ROH Night of the Butcher

Night of the Butcher was a wrestling show held by Ring of Honor. It took place on December 7, 2002 at the Murphy Recreational Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show was named after wrestling icon Abdullah the Butcher, who was brought in by Homicide to help him settle his feud against The Carnage Crew in a Bunkhouse Brawl.

Results

 * Before the show, Da Hit Squad say hello to Divine Storm in the locker room before the four go to warm up. Once they leave, Special K comes in and throws their bags out of the way and turns the locker room into a rave.
 * ROH High Impact TV match: Paul E. Normous defeated Mace
 * ROH High Impact TV match: Bryan Danielson defeated Dunn (w/Marcos)
 * Danielson forced Dunn to submit to Cattle Mutilation.
 * ROH High Impact TV match: Paul London defeated Angel Dust
 * London pinned Angel Dust after a powerbomb.
 * ROH High Impact TV match: Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) defeated The Outcast Killaz (Diablo Santiago & Oman Tortuga)
 * Mafia pinned Tortuga after a Burning Hammer.
 * ROH High Impact TV match: AJ Styles defeated Jimmy Rave
 * Styles pinned Rave after a powerbomb followed by a Styles Clash.
 * After the match, Styles was attacked by The Prophecy until Bryan Danielson and Paul London chased them off.
 * Michael Shane defeated Jeremy Lopez
 * Shane pinned Lopez after a Picture Perfect Elbow.
 * Colt Cabana defeated CM Punk
 * Cabana pinned Punk after a Colt 45.
 * After the match, Gary Michael Cappetta went to the ring and announced that at Final Battle 2002, Punk and Cabana would face in a rematch, with the winner receiving an ROH contract and will be flown to all future shows. Punk said if the won he would sell his plane ticket so he and Cabana could drive to Philadelphia and the fans could see them both, but Cabana said he hates driving and is going to fly to Philadelphia from now on.
 * Paul London defeated EZ Money
 * London pinned Money after a DDT into a roll up. London will now face the winner of the American Dragon vs. Chad Collyer match for the Number One Contender’s Trophy'''
 * '''Bryan Danielson defeated Chad Collyer
 * Dragon pinned Collyer with a Dragon Suplex. Dragon will now face Paul London for the Number One Contender’s Trophy.
 * The SAT (Jose & Joel Maximo) defeated Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack), Special K (Deranged & Joey Matthews w/Dixie and Angel Dust) and Jay Briscoe & The Amazing Red in a Tag Team Scramble Match
 * The SAT forced Deranged and Matthews to submit to the Taffy Machine.
 * After the match, Slugger came into the ring and Choke Slammed the referee.
 * Highlights of ROH High Impact TV are show.
 * Divine Storm (Chris Divine & Quiet Storm) defeated Jeff Starr & Shockwave
 * Storm pinned Shockwave after a Storm Cradle Driver.
 * After the match, CW Anderson ran out and attacked Starr and Shockwave, during which commentator Chris Lovey gives a production note to Doug Gentry to edit this portion off the home release. Gary Michael Capetta comes out and ask Anderson what he was doing here, considering he was fired after no-showing Night of Appreciation. Anderson then began to call out “that Paul Heyman wannabe” Gabe Sapolsky to come out in person and bury him in person like he does on the internet. After Sapolsky had the microphone cut, Rob Feinstein, Da Hit Squad and Joey Matthews came out and tried to convince Anderson to leave the ring. Once he did and walked to the back, he and Sapolsky had to be held apart by several wrestlers.
 * Paul London defeated Bryan Danielson to win the Number One Contender’s Trophy
 * London pinned Daniels after a Shooting Star Press.
 * Xavier (w/Simply Luscious) defeated AJ Styles (w/Alexis Laree) to retain the ROH Championship
 * Xavier pinned Styles with a Jackknife pin.
 * Homicide & Abdullah the Butcher defeated The Carnage Crew (HC Loc & Tony DeVito) in a Bunkhouse Brawl
 * Homicide pinned Loc after a Cop Killer.
 * After the match, Homicide began to strangle Loc with a noose while Abdullah held people back with a chair. Several people from the back, including booker Gabe Sapolsky, came out and tried to stop Homicide and Abdullah but were taken out. Da Hit Squad ran down to ringside and began to help Homicide, who had to Abdullah back from attacking them.
 * Backstage, Homicide said that now that his feud with the Carnage Crew is over, its time for him to win the ROH Championship. Elsewhere, the Carnage Crew were talking about how fun the match was and how their injuries are nothing. Loc then says that they use to love professional wrestling, but the smart marks took the fun out of it. But since all they do is work at the crappy jobs, deal with nagging kids and ugly wives, and do nothing but drink at night, the only thing they love now is beating people up.
 * After the show, Ace Steel film CM Punk and Colt Cabana as they are driving back to Chicago. Cabana kept talking about his win over Punk, to the annoyance of Punk. After then minutes, Punk had had enough and upset about Cabana saying he would take the plane ticket over the two of them driving together, stopped the car and told Cabana to drive himself back to Chicago because he going to take a bus, and walks off.