Survival of the Fittest (2017)

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Survival of the Fittest (2017)
Promotion Ring of Honor
DateNovember 17, 2017
November 18, 2017
November 19, 2017
City San Antonio, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
VenueAustin Highway Event Center
Gilley's Dallas
Cox Convention Center
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Survival of the Fittest (2017) was a three-night, three-city professional wrestling event produced by the American wrestling promotion Ring of Honor, the 12th Survival of the Fittest. It took place on November 17, 2017, at the Austin Highway Event Center in San Antonio, Texas, [1] November 18, 2017, at Gilley's Dallas in Dallas, Texas [2] and November 19, 2017, at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [3]

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The event also was notable for actor Stephen Amell, who was previously announced as the host for the first night of the tour, joining the Bullet Club stable and wrestling in the show's main event.

Background

Survival of The Fittest featured professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines that played out on ROH's television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling . Wrestlers portrayed heroes (faces) or villains (heels) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [4]

Survival of the Fittest is an annual tournament held by ROH. For the 2017 event, the winners from designated tournament matches in Night 1 at San Antonio, Texas and Night 2 at Dallas, Texas advanced to a 6-Man Elimination Match on Night 3 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the winner of that match was declared Survivor of the Fittest, and received a future ROH World Championship match.

2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament participants

Results

Night 1 - San Antonio, TX

No.Results [5] StipulationsTimes1:06
1D Cheeseburger defeated Jastin Taylor Singles match 11:05
2 Silas Young defeated Josh Woods First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament12:03
3 Shane Taylor defeated Beer City Bruiser First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament10:03
4 Punishment Martinez defeated Jay Lethal First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament14:46
5 The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) defeated Search and Destroy (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Jonathan Gresham) Six-man tag team match 17:45
6 Deonna Purrazzo defeated Britt Baker Singles match15:43
7 Esfinge and Rey Cometa defeated The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) Tag team match 10:04
8 Kenny King (c) defeated Joey Ryan Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship 18:57
9 Dalton Castle defeated Marty Scurll Singles match17:53
10 Bullet Club (Cody, Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson and Stephen Amell) defeated The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian), Flip Gordon and Scorpio Sky Five-on-four handicap match 35:56
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
D – this was a dark match

Night 2 - Dallas, TX

No.Results [6] StipulationsTimes
1DAndy Dalton defeated Lou Gotti Singles match 9:32
2 Jonathan Gresham defeated Vinny Marseglia First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament13:56
3 Flip Gordon defeated T. K. O'Ryan First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament14:00
4 Matt Taven defeated Cheeseburger First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament00:43
5 Deonna Purrazzo defeated Karen Q No disqualification match 13:43
6 The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) (c) defeated Esfinge and Rey Cometa, The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) and Silas Young and Beer City Bruiser Four corner survival tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship 23:45
7 Marty Scurll defeated Josh Woods Singles match11:33
8 Kenny King (c) defeated Scorpio Sky Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship 16:34
9 Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle defeated The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)Tag team match13:30
10 Cody (c) defeated Christopher Daniels Texas Death match for the ROH World Championship 29:52
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
D – this was a dark match

Night 3 - Oklahoma City, OK

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1DThe Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) defeated Ky-ote and Chandler Hopkins Tag team match 22:47
2 Jay Lethal defeated Josh Woods Singles match 22:45
3 Cheeseburger and Gregory James ended in a no contestSingles match1:02
4 Marty Scurll defeated Rhett Titus Singles match15:04
5 Joey Ryan defeated Kikutaro Singles match19:07
6 Cody defeated Beer City Bruiser (with Silas Young)Singles match11:28
7 Deonna Purrazzo defeated Madison Rayne Singles match17:04
8 Dalton Castle defeated Christopher Daniels Singles match21:10
9 The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defeated The Kingdom (T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)Tag team match18:02
10 Punishment Martinez defeated Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Jonathan Gresham, Shane Taylor and Matt Taven Survival of the Fittest tournament final
Six-way elimination match
Winner receives an ROH World Championship match		46:45
D – this was a dark match

Order of Elimination

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References

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  2. ↑ "11/18/17 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST NIGHT 2 - DALLAS, TX". Ring of Honor . Retrieved November 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ "11/19/17 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST NIGHT 3 - OKLAHOMA CITY, OK". Ring of Honor . Retrieved November 7, 2017.
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