Final Battle (2025)
| Final Battle | |||
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Promotional poster featuring various ROH wrestlers | |||
| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | December 5, 2025 | ||
| City | Columbus, Ohio | ||
| Venue | Greater Columbus Convention Center | ||
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The 2025 Final Battle is an upcoming professional wrestling live streaming event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It will be the 24th Final Battle event and will take place on Friday, December 5, 2025, as a part of GalaxyCon at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. The event will air exclusively on ROH's streaming service, Honor Club.
Production
[edit]Background
[edit]Final Battle is a professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor. First held in 2002, it is traditionally ROH's last show in the calendar year.[1] It is widely regarded as Ring of Honor's premiere flagship event, similar to WWE's WrestleMania.[2][3] On August 11, 2025, ROH announced that the 2025 Final Battle would be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio on December 5, as part of a partnership with GalaxyCon Columbus, and would air exclusively on Honor Club.[4]
Storylines
[edit]The event featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[5] Storylines were produced on ROH's weekly series ROH Honor Club TV exclusively on their streaming service Honor Club, on television programs of sister promotion All Elite Wrestling including Dynamite and Collision, and via promotional videos on both the ROH and AEW YouTube channels.
One of the main features of Final Battle would be the finals of the ROH Women's Pure Championship tournament.[6] First introduced following the April 12 episode of AEW Collision,[7] the title tournament was originally meant to culminate at Supercard of Honor, but had to be postponed due to injuries, according to Tony Khan.[8][9] The tournament bracket was officially revealed on August 29, hours before Death Before Dishonor, and would officially begin that night.[10]
Matches
[edit]| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | ||||
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| 1 | TBD (c) vs. TBA | Singles match for the AEW National Championship[6] | ||||
| 2 | TBD vs. TBD | Pure Wrestling Rules tournament final match for the inaugural ROH Women's Pure Championship[6] | ||||
| 3 | Lee Moriarty (c) vs. Komander (with Alex Abrahantes) | Pure Wrestling Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship | ||||
| 4 | Athena or Harley Cameron (c) vs. TBA | Singles match for the ROH Women's World Championship | ||||
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ROH Women's Pure Championship Tournament brackets
[edit]Tournament bracket
[edit]| Quarterfinals Death Before Dishonor (August 29, 2025) Ring of Honor Wrestling (September 25, 2025 November 6, 2025 TBA) | Semifinals Ring of Honor Wrestling (TBA) | Final Final Battle (December 5, 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Taya Valkyrie | 8:24[11] | |||||||||||||
| Queen Aminata | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Queen Aminata | ||||||||||||||
| Deonna Purrazzo | ||||||||||||||
| Deonna Purrazzo | Sub | |||||||||||||
| Trish Adora | 7:02[12] | |||||||||||||
| Billie Starkz | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Olympia | 10:46[13] | |||||||||||||
| Billie Starkz | ||||||||||||||
| Serena Deeb | ||||||||||||||
| Yuka Sakazaki | ||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ DeRosenroll, Mike (December 19, 2009). "DeRosenroll's Classic ROH Feuds: History of "Final Battle" ROH World Title matches (2002–2005)". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
Final Battle has been the name of the last ROH show of each year since the promotion started in 2002
- ^ "December 28th Newswire". Ring of Honor. 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
The ROH athletes put it all on the line at the biggest event of the year. Replays of the iPPV broadcast of "Final Battle 2011" are available here.
- ^ "Final Battle 2012: Doomsday- New York, NY 12/16/12 (DVD)". Ring of Honor. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
Ring of Honor closes out 2012 with the biggest event of the year...
- ^ Pollock, John (August 11, 2025). "AEW returns to GalaxyCon Columbus for Collision & ROH Final Battle". POSTWrestling. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ a b c Renner, Ethan (November 6, 2025). "First ROH Final Battle matches official". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ^ Jayaram, Nishant (April 13, 2025). "AEW's Tony Khan Unveils New ROH Women's Division Title, Champion To Be Crowned On PPV". Wrestling Inc. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Julien (April 23, 2025). "ROH Officially Unveils New Women's Pure Championship Title Belt". Wrestling Inc. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (August 28, 2025). "Tony Khan Says Bracket For ROH Women's Pure Title Was Set, But Had To Hold Off Due To Injuries". Wrestling Inc. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ Swinton, Lyric (August 29, 2025). "ROH Women's Pure Title Tournament Bracket Revealed". The Takedown on Sports Illustrated. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ Vetter, Chris (August 30, 2025). "ROH Death Before Dishonor results: Vetter's review of Athena vs. Mina Shirakawa for the ROH Women's Championship, Bandido vs. Hechicero for the ROH Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved August 31, 2025.
- ^ Robinson, Sam (November 7, 2025). "ROH on HonorClub results (11/6): Robinson's review of ROH Pure Rules Champion Lee Moriarty vs. Komander in a Proving Ground match, STP vs. Beef and the Work Horsemen for the ROH Six-Man Tag Team Titles". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- ^ Robinson, Sam (September 26, 2025). "ROH on HonorClub results (9/25): Robinson's review of Sammy Guevara and Rush vs. The Von Erichs for the ROH Tag Titles, Mina Shirakawa vs. Lacey Layne for the Interim ROH Women's TV Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 9, 2025.