Ring Of Honor holds it’s traditional final major event of the year today, Final Battle 2022, but compared to last year’s very sad theme where it marked the potential end of the promotion, there is a feeling of great optimism this year under All Elite Wrestling owner/founder Tony Khan’s ownership, in part because many are anticipating a new TV or streaming deal to get ROH back on the air is going to be announced soon, possibly this weekend. In the meantime, they wrap up the year with one final loaded card mixing up both ROH and AEW stars for 6 title matches. The main event will be a rematch of Chris Jericho and Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship, but there’s a stip with huge AEW implications-if Castagnoli loses and doesn’t win the title back, he must leave Blackpool Combat Club and join Jericho Appreciation Society. Just before that should be another Instant Classic as FTR defend the ROH Tag Team Championship one more time against The Briscoes in a Double Dog Collar Match.
Today’s event will be held at College Park Center at University Of Texas-Arlington in Artlington, TX and can be watched LIVE on PPV via major cable/satellite providers and Bleacher Report in the US. Outside of the US, it can be watched on ppv.com and FITE. There will also be a FREE 1 hour pre-show on YouTube before the PPV and the post-event media scrum will also stream on YouTube. Based on the media scrum planned start time and pre-show, this could be a marathon event with a total runtime of potentially 4-5 hours. Note that the earlier start time is because they didn’t want to go head-to-head with WWE and, in particular, UFC tonight-the latter has a PPV at 10 PM ET and AEW’s own MJF is scheduled to be in attendance. Also, they claimed on last night’s AEW Rampage there was no college football to go against in this time slot. Clearly Tony Schiavone doesn’t know about the tradition that is America’s Game-Army vs. Navy. ROH is going against it. (GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!)
Today’s current lineup:
Pre-show:
Top Flight vs. The Kingdom
Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora
Jericho Appreciation Society vs. Shinobi Samurai Squad
Jeff Cobb vs. Mascara Dorada
PPV:
Blake Christian & AR Fox vs. Rush & Dralistico
Shane Taylor Promotions vs. Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland
ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle & The Boyz vs. Gates Of Agony for the titles
ROH Pure Champion Daniel Garcia vs. Wheeler Yuta for the title
ROH Women’s Champion Mercedes Martinez vs. Athena for the title
ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe vs. Juice Robinson for the title
ROH Tag Team Champions FTR vs. The Briscoes in a Double Dog Collar Match for the titles
ROH World Champion Chris Jericho vs. Claudio Castagnoli for the title. If Castagnoli loses, he must join JAS
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Updates below will begin at 3 PM ET/Noon PT. The Post-Event Media Scrum is currently scheduled to begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
2:45 PM ET UPDATE: The Pre-Show stream began at 11:40 AM PT/2:40 PM ET. The matches should begin in about 15 minutes.
2:53 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from College Park Center at University Of Texas-Arlington in Artlington, TX. We see Bobby Cruise in the ring with microphone for a couple minutes before the feed cuts away again.
The stream resumes at 3 PM ET/Noon PT. Your hosts are Ian Riccaboni & Caprice Coleman.
Pre-show:
Match 1: Mascara Dorada vs. Jeff Cobb
Result: Jeff Cobb beat Mascara Dorada
Match 2: Matt Menard & Angelo Parker vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad (Eli Isom & Cheeseburger)
Result: Matt Menard & Angelo Parker beat Shinobi Shadow Squad. Parker pinned Isom.
Match 3; Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora
Result; Willow Nightingale beat Trish Adora
Match 4: Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Result: Top Flight beat The Kingdom. Darius pinned Bennett. Maria Kanellis was ejected from ringside to set it up.
Updates will resume when the PPV begins.
PPV:
Match 1: Blake Christian & AR Fox beat Rush & Dralistico. Fox pinned Dralistico after 450 Splash.
Match 2: Athena beat ROH Women’s World Champion Mercedes Martinez to become THE NEW ROH WOMEN”S WORLD CHAMPION!
Match 3: Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor & JD Griffey). Lee pinned Griffey after a fireman’s carry powerslam.
Match 4: The Embassy (Toa Liona, Kaun, Brian Cage) beat ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle & The Boyz to become THE NEW ROH 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!
Match 5: Wheeler Yuta beat ROH Pure Champion Daniel Garcia to become THE NEW ROH PURE CHAMPION!
Match 6: In a Dog Collar Match, The Briscoes beat ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR to become THE NEW ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!
Match 7: ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe beat Juice Robinson to retain the title.
Main Event: Claudio Caatagnoli beat ROH World Champion Chris Jericho to become THE NEW ROH WORLD CHAMPION!
End Show.
The post-event media scrum on YouTube will begin shortly (as of 7:10 PM ET). (UPDATE: It is now scheduled to start at 7:15 PM ET)
UPDATE: At the end of the media scrum, Tony Khan revealed more about TV plans for ROH: For now, it will be on the re-launched HonorClub. It also will include all prior ROH TV content and more plus this and upcoming PPVs 90 days after they occur. For now the monthly price will stay the same as before-$9.99. You can go to watchroh.com to subscribe. Live events will likely stay on Bleacher Report as long as owner Warner Bros. Discovery wants it. Plans for the return of weekly TV will be revealed as the time gets closer. So the good news is it’s on the way and now seems to be when rather than if. Khan also noted that .while it will be a little later for PPV buy estimates due to the early start time, the live gate and attendance was the biggest ever for the Final Battle event.
Guests at the scrum were Athena, Claudio Castagnoli and Samoa Joe (who also had the AEW TNT Title belt and was acting very much in AEW character, making for some humorous moments). It ended at about 8:35 PM ET, running about 80 minutes. The whole thing can be watched on demand on YouTube.
