Survival of the Fittest (2018)

Survival of the Fittest (2018) was a professional wrestling event produced by the American wrestling promotion Ring of Honor. This was the 13th Survival of the Fittest tournament, and it took place on November 4, 2018, at the Express Live! in Columbus, Ohio.^[1]

Survival of the Fittest (2018)
Promotion	Ring of Honor
Date	November 4, 2018
City	Columbus, Ohio
Venue	Express Live!
Event chronology
← Previous Glory By Honor XVI Next → Global Wars
Survival of the Fittest chronology
← Previous 2017 Next → 2021

Production

Background

Survival of the Fittest is an annual tournament held by ROH. For the 2018 event, the winners from designated tournament matches advanced to a 6-Man Elimination Match and the winner of that match was declared Survivor of the Fittest, and received a future ROH World Championship match.

Production

Survival of The Fittest featured professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines that played out on ROH's television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling. Wrestlers portrayed heroes (faces) or villains (heels) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[2]

2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament participants

• Andrew Everett*
• Beer City Bruiser
• Christopher Daniels
• Colin Delaney*
• Dalton Castle
• Flip Gordon
• Guerrero Maya Jr.**
• Hangman Page
• Jonathan Gresham
• Luchasaurus*
• Marty Scurll
• PJ Black
• Silas Young
• Stuka Jr.**
• Tracy Williams

(*) - Free agent guest entrant

(**) - Works for Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), with which ROH has a partnership

Results

No.	Results[3]	Stipulations	Times[3]
1	Christopher Daniels defeated Beer City Bruiser	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[4]	1:52
2	Hangman Page defeated Dalton Castle and Colin Delaney	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[5]	9:50
3	Jonathan Gresham defeated Tracy Williams	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[6]	12:19
4	Guerrero Maya Jr. defeated Andrew Everett and Flip Gordon	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[7]	9:21
5	PJ Black defeated Luchasaurus	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[8]	6:56
6	Marty Scurll defeated Silas Young and Stuka Jr.	First round match in the 2018 Survival of the Fittest tournament[9]	8:30
7	Madison Rayne defeated Dr. Britt Baker	Singles match	7:20
8	The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) defeated The Elite (Cody, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c)	Six-man tag team match for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship[10]	14:47
9	Jay Lethal and Jeff Cobb defeated SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)	Tag team match[11]	18:14
10	Marty Scurll defeated Christopher Daniels, Hangman Page, PJ Black, Jonathan Gresham and Guerrero Maya Jr.	Survival of the Fittest Six-way elimination match Winner receives an ROH World Championship match	24:31
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Survival of the Fittest finals

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
1	Guerrero Maya Jr.	PJ Black	Pinned after a powerbomb	5:18
2	Jonathan Gresham	Hangman Page	Pinned after the Rite of Passage	7:20
3	PJ Black	Marty Scurll	Pinned with an inside cradle	17:46
4	Hangman Page	Christopher Daniels	Pinned after the Best Moonsault Ever	23:30
5	Christopher Daniels	Marty Scurll	Pinned after the Graduation	24:31
Winner	Marty Scurll	—N/a