ROH News and Notes!

The IWGP jr. tag title will be defended for the first time in the U.S. in more than a year on the 9/20 show in Philadelphia, where The Forever Hooligans, Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov, will face The American Wolves, Eddie Edwards & Davey Richards. Richards & Edwards beat the Hooligans on 8/3 in Toronto to win the ROH tag team titles that the Hooligans had won from current ROH tag champs Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly. Richards & Romero had held the titles before Richards had a falling out with New Japan over missing a scheduled tour and a PPV title defense. The show, called Death Before Dishonor, features the final four, Adam Cole, Kevin Steen, Michael Elgin and Tommaso Ciampa, in semifinals and finals of the ROH title tournament. It’ll be the first test of the company’s new version of iPPV, a video-on-demand of the show that will be available the day after the event, instead of live, thus lessening the possibility of technical issues.

There is at least talk of going back to live iPPVs relatively soon, which the company has had numerous problems with. Some of the decision making may be based on how well the numbers do for the next show, the first one the company has done that won’t be live.

Traditionally the company’s premier event of the year, Final Battle, takes place on 12/14 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.