Seven years after Dave Meltzer awarded five stars to the first ever WWF Hell in a Cell match, he gave the perfect score to a match in a very different environment. Two-and-a-half years into its existence, and Ring of Honor had come to be synonymous as the crown jewel promotion on the US indy scene. The promotion's two top stars of the time were a couple of hungry young competitors by the names of Samoa Joe and CM Punk. In Punk's hometown of Chicago, they battle it out in an epic for Joe's ROH World title in the eighteenth month of his reign. Recovering ROHbot Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and his young co-host Simon (@simoncross3) watch a match that really started to put these two men on the map that would go on to become two of the biggest names in wrestling for their [email protected]

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