ROH issued the following today …

Michael Elgin Returns This Sat Night!

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When Michael Elgin debuted on the main roster for Ring Of Honor in November 2010, he was considered a can’t miss prospect! He was looked at like a professional sports team looks at the prospects of a first round draft pick! With a nickname like “Unbreakable”, how could you not be anything but impressive?

As a member of the House of Truth, Elgin made quite the impact standing alongside “Mr. ROH” Roderick Strong and Truth Martini! Ring of Honor match makers really started to see Elgin grow rapidly with major wins in his rookie year over ROH standouts like El Generico and Current ROH Color Commentator Steve Corino! To cap off his rookie year and further prove his potential, Elgin won the 2011 Survival of the Fittest which featured Adam Cole, Tommaso Ciampa and current ROH World Tag Team Champion Kyle O’Reilly! The sky appeared to be the limit for the Unbreakable one!!

Elgin started to break out when he had enough of the antics of Martini and Strong! He broke away from the House of Truth and really started impressing officials and professional wrestling fans! After an impressive rookie year, Elgin faced then ROH World Champion Kevin Steen and came up a little short in his bid for his ROH World Championship! In true Elgin fashion, he didn’t let this get him down and got right back on the horse and started a sprint towards what he was calling his “destiny”! That destiny was to be the Ring of Honor World Champion!

Through all the wars he had been in, one thing was certain, there was no quit in “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin. On June 22, 2014 at Best in the World Michael Elgin joined an elite list of professional wrestlers and achieved his destiny of becoming the Ring of Honor World Champion! As the streamers flew in the building and the cameras faded on the pay per view audience at home, the scene was an emotional one as he sat in the ring cradling the championship that he chased and craved for so long!

Knowing the road would be tougher as champion he prepared; amped up his training and prepared himself for everything. On September 6, 2014, fate stepped in and Michael Elgin suffered his only his second loss of 2014! He lost the ROH World Championship to Jay Briscoe in Toronto, Canada.

Its public knowledge now, that due to clerical issues Michael Elgin could not leave Canada for a period of time. Ring of Honor officials and legal counsel quickly jumped in to assist in getting him back home as soon as possible. Michael Elgin has now returned to the United States and we are pleased to announce that he will appear THIS Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan!

2014 was record setting for Michael Elgin and Ring of Honor officials are expecting “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin to return with a new demeanor, a new fire and a new passion!! Elgin has surpassed all expectations put on him and this current setback is not nearly enough to curtail the former champion!!

Get your tickets for this Saturday’s Champions vs. All-Stars in Kalamazoo today!

The following matches are advertised for tonight’s Ring Of Honor “Best in the World” show, which is the company’s official debut on regular pay-per-view.

ROH World Championship
– Adam Cole (c) vs. Michael Elgin

ROH World Tag-Team Championships
– Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish (c) vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian

ROH TV Championship
– Jay Lethal (c) vs. Matt Tavern (with Truth Martini handcuffed to the ring post)

Submission Match
– Roderick Strong vs. Cedric Alexander

Six-Man Mayhem Match For ROH TV Title Shot
– ACH vs. Takanaki Watanbe vs. Caprice Coleman vs. Tadarius Thomas vs. BJ Whitmer vs. Tommaso Ciampa

– Kevin Steen vs. Silas Young

– The Briscoes vs. Matt Hardy & Michael Bennett (with Maria Kanellis)

AJ Styles defeated Kazuchika Okada to capture the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at the New Japan Pro Wrestling Dontaku iPPV event on Saturday night. By winning the title, Styles became the first American wrestler to hold that particular belt since Brock Lesnar held it in 2005.

Ring Of Honor promoted the event on their official website and noted that the winner of the Styles vs. Okada match would defend the IWGP Championship against Michael Elgin at their “War of the Worlds” event on May 17th.

Styles tweeted the following photo of himself with the IWGP Championship backstage after the show:

#bulletclub pic.twitter.com/SBP6BgxXDn

— AJStyles.Org (@AJStylesOrg) May 3, 2014

As previously reported, Ring Of Honor stars Roderick Strong and Kevin Steen were considered pretty likely candidates for the next WWE NXT tryout camp at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. Apparently Strong and Steen are confirmed to take part in the next WWE tryout, which takes place from March 24th through March 26th.

Independent wrestling star Michael Elgin was also reportedly trying to get into the next tryout camp, but there is no definitive word yet as to whether or not he will be a part of it.

– Tag-team wrestling legend “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton has reportedly made a significant turn for the better in terms of his health. He has apparently lost a lot of weight and is the healthiest he has been in quite a while.

– There has been talk in WWE of bringing in Kevin Steen and Michael Elgin for tryouts. Apparently the two may be invited to an upcoming WWE developmental tryout camp.

– The following are some recent WWE attendance figures:

February 7th in Oakland, California drew approximately 5,400 fans
February 8th in San Jose, California drew approximately 4,700 fans
February 8th in San Diego, California drew approximately 4,000 fans
February 9th in Fresno, California drew approximately 6,000 fans
February 9th in Bakersfield, California drew approximately 4,500 fans