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  ROH Pure Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pure Championship is a title contested for in the North Americian independent professional wrestling promotion Ring Of Honor.
There are no closed-fist punches to the face allowed in a Pure match, only open-handed slaps or chops to the face are allowed.
Renamed the ROH Pure Championship after AJ Styles was stripped of the Pure Wrestling Title due to being unable to wrestle for ROH as he became a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling exclusive wrestler.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ROH_Pure_Championship   (203 words)

  
 Declaration of Independents - The Number 1 Independent Pro Wrestling Website in America Today.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The ROH Pure Wrestling championship, which is ROH's secondary title (even if ROH officials won't call it that) is having a hard time being accepted by the fans.
Another outside reason, which is purely speculation based on facts by several wrestlers that I talked to, why ROH took the Pure Title off of Jay Lethal last night, is due to Jay Lethal being unable to make ROH's 6/4 Buffalo event.
While ROH and JAPW are not at war with each other, I do see some of the logic behind that argument.
www.declarationofindependents.net /doi/pages/news34.html   (838 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
PURE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT ROUND #1: Doug Williams defeated Chris Sabin..
PURE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT ROUND #1: Matt Stryker defeated Josh Daniels..
PURE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT ROUND #2: CM Punk defeated Doug Williams..
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /results/roh/040214.html   (164 words)

  
 ROH Results 7/16 - WS TalkZone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
ROH Tag Team Champions Carnage Crew won an ultimate endurance match over Dunn and Marcos, Cheech and Deranged and Fast Eddie and Excess 69.
He said he came to ROH to have his working boots on and thanked the crowd for allowing him in their ring.
ROH Champion CM Punk defeated James Gibson by holding the ropes in a great match.
talk.wrestlestop.com /showthread.php?t=48   (296 words)

  
 Pro Wrestling Insider - Pro Wrestling News Inside & Out
Outraged, seemingly the entire wrestling world immediately turned on Feinstein, who quickly departed the public eye with a statement that he was stepping down from his companies as he dealt with the allegations.
ROH swore up and down that Feinstein was gone, but in the end, a later split by the promotion from parent company RF Video seemed to prove that was not entirely the case.
Samoa Joe took the ROH belt and legitimized the championship in a way that hadn't been done for a promotion that didn't have national television since the rise of Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1994.
www.pwinsider.com /ViewArticle.asp?id=7317&p=6   (1236 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Aries retains ROH title in Montreal
Jack Evans was forced to cancel his appearance due to a concussion sustained while wrestling in California and ROH Pure Wrestling champ John Walters was unable to make the trip due to severe weather conditions in the northeastern United States.
Wrestling" earned the title challenge by winning an earlier four-way contest against his arch rivals El Generico, Excess 69 and former ROH champion, Samoa Joe.
Following the Aries-Steen bout was the final match of the evening, with Quebec wrestling legend and former WWE tag team champion Pierre Carl Ouellet pitted against CM Punk, who wasted no time drawing the ire of Canadian fans while ranting on the mic.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2005/01/24/908618.html   (760 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Ring of Honor invading Montreal
He only promotes two wrestling cards a year, typically one in the summer and one in the winter, and his main goal is to provide a great card to the Montreal fan and fantastic opposition to the wrestlers involved in his cards, many of which he has trained himself.
Ouellet has never stopped wrestling on the Indy scene since his departure from the WWE and the WCW and will be looking to re-establish himself as a force to be reckoned with.
ROH has decided to send one of their top referees for this match, none other than Sean Hansen.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2005/01/19/903619.html   (1255 words)

  
 NWA:TNA Approaches A.J. Styles About Leaving ROH; More To Follow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A.J. Styles, who currently holds the ROH Pure Wrestling championship, was approached last week by NWA:TNA officials, who asked him to "distance himself from Ring of Honor," according to sources close to the situation.
Styles has praised ROH publicly and has stood by the company despite the situation with Rob Feinstein, and was not happy at all about TNA management's request to turn down future ROH bookings.
Another factor may be that, after learning that the latest ROH show in Elizabeth, NJ drew an estimated 1,800 fans, TNA sees them as a direct competitor instead of just a small independent company.
www.steveswrestling.com /news/2955.html   (472 words)

  
 Ring Of Honor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Unlike World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which focuses mostly on physical apparence, mic skills and characters, Ring of Honor showcases technical matches with smaller but very skilled performers.
ROH are also involved in talent trading with with a major promotion in the UK, Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) gaining superstars like Doug Williams and Jonny Storm they are also involved in cross-promotional shows like Frontiers of Honor.
The ROH promotion also runs a professional wrestling school called ROH Wrestling School in Bristol, PA. Its current head trainer is CM Punk.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Ring-Of-Honor.htm   (295 words)

  
 ROH Reborn - Your #1 Ring Of Honor Support Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lethal made his debut under the ring name Hydro as a member of the rave heel group Special K. However from the start most could tell he had more potential then many of the other Special K members.
On 12/26/04 Lethal finally proved himself by defeating John Walters to win the ROH Pure Wrestling Championship.
Lethal would lose the title shortly after this to Samoa Joe, but he proved that he is indeed a wrestler, and not a raver like he once was with Special K. Copyright © 2005 ROH Reborn.
www.rohreborn.com /Jay_Lethal.html   (160 words)

  
 2/14 Ring of Honor in Braintree, Mass.: Pure Wrestling Tournament, Styles vs. Punk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The show started right on time as always with ROH and they announced the first match would be the #2 seed against the Mystery #7 seed in the Pure Wrestling Tournament
The armory was packed and the crowd was real good, as I said before Styles and Low-Ki were incredibly over and no one could touch C.M. Punk on the amount of heel heat received.
ROH returns to Braintree on Saturday, May 15th.
www.pwtorch.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/22/7184/printer   (1385 words)

  
 ROH 2nd Anniversary Show Results From Braintree, MA (2/14/04)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Samoa Joe retained his ROH World Heavyweight Title, in a 25 minute match defeating Low Ki, Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer, when he defeated BJ Whitmer via chokeout submission.
The crowd was reported to have understood the basic stipulations of the Pure Wrestling Division to a surpising degree (20 countout rule, no closed fists allowed, 3 rope breaks allowed).
To underline the significance of the division's rules, Styles scored the pinfall with Punk's leg on the ropes, but since he had used all his rope breaks, the pinfall stood.
www.steveswrestling.com /news/2782.html   (478 words)

  
 The Wrestling Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
However Christopher Daniels, Amazing Red and the first ever and former ROH Pure Wrestling Champion in AJ Styles have yet to make their ROH returns.
The final match of the Punk/Raven ROH feud was suppose to be a hair vs hair steel cage match but was changed because TNA had plans and eventually did have Shane Douglas shave Raven's head so the match was changed to a hardcore cage match.
TNA is trying to show its dominance that they are the #2 promotion in US Pro Wrestling which is understandable but the way they are going through with it is just undermining in my opinion.
thewrestlingvoice.com /columns/timsampsell/headlines/94377882.shtml   (1653 words)

  
 The World Almanac E-Newsletter--January 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
South Korea Elects a New President - Roh Moo Hyun, a lawyer and candidate of the ruling Millenium Democratic Party, was elected president of South Korea Dec.
Roh had pledged to follow Kim's policy of engagement with North Korea.
Roh defeated Lee Hoi Chang, who favored suspending assistance to North Korea until it became more cooperative on issues that included arms control.
www.worldalmanac.com /200301WAE-Newsletter.html   (9947 words)

  
 Wrestling Exposed
Styles has praised ROH regularly in interviews and currently holds their Pure Wrestling championship.
The promotion has been very open in recent weeks about talent maintaining a clean image while in front of the cameras, which is also believed to be related to the FOX negotiations.
Other factors could be the recent situation with Rob Feinstein or that TNA, after learning ROH drew 1,800 fans in Elizabeth, New Jersey last week, is no longer seeing ROH as an independent wrestling promotion but more of a direct competitor and doesn't want "their names" on the shows.
www.wrestlingexposed.com /headlines/2709.shtml   (424 words)

  
 Rajah.com » Beauty in Wrestling: Hate is a Strong Word
Ring of Honor, my preferred wrestling promotion, was presenting “Survival of the Fittest,” a tournament pitting twelve of the best workers in the country against each other.
In the ROH internet forums, some people claimed a great dislike of Stryker, but I didn’t think it was quite that intense.
Semi-regular ROH worker Jimmy Rave was recently let go and told he didn’t have a spot at any upcoming shows.
rajah.com /base/2004/1178   (2113 words)

  
 Elite Pro Wrestling Training
The novice should learn the "psychology" of pro wrestling both in and out of the ring as well as how to find employment on the independent circuit and maybe eventually realize their dream of wrestling on the national stage in the WWE.
Wrestling fans will have a unique opportunity to come to the camp on the afternoon of the live event and meet the Pro-Wrestling NOAH superstars as well as the WWE scout.
Currently a trainer with Elite Pro Wrestling Training and also responsible for the seminars held at the CAC for young wrestlers, Thatcher said he was blessed to have been around so many great people and that everyone was considered to be a part of his extended family.
www.epwt.com /epwtnews.shtml   (5061 words)

  
 The Wrestling Voice
Now witness the recent situation of John Walters, who...as of the Saturday morning I'm writing this, is the Ring of Honor Pure (Wrestling) Champion.
WWE and ROH may be "separate universes", but when most casual fans thinking wrestling they think WWE.
When the secondary champion of ROH is jobbing to a no talent musclehead that would make Lou Thesz cry, it DOES put an image in the minds of those fans.
thewrestlingvoice.com /columns/bobmagee/headlines/112204447.shtml   (1736 words)

  
 ROH Wauwatosa
 All three ROH championships will be on the line, in addition to the return of Low-Ki to the company that he made his name in.
 This should be a classic, especially with the unique rules of the pure wrestling division; no closed fists to the face, a 20-count on the floor, and most importantly, the three rope-break rule.
Ki, the man who was once the very face of ROH, has sided with Homicide and fellow ³Rottweilers² Julius Smokes and the Havana Pitbulls.
www.chicagowrestling.com /AL/ROHpreviewADAMWauwatosa.htm   (530 words)

  
 The Wrestling Follower
All the ROH fans know about him, fans in California have known about him even longer, but now the TNA fans get to see what all the hype is about.
Watching their reactions to the Wrestling was priceless, and may well be worth the price of the PPV in it's own merit.
The wrestling was top notch, and the presentation of the history of ECW was excellent.
wrestlingfollower.blogspot.com   (13814 words)

  
 1WRESTLING.COM - NEWSLINE - PRO WRESTLING'S DAILY NEWS SOURCE
Aries has appeared in many Velocity and Heat matches for the WWE and is said to have had a very good match with AJ Styles a few weeks ago in Wisconsin.
Spanky is slated to return to the promotion as soon as an opening in his Japan schedule can accomodate it.
ROH will build for a Pure Wrestling Championship match for him on his return, citing his win over CM Punk on January 29th.
www.1wrestling.com /news/newsline.asp?news=17422   (266 words)

  
 411mania.com » Wrestling » Your News, My Views 6.07.05
Steamboat would score the biggest win of his career in June of 1977 as he defeated Ric Flair for the NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Title, this was the only the beginning of great things.
As most retirements in wrestling, this didn’t last long and after 3-months away Steamboat returned to defeat Dick Slater for the US Title.
Steamboat was the partner and shocked the wrestling world as he gained the pin on NWA World Champion Ric Flair.
www.411mania.com /wrestling/columns/article.php?columns_id=3644   (1336 words)

  
 1WRESTLING.COM - NEWSLINE - PRO WRESTLING'S DAILY NEWS SOURCE
Steamboat will be the special guest referee for the Pure Wrestling Championship title rematch between current champ AJ Styles and challenger CM Punk to be held on March 13th in Elizabeth, NJ.
Ring of Honor's first retail release will be "The Era of Honor Begins," a 50 minute version due in Sam Goody and other outlets this week.
ROH Champ Samoa Joe will be on the St.Paul/Chicago tour in April.
www.1wrestling.com /news/newsline.asp?news=17523   (244 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Also, Ohio Valley Wrestling could theoretically be added to this list, but since it is a developmental territory for the WWE, it will not be included.
They used just about every wrestling style in the world to bring themselves to this Honor, and they only seem to be improving as they experiment with new wrestling concepts.
ROH Heavyweight Champion: Austin Aries ROH Tag Team Champions: The Havana Pitbulls (Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero) ROH Pure Wrestling Champion: John Walters
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /columns/misc/marlokjones01.html   (541 words)

  
 wrestlingDB – Daily Rapp Up: Jericho, Benoit, Trademarks, TNA/ROH (Saturday, April 10th, 2004)
PWInsider has a note about ECW trademarks being suspended, but my own searches ofECW and Extreme Championship Wrestling show that a few are still listed as live.
AJ Styles will remain ROH's Pure Wrestling Champion, despite not being able to defend it, while the two companies attempt to work their differences out.
A wedding at Hooters with wrestling themes for the groomsmen, including the groom entering to Stone Cold Steve Austin's theme.
www.wrestlingdb.com /rappup/2004/04/10   (808 words)

  
 WWE, TNA, ROH and International Pro wrestling news - WRESTLEMAG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
ROH Pure champion John Walters pinned Jay Lethal
Dunn and Marcos defeated The Carnage Crew, Roderick Strong & Jack Evans, Izzy & Deranged, and Azrieal & Dixie when Marcos hit the Stage Dive off Dunn’s shoulders while standing atop the cage, putting Devito through a table for the pin.
Also during the show it was announced that when ROH returns to the Rexplex on April 2nd, there will be a one night 8 man tournament with the winner heading to New Japan Pro Wrestling for the Best of Super Junior tournament.
www.wrestlemag.com /news/index.php?p=6   (295 words)

  
 The Oratory 2k5: Leaving Its Mark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Loc takes the microphone and solidifies the heel turn, telling the crowd and ROH to kiss his ass.
I don't know why Joe would be the guy to give the Pure Wrestling Championship while Jay has to leave temporarily.
There were barely any wrestling moves in the thing as it was mostly just working away at Punk’s cut and Punk’s comebacks to get cut off by Rave.
oratory.rajah.com /index.php?archive=2557   (4081 words)

  
 Ring of Honor 2/14 Braintree, MA results - Senaxis Wrestling News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
AJ Styles pinned CM Punk by pinfall to win the Pure Wrestling Tournament and the Pure Wrestling Title.
Any redistibution, republication, retransmittion of any type without the expressed written consent of the source and Dalpoe Industries is strictly forbidden.
ROH announces Jushin Liger-American Dragon match for 11/5 Revere, MA show
senaxis.dalpoe.com /Wrestling/postopp/Newsboard/headlines/78860107.shtml   (664 words)

  
 Declaration of Independents DOI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jay Lethal would easily be a positive addition for either company.
As of right now, Jay Lethal holds the ROH Pure Wrestling Championship, in addition to the AWA Heavyweight Championship.
Jay Lethal has also been in the main event picture of JAPW for some time now as well.
www.declarationofindependents.net /doi/pages/news15.html   (162 words)

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