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Best In The World '16
Best in the World '16 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place in Cabarrus Arena in Concord, North Carolina on June 24, 2016. It was the seventh annual ROH Best in the World event. The event saw the appearance of WCW legend Kevin Sullivan. Eight matches took place at the event. In the main event, Jay Lethal defeated Jay Briscoe to retain the ROH World Championship in their rematch since last year's event. Other prominent matches were B. J. Whitmer defeating Steve Corino in a non-sanctioned fight without honor (originally scheduled for Final Battle 2015, but because Corino's neck surgery and Whitmer's knee injury, it took place at Best in the World '16) after the interference of Kevin Sullivan, The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) retaining the ROH World Tag Team Championships against The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin), the Bullet Club (The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) & Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Of Honor
Ring of Honor (ROH) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. The promotion was founded by Rob Feinstein on February 23, 2002, and was operated by Cary Silkin from 2004 until 2011; the promotion was subsequently sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and then sold to Tony Khan. Throughout the 2010s, ROH was considered the third largest wrestling promotion in the United States, behind WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, initially operating on an internet distribution model. Under Sinclair's ownership, ROH began talent-sharing deals with wrestling companies outside the U.S., expanded their television visibility through Sinclair's broadcast stations, and eventually established its own streaming service in 2018 called Honor Club. As Sinclair was struggling with debt in the late 2010s, ROH went on a hiatus at the end of 2021. In March 2022, the promotion was sold to Tony Khan, also the co-owner of All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Daniels
Christopher Daniel Covell (born March 24, 1970), better known by the ring name Christopher Daniels, is an American retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he works as the Head of Talent Relations and was formerly an in-ring performer. He is best known for his time in Impact Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as extensive time on the independent circuit; he is known as the "King of Indies" for his work with independent promotions across the world, including XWA (professional wrestling), Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA), International Wrestling Cartel (IWC), and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Daniels has won 20 total championships between Impact, ROH, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), with three reigns as Impact X Division Champion, six reigns as NWA World Tag Team Champion, and two reigns as Impact World Tag Team Champion during his time with Impact Wrestling; one reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Briscoe
Mark Pugh (born January 18, 1985) is an American professional wrestler best known as Mark Briscoe. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where he made a name teaming with his brother Jay as the Briscoe Brothers. In ROH, he is a former ROH World Champion, a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with his brother Jay Briscoe a record 13 times, and was one third of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions with Jay and Bully Ray. In January 2022, the Briscoe Brothers were honored as inaugural inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame. He and Jay are also former Impact (now TNA) World Tag Team Champions, and have wrestled in Japan, working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they held the IWGP Tag Team Championship once, and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship twice (along with Toru Yano), and Pro Wrestling Noah, where they were GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. All totaled between ROH, TNA, NJPW and Noah, Mark Briscoe has h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moose (wrestler)
Quinn O. Ojinnaka (born April 23, 1984), better known by his ring name Moose, is an American professional wrestler and former professional American football, football player. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is the leader of The System (professional wrestling), The System and is the current TNA X Division Champion in his List of TNA X Division Champions, first reign and is a former two time Impact World Champion, TNA World Champion. He also makes appearances in its partner promotion WWE on its NXT (WWE brand), NXT brand. He has also worked for Ring of Honor (ROH), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Pro Wrestling Noah, Evolve Wrestling, and Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW). In 2016, Moose signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) which would later be known as Impact Wrestling. Moose would go on to become a Impact Grand Championship#Reigns, two-time Impact Grand Championship, Impact Grand Champion, one-time TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2020� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Rowe
Raymond Rowe (born August 21, 1984) is an American professional wrestler. As of January 2018, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Erik. He is in a tag team with Ivar called The War Raiders. He is a former 2x World Tag Team Champion with Ivar and are former one-time NXT Tag Team Champion. Rowe is best known for his work in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he and Smith (formerly Hanson), then known as War Machine are former ROH World Tag Team Champions and made appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where they are former two time IWGP Tag Team Champions, as well as having won tag team championships in various independent promotions across the USA and England. Professional wrestling career Early career (2003–2013) Rowe was trained by Josh Prohibition and Lou Marconi. He debuted on the independent circuit in May 2003. On June 9, 2006, episode of ''Smackdown!'', Rowe competed against Mark Henry in a losing effort. Ring of Honor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanson (wrestler)
Todd James Smith (born March 3, 1984) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and Personal trainer, trainer. As of January 2018, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Ivar. He is in a tag team with Erik (wrestler), Erik called The War Raiders, where they are 2x World Tag Team Championship (WWE), World Tag Team Champions and are a one-time NXT Tag Team Championship, NXT Tag Team Champions. He is also a trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. He is also known under the ring name Hanson, which he used from 2013 to 2019, and under the ring name Handsome Johnny, which was used most of his career prior to 2013. Smith and Raymond Rowe (now known as Erik), have been a regular tag team since 2014, initially under the name War Machine, then later War Raiders, The Viking Experience, Viking Raiders and currently War Raiders. Smith and Rowe have held tag team championships on thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Machine (professional Wrestling)
War Machine (Col. James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by David Michelinie, John Byrne, and Bob Layton as a supporting character for Iron Man, he first appeared in ''Iron Man'' #118 (1979) and became a superhero with the Iron Man armor in issue #169 (1983). War Machine has since been established as an independent superhero and appeared in multiple standalone series in addition to his appearances in ''Iron Man'' comics. Rhodes is a military veteran and pilot who began working for Tony Stark, eventually discovering that he was Iron Man and then taking Stark's place when he was incapacitated. Stark subsequently gave Rhodes the War Machine armor. The character is among the earliest African American superheroes in mainstream comics. His race, his military experience, and his sense of morality are often used to contrast him with Tony Stark and to analyze the themes of Iron Man stories through a different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Cole
Austin Kirk Jenkins (born July 5, 1989), known by the ring name Adam Cole, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Paragon (professional wrestling), The Paragon and is the reigning AEW TNT Championship, AEW TNT Champion in his List of AEW TNT Champions, first reign. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH). Cole began his eight-year tenure with ROH in 2009 and went on to become the first-ever List of ROH World Champions, three-time ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion. In addition, he is a List of ROH World Television Champions, one-time ROH World Television Championship, ROH World Television Champion, and the winner of the 2014 ROH Survival of the Fittest tournament. Cole has also wrestled for several Independent circuit, independent Professional wrestling promotion, promotions, including Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Bucks
The Young Bucks are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Matthew Massie and Nicholas Massie, who perform under the ring names Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson. , they are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are also executive vice presidents and co-founders of the company. They also make appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where they are former two-time IWGP Tag Team Championship, IWGP Tag Team Champions. As performers in AEW, they are three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions, and were the inaugural and two-time AEW World Trios Champions with Kenny Omega as The Elite (professional wrestling), The Elite. The Young Bucks are also known for their work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where they became members of the NJPW faction Bullet Club; after a "civil war" in 2018, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, "Hangman" Adam Page, Marty Scurll, and Cody Rhodes were kicked out of the Bullet Club and went on to for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullet Club
, stylized as BULLET CLUB and sometimes shortened to BC, is a professional wrestling Glossary of professional wrestling terms#stable, stable primarily appearing in the Japanese Professional wrestling promotion, promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In the United States, the group currently appears on events run by the company's U.S. subsidiary, New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America, as well as U.S. partner promotions Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, formerly Impact Wrestling) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The group additionally appears on events promoted by Tamashii, NJPW's Australasian affiliate, as well as on events of other Australasian Independent circuit, independent promotions. The group was formed in May 2013 when Irish wrestler Finn Bálor, Prince Devitt betrayed his Japanese partner Ryusuke Taguchi and came together with American wrestler Karl Anderson and Tongan wrestlers Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga to form a Heel (professional wrestling), villainous stable of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sabin
Joshua Harter (born February 4, 1982), better known by the ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for Border City Wrestling, and quickly began competing for numerous other independent promotions. In 2003, Sabin joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA), and quickly won the TNA X Division Championship, which he later unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. Throughout the next few years, Sabin competed mainly in TNA's X Division, until forming the Motor City Machine Guns with Shelley in mid-2007. Sabin won 14 total championships while with TNA, including one reign as TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a record 10 reigns as TNA X Division Champion, and three reigns as TNA World Tag Team Champion. Sabin is also known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he was a one-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Shelley
Patrick Kenneth Martin (born May 23, 1983), better known by the ring name Alex Shelley, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brand. He is widely known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is the TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament winner, a former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time TNA X Division Champion, but is best known for his work as a tag team with Chris Sabin as the Motor City Machine Guns, having become three-time TNA World Tag Team Champions, and won the TNA Gauntlet for the Gold, Gauntlet for the Gold in 2008. He is recognized as the Triple Crown (professional wrestling)#List of Impact Wrestling Triple Crown winners, tenth Triple Crown winner in TNA, having won the TNA World Championship, the X Division Championship, and the Tag Team Championship. Martin first rose to fame on the independent circuit, and gained breakout success while perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
