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Global Wars featured nine 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 in a wrestling match or series of matches.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm | title = How Pro Wrestling Works | last=Grabianowski | first=Ed | accessdate=March 2, 2015 | work=HowStuffWorks, Inc. | publisher=[[Discovery Communications]]}}</ref>
 
Global Wars featured nine 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 in a wrestling match or series of matches.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm | title = How Pro Wrestling Works | last=Grabianowski | first=Ed | accessdate=March 2, 2015 | work=HowStuffWorks, Inc. | publisher=[[Discovery Communications]]}}</ref>
   
[[File:ROH World Champion Adam Cole January 2014.jpg|thumb|left|ROH World Championship|ROH World Champion [[Adam Cole]]]]
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[[File:ROH World Champion Adam Cole January 2014.jpg|thumb|left|[[ROH World Championship|ROH World Champion]] [[Adam Cole]]]]
 
The event was headlined by an ROH World Championship match between champion [[Adam Cole]] and challenger Kevin Steen. On March 20, ROH announced that Steen would receive a title shot at the event against the winner of a ladder match between [[Adam Cole]] and [[Jay Briscoe]] on April 4 at Supercard of Honor VIII.<ref name="GWFirstMatch">{{cite web | url = http://www.wrestleview.com/roh-indy-wrestling-news/47458-new-roh-match-announced-as-new-japan-implications | title = New ROH match announced has New Japan implications | last=Namako | first=Jason | date=March 20, 2014 | accessdate=March 27, 2014 | work=Wrestleview}}</ref> The match was a culmination of a six-month-long storyline, where Briscoe, who had previously been stripped of the ROH World Championship, introduced his own version of the title, calling himself the true champion.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pwinsider.com/article/81175/first-look-at-jay-briscoes-roh-championship-belt.html?p=1 | title = First look at Jay Briscoe's 'ROH Championship belt' | last=Johnson | first=Mike | date=October 27, 2013 | accessdate=May 2, 2014 | work=Pro Wrestling Insider}}</ref> Cole ended up winning the ladder match, unifying the two titles and moving onto the title match with Steen.<ref name="SupercardofHonorVIIIPWT">{{cite web | url = http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/Arena_Reports_10/article_77488.shtml | title = Show results - 4/4 ROH Supercard of Honor: ROH World champ determined in Ladder War, new TV champion, more | date=April 5, 2014 | accessdate=April 5, 2014 | work=Pro Wrestling Torch}}</ref> Global Wars took place at the same arena where Steen won his thus far only ROH World Championship almost exactly two years earlier.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/may-1st-roh-newswire | title = May 1st ROH newswire | date=May 1, 2014 | accessdate=May 2, 2014 | work=[[Ring of Honor]]}}</ref>
 
The event was headlined by an ROH World Championship match between champion [[Adam Cole]] and challenger Kevin Steen. On March 20, ROH announced that Steen would receive a title shot at the event against the winner of a ladder match between [[Adam Cole]] and [[Jay Briscoe]] on April 4 at Supercard of Honor VIII.<ref name="GWFirstMatch">{{cite web | url = http://www.wrestleview.com/roh-indy-wrestling-news/47458-new-roh-match-announced-as-new-japan-implications | title = New ROH match announced has New Japan implications | last=Namako | first=Jason | date=March 20, 2014 | accessdate=March 27, 2014 | work=Wrestleview}}</ref> The match was a culmination of a six-month-long storyline, where Briscoe, who had previously been stripped of the ROH World Championship, introduced his own version of the title, calling himself the true champion.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pwinsider.com/article/81175/first-look-at-jay-briscoes-roh-championship-belt.html?p=1 | title = First look at Jay Briscoe's 'ROH Championship belt' | last=Johnson | first=Mike | date=October 27, 2013 | accessdate=May 2, 2014 | work=Pro Wrestling Insider}}</ref> Cole ended up winning the ladder match, unifying the two titles and moving onto the title match with Steen.<ref name="SupercardofHonorVIIIPWT">{{cite web | url = http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/Arena_Reports_10/article_77488.shtml | title = Show results - 4/4 ROH Supercard of Honor: ROH World champ determined in Ladder War, new TV champion, more | date=April 5, 2014 | accessdate=April 5, 2014 | work=Pro Wrestling Torch}}</ref> Global Wars took place at the same arena where Steen won his thus far only ROH World Championship almost exactly two years earlier.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/may-1st-roh-newswire | title = May 1st ROH newswire | date=May 1, 2014 | accessdate=May 2, 2014 | work=[[Ring of Honor]]}}</ref>
   
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