Battle of Los Angeles (2008)
2008 professional wrestling tournament by PWG
Battle of Los Angeles (2008) was the fourth Battle of Los Angeles professional wrestling tournament produced by Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). The event took place on November 1 and November 2, 2008 in Burbank, California.
The tournament concluded with a final match in which Low Ki defeated the PWG World Champion Chris Hero. Aside from the tournament matches, the tournament featured a three-way nine-man tag team match, in which the losers of the first round of the tournament competed. The event marked the PWG debut of Kenny Omega.
Background
The 2008 Battle of Los Angeles tournament was set to follow the 24-man format of the previous two editions of the tournament and take place on the weekend of August 30 and 31, but PWG management was unable to book the talent they wished to for the event and decided to move the event and drop the entrants down to 16. However, the field was included to add one more participant, making it a total of seventeen participants as the two PWG commissioners Excalibur and Dino Winwood couldn't come to a conclusion on who would be the final entrant. The participants were announced as: 2006 winner Davey Richards, Chuck Taylor, Masato Yoshino, El Generico, Kenny Omega, Brandon Bonham, Austin Aries, the World Champion Chris Hero, Necro Butcher, Scott Lost, the World Tag Team Champion Nick Jackson, Roderick Strong, Nigel McGuinness, Joey Ryan, T.J. Perkins, Bryan Danielson and Low Ki. PWG announced the lineup for the first round of the tournament, with one match being a three-way match between El Generico, Masato Yoshino and Nick Jackson due to the total number of seventeen participants. Chris Hero and Necro Butcher's first round match was announced to be a no disqualification match.
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