Final Battle 2008
2008 Ring of Honor event
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Final Battle 2008 was a professional wrestling event promoted by Ring of Honor. It took place on December 27, 2008 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York.
| Final Battle 2008 | |||
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | December 27, 2008 | ||
| City | New York City, New York | ||
| Venue | Hammerstein Ballroom | ||
| Attendance | 2, 500 | ||
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Background
Storylines
Final Battle 2008 featured eight different professional wrestling matches, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs prior to the show. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[1][2]
Results
| No. | Results[3][4][5][6] | Stipulations | Times[7] | ||
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| 1 | Kenny Omega defeated Claudio Castagnoli | Singles match | 6:59 | ||
| 2 | Jerry Lynn defeated Chris Hero (with Larry Sweeney & Sara Del Rey) , Necro Butcher, and Rhett Titus | Four-corner survival match | 12:50 | ||
| 3 | Kevin Steen and El Generico (c) (with Daizee Haze) defeated The Age of the Fall (Delirious and Jimmy Jacobs) | Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship | 13:39 | ||
| 4 | Brent Albright, Erick Stevens and Roderick Strong defeated Sweet 'n' Sour Inc (Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards and Go Shiozaki) (with Larry Sweeney) | Street Fight | 14:37 | ||
| 5 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark Briscoe) defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kensuke Sasaki | Tag team match | 16:49 | ||
| 6 | Austin Aries defeated Tyler Black | Singles match for a #1 Contendership ROH World Championship match | 17:09 | ||
| 7 | Nigel McGuinness (c) defeated Naomichi Marufuji | Singles match for the ROH World Championship | 18:40 | ||
| 8 | Bryan Danielson defeated Takeshi Morishima | Fight without Honor | 20:50 | ||
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