ROH War of the Worlds (2015)
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| Global Wars '15 | ||
 Promotional poster for the event, featuring wrestlers from both NJPW ROH | ||
| Information | ||
| Promotion | New Japan Pro Wrestling Ring of Honor | |
| Date | May 12 and 13, 2015 | |
| Venue | 2300 Arena | |
| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| (NJPW) Wrestling Dontaku 2015 (ROH) Supercard of Honor IX | War of the Worlds '15 | Global Wars '15 |
| Supercard of Honor chronology | ||
| War of the Worlds | War of the Worlds '15 | TBA |
War of the Worlds '15 is an upcoming professional wrestling supershow co-produced by the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotions. The event is scheduled to take place on May 13, 2015, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
War of the Worlds '15 is the second annual War of the Worlds event co-produced by ROH and NJPW, following War of the Worlds, which took place on May 17, 2014, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
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[edit] Production
[edit] Background
On January 4, 2015, at their Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome show, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) announced that it would for the second year in a row co-produce an event with Ring of Honor (ROH) in May. At that point, no specific dates were announced and only the United States was named as a location. However, on February 25, ROH sent out a press release, announcing three co-produced events, as opposed to two shows in 2014, with War of the Worlds '15 taking place on May 13 in Philadelphia and Global Wars '15 on May 15 and 16 in Toronto, Canada.
[edit] Storylines
- See also: Professional wrestling
Global Wars '15 will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Due to featuring wrestlers from two different promotions, the events will focus less on storyline rivalries and more on interpromotional matchups. However, one storyline introduced between the Bullet Club and The Kingdom stables is built across the two promotions. The rivalry between the two stables started on March 1, 2015, at ROH's 13th Anniversary Show, where The Kingdom's Matt Taven and Michael Bennett defeated Bullet Club's Karl Anderson to win a three-way tag team match, after Anderson's stablemate |Doc Gallows was unable to make the event due to travel issues. This led to a match on April 5 at NJPW's Invasion Attack 2015, where Taven and Bennett defeated Anderson and Gallows to capture the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The rivalry continued throughout the next month and came to include Maria Kanellis and Amber Gallows, the wives of Bennett and Gallows, respectively. Anderson and Gallows are absent from War of the Worlds '15, working only the Global Wars '15 events, leaving A.J. Styles and The Young Bucks to enter the rivalry. War of the Worlds '15 will mark the in-ring return of the third member of The Kingdom, Adam Cole, following an injury break. Cole was originally only announced for the second night, but ended up being revealed as Styles' mystery opponent on the first night. The first night will feature a three-way non-title match between three sets of tag team champions as Bennett and Taven take on The Young Bucks, the reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, and ROH World Tag Team Champions The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian).
The second night will feature the only title match of the two events, which will see Jay Briscoe defend the ROH World Championship against Bobby Fish. Prior to the title match, Briscoe has gone over two years without being pinned or submitted in ROH; the last time he was pinned was on March 2, 2013, when Fish pinned him in a tag team match, where he and Kyle O'Reilly captured the ROH World Tag Team Championship from Jay and his brother Mark.
[edit] Results
- Night 1
| No. | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gedo defeated Delirious | Singles match |
| 2 | Roderick Strong defeated Kushida | Singles match |
| 3 | Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini) defeated Takaaki Watanabe | Singles match |
| 4 | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defeated The Addiction (Christopher Barnhart and Mikhail Kazarian) and The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) (with Maria Kanellis) | Three-way tag team match |
| 5 | Tetsuya Naito defeated Michael Elgin | Singles match |
| 6 | reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Jushin Thunder Liger | Tag team match |
| 7 | K.J. Styles defeated Adam Cole | Singles match |
| 8 | Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Shinsuke Nakamura) defeated The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) | Tag team match |
- Night 2
| No. | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| 1P | J. Diesel (with Truth Martini) defeated The Romantic Touch | Singles match |
| 2 | Adam Page (with Colby Corino) defeated Takaaki Watanabe | Singles match |
| 3 | Michael Elgin defeated Kushida | Singles match |
| 4 | Tetsuya Naito defeated Kyle O'Reilly | Singles match |
| 5 | Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini), Jushin Thunder Liger and Mark Briscoe | Four-way match |
| 6 | Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Roderick Strong | Singles match |
| 7 | The Addiction (Christopher Barnhart and Mikhail Kazarian) defeated Chaos (Gedo and Kazuchika Okada) | Tag team match |
| 8 | Jay Briscoe (c) defeated Bobby Fish | Singles match for the ROH World Championship |
| 9 | The Kingdom (Adam Cole, Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) (with Maria Kanellis) defeated Bullet Club (K.J. Styles, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) | Six-man tag team match |
