ROH Border Wars 2012: Kevin Steen vs. Davey Richards
The Canada crowd being fully behind Steen & fully against Davey created a fun dynamic w/ Davey heeling it up a little bit, and it made his all around performance here stand above most of his other ones from that time period. Like I implied, I really liked him embracing the crowds reaction, his little target on Steen's knee was a solid gameplan to watch throughout, and surprisingly I also thought that his selling was really good from start to finish. Especially those facial expressions were on point. Steen on the other hand wasn't compelling at all. He didn't sell much at all, and his times on the offense were generic all-over-the-place stuff w/ no real focus or anything, which then obviously dragged the match down quite a bit for me. **1/2
ROH Final Battle 2012: Kevin Steen vs. El Generico
Generico's initial shine is awesome; him just doing GENERICO STUFF & smacking Steen w/ that ladder rules. Steen taking over & starting to sloooowly beat Generico down w/ some generic smacktalking thrown in there sure doesn't rule though. It's high-key really damn boring, but thankfully once Generico comes back w/ them half-nelson suplexes the match wakes up a bit. After that brief comeback by Generico, the match kind of "dies" again though. It feels lengthy & it also just feels like there isn't much, or anything, going on in-between the big spots. I would still call it a good match overall for sure, as there is plenty of good stuff in there even w/ almost most of it being lifeless, but considering it's these 2, it's also very disappointing. Certainly not up there w/ their finest bouts against one another. ***
ROH War of the Worlds 2014: Kevin Steen vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Both guys feel like absolute rockstars here. The Hammerstein crowd eats everything they do up, and honestly, so do I. This was a kick ass match. They play off of each others personalities excellently, the action is bomb-heavy right from the get go, and it's just lovely. The match being under 15-minutes is just about perfect too. And I absolutely love the finish w/ Steen kicking out at 1 from the sliding Boma Ye, and then Nakamura finishing him off w/ a standing one right away. ***3/4
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