Final Battle (2024)

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Final Battle (2024)
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Promotional poster featuring various wrestlers
Promotion Ring of Honor
DateDecember 20, 2024
City New York City, New York, U.S.
Venue Hammerstein Ballroom
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The 2024 Final Battle is an upcoming professional wrestling live streaming event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It will be the 23rd Final Battle event and is scheduled to take place on December 20, 2024, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York. The event will air exclusively on ROH's streaming service, Honor Club.

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Production

Background

Final Battle is a professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor. First held in 2002, it is traditionally ROH's last show in the calendar year. [1] It is widely regarded as Ring of Honor's premiere flagship event, similar to WWE's WrestleMania. [2] [3] On November 19, 2024, ROH announced that the 2024 Final Battle would be held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on December 20, and would air exclusively on Honor Club. Once a yearly tradition, this will be the first Final Battle event to take place at the Hammerstein Ballroom since Final Battle 2018. [4]

Storylines

The event will feature professional wrestling matches that involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5] Storylines will be produced on ROH's weekly series ROH Honor Club TV exclusively on their streaming service Honor Club, on television programs of sister promotion All Elite Wrestling including Dynamite , Rampage , and Collision , and via promotional videos on both the ROH and AEW YouTube channels.

On the December 5 episode of ROH Wrestling, ROH World Champion Chris Jericho hosted his talk show segment, "TV Time with The Learning Tree," for the first time on ROH to discuss his upcoming title defense at Final Battle. He would dare anyone from New York to step up, to which Matt Cardona would then make a surprise appearance and accept Jericho's challenge for the title at Final Battle. [6]

On the November 14 ROH Wrestling, after ROH World Tag Team Champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) competed in a match, they were suddenly ambushed by The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch), who wielded a bull rope with an attached cowbell. Later in the night, after The Righteous won their match, they cut a promo, declaring they should've been champions long ago and that attacking the champions would force them to get an opportunity. As they are meant to do, they also made their situation with the champions personal; Dutch specifically targeted Rhodes as he recounted training with his father Dusty Rhodes who Dutch claimed saw more in him than he did Dustin, which is how he came to possess the bull rope. [7] The Righteous continued the mind games over the next few weeks. Soon, on the December 5 ROH Wrestling, it was announced that The Sons of Texas would face The Righteous in a Texas Bullrope match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship at Final Battle. [8]

On the December 5 episode of ROH Wrestling, Jay Lethal appeared in a backstage segment where he was planning a return to ROH one and a half years after his last appearance at Death Before Dishonor in 2022. He and his associates (Sonjay Dutt, Satnam Singh, Jeff Jarrett, and Karen Jarrett) were then met by Q. T. Marshall, who offered to be Lethal's return opponent, but was shot down as Lethal wanted to wrestle a "bigger name." [9] The following week, Lethal met with ROH Board of Director's member Paul Wight to discuss his ROH return match only for a furious Marshall to interrupt, leading to a physical altercation. Wight would intervene and decide it would be best that the two would settle differences in the ring, with the match being made official for Final Battle. [10]

At the previous year's Final Battle, Athena retained the ROH Women's World Championship against Billie Starkz, the latter's performance getting her back in the former's good graces as her "minion". [11] Starkz would then take to Athena's more underhanded tactics as she and fellow minion, backstage interviewer Lexy Nair, assisted Athena in retaining her title while Starkz became the inaugural ROH World Women's Television Champion at Supercard of Honor. [12] However, after Starkz lost the television title to Red Velvet at Death Before Dishonor, the dynamic between Athena, Starkz, and Nair reverted to Athena favoring Nair and looking down on Starkz. On the October 24 ROH Wrestling, Athena celebrated becoming the longest-reigning champion of any kind in ROH history, where she again praised Nair and berated Starkz for perceived poor party planning, causing Starkz to walk out on the pair. [13] Over a month later on December 12, Athena and Starkz competed in a four-way qualifier for the International Women’s Cup at Wrestle Dynasty, where Athena previously demanded Starkz lay down for her. When that didn't happen, Athena would steal a pin on Velvet from Starkz to win. [14] Afterwards, Athena proclaimed she would skip Final Battle in preparation for Wrestle Dynasty, but a frustrated Starkz, tired of Athena's attitude towards her, challenged her to a rematch for the ROH Women's World Championship at Final Battle. Athena accepted and the match was later made official. [15]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Red Velvet (c) vs. Leyla Hirsch Singles match for the ROH Women's World Television Championship [16]
2 Chris Jericho (c) vs. Matt Cardona Singles match for the ROH World Championship [6]
3The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) (c) vs. The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch) Texas Bullrope match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship [8]
4 Jay Lethal vs. Q. T. Marshall Singles match [10]
5 Athena (c) vs. Billie Starkz Singles match for the ROH Women's World Championship [15]
6 Brian Cage (c) vs. Willie Mack vs. Komander vs. Mark Davis vs. AR Fox vs. Blake Christian Survival of the Fittest match for the ROH World Television Championship [17]
7 Lee Moriarty (c) vs. TBD Pure Wrestling Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship [18]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

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