ROH Final Battle 2021

ROH Final Battle 2021
Information
Promotion	Ring of Honor
Date	December 11, 2021
Venue	Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena
City	Baltimore, Maryland
Last Event	Honor for All

Final Battle 2021 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on December 11, 2021 at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the 20th event under the Final Battle chronology. It was also be the last Ring of Honor event to be held before the company goes on a hiatus, with the company expecting to resume operations in April 2022.

Production

Background

On October 11, 2021, ROH announced that Final Battle would be held at the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland on December 11.

Storylines

The event featured several professional wrestling matches, which involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on ROH's television programs. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

At Death Before Dishonor, Rok-C defeated Miranda Alize in the finals of the Quest for Gold tournament to become the inaugural ROH Women's World Champion. On the October 2 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Rok-C would have her first in-ring interview as champion, before being interrupted by Alize, Trish Adora, Willow Nightingale, Allysin Kay, and The Allure (Angelina Love and Mandy Leon). Seeing the talent in the ring, ROH Board of Directors member Maria Kanellis-Bennett would make two three-way matches, with the winners facing off in a #1 contender's match the week before Final Battle. The winner of that match will go onto the event to face Rok-C for the ROH Women's World Championship. The following week, Willow bested Love and Alize in the first match to advance to the #1 contender's match. On November 20, Leon defeated Kay and Adora in the second match.

On the February 27 "Championship Edition" of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Rush defeated Shane Taylor to retain the ROH World Championship thanks to a chair shot from Rush's stablemate Kenny King. King and Taylor were old friends and also former partners in The Rebellion stable with Caprice Coleman and Rhett Titus. Seeing this as an act of betrayal, Taylor would begin a long-running feud with King, which would extend to a stable rivalry between Shane Taylor Promotions and La Facción Ingobernable. At Death Before Dishonor, STP were scheduled to defend the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship against LFI's King, Dragon Lee, and La Bestia del Ring (who replaced Rush due to injury). Before the bell rang, King repeatedly struck Taylor with a steel chair, rendering him unable to compete and leaving O'Shay Edwards to take his place. By the end of the match, Taylor returned to give King a chair shot of his own, allowing STP to retain the titles. On the November 12 edition of ROH's weekly web news article Eck's Files by Kevin Eck, it was announced that Shane Taylor and Kenny King will have a one-on-one grudge match at Final Battle.

On October 4, former ROH Pure Champion Jonathan Gresham announced his entry into the ROH World Championship picture. This transition was hinted at the end of Death Before Dishonor, when Gresham and The Foundation arrived after Bandido's title defense against Brody King, Demonic Flamita, and EC3; where Gresham would shake Bandido's hand. At Honor for All, Gresham defeated No. 1 contender King, allowing him to advance to Final Battle and challenge Bandido for the ROH World Championship.

On the November 18 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Brian Johnson officially entered the ROH Pure Championship division, winning a Pure Rules gauntlet match by last eliminating LSG via a dirty pinfall. Johnson would continue to bend the pure wrestling rules in matchers against his former mentor PJ Black and John Walters, before he would eventually become the No. 1 ranked contender. With his new position in the rankings, Johnson will now face Pure Champion Josh Woods at Final Battle.

On December 9, 2021, It was announced that ROH Champion Bandido was pulled from Final Battle after he was tested positive for Covid-19 and he was scheduled to face Jonathan Gresham for the ROH Championship, but the match has been cancelled.

Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

• Pre-Show: The Righteous (Vincent, Bateman and Dutch) (w/ Vita VonStarr) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Jasper Kaun, Moses Maddox and O'Shay Edwards) (w/ Ron Hunt) (c) to win the ROH World Six Man Tag Team Championship (10:41)
• Pre-Show: Miranda Alize and The Allure (Angelina Love and Mandy Leon) defeated Chelsea Green and The Hex (Allysin Kay and Marti Belle) (6:52)
• Pre-Show: Flip Gordon, PJ Black, The Bouncers (Brawler Milonas & The Beer City Bruiser) & World Famous CB defeated Demonic Flamita, LSG, Max The Impaler, Sledge & Will Ferrara in a Ten Man Wild Card Tag Match (10:22)
• Dragon Lee defeated Rey Horus (11:21)
• Rhett Titus defeated Dalton Castle (c), Silas Young and Joe Hendry in a Four Corner Survival match to win the ROH World Television Championship (8:30)
• Josh Woods (c) defeated Brian Johnson to retain the ROH Pure Championship (12:59)
• Shane Taylor defeated Kenny King in a Grudge match (17:47)
• Rok-C (c) defeated Willow to retain the ROH Women's World Championship (10:18)
• VLNCE UNLTD (Brody King, Homicide and Tony Deppen) defeated Eli Isom, Taylor Rust and Tracy Williams (13:32)
• The Briscoe Brothers (Mark Briscoe and Jay Briscoe) defeated The OGK (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) (c) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship (15:56)
• Jonathan Gresham defeated Jay Lethal to win the vacant ROH World Championship (15:11)

External links

• Hour One Results
• Results