ROH Updates/Spoilers/News

[Rob]

Roderick came along such a long way. He was dreadful when he started but he ended up being one of the best of their history. A standard of what ROH promotes.

[Fnord]

Below is the full card for tonight's Ring of Honor Best in the World pay-per-view. The show kicks off at 9 PM EST, and features the final ROH PPV appearance of Roderick Strong (for now at least).

Among the matches included are an ROH World Championship re-match a year in the making between Champion Jay Lethal and Jay Briscoe. Another match over a year in the making is BJ Whitmer and Steve Corino, who compete in a Fight Without Honor.

You can see the full card below. Wrestling Inc. will have full, live coverage of the event tonight:

ROH World Championship
Jay Lethal (c) (w/ Taeler Hendrix) vs. Jay Briscoe

ROH World Television Championship
Bobby Fish (c) vs. Dalton Castle (w/ The Boys)

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Addiction (c) vs. Motor City Machine Guns

Fight Without Honor
BJ Whitmer vs. Steve Corino

Kyle O'Reilly vs. Kamaitachi

ACH vs. Silas Young

Moose & War Machine vs. Bullet Club (Adam Cole, Young Bucks)

Mark Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong

[Duckman]

I heard this was a really good show - with Whitmer v Corino being a great old school double juice brawl and a fantastic main event with Briscoe and Lethal.

Might be worth checking out if I can find it online!

[Fnord]

- ROH star Silas Young noted on Twitter that his ROH contract expired.

[Fnord]

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Moose was believed to be finishing up with Ring of Honor shortly after the Best in the World pay-per-view, en route to signing with WWE. Dave Meltzer reported in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Moose is actually not headed to WWE any time soon after all, due to a 2009 domestic violence allegation.

If the report is accurate, it sounds like WWE's concerns are primarily for the sake of public relations. "He was actually told not to worry by WWE with the idea it's just a timing situation (given the recent situations with Adam Rose and Jerry Lawler) and not a closed door," Meltzer reported. "He was originally expected to be part of their September NXT introduction class."

Quinn Ojinakka (Moose) was arrested in May 2009 after a fight with his then-wife. According to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal at the time, Ojinakka was taken in on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery. Ojinakka was playing in the NFL as an offensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons then. Due to the arrest, he was suspended from the first regular season game of the following NFL season.

The Observer reported Moose also has had offers from TNA and Lucha Underground. TNA reportedly offered him $100,000 per year, more than either WWE or Lucha Underground.

[Mike Powers]

- ROH star Silas Young noted on Twitter that his ROH contract expired.

[Black Death]

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Moose was believed to be finishing up with Ring of Honor shortly after the Best in the World pay-per-view, en route to signing with WWE. Dave Meltzer reported in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Moose is actually not headed to WWE any time soon after all, due to a 2009 domestic violence allegation.

If the report is accurate, it sounds like WWE's concerns are primarily for the sake of public relations. "He was actually told not to worry by WWE with the idea it's just a timing situation (given the recent situations with Adam Rose and Jerry Lawler) and not a closed door," Meltzer reported. "He was originally expected to be part of their September NXT introduction class."

Quinn Ojinakka (Moose) was arrested in May 2009 after a fight with his then-wife. According to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal at the time, Ojinakka was taken in on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery. Ojinakka was playing in the NFL as an offensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons then. Due to the arrest, he was suspended from the first regular season game of the following NFL season.

The Observer reported Moose also has had offers from TNA and Lucha Underground. TNA reportedly offered him $100,000 per year, more than either WWE or Lucha Underground.

honest with you ... I had no clue about that until i read this article  ... this is 7 years ago , has he had any problem since.  should be the question now.

[Fnord]

ROH TO INTRODUCE WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Six-man tag team matches have been a highlight of Ring of Honor events for years, and now competitors in those bouts will have something to fight for other than pride and the winner's share of the purse.

The inaugural ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions will be crowned in an eight-team tournament that begins at the end of September. This will be the first time in six years that ROH has created a new title.

Teams expected to compete in the tournament include: Bullet Club, The Cabinet (Rhett Titus, Kenny King and Caprice Coleman) and the current World Tag Team Champions The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and Kamaitachi.

Six-man matches are a staple of Lucha Libre (where they are referred as trios matches), and with ROH's recent partnership with Mexico's CMLL promotion, the timing couldn't be better for ROH to introduce a six-man tag title.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling, also a partner of ROH, introduced the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship this past January with a tournament that was won by The Briscoes and Toru Yano.

ROH's new championship will mark the first time a major U.S.-based promotion has had a six-man tag team title in nearly 30 years.

Roy McClarity, Pat O'Connor & Yukon Eric were the first NWA 6-Man Champions crowned over 60 years ago. In the '80s, the NWA created a six-man tag title that was held by the likes of Dusty Rhodes and The Road Warriors, and in World Class Championship Wrestling, the legendary feud between The Freebirds and The Von Erichs often revolved around that promotion's six-man tag title.

The tournament gets underway at All Star Extravaganza weekend in Lowell, MA on Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st, and continues on Oct. 29th in Baltimore.

The finals will take place at Final Battle on Dec. 2nd at The Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom.

Check back with ROHWrestling.com for updates on this historic tournament.

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