Who would've known that 15 years ago, in the city of Dayton Ohio, the Montgomery County Fairgrounds would prove to be a life-changing location for our own Shane Hagadorn.

See August 9, 2003 was the date of Ring of Honor's "Wrath of the Racket" event, their first venture outside of the Northeast, and Hagadorn's first (and only) event sitting in the crowd as a fan.

This episode is the chat about his recollections as a fan, less review and more impact, and comparing those memories to the reality of our hosts watching the event back in 2018.

It's AJ Styles and Chris Daniels and Chris Sabin and Jimmy Jacobs and many more in the infancy of their ROH careers (or careers in general in some cases), and it's ROH in it's own infancy as well.

Join Jeff & Shane as they explore the past of ROH in the days before either man had their glimpses behind the curtain!

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Wrath of the Racket
August 9, 2003
Dayton, OH
Montgomery County Fairgrounds

- Scramble Match: Special K (Deranged & Hydro) vs. Don Juan & Fast Eddie vs. The Carnage Crew (Masada & Loc) vs. The SAT (Joel & Jose Maximo)
- HWA Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Match
Nigel McGuinness vs. Chet Jablonski (w/Brock Guffman)
- Homicide (w/Julies Smokes) vs. Chris Sabin
- The Second City Saints (Ace Steel & Colt Cabana) vs. Alex Shelley & Jimmy Jacobs
- Matt Stryker vs. Justin Credible
- Four Corner Survival: Michael Shane vs. Hotstuff Hernandez vs. Scoot Andrews vs. Slyk Wagner Brown (w/April Hunter)
- Invitation To Field Of Honor Match: Jimmy Rave vs. Slim J
- ROH World Title Match: Samoa Joe (c) vs. BJ Whitmer
- ROH Tag Team Title Match: AJ Styles & Homicide (w/Julius Smokes) (c) vs. The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels & Dan Maff) (w/Allison Danger & Jim Cornette)