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Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency

professional wrestling event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5247083 ↗
Source-derived summary

Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency (DBD X) was the tenth Death Before Dishonor professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on September 15, 2012, at the Frontier Fieldhouse in Chicago Ridge, Illinois.

Storylines

DBD X featured professional wrestling matches which involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency” as professional wrestling event. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Death, Before and Dishonor can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as professional wrestling event. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5247083. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.