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| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | December 2, 2016 | ||
| City | New York City, New York | ||
| Venue | Hammerstein Ballroom | ||
| Tagline(s) | The End Is Near... | ||
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Final Battle (2016) was the 15th Final Battle professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on December 2, 2016 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York. [1]
Final Battle featured professional wrestling matches, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs prior to the show. 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. [2]
| First round ROH Wrestling tapings | Semifinals ROH Wrestling tapings | Final Final Battle 1 December 2, 2016 | ||||||||||||
| A. C. H., Jay White and Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) and Toru Yano | 14:00 [4] | |||||||||||||
| A. C. H., Jay White and Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Cabinet (Caprice Coleman, Kenny King and Rhett Titus) | 11:42 [5] | |||||||||||||
| The Cabinet (Caprice Coleman, Kenny King and Rhett Titus) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Jason Kincaid, Leon St. Giovanni and Shaheem Ali | 9:31 [6] | |||||||||||||
| Lio Rush 1 , Jay White and Kushida | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) | 17:00 [7] | |||||||||||||
| Bullet Club (Adam Cole, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) | 12:02 [8] | |||||||||||||
| The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team CMLL (Hechicero, Okumura and Último Guerrero) | 9:34 [9] | |||||||||||||
| The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and Kamaitachi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team CMLL (Hechicero, Okumura and Último Guerrero) | 11:12 [10] | |||||||||||||
1 ^ Lio Rush replaced A. C. H. in the tournament due to A.C.H. departing and being Released from ROH [11] fulfilling his dreams and separate goals by seemingly taking independent bookings, indicating his departure from ROH. [12]
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