Spoilers of Honor!

No, seriously, spoilers.

So, according to a phone call from Inside Pulse's head ROH cheerleader Aaron Glazer (reported by someone going by the handle of Supersonic; surely a reliable source), there was a big title change at the Pay Per View taping tonight. It was in a world title match. In which Nigel McGuinness beat Takeshi Morishima. I told you there would be spoilers.

So, they beat WWE to the punch on the new champion/big title change thing (not that I'm trying to imply that that was their motivation; seriously) even if the show won't air for awhile. Unlike WWE, ROH has yet to post the results on their website, but I guess they don't want to have a giant flashing banner spoiling the results of their next PPV. WWE, on the other hand, is perfectly okay spoiling title changes for their taped Smackdown episodes. On ECW, no less.

Anyway, this result must come as a big suprise of the people who posted on this thread, which is pretty amusing. To me, at least. I'm kind of a dick, though. I don't even watch ROH (although I did take the step of trying to win some DVDs from their Ebay store, so I'm at least making some sort of effort); I just felt like spoiling something. From what I gather, Nigel's a very good wrestler with a fondness of clotheslines (or lariats, if you will), and he's got a running feud going with Danielson, so they're probably good with a long reign out of him. Or, conversely, he could turn out to be a transitional champion like Homicide was. Time (and a growing number of writers at Inside Pulse) will tell.

There's one thing beyond that to be taken from the report (other than that Austin Aries may be insane); Glazer didn't sound impressed with the show (in that he called it bad; subtle things like that), which isn't a good sign, given they haven't been doing PPV that long, so they can't really afford missfires, even at $10-15 a pop. However, a non-ROHbot audience may not hold them to as high a standard as Glazer does, so the reaction from the uninitiated should be interesting. They seem to have won over a lot of people with their first two shows, which I would totally have bought if DirecTV offered them.