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 Promotional poster featuring ROH World Champion Kevin Steen | |||
| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | June 24, 2012 | ||
| City | New York, New York | ||
| Venue | Hammerstein Ballroom | ||
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Best in the World 2012: Hostage Crisis [1] was a professional wrestling Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH) that took place on June 24, 2012 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, New York.
Best in the World 2012 featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on Ring of Honor's (ROH) television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
| No. | Results [2] | Stipulations | Times | ||
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| 1 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) defeated The Guardians of Truth (with Truth Martini) | Tag team match | 06:00 | ||
| 2 | Homicide defeated Eddie Edwards | Singles match | 12:45 | ||
| 3 | Adam Cole defeated Kyle O'Reilly by submission | Hybrid Fighting Rules match | 12:38 | ||
| 4 | Michael Elgin (with Truth Martini) defeated Fit Finlay | Singles match | 19:15 | ||
| 5 | Mike Mondo defeated Mike Bennett (with Bob Evans and Maria Kanellis) | Singles match | 04:12 | ||
| 6 | Roderick Strong (c) (with Truth Martini) defeated Jay Lethal and Tommaso Ciampa | Three-Way Elimination match for the ROH World Television Championship | 13:08 | ||
| 7 | The All Night Express (Rhett Titus and Kenny King) defeated Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) (c) | Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship | 22:51 | ||
| 8 | Kevin Steen (c) (with Jimmy Jacobs) defeated Davey Richards (with Jim Cornette) | Anything Goes match for the ROH World Championship | 21:23 | ||
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