ROH Final Battle 2004

Final Battle 2004 was a wrestling show held by Ring of Honor. It took place on December 26, 2004 at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The shows main event saw Samoa Joe, after 21 months as ROH World Champion, defend the title against Austin Aries.

Results

 * Jimmy Jacobs defeated Trent Acid
 * Jacobs pinned Acid after a Contra Code.
 * After the match, Jacobs went to shake Acid's hand, but Acid said he wouldn't shake Jacobs' hand because he quits.
 * Special K (Deranged & Lacey w/Izzy, Cheech and Cloudy) defeated Special K (Angeldust & Becky Bayless)
 * Lacey pinned Becky after an Implant DDT.
 * After the match, Lacey ordered Special K to attack Becky, but The Ring Crew Express ran them off before they could hurt her.
 * Homicide (w/Julius Smokes) defeated Josh Daniels
 * Homicide forced Daniels to submit to a Key Lock.
 * John Walters defeated Jimmy Rave (w/The Embassy) to retain the ROH Pure Championship
 * Walters forced Rave to submit.
 * After the match, Prince Nana offered Walters a spot in The Embassy and gave him a wad of cash, but Walters told him it would take a lot more than that for him to sell out. After giving him more money, Walters agreed to join.
 * Dan Maff & BJ Whitmer defeated The Carnage Crew (HC Loc & Tony DeVito) in a Fight Without Honor
 * Midway through the match, Mick Foley came out and dumped a stocking full of thumb tacks in the ring. Whitmer pinned DeVito after a Wrist-Clutch Exploder onto the thumb tacks.
 * After the match, Foley asked the two teams to shake hands, ending the feud. After the two teams left, Ricky Steamboat went to the ring to talk to Foley. Steamboat asked Foley why he brought out the thumb tacks, and Foley said it’s because the fans wanted to see them. Foley then said he did some research of Steamboat, and that he did do some hardcore wrestling. Foley then admitted that ROH was based on pure wrestling, but there was also room for hardcore wrestling, to which Steamboat agreed. Foley then wished Steamboat luck as he headed to World Wrestling Entertainment to be a road agent. After shaking hands with Steamboat, Foley asked the fans if they wanted to hear the truth about Ric Flair punching him at RAW a few weeks earlier. Foley said the truth was he disrespected a legend in the business and got what he had coming. He then called out Samoa Joe, who he felt disrespected him a few weeks earlier, and offered him a chance to apologize. Joe shook Foley's hand and said he was sorry. Joe then said he could do better than a hand shake and offered Foley a hug, but punched him in the head with the microphone and walked out.
 * CM Punk & Steve Corino (w/Tracy Brooks) defeated Generation Next (Alex Shelley & Roderick Strong)
 * Punk forced Shelley to submit the Anaconda Vice.
 * After the match, Austin Aries went to the ring and confronted Shelley. He reminded Shelley that at Midnight Express Reunion Shelley told him to remember where his loyalties stand, but while Aries had been in ROH with Generation Next, Shelley has been gone taking care of "more important things" (wrestling for Total Nonstop Action). Aries then told him that before he takes Joe's spot as the ROH World Champion, he was going to take Shelley's spot as the leader of Generation Next. Aries then gave Shelley five seconds to "step down or get beaten down", but attacked him before he could answer. Strong pulled Aries off of Shelley, seeming to help him, but turned around and gave Shelley a backbreaker.
 * Low Ki vs. Bryan Danielson ended in a no contest
 * The referee stopped the match, after the two began to wrestle into the crowd, where Danielson was attacked by The Rottweilers and left unable to continue the match.
 * After the match, Low Ki threatened the referee if he didn't name him the winner, and attacked him when he refused to. ROH officials later named Danielson the winner by disqualification, and suspended Low Ki for attacking the referee.
 * Austin Aries (w/Roderick Strong) defeated Samoa Joe (w/Jay Lethal) to win the ROH World Championship
 * Aries pinned Joe after kicking him in the head, hitting a Brainbuster, and lastly a 450 Splash.
 * After the match, Joe, after telling him to carry the title with respect, helped strap the ROH World Championship belt around Aries' waist.