ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds (2017)

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War of the Worlds (2017)
Ted Reeve Arena
Night 2:
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Night 3:
Hammerstein Ballroom
Night 4:
2300 Arena
AttendanceNight 1:
1,500[1]
Night 2:
1,000[2]
Night 3:
1,800[2]
Night 4:
1,100[2]
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War of the Worlds (2017) was a

promotions
.

The tour's four events took place on May 7 at the

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
.

The third night aired live on pay-per-view (PPV), while the fourth night was taped for four future episodes, including the 300th overall episode, of ROH's weekly television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling.[3] 2017 was the fourth year in which ROH and NJPW co-produced events under the War of the Worlds name. During the third night of the tour, NJPW announced the creation of the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship.[4]

Production

Background

In 2014, Japanese promotion

NJPW World.[11] These would mark the fourth annual shows co-promoted by NJPW and ROH.[7]

ROH began announcing the NJPW wrestlers for the tour on April 17, starting with

Sanada[16] Gedo,[17] and Hiroshi Tanahashi.[18] Also announced was Kenny Omega, who would, however, only work the Toronto show.[19]

Storylines

The War of the Worlds tour featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[20]

On April 14, ROH announced the first match for the tour, which would see

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi, Evil and Sanada).[23]

The May 12 show would be main evented by the ROH World Championship being contested in a three-way match with Daniels defending against Cody and Jay Lethal. Cody's challenge had been accepted by Daniels prior to the match with Taven,

Beretta, Hirooki Goto and Rocky Romero.[27]

The tour concluding Philadelphia show would be headlined by a Philadelphia Street Fight between Adam Cole and Marty Scurll.[3] Cole's ROH contract had expired on May 1 and it was reported that the Philadelphia show would be his final scheduled appearance for the promotion.[28][29] ROH set up the storyline behind the match at the New York City show, where the Bullet Club stable turned on Cole and replaced him with Scurll.[4] Earlier in the Philadelphia show, Cole cost Scurll the ROH World Television Championship in his match against Kushida, leading to the main event street fight.[3] Instead of being taped for Ring of Honor Wrestling, the main event was taped to be released later on ROH's official website.[3]

Aftermath

On May 22, 2017, ROH announced a second War of the Worlds tour, entitled War of the Worlds UK, this time taking place in the United Kingdom, for which ROH and NJPW were joined by the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and the British Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) promotions. The three shows take place on August 18 in London, August 19 in Liverpool and August 20 in Edinburgh.[30]

Results

Night 1

No.Results
dark match

Night 2

No.Results
dark match

Night 3

No.Results
dark match

Night 4 (TV Tapings)

No.Results
dark match

See also

References

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