Ring of Honor Final Battle live results: Survival of the Fittest World title match
A six-way Survival of the Fittest match for the Ring of Honor World title headlines tonight’s ROH Final Battle from Columbus, Ohio.
Originally set to defend against Rush, Bandido will now defend against Hechicero, Sammy Guevara, The Beast Mortos, Komander and Blake Christian.
Athena will look to keep her 1000+ day ROH Women’s World title run going as she defends against CMLL’s Persephone while ROH Women’s TV Champion Mercedes Mone defends against Red Velvet.
AEW National Champion Ricochet defends the title for the first time as he takes on Dalton Castle while ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions Shane Taylor Promotions defend against SkyFlight.
Two new champions are guaranteed as Deonna Purrazzo vs. Billie Starkz will determine the inaugural ROH Women’s Pure Champion while Sammy Guevara & The Beast Mortos vs. Tommy Billington & Adam Priest will determine the new ROH Tag Team Champions.
The main card is rounded out by a 30-minute Iron Man match between Nigel McGuinness vs. Lee Moriarty, and Eddie Kingston vs. Josh Woods while the pre-show will see Lee Johnson vs. Ace Austin.
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Here we go, friends! It’s the finalest of battles with over half a dozen titles on the line, an instant classic tee’d up and an Eddie Kingston match. Does it get better than that? I don’t think so. But ZERO HOUR is upon us, so let’s see if it does!
ZERO HOUR: The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum) vs The Premier Athletes (Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari) w/ Mark Sterling and Stori Denali
These are definitely two tag teams that would have made sense in the title match later tonight. But that said, it’s always nice to see the Outrunners dropping double elbows on jerks the caliber of the Athletes.
Nese and Magnum kicked things off with some posing, then some wrestling, then some more posing, before finally settling on some wrestling. Eache held their own (because they are pretty good at this) but Nese got the better of Magnum with some headgames.
The match proceeded as expected from there, lots of quick tags, double teams and shenanigans from the Athletes. At one point Sterling tried to get involved and Denali took on Magnum in a staredown, but the Outrunners were able to keep their momentum.
In the end, Floyd came in off of a hot tag and the Outrunners disposed of Nese and Daivari with their classic double elbow into a Total Recall with Magnum getting the pin on Daivari.
Match Result: The Outrunners defeated The Premier Athletes
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