ROH Death Before Dishonor XI - September 20th, 2013

 

ROH Death Before Dishonor XI - September 20th, 2013 

Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Results:

• Jay Lethal def. Silas Young
• ROH World Championship Tournament Semifinal Match: Adam Cole def. Tommaso Ciampa
• ROH World Championship Tournament Semifinal Match: Michael Elgin def. Kevin Steen
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: The Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero and Alex Koslov) (c) def. The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) to retain the titles
• Adam Page def. RD Evans
• Roderick Strong def. Ricky Marvin
• 8-Man Tag Team Match: Adrenaline Rush (ACH and TaDarius Thomas) and Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander) def. reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly), Matt Taven and Michael Bennett
• ROH World Championship Tournament Final Match: Adam Cole def. Michael Elgin to win the vacant title (See complete tournament bracket below)

ROH World Championship Tournament:

The ROH World Championship tournament was announced after ROH Match Maker Nigel McGuinness had to strip champion Jay Briscoe of the title due to injury. The tournament started with three first round matches (Cole vs. Mark Briscoe; ACH vs. Anderson; Lethal vs. Dutt) on July 27, 2013, at ROH TV taping in Providence, RI. There was also a qualifying match at the TV taping won by Silas Young. The rest of the first round matches were on August 3 at ROH All Star Extravaganza V in Toronto, Canada, plus the first quarter-final between Cole and Lethal. The final three quarter-finals took place on August 17 at ROH Manhattan Mayhem V in Manhattan, New York. The semi-finals and final happened at ROH Death Before Dishonor XI. Here is the tournament bracket below:

First Round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Mark Briscoe

Pin

Adam Cole

Adam Cole

Pin

Jay Lethal

Jay Lethal

Pin

Sonjay Dutt

Adam Cole

Pin

Tommaso Ciampa

Tommaso Ciampa

Pin

Silas Young

Tommaso Ciampa

Pin

Michael Bennett

Michael Bennett*

Draw

B. J. Whitmer

Adam Cole

Pin

Michael Elgin

Karl Anderson

Pin

A. C. H.

Karl Anderson

Pin

Michael Elgin

Paul London

Pin

Michael Elgin

Michael Elgin

Sub

Kevin Steen

Matt Taven

Pin

Roderick Strong

Roderick Strong

Pin

Kevin Steen

Brian Kendrick

Sub

Kevin Steen

*Note: The match between Michael Bennett and BJ Whitmer ended in a draw after Whitmer was legitimately injured after a piledriver on the apron of the ring and was unable to continue. As a result, Bennett advanced in the tournament.