Vipers2k9 Ring Of Honor

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Name: Vipers2k9 Ring of Honor

Basis of Promotion: Basically mixing some of old parts of ROH with the new ROH. I am using the start date of the real promotion to kick things off. Both singles championships will be crowned in round robin tournaments with only the tag team championships being crowned in a one night tournament.

Shows will be every two weeks (Friday and Saturday) with some of those shows being Television broadcasts and some being just DVD's.

Next post will talk about the first card of the promotion.

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Newswire

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first ROH Newswire as we are now fast approaching our first weekend of action from the Dearborn Preforming Arts Center in Dearborn Michigan on Friday and Saturday Night, February 22nd & 23rd, 2002.

ROH Matchmaker Nigel McGuinness along with the ROH Board of Director have come together on a plan to crown the first champions in ROH history. They call it the "Round Robin Challenge" where 8 men will fight it out to claim the top two spots in each bracket. Those two final men will then meet one on one with the winner of that match becoming first ever ROH World Heavyweight Champion and ROH World Television Champion.

The brackets for both of these "Round Robin Challenge" tournaments have been set and the wrestles in those brackets are as follows:

ROH WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET

Kevin Steen
Davey Richards
Eddie Edwards
Roderick Strong
Jay Lethal
Steve Corino
Tommaso Ciampa
Michael Elgin

ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET

Adam Cole
Kyle O'Reilly
Jimmy Jacob
Rhino
El Generico
Mike Mondo
Mike Bennett
Rhett Titus

Details on the very first card in ROH history will be available later this week.

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ROH "Round Robin Challenge" Weekend
Card #1
Friday Night, February 22nd, 2002

1. ROH World Championship Bracket Match
Tommaso Ciampa v Michael Elgin

2. ROH Television Championship Bracket Match
Mike Bennett v Rhett Titus

3. Tag Team Match
WGTT v C&C Wrestle Factory

4. ROH Television Championship Bracket Match
El Generico v Mike Mondo

5. ROH World Championship Bracket Match
Roderick Strong v Eddie Edwards

6. Tag Team Match
The Briscoe Bros. v Young Bucks

7. ROH Television Championship Bracket Match
Rhino v Kyle O'Reilly

8. ROH Television Championship Bracket Match
Adam Cole v Jimmy Jacobs

9. ROH World Heavyweight Championship Match
Steve Corino v Davey Richards

10. ROH World Heavyweight Championship Match
Kevin Steen v Jay Lethal

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ROH "Round Robin Challenge" Weekend
Dearborn Preforming Arts Center
February 22nd, 2002
"Live Results"

Start of the show sees ROH Matchmaker Nigel Mcguinness come out and welcome the fans to the new promotion. Talks about the tournament to crown the first champions and says the event is being taped for DVD sales.

Opening Contest
ROH World Championship - Round Robin Match
Tommaso Ciampa def. Michael Elgin via Running Knee Strike.
Elgin hit a dive to outside early in the match but Ciampa recovered from it to hit three running knee strikes in a row to win the match.

ROH Television Championship - Round Robin Match
Mike Bennett def. Rhett Titus via Box Office Smash
Both men got a close pin with in the first minute of the match. Titus came very close near the end but Bennett hits the smash to win the match.

Tag Team Action
WGTT def. C&C Wrestle Factory when Benjamin hit Alexander with Paydirt.
This match got a "This is Awesome" chant from the crowd as the early part of the match was dominated by WGTT but out of no where Coleman & Alexander surge back and almost beat WGTT on numerous pinfalls. but Benjamin was finally able to hit Paydirt for the win.

ROH Television Championship - Round Robin Match
El Generico def. Mike Mondo via BrainBustaaahhh!
Mondo took most of the match to the outside of the ring to keep Generico off balance for most of the match. Once back in the ring though, Generico was able to turn the tables and nail the BrainBustaaahhh! to win the match.

ROH World Championship - Round Robin Match
Roderick Strong def. Eddie Edwards via Strong Hold.
Another great back and forth contest that saw Strong take the beginning of the match before Edwards took over and hit DIE HARD twice but Strong survived enough to hit the Sick Kick and Stong hold for the win.

Show is at intermission right now.