVDs there's finally some character building on the two.
From Honor Takes Center Stage 1 on April 1st, 2011
The Briscoes vs. Future Shock
There was some good stuff in here from the Future Shock guys. Good match.
Winners: the Briscoes
After the match the All-Night Express ran in and attacked the Briscoes. The lockeroom emptied to break them up.
From Honor Takes Center Stage 2 on April 2nd, 2011
The Briscoes vs. the All-Night Express
I wonder if this was around the time of Jays idiotic tweet and they turned them heel because cheering them wasn't going to happen much those days? The Briscoes as heels isn't my thing but ANX as faces is even less to my liking. With the way these teams were fighting after the last few matches I don't see why this shouldn't have been No Disqualifications? They still pulled out some rough shit though. And there was some sick blood from both teams. So it still ended up being a good match to watch.
Winners: the Briscoes
From Supercard of Honor VI on May 21st, 2011
Chicago Street Fight
The Briscoes vs. the All-Night Express
This was another good brawling match. There wasn't quite the spark the earlier ones had but it was just as if not more brutal. The ending was kinda dumb though.
Winners: the Briscoes
From Death Before Dishonor IX on September 17th, 2011
Ladder War III
The Briscoes vs. the All-Night Express
They should have just released a DVD dedicated to this feud and it's matches. Thankfully they've entertained me more as they've gone on. I've seen this one before but have no problem watching it again. It's fucking mayhem. That's the only way to describe it. Each of the matches in this feud on this set built up on the one before and it climaxed here. So much blood.
Winners: the All-Night Express
From Glory by Honor X on November 19th, 2011
The Briscoes vs. the Young Bucks
It's pretty impossible to follow that last match and they should've ended the DVD there. The Bucks were more "the Bucks" here but still not quite the team people loath. This was a good match but not a good end to a DVD.
Winners: the Briscoes
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I found myself tuning out about half way through disc one and during the first bit of disc two. I think the problem was that on their first DVD every match was with a different person or team and that DVD covered a much longer era of Ring of Honor. There were a lot of guys on that one I’d never heard of. This one focused on just a couple of years and just a couple of feuds. I mean, four matches against All-Night Express, three against the Kings of Wrestling, three against the Young Bucks; that’s thirteen out of twenty-two matches against three teams. But the abundance of hardcore-based matches on the second disc got my attention again. Even though that was a lot of HxCx wrestling they all offered a little bit more for me. Like the All-Night Express ones, which kept building on the previous one.
What really pissed me off those was just showing the final five minutes of those matches with the Kings of Wrestling and the All-Night Express. The second disc was all about those two feuds so I don’t know why they didn’t cut the two Young Bucks matches and the American Wolves match (none of which were essential) and show those matches in full. Especially the Kings of Wrestling one because all the other matches in the feud the commentators were glowing about that match. The only thing I can think of is the Young Bucks were really gaining steam in 2012 and they wanted to include them on the DVD to increase sales? But even still they should have ended the DVD with the Ladder War III. The Bucks match that ended it wasn't a way to follow that match up.
I liked on their first DVD how they had little interviews between the matches with the Briscoes talking about the upcoming match. They didn’t have that on this set and I wished that they did. But since most of the matches were with the same teams I can see why it wasn’t as needed.
The only other complaint I have is how quickly matches faded in and out. I’d have like a bit of pomp at the beginnings and a little celebration or aftermath at the ends.
I’d heard that this wasn’t a very good compilation compared to their first one. And while I did enjoy the first one more because of the reasons I stated (the variation in opponents and the fact that the earliest Ring of Honor stuff interests me most) I still really enjoyed this. It’s worth buy just for the first five matches on the first disc and the Ladder War on the second disc.
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