Best in the World 2011 | ||||
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Promotion | Ring of Honor | |||
Date | June 26, 2011 | |||
Attendance | 2,500 | |||
Venue | Hammerstein Ballroom | |||
City | New York, New York | |||
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Best in the World 2011 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view by Ring of Honor (ROH) that took place on June 26, 2011. It was an afternoon show that began at 4pm and marked the return of ROH to the Hammerstein Ballroom for the first time since 2009. It was the eighth ROH event to be shown live on internet pay-per-view and is also the second Best in the World event with the first taking place in 2006.
All three Ring of Honor championships were contested for in the evening, as well as a number of other matches that are part of storylines. The ROH World Championship was contested in a singles match between tag team partners Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards. Meanwhile, the ROH World Tag Team Championship were defended by reigning champions Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team against three other teams in an elimination match. The final championship match saw the reinstatement of the ROH World Television Championship, now that the promotion has a television deal once again; Christopher Daniels defended the title against El Generico.
At Manhattan Mayem IV in March, it was announced that Ring of Honor would be returning to New York in June at the Hammerstein Ballroom, which has a rich wrestling legacy. On 2 May, it was confirmed that the show would be broadcast live on internet pay-per-view (PPV), the eighth event to be shown as part of ROH's partnership with GoFightLive.tv.
Best in the World featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches.