It's Thursday night, which means Ring of Honor action is back on Honor Club with an all-new edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB. After scoring a big win over Lady Frost last week, tonight La Catalina is coming for ROH Women's World Champion Athena and her title! Plus Los Divinos Laguneros of Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., and Dark Panther face Gran Guerrero, Euforia, & Valiente in Lucha trios action while former ROH World Champion Bandido teams up with Gravity to take on The Infantry in tag team competiton! Speaking of tag teams, the ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara will be in action, as will Gates of Agony when they take on Bad Dude Tito and Che Cabrera, not to mention the duo of Jay Lethal and Satnam Singh! Former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz will be in singles competition as well as former AEW Women's World Champion Thunder Rosa as she returns to ROH for the first time since March 15, 2019 and ROH WRESTLING #39!
Ring of Honor Wrestling is set to present the very best in professional wrestling beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT tonight and exclusively on Honor Club! Not only is Honor Club the spot where a new episode drops every Thursday night, it is also the destination for 23 years of Ring of Honor history featuring the men and women who have helped shape professional wrestling in the 21st century! Not only do we have television archives dating back to 2011, as well as hundreds of live events starting with 2002's THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS, there's also a “Best Of...” collection that features competitors such as Chris Hero, Adam Cole, the Women of Honor, and more! We are nearing the end of Honor Club's celebration of ROH's 23rd anniversary and that means the addition of ROH:YEAR SIX! This amazing set features the ROH World Championship reigns of both Takeshi Morishima and Nigel McGuinness, the dawn of ROH's first PPV era with RESPECT IS EARNED, ROH's first sojourn to Japan, Ladder War, Mitsuharu Misawa, and more!
ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP...
“The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. La Catalina
When she steps into the ring tonight to face CMLL's La Catalina, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena will be on her 818th day as champion. During this reign she's successfully defended the title 27 times, turned away 30 Proving Ground challenges and four Eliminator hopefuls, and amassed a record of 68-2 with those losses coming in tag team competition where Billie Starkz was pinned not Athena. That's 70 ROH-related matches where no one has been able to put Athena's shoulders to the mat or get her to submit, and she's been challenged by the best around the world. Willow Nightingale, Red Velvet, Alex Windsor, Hikaru Shida, Miyu Yamashita, and even her own minion Billie Starkz are among the competitors who've tried to dethrone “The Forever ROH Champion” but to date no one has been able to touch her.
Tonight on HONOR CLUB, though something between Starkz, Athena, and TBS Champion Mercedes Moné seems to be brewing on both AEW programming and on social media, Athena has to answer the challenge of La Catalina following the CMLL athlete's victory over Lady Frost last week! The 24 year old competitor made quite an impression in her ROH debut, but she's got plenty more in store for Athena with all the experience she's garnered during her 11 years competing inside the squared circle! Though she's only been part of CMLL for two years, La Catalina was victorious in the 2023 Universal De Amazones Title Tournament, participated in the Grand Prix De Amazonas 2023, the 2024 Universal De Amazones Tournament, the CMLL World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, and has battled for both the CMLL Women's World Title and the NJPW STRONG Women's Title!
La Catalina may have come up short in those challenges, but tonight she aims to succeed where so many others have failed and became the new ROH Women's World Champion! Meanwhile Athena is calling this phase of her championship reign the “Global Domination Tour”, and she intends to make La Catalina the first to fall in this endeavor!
TAG TEAM BOUT...
Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. TMDK (Bad Dude Tito & Che Cabrera)
We haven't seen TMDK of Bad Dude Tito and Che Cabrera in Ring of Honor since HONOR CLUB #68 when they faced then-ROH World Tag Champions Matt Taven and Mike Bennett on the Proving Ground, but tonight during HONOR CLUB they return to action to face one of most the dominant forces ROH has ever seen: Gates of Agony! Since their debut at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022, Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona have lost only three matches in ROH-related competition, yet despite their 21-3 record, the two warriors have only challenged one time for the ROH World Tag Titles and that was way back at BATTLE OF THE BELTS VI in their third-ever tag match! Suffice to say they are hungry for championship success, and made the choice some time ago to just continue running through every team put in their path until the day comes they challenge once again for the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Will Tito and Cabrera be the next team to fall before Gates of Agony's onslaught, or will these two West Coast standouts give Toa and Kaun the fight they hunger for?
TRIOS BOUT...
Los Divinos Laguneros (Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., & Dark Panther) vs.
Gran Guerrero, Euforia, & Valiente
For the third consecutive week Dark Panther is back in action during ROH ON HONOR CLUB and this time he's bringing Blue Panther and Blue Panther Jr. with him! Collectively known as Los Divinos Laguneros in CMLL, tonight's trios affair marks the ROH debut for both Blue Panther and Blue Panther Jr., but it's far from this trios first outing together. They've been doing this dance together for several years now, often against teams that included Gran Guerrero and Euforia, but their engagement with Valiente has been limited. Tonight also marks the ROH debut for Valiente, but he's joining Gran Guerrero and Euforia who made their debuts last week in a trios loss to Atlantis, Esfinge, and Fuego.
It's been amazing watching these athletes of CMLL as they've made ROH their home these last few weeks, and though we know Dark Panther has designs on the ROH World TV Title held by Komander, he's also ready to throw down in trios action alongside the rest of Los Divions Laguneros tonight on Honor Club!
TAG TEAM CONTEST...
Bandido & Gravity vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean)
We haven't seen former ROH World Champion Bandido on Honor Club since Episode #14 back on June 1, 2023 but tonight he makes his return to Ring of Honor alongside his younger brother Gravity! This reunion of the Golden Guns (as their group in Mexico was known) comes nearly two years since the last time Bandido and Gravity fought together, and is happening in ROH for the very first time! Tonight they're squaring up with The Infantry of Carlie Bravo and Capt. Shawn Dean, representatives of Shane Taylor Promotions, and two individuals hungry to score their first championship in Ring of Honor. They're coming off a dominating victory last week during HONOR CLUB #105, and have won three of their last four tag team contests, but can they overcome the lucha stylings of the brothers from Torreón, Coahuila?
ALSO FEATURING:
-ROH World Tag Champions The Sons of Texas in action!
-The Beast Mortos in singles competition!
-Billie Starkz in action!
-Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh in tag team competition!
-Thunder Rosa returns to ROH!