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00:00I know I haven't been here at Ring of Honor for a few months,
00:03but my last match was too easy.
00:05And I'm not saying one win has earned me a title shot,
00:08but a Proving Ground match, I'm willing to prove it.
00:12Red, it's nothing personal, but you have something that I want,
00:16the Women's World Television Championship.
00:18And I don't know if you've been paying attention,
00:20but I've been busy traveling the world,
00:22winning tournaments, championships, all over the place.
00:25And tonight, I'm going to prove why I deserve another one
00:28here at Ring of Honor.
00:29But trust me when I tell you,
00:31there will be no love lost,
00:33because I am Lady Frost.
00:42Arlington has got a little bit cooler
00:44as we enter Proving Ground action in the Women's Division.
00:49This is an ROH Women's World Television Championship
00:53Proving Ground match,
00:54except for one ball,
00:55with a ten-minute time limit.
00:57Introducing first,
00:58WrestleCon's Imperial Iceland,
01:01Lady Frost!
01:05Lady Frost has certainly made her name
01:07all around the world, Caprice.
01:10But her home has been in Ring of Honor,
01:12and tonight, an opportunity to earn herself a shot
01:17at the Ring of Honor Women's World Television title.
01:19There's no other woman in the world like Lady Frost.
01:24This gymnast wrestler,
01:26has found herself a great backstory.
01:29Lady Frost is not just a nickname,
01:31but we're about to stir it up, Ricky Bonnie.
01:37From straight out of your mama's kitchen,
01:39she is the Ring of Honor
01:42Women's World Television Champion,
01:45Red Velvet!
01:49Yep, I got this. This is my mama's mom.
01:51And Red Velvet,
01:52Ring of Honor Women's World Television Champion,
01:55won it in this very building,
01:58back at Death Before Dishonor,
02:00defeating Billie Starks
02:02in a great bout.
02:04If you haven't watched that event,
02:06available on Honor Club,
02:07do yourself a favor and check it out.
02:09But Red Velvet,
02:11finding out very quickly,
02:12that heavy is the head that wears the crown,
02:15a target on her back now,
02:17that is the size of that beautiful
02:20Ring of Honor Women's World Television title.
02:22And I tell you what, man,
02:23Lady Frost is a tremendous competitor.
02:25This is a great opportunity for Lady Frost.
02:28This could be a huge defense
02:30for Red Velvet here.
02:33Red Velvet, of course,
02:35Code of Honor adhered to.
02:37Championship boxing runs in her family.
02:39We talked about her father, her uncle.
02:41It's gonna be the striking and technicality
02:43of Red Velvet in the surprise attacks
02:46and gymnast attacks of Lady Frost.
02:49Lady Frost, also a great technical wrestler,
02:51but has those things that nobody thinks of
02:54that can definitely turn you off at any time.
02:56Red Velvet has hard striking power.
02:59Runs in her DNA with the body.
03:00And here you see Red Velvet.
03:01Of course, this is a proven ground bout
03:03for those fans who are newer to Ring of Honor.
03:05If the challenger lasts 10 minutes
03:08or defeats the champion,
03:09they're gonna lose their title shot.
03:10The title is not on the line at this juncture.
03:13I think Velvet has to keep Lady Frost wrestling
03:16and don't get the running.
03:17You get the running going,
03:18it's gonna definitely favor Lady Frost.
03:20Yeah, see by that leap over
03:21how confident Lady Frost is in her movement.
03:24Absolutely.
03:25Oh, we saw this when Lady Frost
03:26main evented Arena Mexico.
03:28Oh, nice arm drag there.
03:30And was so successful.
03:33Frost is so fluid.
03:35Blocks that one, though.
03:37Able to incorporate a lot of the luchadora style.
03:41Mixing with that great champion amateur gymnast
03:45ability that Frost has.
03:47Both of them trying to get this arm drag.
03:49Velvet holding on,
03:50stopping the momentum of Lady Frost.
03:52Oh, looking for a backslide.
03:53Instead, it's Frost here.
03:54Grabs the waist lock, rolls up.
03:56One, two.
03:58Both of them just trying to wrestle.
03:59Oh, wait a minute.
04:00Trying to stack it.
04:01Frost.
04:03Frost found herself a lead.
04:04Yeah, Posey was counting Velvet's shoulders.
04:06Yeah.
04:08Great scientific bout so far.
04:11A lot of respect between these two.
04:13Absolutely.
04:16Somebody's going to have to be the aggressor, though.
04:18It's going to be interesting to see
04:19who throws that kind of first blow.
04:21Maybe they just wrestle.
04:22I don't know.
04:23I think Velvet's down for whatever,
04:24and so is Lady Frost.
04:26The winners is us being able to witness
04:27this competition, Riccobono.
04:29Well, it's an interesting point,
04:30because if they do just wrestle,
04:32I think this favors Lady Frost getting the title shot.
04:34Absolutely, because it'll go to that time limit.
04:36I think it plays into the fact that it could go
04:38to the time limit if it's 10 minutes.
04:40Power struggle right here.
04:43Wow, the power and the fame of Lady Frost.
04:45Shoulders.
04:46Just on one count there.
04:48One.
04:49Tell you what, watching the Olympics
04:50makes me appreciate the stuff that Lady Frost
04:54is able to do just effortlessly, right?
04:57And look at that, just barely off the mat cover.
04:59Two.
05:00Referee Mike Posey, such a great referee.
05:02Look at this, up the ladder.
05:03Wow.
05:04Around, down, sunset flip.
05:05Two.
05:08And it's Velvet back to her feet first.
05:09Spin and kick catches Frost.
05:12Swing and a miss there.
05:14And Frost may have ducked that first exchange, yeah.
05:17Saying by a millimeter there.
05:20Yeah.
05:21Sometimes you see them coming, man.
05:23You duck your head right at the right time.
05:25This is resetting again.
05:26There's a lot of respect shown between these two.
05:28That's the aggression.
05:29Oh, OK.
05:30Yep, that's the aggression.
05:31Wow.
05:32Frost takes it up, turns it up a notch.
05:33Nothing dirty.
05:34Nope.
05:35Just a fake out there.
05:36Yep.
05:37Saying, hey, I'm here to win this opportunity.
05:39One more time.
05:40One more time.
05:41Shots to the midsection.
05:42It's Frost now.
05:43Shoulder in.
05:44Look at that.
05:45That body control.
05:46Oh.
05:47Yeah.
05:48Firing on all cylinders.
05:49Lady Frost, front face lock.
05:51And beautiful.
05:55Fisherwoman's release suplex there.
05:57Yeah, sometimes she releases, sometimes she holds on.
06:00Never know what Frost's going to do.
06:02Winning too fast with a champion.
06:04Back elbow and out.
06:06Beautiful hurricanrana from Red Velvet.
06:09Red Velvet.
06:10Yeah.
06:11Here comes these boxing, these fast hands of Red Velvet.
06:16And I like what Velvet does going up and down the ladder
06:19to the quads, the midsection.
06:21It makes you wrestle more defensively in the corner,
06:24creates more movement, which puts you in a predicament
06:27like Lady Frost is in right now.
06:29Yeah, she's working it.
06:30Body, body, head movement.
06:32Riccobondo striking, shotgun strikes.
06:35Makes everything hurt.
06:40And swing and a miss.
06:42Oh.
06:44You see the way Frost is able to use anything as leverage.
06:48Look at that.
06:49Open hands across the chest to Red Velvet.
06:52I think we're about to see a snowball fight.
06:54Look at this, handspring.
06:56Oh.
06:57Snowball fight into the corner.
07:01Cover here, Lady Frost too.
07:04We almost crowned a number one contender
07:06for the World TV title there.
07:07Yeah.
07:08And Lady Frost has a whole lot more where that came from.
07:11Those type of maneuvers.
07:14Certainly does.
07:15There's chin lock applied here.
07:19Very smart to put this champion in a hole
07:23to make her have to constrain her breath,
07:26make her have to work to breathe.
07:28It's what Lady Frost is choosing to do.
07:30Working on the condition of Red Velvet.
07:34And wringing the arm here.
07:38And look at this.
07:39Variation of the abdominal stretch,
07:40sort of an inside abdominal stretch.
07:42Definitely in there.
07:44Brady stretching that oblique area.
07:46Right where it's stretching, man, that fulcrum right there
07:48and that elbow is Velvet digging into those ribs there.
07:51It just adds insult to injury.
07:54Hip toss gets out of it.
07:56That's the flexibility of a gymnast-turned-wrestler,
07:59Lady Frost.
08:01Her backstory, man.
08:02She lived in her car for months.
08:04In the winter.
08:07Oh, look at this.
08:08Oh!
08:10Now driven into the turnbuckles.
08:15And it is Frost.
08:17Has those legs.
08:18That's what I say, that high grab.
08:20Wait a minute.
08:22Oh, into the corner goes Frost.
08:26And spring.
08:28Just trying to pile driver there.
08:30One.
08:31Oh, we saw that before.
08:32That cartwheel pile driver.
08:33Yeah, incredible move.
08:34And it's Frost here, around the world.
08:36Cover.
08:37Two.
08:39And Red Velvet able to get back up.
08:41The world television champion here.
08:43There you go.
08:44Check the foot of Red Velvet right there with that lariat.
08:48Catching Frost right in the chin, Rick Abani.
08:50Oh, and maybe some flying of her own here.
08:53Home.
08:54The kitchen was empty.
08:57Cupboard's bare there.
08:59As Lady Frost.
09:00Oh, landed that right there.
09:02Hooks the leg.
09:03Cover.
09:04Two.
09:05Two count only.
09:06She's trying to put everything back in the freezer.
09:08Not letting anything cook for the champion tonight.
09:14Crowd doesn't know which way to go.
09:16Yeah, they are torn between the champion and the proving ground challenger here.
09:20Clothesline.
09:21Stagger both women.
09:22Two superior athletes going for that cartwheel again.
09:25She's got it this time.
09:26And Lady Frost.
09:28Plants the champ.
09:29Cover.
09:30Two.
09:31No.
09:32Who else do you know, Rick Abani, can cartwheel themself into an offensive position?
09:36No one.
09:37This is a one-of-a-kind athlete in Lady Frost.
09:43That's Lady Frost now.
09:45Just three seconds away at any given point from earning herself a shot.
09:49Yeah.
09:50At the Ring of Honor Women's World Television title.
09:53Hip toss, neck breaker.
09:54Beautiful move.
09:55Leg hooked.
09:56Two.
09:57Nice cover.
09:58Just that left shoulder that allowed Frost to stay and hooked it in.
10:01Two.
10:02Oh, look at this.
10:03One.
10:04Two.
10:05Posey's right there.
10:06Two.
10:07One.
10:08Wait a minute.
10:09One.
10:10Roll through.
10:11One.
10:12Wow.
10:13One.
10:14One.
10:15One.
10:16Two.
10:17Three.
10:18Got it.
10:20The winner of this match, the Ring of Honor Women's World Television champion,
10:25Reb Velvey.
10:28The champion right there, Rick Abani.
10:30On that back and forth seesaw, Reb Velvey.
10:33You can see it in her mind.
10:34She said, how am I not winning this?
10:36Where's the trap at?
10:37Found the trap, slid over, got a little more leverage in.
10:39Frost had nowhere to go.
10:41A great effort from Lady Frost.
10:44Nothing to hang your head on.
10:48It is the Ring of Honor Women's World Television champion, Reb Velvey,
10:52who fends off a Proving Ground challenger here in Arlington.
10:56Great win for Reb Velvey.
11:01Great win there by Reb Velvey in Proving Ground's action.
11:04Take it back to last week with Taya Thackery interrupting Mia Shirokawa.