The Hammerstein Ballroom inside New York Metropolis’s Manhattan Middle is a particular venue for the wrestling world. Although wrestling first emanated from the Grand Ballroom on the eighth ground in 1993, and took over the Hammerstein in 2000, it was ROH’s transfer into that venue that made it hallowed floor. It started with the GLORY BY HONOR V, N.2 occasion in September 2006 that befell within the Grand Ballroom, it blossomed with A NEW LEVEL in Might 2008 when ROH moved into the Hammerstein, and continued all through ROH’s existence till MANHATTAN MAYHEM 2019. 22 occasions within the Hammerstein alone, 19 extra within the Grand Ballroom, and if not for the COVID-19 pandemic necessitating a change in planning, there would’ve been a twenty fourth Hammerstein occasion in April 2020.
From high to backside, the Manhattan Middle hosted Bryan Danielson defending the ROH World Title towards KENTA at GLORY BY HONOR V: NIGHT 2, Murder defeating Bryan in entrance of the previous’s hometown crowd to assert the title three months later at FINAL BATTLE 2006, Jay Briscoe capturing the ROH World Title for the primary time at SUPERCARD OF HONOR VII, in addition to The Briscoes defeating each The Younger Bucks and SoCal Uncensored in a Ladder Struggle at FINAL BATTLE 2018 to win the ROH World Tag Titles. It is seen Nigel McGuinness versus Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Title at A NEW LEVEL, Hiroshi Tanahashi versus Adam Cole and Will Ospreay versus Jay White at WAR OF THE WORLDS 2017: NIGHT 3, and Takeshi Morishima versus Danielson in a Battle With out Honor at FINAL BATTLE 2008.
Suffice to say 311 W. thirty fourth Road in New York Metropolis has held a number of the biggest skilled wrestling bouts of the final twenty years, had the best wrestlers of the century stroll via its doorways, and hosted a set of essentially the most memorable occasions in ROH’s historical past.
Tonight that custom is born anew as, for the primary time since July 20, 2019, Ring of Honor returns to the Hammerstein Ballroom to current FINAL BATTLE 2024 reside solely on Honor Membership! Six championships will probably be on the road, together with a Girls’s World Title bout pitting “The Fallen Goddess” Athena towards former minion Billie Starkz and a Males’s World Title combat between “The Nueve” Chris Jericho and “The Full” Matt Cardona, with lots extra motion on faucet for the ROH devoted in New York Metropolis and watching reside all over the world on Honor Membership! The night time will get underway at 7pm ET with the ZERO HOUR on the official ROH YouTube channel, and FINAL BATTLE 2024 kicking off at 8pm ET/7pm CT. Plus, for those who’re lucky sufficient to be one of many followers within the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday night time, then there’s something particular in retailer for you:
ROH WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
“The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Billie Starkz
The place to even start with these two opponents and their topsy-turvy poisonous dynamic? Is it with FORBIDDEN DOOR 2023 the place Billie Starkz confronted ROH Girls’s World Champion Athena in a Quarterfinal bout of the 2023 Owen Hart Basis Girls’s Match and a loss proved to be as pivotal to her profession as a win? It was after that bout throughout HONOR CLUB #24 that Athena saved Billie from Robyn Renegade’s post-match assault and forcibly pulled the younger athlete into her tangled net.
Wouldn’t it be when Athena slapped the Minion quantity 400,237 and ¾ on her and created the M.I.T with Billie and “Minion Bestie” Lexy Nair, or with the truth that none of Billie’s successes throughout that timeframe had been ok for Athena? “The Without end Champion” saved her reward for Lexy Nair and her condemnation for Billie, particularly focusing in on their tag workforce losses to Diamante and Mercedes Martinez on HONOR CLUB #35 and the tag loss to Marina Shafir and her shock companion Ronda Rousey on HONOR CLUB #39. “She nonetheless sucks” had been the phrases that echoed via Billie’s thoughts as they had been so steadily repeated by Athena whereas she uncared for to acknowledge any good achieved. Maybe somebody on the market checked out it as robust love, but it surely clearly was mistreatment finest highlighted by the Minion Commencement Ceremony held after Billie defeated Marina Shafir throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB #40.
That night time “The Fallen Goddess” declared Lexy Nair the Valedictorian of the MIT Class of 2023, and wrapped the ceremony with out a single acknowledgment of Billie’s accomplishments since FORBIDDEN DOOR 2023. After enduring months of abusive remedy from Athena, that proved to be the ultimate straw for Starkz as she tossed the champion headfirst into the metal guardrails surrounding the ring, and all of it led to their match at championship match at FINAL BATTLE 2023. Even though 24 hours earlier than their battle Billie broke Athena’s nostril, when the ultimate bell rang and Athena remained the Girls’s World Champion, she lastly embraced Billie with seeming love and respect! Athena even become Billie’s largest cheerleader as she entered the ROH Girls’s World TV Title Match:
When Billie gained the event at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024, defeating Robyn Renegade, Diamante, former ROH Girls’s World Champion Mercedes Martinez, and Queen Aminata alongside the way in which, it was Athena who she turned to for reward and acknowledgment slightly than her personal dad and mom who had been in attendance as they had been extra disgusted together with her actions in getting there than proud that she achieved her first ROH championship. But that help from Athena fell aside just some months later when Starkz misplaced the Girls’s World TV Title to Purple Velvet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 in her very first protection.
Athena referring to the Girls’s World TV Title as “hers” and demoting Billie Starkz to Minion-in-Coaching ought to’ve been all of the indicator that Billie wanted that she wanted to get away, but it surely’s not all the time that simple nor that apparent once you’re proper in the course of the toxicity, and it simply acquired worse as the previous couple of months wore on. Starkz did all the pieces she may to attempt to make it proper with Athena, however as a substitute “The Fallen Goddess” centered her energies absolutely on Lexy as, over the length of that relationship, the dynamic had morphed from Nair being a reluctant a part of the Athena present to throwing herself absolutely into the camp of the ROH Girls’s World Champion. She’s completely able to being knowledgeable the remainder of the time, however when Athena is within the room, Lexy abandons all pretense of neutrality and exhibits herself to really be Athena’s bestie! By no means was this extra apparent than when Athena turned the longest-reigning champion within the historical past of ROH by breaking Samoa Joe’s 21-year previous report of 645 days as ROH World Champion:
Billie seemingly reached her breaking level with all these shenanigans and the return to mistreatment, however was nonetheless keen to do what was “vital” to make issues proper within the M.I.T “Household”, even when that meant apologies. But even when she tried to make a honest effort to appease her “Minion Overlord”, Athena could not assist however throw extra insults Billie’s manner:
The second breaking level lastly got here at HONOR CLUB #94 when the 2 ladies had been concerned within the 4-Means WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 Worldwide Girls’s Cup Qualifier and Athena stole the profitable pinfall from Billie, albeit one she herself tried to steal from Leyla Hirsch. Given all the pieces that is occurred over the past yr, the confrontation that adopted was weird to say the least:
Watching it again after what occurred final night time throughout HONOR CLUB #95, maybe Athena was simply leaning into the ridiculousness to throw Starkz off her sport earlier than forcing her to be a part of their tag workforce affair. That is the one logical purpose for Athena responding to Billie’s problem as if it was a joke or a solution to apologize for her perceived slights. Billie was actually befuddled by Athena’s response, however there was no query about what to anticipate tonight at FINAL BATTLE 2024 by the tip of Thursday’s state of affairs.
Right here we sit, one yr faraway from the final championship combat between Billie Starkz and Athena, and a lot has modified, however a lot stays the identical. Athena has now reigned for 741 days, efficiently defended her title 24 instances, and is unbeaten in ROH-related singles competitors since FINAL BATTLE 2022 with 59 victories. In truth throughout 66 matches, Athena has solely misplaced twice and people had been within the aforementioned tags alongside Starkz final yr. She’s actually essentially the most dominant champion to ever set foot in an ROH ring, the one factor that outstrips Athena’s single run as champion is The Briscoes mixed 1,486 days spent throughout 13-Time World Tag Title reigns, and that has actually bred an ego probably unmatched by anybody else in ROH historical past both.
Finally, is not that what tonight is about? Making historical past? It is historical past in it being ROH’s return to the Hammerstein Ballroom, and historical past within the chance that Athena may full two calendar years because the reigning ROH Girls’s World Champion. Nonetheless, historical past is also made by Billie Starkz ending this streak tonight contained in the Hammerstein Ballroom, it will be historic if Billie turns into the primary girl to have held each the ROH Girls’s World and World Tv titles, and it’ll unquestionably be historical past as these two warriors turn into the primary ladies to primary occasion a Hammerstein Ballroom present for Ring of Honor. Is that this the tip of the Minion Overlord, The Without end Champion, the American Joshi, The Fallen Goddess, and so on.? Will this be the liberation of Billie Starkz? Or, whatever the end result, will Starkz nonetheless rely herself as a minion below Athena’s thumb? This poisonous dynamic endured via final yr’s FINAL BATTLE and the bloodshed that preceded it, will Starkz stay trapped in it heading into 2025 as effectively?
ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
“The Nueve” Chris Jericho(c) vs. “The Full” Matt Cardona
“The Nueve” Chris Jericho claimed the ROH World Championship for a second time on the October twenty third version of DYNAMITE when he defeated Mark Briscoe in a Ladder Struggle largely due to the involvement of his Studying Tree branches “Dangerous Apple” Bryan Keith and “The Redwood” Large Invoice, particularly Invoice because the 7-footer actually carried Jericho to the highest of the ladder to assert the title belt.
Dubbing himself “The Nueve” on account of that win, Jericho efficiently defended the title towards Tomohiro Ishii throughout DYNAMITE: THANKSGIVING EVE 2024, almost two years faraway from their title combat throughout Chris’ first ROH championship reign, and since then he is walked round as if he is as soon as once more the best factor to ever occur to Ring of Honor. He even introduced “TV Time” to ROH ON HONOR CLUB #93 to make a giant deal about his plans for FINAL BATTLE 2024 on the Hammerstein Ballroom, however acquired fairly the surprising problem:
“The Full” Matt Cardona lived as much as his different moniker of “Alwayz Prepared” when he stepped onto the ROH stage for the very first time to reply Jericho’s name for an opponent on ROH’s year-end extravaganza. It wasn’t the primary time Cardona arrived at an ROH occasion, but it surely was the primary time he did so since starting his wrestling profession in 2004; another time he set foot into an enviornment the place ROH held a present it was as a fan in these early life that led to picking skilled wrestling as his path. Cardona is of the era of wrestlers who had been born right into a panorama the place Ring of Honor already existed, and watched because it grew into essentially the most influential drive in skilled wrestling over the course of its close to twenty-three yr existence. He watched a number of the biggest opponents of the final twenty years, if not the entire of wrestling historical past, step into the ROH ring to make their title and emerge as world-class athletes revered the world over.
Because of what, and who, he witnessed in these first few years of his profession, coming into into an ROH ring as a competitor has lengthy been a aim of Cardona’s, and contemplating what number of of these he is managed to perform in his profession, particularly over the past 5 years, it ought to come as no shock to those that’ve adopted his impartial profession that he discovered a solution to make that dream come true.
However competing in a Ring of Honor match is simply a part of the dream; the opposite a part of it entails leaving FINAL BATTLE 2024 because the forty second ROH World Champion on the expense of Chris Jericho, however Jericho and Bryan Keith did their stage finest to ship the message to Cardona the next night time on RAMPAGE about what he had coming:
Cardona acquired his personal photographs in on The Studying Tree per week later and after their contract signing throughout HONOR CLUB #94 it slightly felt like Cardona had the sting heading into December twentieth:
Cardona strengthened that edge simply 24 hours in a while RAMPAGE when he defeated Bryan Keith in singles competitors as “The Nueve” sat ringside doing commentary, but it surely was an edge rapidly dulled at some point after that AEW battle, Chris Jericho shocked the wrestling world by displaying up at Sport Changer Wrestling’s HIGHEST IN THE ROOM 3 occasion in Los Angeles to assault Matt Cardona on his personal turf:
This previous Wednesday night time on DYNAMITE we watched the ROH World Champion cavort round New York Metropolis and proclaim himself its king, on Thursday night time’s version of HONOR CLUB we heard from Jericho from the security of his limo following that assault on Cardona:
Now that FINAL BATTLE 2024 is upon us, the time for working off on the mouth and sneak assaults is over. Now it’s time for Chris Jericho to lace up his wrestling boots and get within the ring with “The Full” Matt Cardona, a person who really holds a victory over “The Nueve” of their solely singles assembly manner again on March 28, 2016, a match that coincidentally befell just some miles away from the Hammerstein Ballroom at Barclays Middle. No matter how that win took place, Jericho’s personal report ebook The Full Checklist of Jericho… marks it as a victory for Cardona, and that was a really completely different, far much less skilled man than he will probably be going through tonight at FINAL BATTLE 2024.
Statistically talking, within the 22 earlier editions of FINAL BATTLE relationship again to December 28, 2022, the defending ROH World Champion has retained their title 13 instances, misplaced seven instances, and on two events the title was not defended. A kind of losses, FINAL BATTLE 2022 to be actual, was the night time Jericho’s first reign with the ROH World Title ended by the hands of Claudio Castagnoli so suffice to say historical past just isn’t the aspect of “The Nueve” however the statistics of the occasion are in his nook as 65% of FINAL BATTLE World Title defenses went in favor of the champion. But if there is a man able to defying these odds, it will be “The Full” Matt Cardona as he is specialised in doing simply that for the final half-decade!
Is the period of Cardona on the horizon for Ring of Honor, or will the roots of The Studying Tree proceed to dig deeper into the soil of ROH? We’ll discover out tonight when ROH returns to the Hammerstein Ballroom for FINAL BATTLE 2024!
ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLE BULL ROPE MATCH…
The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara)(c) vs. The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent)
It has been nearly two months since The Righteous of Dutch and Vincent made the ROH World Tag Crew Titles their objectives, and thereby Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara their targets. It started as a disagreement but it surely escalated in fast trend to violence and blood:
That did not cease the phrases from spewing forth out of the poisoned lips and forked tongues belonging to Dutch and Vincent although. In truth the violence solely served to escalate the psychological warfare which meant like so many earlier than them, evoking the title of Dustin’s legendary father Dusty Rhodes to be able to provoke a response. Nonetheless, not like many males who achieve this having by no means sat on the late Rhodes’ aspect studying from his many years of expertise, Dutch really spent quite a lot of time being educated by “The American Dream”:
The buttons had been pushed, the bear had been poked and prodded to the purpose of rage as indicated with Dustin’s phrases on the high of the part, and The Sons of Texas needed the combat final Thursday night time throughout HONOR CLUB #94 after their fast tag workforce victory over Josh Crane and Eric Dillinger. Nonetheless The Righteous elected to stay their fingers into the wound yet one more time slightly than acquiesce to the calls for of the World Tag Champions:
Then there have been the actions taken by The Righteous on the Rhodes Wrestling Academy that we witnessed unfold simply final night time throughout HONOR CLUB. Suffice to say they had been reprehensible, and would by no means have gotten so far as they did had Dutch and Vincent not made positive they acquired Dustin all by himself:
That brings us to tonight the place FINAL BATTLE 2024 will host ROH’s first Double Texas Bull rope match, and simply the second-ever in ROH historical past after Jay Deadly’s SUPERCARD OF HONOR XI victory over Cody again on 4/1/17. The Righteous have performed their sport completely, primarily participating in verbal and psychological warfare, whereas not falling sufferer to any reprisal from The Sons of Texas. Dutch and Vincent have performed each card with the aim of infuriating the champions to the purpose their fury might impair their capability to combat, however that’s fairly the lethal sport to play when a type of males is “The Pure” Dustin Rhodes. His is a profession constructed on psychological warfare, on utilizing his feelings as gasoline for the hearth slightly than being consumed by their warmth. Guevara could also be a infamous hothead recognized to fly off the deal with into the combat, however maybe he is been tempered by Dustin’s affect, and collectively the 2 will probably be greater than The Righteous anticipate.
There isn’t any doubt the Double Bull rope will deliver unadulterated violence to FINAL BATTLE 2024, however will it additionally deliver new champions to the fold?
ROH WORLD WOMEN’S TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
Purple Velvet(c) vs. “Legit” Leyla Hirsch
November 3, 2020; that was the primary night time Leyla Hirsch and Purple Velvet shared a hoop as a part of DARK #59 and intensely early in every girl’s AEW profession. It was Velvet’s tenth match, Leyla’s third, and ended with the previous’s workforce on the profitable aspect of the bout. Little may both have guessed it will be the start of a rivalry that has ebbed and flowed for the final 4 years, however actually kicked into excessive gear when each entered into the Ring of Honor panorama.
Previous to ROH, Leyla held a 2-1 benefit over Purple Velvet in head-to-head matches and almost two years handed between their final assembly for All Elite Wrestling and their first for Ring of Honor. On one hand, the match offered Purple Velvet a chance to even the general rating with “Legit” Leyla Hirsch, however on the opposite the bout was happening as a part of the ROH Girls’s World Tv Title Match, that means the stakes had been larger than any of their earlier engagements.
That night time Purple Velvet defeated Leyla to advance out of the Quarterfinals, however her chase for the championship was ended by Queen Aminata within the Semi’s. Undeterred by that loss, when the chance to combat Athena for the ROH Girls’s World Title opened up at AEW’s BATTLE OF THE BELTS X Purple Velvet jumped on the alternative, and though it did not go her manner, it put Purple within the sphere of The M.I.T. Coincidentally, at some point earlier than Purple took her stab at championship gold in AEW, Leyla Hirsch took certainly one of her personal when she answered Julia Hart’s TBS Championship Open Problem on RAMPAGE however was additionally unsuccessful in her endeavor.
As each ladies continued to battle on below the ROH banner in pursuit of championship titles, Purple Velvet acquired the chance first when she met ROH Girls’s World TV Champion Billie Starkz at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 and defeated her in Billie’s first title protection. That very same night time, in one other second of their careers working parallel, Leyla Hirsch defeated Diamante within the first-ever Girls’s Texas Dying Match and it felt as if that was the second that might propel “Legit” into her personal championship chase, even perhaps on the Girls’s World TV Title.
As an alternative what Hirsch acquired was three months on the shelf recovering from an harm sustained in that superior combat whereas Diamante, the girl she beat at DBD ’24, acquired two photographs at Purple Velvet and her title. What Leyla acquired was the chance to take a seat again and watch Purple journey to Mexico for CMLL competitors in October whereas she labored herself to the bone to get again into ROH competitors. Fortunately that clearance got here on HONOR CLUB #89, permitting Leyla Hirsch a chance to problem Purple Velvet to this combat tonight at FINAL BATTLE 2024, and acquired her again into the ring in time to participate within the WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 Worldwide Girls’s Cup Qualifiers alongside Billie Starkz, ROH Girls’s World Champion Athena, and ROH Girls’s World TV Champion Purple Velvet:
Clearly Leyla Hirsch had Purple Velvet useless to rights in that match earlier than Billie Starkz tried to steal the pin, but when there’s any solace for Leyla there, not less than she additionally prevented Starkz from getting again into the ring to pin Purple herself.
Tonight throughout FINAL BATTLE 2024 these two opponents will collide as soon as extra, their second ROH singles match and fifth total, but the stakes preserve getting larger as this time it is not a spot within the title event on the road however slightly the Girls’s World Championship itself! Can “Legit” Leyla Hirsch earn the very first title of her wrestling profession tonight in New York Metropolis?
ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST…
“The Machine” Brian Cage(c) vs. AR Fox vs. Blake Christian vs. Komander vs. Mark Davis vs. Willie Mack
“The Machine” Brian Cage ended the World TV Title reign of Atlantis Jr. throughout AEW’s WRESTLEDREAM 2024: ZERO HOUR on October twelfth, a little bit of redemption for himself as Atlantis Jr. efficiently defended title at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 by final eliminating Cage in that night time’s Survival of the Fittest bout.
Tonight at FINAL BATTLE 2024 historical past repeats itself, albeit with a twist, as this time it’s Brian Cage defending the title within the Six-Means Elimination match often known as Survival of the Fittest! This bout marks Cage’s third title protection in 69 days, his first two being wins over Komander and AR Fox who’re additionally concerned on this bout. As for the opposite three males concerned, they’re additionally no stranger to “The Machine”:
Blake Christian first tangled with Cage at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022: ZERO HOUR in trios motion and once more at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, solely that point with the ROH World Six-Man Titles on the road and, coincidentally, AR Fox working as certainly one of his companions.
Willie Mack and Brian Cage have been preventing one another for 15 years all spherical the USA, in Mexico, for All Elite Wrestling, and in ROH the place their first combat befell throughout HONOR CLUB #14.
Mark Davis is likely one of the latest enemies Brian Cage has acquired, on this case a direct results of The Machine’s affiliation with Kyle Fletcher by the use of The Don Callis Household. Davis, with Powerhouse Hobbs as his companion, not too long ago scored a tag workforce victory over Cage’s DCF allies Lance Archer and AEW Worldwide Champion Konosuke Takeshita on RAMPAGE, however there’s additionally the matter of their very own tag workforce conflict airing tonight RAMPAGE. Suffice to say that whereas the defending ROH World TV Champion has historical past with all the boys concerned on this combat, his points with Mark Davis are actually on the forefront and could possibly be essentially the most heated of potential confrontations seeded with this SOTF battle!
This can mark the third Survival of the Fittest bout within the historical past of the ROH World Tv Title; the primary befell at FINAL BATTLE 2023 and noticed Kyle Fletcher win the vacant crown whereas the second was the aforementioned DBD ’24 protection by Atlantis Jr. So will Cage observe within the footsteps of the person he beat for the World TV Title and retain below these circumstances, or will one of many different 5 males rating their first ROH championship title?
ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP OPEN CHALLENGE….
TaigaStyle Lee Moriarty(c) vs. ????
Coming off his profitable title protection towards Matt Taven throughout HONOR CLUB #94, the third since defeating Wheeler Yuta at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, Lee Moriarty laid out an Open Problem for anybody to come back meet him on the Hammerstein Ballroom for a title combat throughout FINAL BATTLE 2024! Hypothesis has already run rampant about who could be the person to reply the battle cry, with hypothesis starting from former Pure Champions to ROH opponents previous and current who by no means held the title to people who’ve by no means fought inside an ROH ring, however we are going to all have to attend to search out out till this particular person enters the ring within the heart of Hammerstein Ballroom and appears Lee Moriarty within the eyes!
Hopefully this daring transfer by the Shane Taylor Promotions’ member doesn’t find yourself being one he regrets in hindsight…
“The Franchise of ROH” Jay Deadly vs. QT Marshall
ROH WRESTLING #56 aired on October 13, 2012 and featured Jay Deadly taking over QT Marshall in a First Spherical Survival of the Fittest event match. That night time in Baltimore it was Deadly who took residence the victory to advance to, and win, the Six-Man Elimination Finals for a future ROH World Championship match. 18 months later the 2 males would meet once more on an impartial occasion in Florida, and that night it was Deadly who as soon as once more picked up the victory.
Quick ahead to 2024 and these Ring of Honor alumni are each hungry to participate within the return to Hammerstein Ballroom, a lot in order that Jay Deadly is reluctantly keen to tackle this match towards QT Marshall as a part of the year-end extravaganza. For Deadly the Hammerstein Ballroom is a really particular place, it is the place he returned to the fold at BEST IN THE WORLD 2011 after 5 years away and defeated Mike Bennett. It is the place he efficiently defended the World TV Title in a Three-Means at FINAL BATTLE 2011, and defeated Rhino at FB ’12. It is the place he beat KUSHIDA of their World TV Title conflict at WAR OF THE WORLDS 2014 and efficiently retained the ROH World Title at FINAL BATTLE 2018. It is also a venue the place Deadly has taken his losses, however the positives and the recollections created at 311 W. thirty fourth Road far outweigh the negatives.
As for QT Marshall, he had just a few Hammerstein experiences in 2012 and 2013, however none of it was actually optimistic, particularly that final go round the place he was victimized by Eddie Kingston and “The Infamous 187” Murder. In reality, wanting this match with Deadly at FINAL BATTLE 2024 has nothing to do with the Hammerstein, any sense of nostalgia, and even Ring of Honor. It is nearly QT Marshall in search of each alternative to get eyes on himself, identical to he did at AEW’s FULL GEAR 2024 when he picked a combat with Large Growth! AJ.
For QT it is about craving publicity and recognition by any means vital and anyplace he can discover it, however for Jay Deadly it is a few love for ROH that started at NIGHT OF THE BUTCHER in December 2002 when he first debuted on the Murphy Rec Middle in South Philadelphia. It is about dwelling as much as the billing of “Franchise” that he earned as a former Pure Champion, a 2-Time World TV Champion, a 2-Time World Champion, 2012 Survival of the Fittest winner, and one-half of the longest reigning World Tag Crew Champions in ROH historical past. A return to ROH competitors is an emotional affair for Jay Deadly, and he is not about to let QT Marshall wreck that tonight at FINAL BATTLE 2024!
MxM Assortment’s Mansoor vs. Atlantis Jr.
It feels acceptable that MxM Assortment will probably be represented at FINAL BATTLE 2024 tonight provided that the Hammerstein Ballroom is positioned lower than a mile away from NYC’s Garment District and has hosted its fair proportion of trend exhibits over the course of its 118-year existence. What’s slightly distinctive about this catwalk for Mansoor and Mason Madden is that the previous will probably be flying solo slightly than participating in a tag workforce tussle with the latter at his aspect. It is a first time solo act for Mansoor in ROH competitors, and actually uncommon for 2024 as a complete given he is had simply seven one-on-one bouts the entire yr, however not less than Mason will probably be in his nook as help towards former ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr.
This match is sort of the distinctive conflict of types, however because the saying goes, these are what makes fights and the eccentric stylings of MxM Assortment may be the factor to throw Atlantis Jr. off his high-flying sport and safe Mansoor the win in his first FINAL BATTLE!
“The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata vs. “The Dynamite Child” Tommy Billington
We’ve not seen Tommy Billington in All Elite Wrestling since ALL IN: LONDON 2024’s wild 16-Man Tag battle in the course of the ZERO HOUR, and AEW followers have actually by no means witnessed the younger man compete on American soil. In truth, he hasn’t stepped into a hoop in the USA since July 2023, and he is completely by no means accomplished so below the Ring of Honor banner, however that each one adjustments tonight in New York Metropolis! Tonight throughout FINAL BATTLE 2024, “The Dynamite Child” Tommy Billington makes his Ring of Honor debut on the historic Hammerstein Ballroom however he is tackling one of many hardest duties possible by going through former ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata!
Since returning to ROH competitors at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, Shibata is 17-2 total with each losses coming in title bouts; the primary a twin ROH World/NJPW STRONG Openweight Title combat with Eddie Kingston and the second a Pure Title protection towards Wheeler Yuta. He is at present on a seven match win streak in Ring of Honor, most not too long ago defeating Alex Reynolds on HONOR CLUB #93, and now Shibata is able to present “The Dynamite Child” why he is merely often known as “The Wrestler”! Welcome to ROH Tommy Billington, hope you survive the expertise…
-LEEJ (Lee Johnson & EJ Nduka) vs. Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona)
-Darkish Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. Grizzled Younger Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake)
-Harley Cameron vs. Hanako
-STP’s The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett
Ring of Honor returns to the Hammerstein Ballroom for FINAL BATTLE 2024, airing solely on Honor Membership starting at 8pm ET/7pm CT, with the ZERO HOUR kicking off on the official ROH YouTube channel at 7pm ET! Girls’s World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena will defend her title towards Billie Starkz, “The Nueve” Chris Jericho places his ROH World Title on the road towards “The Full” Matt Cardona, and The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) face The Righteous in a Double Texas Bull rope Match with the ROH World Tag Titles on the road! As well as, ROH Girls’s World TV Champion Purple Velvet places her title up towards “Legit” Leyla Hirsch, ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty has issued an Open Problem, ROH World TV Champion Brian Cage defends towards 5 challengers in Survival of the Fittest, and “The Franchise” Jay Deadly returns to ROH to face QT Marshall! All this, and extra, involves you from the Hammerstein Ballroom within the coronary heart of New York Metropolis, and for those who’re one of many ROH devoted in attendance tonight, you will be handled to a particular screening of Nigel McGuinness: The Highway Much less Traveled previous to showtime!
