Global Wars Australia
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 Promotional poster featuring various AEW and ROH wrestlers | |||
| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | February 15, 2025 (aired February 17, 2025) | ||
| City | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||
| Venue | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | ||
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Global Wars Australia was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and its sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) that took place at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on February 15, 2025. The event, which took place on the same night as AEW's Grand Slam Australia event, served as a taping for a special which aired on tape delay on February 17, 2025, on Honor Club.[1]
Production
[edit]Background
[edit]Global Wars is an event series held sporadically by the American Ring of Honor (ROH) professional wrestling promotion since 2012. Originally named "Border Wars" and co-produced with the Japanese Pro Wrestling Noah promotion, the event was renamed Global Wars in 2014 after ROH announced a partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling.[2]
Under the new name, the event became a supershow co-produced by the two promotions.[3] In 2019, ROH announced a three-event tour with the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre promotion as the new partner for the series, renamed "Global Wars Espectacular".[4] The Global Wars Espectacular tour marked the last Global Wars events held by ROH under the ownership of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
On March 2, 2022, it was announced that Tony Khan, the principal owner of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), had purchased ROH.[5] The two promotions operate as sister companies while under Khan's ownership; on January 5, 2025, ROH and AEW held their first co-promoted event, Wrestle Dynasty in the Tokyo Dome.[6][7]
On February 12, 2025, ROH announced that it would revive the "Global Wars" name for a co-promoted event with sister promotion AEW held at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The event, which was held on the same night and in the same venue as AEW's Grand Slam Australia, marked ROH's debut in Australia.[8] The show aired on tape delay on February 17 on Honor Club.[9]
Storylines
[edit]Global Wars Australia featured five professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision, as well as on ROH's streaming program Honor Club TV.[10]
Results
[edit]| No. | Results[11] | Stipulations | Times[12] | ||
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| 1 | The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) and Bandido defeated The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith) by pinfall | Trios match | 14:11 | ||
| 2 | Lee Moriarty (c) defeated Robbie Eagles by pinfall | Pure Wrestling Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship | 10:27 | ||
| 3 | Mark Davis defeated Tommy Knight by pinfall | Singles match | 5:21 | ||
| 4 | The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) (c) defeated MxM Collection (Mason Madden and Mansoor) by pinfall | Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship | 12:53 | ||
| 5 | Athena (c) defeated Alex Windsor by pinfall | Singles match for the ROH Women's World Championship | 11:51 | ||
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thomas, Jeremy (February 16, 2025). "ROH Global Wars Australia Set To Air Monday". Fightful.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Caldwell, James (February 22, 2014). "ROH news: Saturday's announcement - New Japan coming to ROH later this year". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ^ Meltzer, Dave (February 25, 2015). "ROH adds third New Japan show updated with press release". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ^ "ROH And CMLL Join Forces For Global Wars Espectacular". Ring of Honor. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- ^ Wilen, Holden (March 3, 2022). "Sinclair Broadcast agrees to sell Ring of Honor wrestling promotion". Baltimore Business Journal.
- ^ Powell, Jason (June 30, 2024). "AEW Forbidden Door results: Powell's live review of Swerve Strickland vs. Will Ospreay for the AEW World Championship, Jon Moxley vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "NJPW announces Forbidden Door-esque Wrestle Dynasty event with AEW, CMLL & ROH". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ Nason, Josh (February 12, 2025). "AEW/ROH Global Wars matches announced for Australia debut". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
- ^ Brennan, Corey (February 16, 2025). "Ring Of Honor Global Wars Australia To Air At 7/6c On 2/17 On HonorClub". Fightful. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
- ^ Graianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ^ Carrier, Steve (February 15, 2025). "AEW-ROH Global Wars Spoiler Results, Highlights and Key Moments for February 15, 2025". RingsideNews.com. Retrieved February 15, 2025.
- ^ "AEW/ROH Global Wars Australia". Cagematch.net. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
