The first four tournaments saw 12 men first compete in elimination style 3-way matches in the first round before then single elimination matches until a winner was determined. During the 2005 tournament, which was held on May 14, 2005, the winner was determined by all single elimination matches. The original tournament structure returned in 2006, but saw the last four men face off in one match to determine the winner.
CZW's third Best of the Best tournament took place on April 12, 2003, at the “CZW Arena” (Viking Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Due to the show starting late, all the matches had a strict 15 minute time limit.
↑Order of elimination: John House, The Hurricane Kid, Salvatore Rinauro, WHACKS, Krystian Wolf, Shane Golden, Jude, Rick Feinberg, The Towel Boy, Niles Young, Cory Kastle, Nick Gage, The Messiah, GQ, Johnny Kashmere, Chris Stylz, Nick Berk, Ian Knoxx, Z-Barr, Derek Frazier, Rockin' Rebel, Zandig, Danny Rose, Jon Dahmer, Tank
CZW's fifth Best of the Best tournament took place on May 14, 2005, at the “CZW Arena” (The Arena) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the first Best of the Best tournament to allow heavyweight wrestlers to compete. Also, this Best of the Best tournament did not have the traditional 3-way elimination opening round match. Instead, the final match was a 4-way elimination match.
CZW's sixth Best of the Best tournament took place on May 13, 2006, at the “CZW Arena” (New Alhambra Arena) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This Best of the Best tournament saw the return of 3-way elimination match for the opening rounds, as well as keeping 4-way elimination match for the final match.
The eighth Best of the Best took place on May 10, 2008, at the “CZW Arena” (The Arena) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and featured the first female competitor for a Best of the Best tournament in LuFisto.
Was held on April 14, 2012, at the Flyer's Skate Zone in Voorhees, New Jersey. In addition to the non-tournament matches, Drew Gulak and Danny Havoc signed a contract for a No Ropes Barbwire match that took place on May 12.
The 14th Best of the Best took place on April 11, 2015, at the Flyer's Skate Zone in Voorhees, New Jersey. During the event, Nick Gage made his return to CZW after spending four years in prison.
Team Post Game (Brando Lee, Kris Bishop, Mike Walker, Ruthless Lala and Vinny Talotta) defeated Team Milk Chocolate (Brandon Watts, JC Storm, Randy Summers, Richard King and Troy Parker)
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