Goodbye for now great one..................

-Well to say this was a crazy weekend would be a HUGE understatement. First 10/1 sat night at the New yorker Hotel I took on jimmy rave and It was a hard hard fought battle. In the end I had my hand raised in victory, but got jumped by nana, my nose fucked up and almost choked to death.

- So after the match i cleaned myself up and got ready for what everyone else had been waiting for all night. Samoa (baddest man on the planet) joe vs kenta kobashi. All I can say about that is i have never in my life been so emotionally into a match, it was a battle of two of the best, i loved every moment of it and I knwo the people did too. So I say thank you to joe and thank you to kobashi!!!

- Onto sunday night 10/2.......... Roderick Strong vs James Gibson, I was sooo excited when i heard tha match was going to happen. James gibson has meant sooo much to me the past 6 months i can not thank him enough. Every since the 4/2 match at best of the super juniors, we hit it off like crazy and he just took me under his wing and has helped me in every aspect of life. He has the BIGGEST heart in this whole world. So 6 months to the day I got to step into the ring again and for the last time in a ROH ring witha guy i have looked up to for YEARS. To look across that ring and see my favorite wrestler in the whole world made me feel like this match was not only about respect but also to prove i can hang with the best. 28 minutes or so later after the hardest fight of my life........ it was over I had beat my mentor, my friend and better yet my hero of professional wrestling, but even more than that he was gone, no more pre match speeches, no more lesson in the ring before shows. So sitting here writing this I can only say one thing to you james gibson, I owe you sooo much that i might never be able to repay in full, But THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!!!!!!!

- I am sore and beat up, so I must go rest now!

Roderick