ROH "Final Battle 2011: Richards vs. Edwards III" iPPV Card Thread

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Es wird von Tag zu Tag besser auf dieser Card!

Dieses Match könnte ein absoluter Showstealer werden! Wenn ich ehrlich bin, sollten höchstens noch 2 Matches auf die Card kommen! Leider kommt Roddy hier dann zu kurz, obwohl er in diesem Jahr sehr wichtig für ROH war, aber das geht leider nicht anders. Ich finde es wahnsinnig, was wieder raus gehaun wird! Die absolute Pflichtaufgabe, es zu schaun wird jetzt also noch übertroffen und man muss es ja schon fast Live sehen!!! :=:

Vielleicht HoT vs Embassy irgendwie mit drauf. Eigentlich passt das ja gar nicht, aber was will man noch groß bringen, um alle auf die Card zu bekommen? ?-(

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Die Frage hier ist halt ob es nu zu der Roderick Strong Open Challenge noch kommt oder nicht?

Elgin vs. Perkins könnte ich mir gut vorstellen, da könnte Elgin als Powerhouse nochmal richtig seine Monsterdominanz zeigen. Ciampa braucht nen Gegner wo er seine Streak aufrechterhalten kann, wäre also auch Perkins möglich. Aber ich denke auch, dass es maximal noch 2 Matches werden. (oder wieder ein 4 Way z.B.)

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Wobei man beim 4 Way dann schon wieder schaun muss, wer dann den Pin zeigen darf und wie...
Elgin dominant zu zeigen und am Ende zu screwen, dass Ciampa dann siegt fände ich gar nicht mal so schlecht. Perkins könnte den Pin einstecken.
Und die Open Challenge von Roddy hab ich ganz vergessen, stimmt, da war noch was im Hinterkopf
Mal sehen, ob man noch jemanden verpflichtet, oder sogar irgend eine Überraschung bietet durch ein Comeback oder eben ein Debüt.

Heißt für mich: Triple Threat zwischen Elgin, Ciampa und Perkins und dann noch die Challenge und die Card wäre perfekt und alle wären untergebracht!

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In einem Duell der Stile Kraft gegen Geschwindigkeit kommt es zu:

Singles Match
"Unbreakable" Michael Elgin (/with Truth Martini) vs. TJ Perkins

Desweiteren wurde via Newswire angedeutet, dass die offene Herausforderung von Tommaso Ciampa erfüllt wurde, jemand ein Angebot für ein Match gemacht habe und derzeit geprüft werde ob man dieses Match zustandekommen lassen werde.

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Holy FUCKFUCKFUCK!

Via dem letzten Videowire wurde nun derjenige enthüllt, der sich gerne Tommaso Ciampa in den Weg stellen will:


und es ist niemand geringeres als das ehemalige Crown Jewel eben jener Embassy rund um Prince Nana:


JIMMY RAVE

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Die ehemalige WWE-Diva Maria Kanellis wird ihren Real Life Boyfriend Mike Bennett bei Final Battle 2011 zum Ring begleiten.

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Rebirth Or Destruction
by Steve Corino

As I sit down at the ZERO1 office in Tokyo, a week away from the most important fight of my life, I can't stop thinking about what got me to this point. The decisions I have made, the people I have hurt, and the lives I have affected.


There is no denying that the Kevin Steen that you see, and will see at Final Battle, is a product of my manipulations. I brought the Monster out in him two years ago, for reasons that were selfish. I was mad at the world. I hated myself but I put the blame on people that didn't deserve it. Namely the ROH fans and El Generico. I take full responsibility and I am sorry.


People ask me all the time, why Kevin Steen? Kevin wasn't just some random guy I chose to create a Monster with. I first met Kevin Steen in 2004 at a show in Quebec. He was so young, but oh so talented. It took me close to 25 minutes to beat him, but the victory wasn't the thing I remember the most on that first meeting. It was that I got a sense that he was angry inside. A Monster was dormant inside him. His eyes told his story. I never forgot that.


It took me six years to realize that the Evil in my heart is because of the things I did. Not anyone else. The bitterness inside was because of me. I was a Monster. I am Evil.
2011 has been a difficult year for me and I appreciate the leeway fans have given me. Your support and cheers mean a lot to me. It took a long time to convince the fans and the locker room that I am a changed man, but the Monster still lives in me. There is still Evil in my heart. But I think I can control it. Everyday is a struggle.


10 years ago, almost to the day, I walked into the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, a young 27 year old warrior ready to face the future. Confident, defiant, and focused. I was the ECW heavyweight champion of the World. But now, a decade later, I walk into that famous arena as a man fighting for not only MY future, but the future of Ring Of Honor.


ROH fans may cheer Kevin Steen, but your cheers are only justifying what this man is doing. By letting him back into ROH, it will start a chain of events that can only lead to the destruction of Ring Of Honor. If I lose and the Monster comes back to ROH, no one will be able to stop him. Not even Davey Richards.


Kevin will tell you that I pander to Jim Cornette, but he's wrong. Few people know that it was Jim Cornette that helped me out when I was just a youngster in pro-wrestling. He paved the way for WWF tryouts, stays in the old USWA in Memphis and WWC in Puerto Rico, and was a man I could look to for advice. I owe this to him. I owe this to the ROH lockeroom. And, even if you don't believe me, I owe this to you fans. Kevin Steen MUST be gone from ROH forever.


On December 23, I am going to do what I have to do to defeat Kevin. Jimmy Jacobs is there to be a referee, not for my sake, but so Kevin can not bully the ROH referees like he did at Final Battle 2010. I don't need anyone's help in this fight. This is my fight.


When I wake up on December 24 I will know what the future of Steve Corino holds. If I win, it will be a Rebirth of my career. One last chance at glory. And to do so, I know that I have to be Evil just one more time. I am prepared.


If I lose, the Destruction of not only Steve Corino, but ROH, begins. I can't let that happen.


Steve Corino vs. Kevin Steen...Rebirth Or Destruction...HELL HAS NO HONOR.


My name is Steve Corino and for one last night on December 23rd, I am EVIL.


Steve Corino

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Aufgrund des Blogbeitrags von Steve Corino und der instabilen Persönlichkeit Kevin Steens, die wohlweislich dafür sorgen wird, dass Chaos sowieso ausbrechen wird, hat das ROH Office entschieden, dass das Match am Freitag Abend nur durch Pinfall, Submission oder Knockout entschieden werden kann unter folgenden Regeln. Zusätzlich hat der ROH Ambassador und ehemalige Besitzer der Liga, Cary Silkin, darum gebeten ebenfalls am Ring anwesend sein zu dürfen:

No Disqualification Match - If Kevin Steen Wins He Will Be Reinstated (Special Guest Referee: Jimmy Jacobs; Special Ring Attendee: Jim Cornette & Cary Silkin)
Steve Corino vs. Kevin Steen

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Boah bin ich heiß auf das Match, das kann ich mit Worten gar nicht erklären...

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Kevin Steen Open Letter zum Match

In less than 48 hours, I'll be looking across the ring at someone I've admired for over a decade now, as we get ready to wage war on each other. I'll be looking at someone who I always considered a friend as he gets ready to referee the most important match of my life. I'll be looking ringside at someone who, as a kid, I used to watch on TV manage my favorite wrestlers like Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart, never guessing that he'd one day try to ruin my career.

To say that the odds are against me is an understatement. But you know what? The odds have been stacked against me since the very beginning of my career. I never looked like someone who should be a wrestler. I never looked like an athlete. Yet I managed to work through those obstacles to become one of the most entertaining, unpredictable and appreciated wrestlers on the independent scene today. I have wrestled all over the world for many, many great promotions. What I am is a MUST-SEE attraction for any promotion I work for.

I thrive on being seen as an outcast and a nutcase. I thrive on having people try to sabotage my career because of how big of a threat I've become. I feed on all of that. So you can bet your ass I am absolutely thrilled about the way everything is shaping up for Final Battle.

Some of you might think, judging from my comments here and the comments I made in the last ROH Video Wire while hanging out in a kid's playground, that I am taking Friday night's battle lightly. Let me assure you, nothing is further from the truth.

''The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.''

- James Arthur Baldwin

I am confident. Not in my victory but in the fact that I will lay waste to several people, cause mayhem and chaos as only I can and finally bring back to ROH an aura of danger and imminent disaster that has been missing for too long now.

I do hope to walk out victorious. But I'm not going to be the guy that walks around saying ''when, not if, I win'' because the man I'm facing on Friday is Steve Fucking Corino. And until recently, I thought that man I was facing was nothing but a shell of the one I looked up to as I came up in the wrestling world. But last month in Chicago, and ever since then, I've noticed something in Steve's eye that had been missing since last year's Final Battle. I see glimmers of fear. I see glimmers of hate. I see glimmers of Evil.

Steve has been claiming that it will be the Corino of old fighting me in NYC. The one who bled buckets, sold out the Hammerstein Ballroom and fought as dirty as he could until he had nothing left to give. If that's true...if that's really the Corino that shows up in NYC -and I hope it is- then I can't be sure of my victory. But you can all be sure of one thing...

Violence is coming back to ROH in a huge way at Final Battle.

Let me end with this...

Steve, you wrote that 10 years ago, you were walking into the Hammerstein as the 27 year old ECW World Heavyweight Champion. And 10 years ago, I was sitting at home watching you do it with admiration in my eyes.

This time, however, I'm the one walking into Hammerstein at 27 years old. But I don't have a title to defend...yet. No. After everything I have been through with this company. I'm actually walking in with absolutely nothing to lose anymore.

And you know what they say about a man who's got nothing to lose...