# Survival of the Fittest (2017)

Survival of the Fittest (2017) was a three-night, three-city professional wrestling event produced by the American wrestling promotion Ring of Honor, the 12th Survival of the Fittest. It took place on November 17, 2017, at the Austin Highway Event Center in San Antonio, Texas, November 18, 2017, at Gilley's Dallas in Dallas, Texas and November 19, 2017, at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The event also was notable for actor Stephen Amell, who was previously announced as the host for the first night of the tour, joining the Bullet Club stable and wrestling in the show's main event.

## Background

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.
Survival of the Fittest is an annual tournament held by ROH. For the 2017 event, the winners from designated tournament matches in Night 1 at San Antonio, Texas and Night 2 at Dallas, Texas advanced to a 6-Man Elimination Match on Night 3 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the winner of that match was declared Survivor of the Fittest, and received a future ROH World Championship match.

### 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament participants

* Beer City Bruiser
* Cheeseburger
* Flip Gordon
* Jay Lethal
* Jonathan Gresham
* Josh Woods
* Matt Taven
* Punishment Martinez
* Shane Taylor
* Silas Young
* T. K. O'Ryan
* Vinny Marseglia

## Results
### Night 1 - San Antonio, TX

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times1:06 |
| 1$^D$ | Cheeseburger defeated Jastin Taylor | Singles match | 11:05 |
| 2 | Silas Young defeated Josh Woods | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 12:03 |
| 3 | Shane Taylor defeated Beer City Bruiser | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 10:03 |
| 4 | Punishment Martinez defeated Jay Lethal | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 14:46 |
| 5 | The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) defeated Search and Destroy (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Jonathan Gresham) | Six-man tag team match | 17:45 |
| 6 | Deonna Purrazzo defeated Britt Baker | Singles match | 15:43 |
| 7 | Esfinge and Rey Cometa defeated The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) | Tag team match | 10:04 |
| 8 | Kenny King (c) defeated Joey Ryan | Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship | 18:57 |
| 9 | Dalton Castle defeated Marty Scurll | Singles match | 17:53 |
| 10 | Bullet Club (Cody, Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson and Stephen Amell) defeated The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian), Flip Gordon and Scorpio Sky | Five-on-four handicap match | 35:56 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the matchD – this was a dark match ||||

### Night 2 - Dallas, TX

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1$^D$ | Andy Dalton defeated Lou Gotti | Singles match | 9:32 |
| 2 | Jonathan Gresham defeated Vinny Marseglia | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 13:56 |
| 3 | Flip Gordon defeated T. K. O'Ryan | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 14:00 |
| 4 | Matt Taven defeated Cheeseburger | First round match in the 2017 Survival of the Fittest tournament | 00:43 |
| 5 | Deonna Purrazzo defeated Karen Q | No disqualification match | 13:43 |
| 6 | The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) (c) defeated Esfinge and Rey Cometa, The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) and Silas Young and Beer City Bruiser | Four corner survival tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship | 23:45 |
| 7 | Marty Scurll defeated Josh Woods | Singles match | 11:33 |
| 8 | Kenny King (c) defeated Scorpio Sky | Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship | 16:34 |
| 9 | Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle defeated The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) | Tag team match | 13:30 |
| 10 | Cody (c) defeated Christopher Daniels | Texas Death match for the ROH World Championship | 29:52 |
| (c) – the champion(s) heading into the matchD – this was a dark match ||||

### Night 3 - Oklahoma City, OK

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| 1$^D$ | The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara) defeated Ky-ote and Chandler Hopkins | Tag team match | 22:47 |
| 2 | Jay Lethal defeated Josh Woods | Singles match | 22:45 |
| 3 | Cheeseburger and Gregory James ended in a no contest | Singles match | 1:02 |
| 4 | Marty Scurll defeated Rhett Titus | Singles match | 15:04 |
| 5 | Joey Ryan defeated Kikutaro | Singles match | 19:07 |
| 6 | Cody defeated Beer City Bruiser (with Silas Young) | Singles match | 11:28 |
| 7 | Deonna Purrazzo defeated Madison Rayne | Singles match | 17:04 |
| 8 | Dalton Castle defeated Christopher Daniels | Singles match | 21:10 |
| 9 | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defeated The Kingdom (T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) | Tag team match | 18:02 |
| 10 | Punishment Martinez defeated Flip Gordon, Silas Young, Jonathan Gresham, Shane Taylor and Matt Taven | Survival of the Fittest tournament final Six-way elimination match Winner receives an ROH World Championship match | 46:45 |
| D – this was a dark match ||||

### Survival of the Fittest finals

| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Time |
| 1 | Matt Taven | N/A (Disqualification) | – |
| 2 | Shane Taylor | Jonathan Gresham and Flip Gordon | – |
| 3 | Jonathan Gresham | Punishment Martinez | – |
| 4 | Silas Young | Punishment Martinez | – |
| 5 | Flip Gordon | Punishment Martinez | 46:45 |
| Winner | Punishment Martinez | — | 46:45 |