Rising Above (2007)

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Rising Above (2007)
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Promotional poster featuring Nigel McGuinness
Promotion Ring of Honor
DateDecember 29, 2007
(aired March 7, 2008)
City New York, New York [1] [2]
Venue Manhattan Center
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Rising Above (2007) was the inaugural Rising Above professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by Ring of Honor. It took place on December 29, 2007, from the Manhattan Center in New York, New York and first aired on March 7, 2008.

Contents

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel
RoleName
Commentators Dave Prazak
Lenny Leonard

Rising Above featured storylines and professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. [3] Storylines were produced on ROH's weekly television programme Ring of Honor Wrestling.

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1 Daizee Haze defeated Lacey and Sara Del Rey Three-way match 6:26
2 Delirious defeated Brent Albright (with Adam Pearce) Singles match 6:11
3 Kevin Steen and El Generico defeated The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black) (with Lacey), The Hangmen 3 (Adam Pearce and B. J. Whitmer), and The Vulture Squad (Jack Evans and Ruckus) (with Julius Smokes) Tag team scramble match 7:31
4 Davey Richards defeated Erick Stevens by submission Singles match 9:52
5 Claudio Castagnoli defeated Chris Hero (with Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland and Bobby Dempsey) Singles match 9:20
6 Nigel McGuinness (c) defeated Austin Aries Singles match for the ROH World Championship 23:16
7D Necro Butcher defeated Jigsaw, Matt Cross and Mitch Franklin Four Way Fray —
8 Bryan Danielson defeated Takeshi Morishima by disqualification Singles match 8:20
9 The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark Briscoe) (c) defeated No Remorse Corps (Roderick Strong and Rocky Romero) Two out of three falls match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship 21:45
10D Naomichi Marufuji defeated Claudio Castagnoli Singles match —
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
D – this was a dark match

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References

  1. ↑ "Ring of Honor: Rising Above" . Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  2. ↑ "ROH PPV Rising Above". Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2019.


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