MATCHES
ROH World Television Title Match
Silas Young (c) vs. Kenny King
Silas Young promo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVELNu3RpsAAt Final Battle 2017, Kenny King entered The Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom World Television Champion and left following a shot to the head with a beer bottle by “Pro Wrestling’s Last Real Man” Silas Young. Young eliminated King and eliminated Punishment Martinez to become the new ROH World Television Champion.
King has been asking ROH matchmakers for weeks for his opportunity to face Young one-on-one in a rematch and he gets it in Atlanta!
Kenny King lost the ROH World Television Championship without being a part of the deciding fall at Final Battle. And the way he was eliminated following a shot to his head with a beer bottle has certainly left a bad taste in his mouth.
In Nashville, in a bout that will air on ROH television, Coast 2 Coast began to take the advantage on the new team of Brian Milonas and Beer City Bruiser before Young interjected himself. To counter Young’s interference, King ran ringside and evened the score! The original tag team bout was thrown out and instead replaced by a six-man tag team match.
With King already asking the ROH Board of Directors for a World Television Title match, the former champion’s case was bolstered when he pinned Young in the six-man tag match. Now, with a pin over Young in hand, King has a rock-solid case to be the number one contender and the Vegas native pushes his chips to the middle of the table in Atlanta!
Will King regain the ROH World Television Championship or will Young prove his pin at Final Battle could have happened without the beer bottle? Join us to find out!
Kenny King promo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2jgII-sec
Best Friends vs. The Briscoes
Christopher Daniels vs. Hangman PageBest Friends made an immediate impact during the War of the Worlds Tour when Chuckie T. pinned then-one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions Matt Jackson in his ROH debut! Chuck Taylor and Beretta heated up over the summer of 2017 and have proved they are worthy contenders for the ROH World Tag Team Titles!
In January in Nashville, Best Friends, who had a winning record in the New Japan World Tag League in late 2017, received a ROH World Tag Team Title shot against the Motor City Machine Guns. But, as they have done recently, the Briscoes interfered and interjected themselves into the match, leading to a no contest!
Best Friends, based on the no contest, believe they are still the number one contenders while The Briscoes have stated they have one goal in mind: number nine, their ninth ROH World Tag Team Championship! Instead of doing it in the ring, the Briscoes have leveraged violence with a hint of anarchy as a way to get what they want.
While this match is not explicitly a number one contender’s match, both teams clearly are among the top contenders for one of the most competitive championships in the world and this will go a long way in determining who will become the number one contenders for the Motor City Machine Guns!
Who will win this first-time Ring of Honor bout? Will Best Friends get their revenge for The Briscoes interrupting their tag team title shot or will The Briscoes bring their violence to the ring and assert themselves as the true number one contenders? Join us to find out!
SoCal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian) vs. The Young BucksAdam Page is one-third of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions but he has been proving his worth in singles and tag team competition as of late. At New Japan’s New Beginning, Page scored two pinfalls in two matches following his devastating Rite of Passage. Page challenged the new IWGP United States Champion Jay White following his victory over Kenny Omega but the situation led to more questions than answers.
And it is that confusion and vulnerability that the former ROH World Champion Christopher Daniels wants to take advantage of as he races against the clock after COO Joe Koff’s declaration that Daniels and Kazarian are gone once their contracts run out following Final Battle 2018!
Adam Page has been on an absolute roll as of late and the championship gold around his waist demonstrates that. ROHWrestling.com’s Breakout Star of 2017 as voted on by the fans has carried his momentum into 2018 and staked his claim to the number one contendership for New Japan’s United States Championship following Jay White’s win.
But Page’s actions may have been the straw the broke the camel’s back. The seemingly innocent move may have triggered something that had been boiling for months within Bullet Club.
And that is the opportunity SoCal Uncensored was seeking.
Daniels, Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky have been threatening to let everybody know “where the bodies are buried”, revealing expansion plans and trade secrets to friends and allies within different organizations. The threat was not seen as an idle one as COO Joe Koff interrupted the trio and told them that he would not fire them but instead let their contracts run out at Final Battle.
SoCal Uncensored, however, has added another layer to their game of chess: pick up big wins and championships and make themselves business-essential to add life to their ticking clock. And one way to get into the title picture is to make their mark against Bullet Club!
SoCal Uncensored defeated the trio of “American Nightmare” Cody, Marty Scurll, and Page on ROH Television and now Daniels has a chance to fire his shot in singles competition against Page in Atlanta!
In this first-time match-up, Daniels looks to continue SoCal Uncensored march toward ensuring themselves both chaos and a future in ROH with a win over a red-hot Page while Page looks to continue his winning ways with a win over a former ROH World Champion! Who will emerge victorious? Join us to find out!
The Dawgs vs. Coast 2 CoastThe Young Bucks are seemingly on top of the world. Two-thirds of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions, the 2017 Tag Team of the Year as voted on by readers of ROHWrestling.com continue to break records in tag team action, among attendance records, t-shirt sales, and engaging fans on their popular web series Being the Elite.
But right now, The Young Bucks are at the center of an international Bullet Club controversy. Matt Jackson, who suffered a back injury at Wrestle Kingdom seemed to aggravate it at New Beginning in Sapporo in a match with Roppongi 3K and then again when he was pushed down in a moment of frustration by Kenny Omega. With question marks surrounding them, SoCal Uncensored sees this as the perfect time to get a major victory over the three-time former ROH World Tag Team Champions!
Daniels, Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky have been threatening to let everybody know “where the bodies are buried”, revealing expansion plans and trade secrets to friends and allies within different organizations. The threat was not seen as an idle one as COO Joe Koff interrupted the trio and told them that he would not fire them but instead let their contracts run out at Final Battle.
SoCal Uncensored, however, has added another layer to their game of chess: pick up big wins and championships and make themselves business-essential to add life to their ticking clock. And one way to get into the title picture is to make their mark against Bullet Club!
SoCal Uncensored defeated the trio of “American Nightmare” Cody, Marty Scurll, and Page on ROH Television and now Kaz and Scorpio Sky can fire their shot in tag team competition against The Young Bucks in Atlanta!
In this first-time match-up, Kaz and Sky look to continue SoCal Uncensored’s march toward ensuring themselves both chaos and a future in ROH with a win over a staggered Matt Jackson and a healthy Nick Jackson while the Bucks look to continue their winning ways as they march toward a fourth ROH World Tag Team Championship! Who will emerge victorious? Join us to find out!
MEET AND GREET DETAILSCoast 2 Coast placed an ultimatum on themselves when they agreed that they needed a win or else they would split as a team. Shaheem Ali and LSG broke into professional wrestling together at the World Famous Monster Factory before winning match after match on Future of Honor. But they could not duplicate their success on Ring of Honor Television for almost a year’s time.
Until they dug into their reserve and found it within themselves to defeat two of the biggest, baddest stars Ring of Honor has ever seen in former ROH World and IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions War Machine! Although the victory that shocked the wrestling world shocked even themselves, this duo now is loaded with confidence and ready to make a big-time splash! But they will have to do so against a team that is on a bit of a roll themselves!
The Dawgs formed after discovering a mutual hatred of Cheeseburger but have found a tremendous amount of success on, first, internet exclusive bouts and, then, Ring of Honor Television. The duo is the last team to beat current IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Roppongi 3K on US soil. They came up just short against the ROH World Tag Team Champions The Motor City Machine Guns but are looking to get back in the win column.
And Coast 2 Coast caught their attention in Nashville like a mailman coming on to their owner’s yard!
Coast 2 Coast went head to head with the new team of “Kingpin” Brian Milonas and Beer City Bruiser and showed once again that size can be equalized by speed, agility, and teamwork. When the match degenerated into a six-man tag and Coast 2 Coast picked up the victory with Kenny King, The Dawgs went ballistic!
The challenge has been issued, answered, and now two of the top up-and-coming teams of ROH will face each other in Atlanta! Which rising team will continue to climb the ladder? Join us in Atlanta to find out!
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