Five Point Recap: “ROH Final Battle 2016”

The short form. In case you missed it, Ring of Honor held “Final Battle 2016” this past Friday. Final Battle is the biggest show of the year for the promotion and a lot of big events took place. Here are the five most important points from the show, taking place in chronological order.

1. Cody Rhodes made his debut with the company and actually turned heel to beat Jay Lethal. Commentator Steve Corino teased that Rhodes was aligned with Kevin Sullivan. This is part of a long running feud between Corino and Sullivan’s other protege BJ Whitmer, though Corino seems to be leaving the promotion.

httpss://youtube.com/watch?v=00ldNq-F9HU

2. The New Kingdom won the inaugural Six Man Tag Team Titles by defeating Lio Rush/Jay White/Kushida. The titles were introduced a few months back and an eight team tournament was held to crown the first champions. Matt Taven formed his own version of the Kingdom and led the team to victory.

httpss://youtube.com/watch?v=EWzYlUXaLiQ

3. Marty Scurll retained the TV Title in a triple threat match over Dragon Lee and Will Ospreay. The match was supposed to involve former champion Bobby Fish as well but Fish’s mother passed away the day of the show, meaning he had to take the night off. Fish should be back for the next TV tapings.

httpss://youtube.com/watch?v=cWa9QmKDS3U

4. The Young Bucks retained the Tag Team Titles over the Briscoes but the bigger story was Matt Hardy appearing on screen after the match and promising that he and his Brother Nero were coming to take the titles. At the moment the match is rumored to be taking place over Wrestlemania weekend.

httpss://youtube.com/watch?v=l7DjJfe06G0

5. Kyle O’Reilly finally won the ROH World Title by defeating Adam Cole. This was changed to a No DQ match earlier in the night and O’Reilly won the title via submission off a triangle choke. These two have been feuded for over a year now with Cole promising that O’Reilly would never become champion.