ROH: Tag Team Gauntlet At "Final Battle 2011"

Ring of Honor prides itself on being the home for true tag team wrestling, a place where the best duos in the business can come compete for the most coveted titles in tag team wrestling. The championship lineage has seen such luminaries as Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan, CM Punk & Colt Cabana, The American Wolves, Roderick Strong & Austin Aries, The Kings of Wrestling, and the 6-Time former champions Jay & Mark Briscoe.

At “Final Battle 2011” Dem Boys will go head-to-head with current champions Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team, Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin, to attempt to claim those belts for the 7th time. But what will the future hold for the winner of that match? Well ROH officials look to answer that question with a match that was finalized late last night…

With a future shot at the ROH World Tag Team Titles at stake, 5 teams will compete in a Tag Team Gauntlet Match to determine the next contenders for those championships. The teams entered into this test of heart & endurance are: The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), Future Shock (Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly), Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander, The Bravados (Lancelot & Harlem), and The All Night Express (Kenny King & Rhett Titus).

None of these teams have held the belts thus far in their ROH careers although three of them have challenged in the past, with ANX & Future Shock standing as the last two pairs to step up to WGTT in recent months, and those near-victories have only made the hunger for championship destiny that much stronger.

“It was a great experience to challenge for the belts.” said Adam Cole, “I freely admit that my nerves were shot going into Collinsville; that maybe the importance of the night got to me to a degree, but those were first time jitters. I won’t speak for Kyle on this, but I can say that I certainly have got that out of my system, and that the next time we stare across the ring in a title match, my focus will be at one thousand percent. If we have to make our way through four of the most talented teams in Ring of Honor to get to that endgame, to earn that shot, then so be it. There is nothing more that Future Shock wants than to hoist those titles over our shoulders, to wear them around our waists, and at Final Battle we take our next step to making that dream a reality.”

“Final Battle 2011” goes down Friday night December 23rd from The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City! The best tag team wrestling in the world will be showcased in a Tag Team Gauntlet match featuring ANX vs. Future Shock vs. The Bravados vs. The Young Bucks vs. Coleman & Alexander with a future tag title opportunity at stake! Tickets can be bought right here or get it live on iPPV through GoFightLive!