Ring of Honor’s Best in the World pay-per-view last night was from just outside Baltimore in the UMBC Event Center.
The venue holds just over 6000 for basketball and the commentary team said attendance was 2.5x more than for any other Ring of Honor event in the area. ROH has also been looking at booking bigger venues in most markets they run as of late.
The company was also looking to run Madison Square Garden in New York next spring. That deal ended up falling through, however.
ROH Best in the World 2018 Results
- ROH 6-Man Tag Team Championships
The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) (c) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi, Evil and Sanada) - Flip Gordon defeated Bully Ray via DQ
- Bully hit him with a low blow.
- Several ROH “young boys” attempted to help. Cheeseburger made the final save.
- Sumie Sakai, Jenny Rose, Mayu Iwatani and Tenille Dashwood defeated Kelly Klein and Oedo Tai (Hazuki, Kagetsu and Hana Kimura)
- Kagetsu is the Stardom champion and Sakai the WOH champ. They were teasing something between the two.
- Iwatani got the pin for her team.
- Austin Aries defeated Kenny King
- They mentioned Aries is the Impact World champion but Cabana pretended as though they shouldn’t have said that.
- Jay Lethal defeated KUSHIDA
- They teased some dissension between the two here. KUSHIDA refused to shake Lethal’s hand before the match. He also later mocked Lethal with a Randy Savage styled axehandle. I feel as though this is something which could be explained during a later episode of Being the Elite. Lethal has been slipping in and out of his old Black Machismo gimmick on the show.
- ROH World TV Championship
Punishment Martinez (c) defeated Hangman Page- The finish of this match came when Martinez delivered a South of Heaven chokeslam to his opponent through a table. As the ref counted the three, however, both wrestlers’ shoulders were against the mat. Despite this, the ref awarded the victory to Martinez. ROH officials may have a later ruling due to the controversy at the finish of this match.
- ROH World Tag Team Championships
the Briscoes (c) defeated the Young Bucks- The Briscoes have now defeated the Bucks 8 out of their 13 meetings with the Bucks.
- After the match, SCU came out and looked as though they were going to attack the Bucks. Instead, they attacked the Briscoes and made their intentions of being the next title challengers clear.
- ROH World Championship
3-Way
Dalton Castle (c) defeated Cody and Marty Scurll- Castle retains his title despite seemingly dealing with several nagging injuries. His leg and shoulder were taped up for this match.
- NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Nick Aldis, was ringside. At one point, Aldis pulled the ref out of the ring when it looked like Scurll would win the title.
- The finish came when Scurll gave Cody his own Cross Rhodes finisher but then Castle gave Scurll the Bangarang and got the pin.
- Cody loses the first of 3 big title opportunities he has this summer.