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Jim Cornette and Jimmy Jacobs come out to the ring for our next match…
No DQ Match: Steve Corino vs Kevin Steen
If Steen wins this match, he’ll regain a full time spot on the ROH roster. They charge one another right off the bell and go toe to toe in the middle of the ring. Steen goes to the eyes but Corino sends him to the ropes and hits a leg lariat that sends Steen out to the floor. Corino tries a baseball slide, but Steen dodges out of the way and rams Corino into the barricade, then sits him next to the ringpost on the apron and hits the running cannonball. Steen went to soak in a vulgar chant from the crowd, and Corino took the opening to pop up and hit a somersault dive off the apron onto Steen. Corino rams Steen from one barricade to another and then rolls him back into the ring. Corino throws a bunch of chairs into the ring and cracks Steen full on with a charging chairshot in the corner, but then Steen superkicks the chair into Corino’s face and Corino rolls out to the floor where Steen powerbombs him onto the ring apron. Steen goes onto the apron to antagonize the crowd again before hitting a big frogsplash onto Corino, then he tears a piece of the barricade off and runs it into Corino’s head. Steen dumps the piece of barricade into the ring and goes after Corino again, but Corino grabs him and rams him into the barricade. Corino sets up a chair at ringside and grabs Steen, but Steen nails Corino and powerbombs him onto the chair Corino had set up. Steen pulls a table out from under the ring and sets it up between the ring and the barricade, then gets in Cornette’s face and antagonizes him until Cornette flips him the bird. Corino nails him and goes out to the floor and starts throwing a garbage can and chairs into the ring right on top of Steen. Steen gets ahold of a trash can lid and kills Corino with it, busting his ear open. Steen bites Corino’s ear and wipes some of the blood on Jacobs, but Corino nails him when he turns around and starts pummeling him with shots from teh trash can before hitting a Snowplow onto the trash can. Corino piles some chairs in the middle of the ring and slams Steen onto them, then comes off the top rope with a frogsplash for 2. Corino sets up four chairs in the middle of the ring and puts the piece of barricade on top of them to create a Platform Of Discomfort. Steen nails Corino and goes up top, but Corino goes up with him and superplexes Steen onto the barricade platform in one of the sickest spots of the year, but Steen still kicks out at 2.
They go back out to the floor where Corino lays Steen on the table between the ring and barricade and goes up top, but Steen recovers and knocks him onto the ring apron. Steen nails Corino with a chair and then sets up a three chair platform on top of the table and he tries to put Corino through it, Corino tries to fight him off but Steen bites his bloody ear to send Corino tumbling back into the ring, but then Corino gets a trash can lid and uses it to nail Steen, who falls backward through the chair and table mess he set up. He rolls Steen back into the ring and makes a cover, but Steen still kicks out at 2. Corino and Jacobs get the piece of barricade out of the ring, then puts a chair over Steen’s faceand nails it with another chair and STILL only gets 2. Steen suddenly comes back out of nowhere with a sleeper suplex and a pump handle neckbreaker onto a chair for 2. Steen gets another chair and cracks Corino in the skull with it, but that only gets 2. Cornette looksdisgusted at ringside, but Steen yells at him that this is his fault, then shoves Jacobs out of the way to try and hit Corino with the chair again. Jacobs grabs the chair out of his hand and distracts Steen long enough to hit Steen with a roll of quarters for 2. Corino sets up the four chair platform in the middle of the ring and tries to dump Steen on it, but Steen blocks and instead hits the Package Piledriver on the chairs and makes a cover right in front of Cornette while staring him right in the eye. Jacobsslowly counts 2 and then stops and looks at Cornette for direction, and Cornette hesitates a long time before telling him to make the count, and Steen is reinstated in ROH.
Winner: Kevin Steen
Steen takes the microphoner and says he came here tonight to do three things: beat Corino and get his job back, number two…Steen drops the mic and gives Jacobs a Package Piledriver. Cornette comes into the ring to check on the defenseless Jacobs, and I think we’re about to find out what number three is. Cornette starts to back off, and El Generico comes running out of the back to face off with his former partner. They have a tense staredown before going toe to toe in the middle of the ring. Generico hits a running Yakuza Kick in the corner and goes for the top rope brainbuster, but Steen fights him off and hits a Package Piledriver off the top and through the timekeeper’s table. He rolled back into the ring and blew kisses to the crowd while they chanted “welcome back” at him.
Between the match and everything that happened afterward, this was easily the best thing on the show so far and one of the most violent brawls all year. Steen made his return in a big way, and it’ll be interesting to see what direction his career takes him in 2012.
Name: Jimmy Jacobs
