Thursday night is upon us once again, that means it is time for another addition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! This week we've got a Proving Ground match with a future shot at the ROH World Tag Team Titles at stake, Dark Order's John Silver in singles competition, Preston Vance back in ROH action, and a tag team contest pitting The Infantry against Spanish Announce Project! Plus we will see Brian Cage and The Gates of Agony compete, as well as Racheal Ellering and Shane Taylor Promotions' Anthony Ogogo! It's a loaded up night of action for the ROH faithful, and of course there is the fact that ROH Women's World Champion Athena is now the longest reigning champion in Ring of Honor's 22-year history!
The bouts get underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for Ring of Honor Wrestling's weekly show as well as the home for its 20+ years of wrestling history, including the historic rivalry between Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness that we may see renewed at DYNAMITE: GRAND SLAM 2024 next Wednesday night!
PROVING GROUND...
ROH World Tag Team Champions Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara vs. Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)
During HONOR CLUB #76, Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara defeated Dark Order's Alex Reynolds and John Silver in tag team competition. At that point Rhodes had already captured the World Six-Man Titles with The Von Erichs, and just nine days later he and Guevara would best Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven and Mike Bennett to claim the ROH World Tag Titles as well.
Since then, Dark Order has been thorn in the side of the World Tag Team Champions, from a wild eight-man tag during HONOR CLUB #78, to a trios match on the September 6th RAMPAGE, to this match taking place tonight, it seems Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara cannot get away from Dark Order. However tonight it's a different combination of that trio who will be standing across the ring from the ROH World Tag Champions, rather than the traditional Alex Reynolds and John Silver pairing, it will be Evil Uno stepping up as Reynolds' partner as the two step onto the Proving Ground!
It's rather fascinating that, despite being allied for nearly five years under the Dark Order banner, this marks the first time that Reynolds and Uno have ever had a tag team match. There are plenty of trios matches and a variety of multi-man bouts in their shared history, but prior to tonight they've never fought just as a pair.
Can they earn a shot at the World Tag Titles for their unit, or will the World Tag Champions continue to frustrate Dark Order at every turn?
TAG TEAM CONTEST...
The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) vs. Angelico & Serpentico
Here is another surprising statistic given the tenure of both teams; The Infantry and Spanish Announce Project have never competed in a traditional tag team match before tonight! Fans saw Angelico team up with Carlie Bravo and Capt. Shawn Dean back on HONOR CLUB #69, and both teams took part in a Four-Way Tag bout during HONOR CLUB #54 won by The Infantry, but never have they fought in a straight tag team bout before tonight!
The Infantry are feeling good after their groundbreaking handshake with The Outrunners last week, as are the SAP after their trios victory, so this should be quite the hot clash of two teams looking to get into the title hunt!
SINGLES MATCH...
Dark Order's John Silver vs. KM
It's another rare singles match for John Silver this week during HONOR CLUB, but if his last bout was any indication, “The Meat Man” is quite ready to jump into that action! On HONOR CLUB #80 he topped Fuego Del Sol in a tremendous bout, but this week the pendulum swings the other way in terms of opponents when he faces KM one-on-one. Silver is going from the quickness and lucha-influenced styling of Fuego to the size and power of KM, but John is no slouch in any of those departments. Can he put together a second consecutive singles victory tonight during HONOR CLUB?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Preston Vance vs. Brandon Cutler
Last week we witnessed Preston Vance make his return to ROH competition to defeat KM, marking his first match since late November 2023, and his first singles bouts since HONOR CLUB #10 on 5/4/23. It was quite the dominating victory for Vance as he secured victory in just over three minutes, and he's back in action this week looking to repeat (if not better) that win.
His opponent this time out is set to be Brandon Cutler, a man often referred to as The Elite's stooge, but as of late doesn't seem quite as ingrained in their activities as he once was. Where ROH competition is concerned, Cutler has also had quite the rough go of it, winning just two of his six matches and 1-2 in 2024. Suffice to say he is in need of finding a victory in Ring of Honor, but can he find it against a mass of muscle like Preston Vance, or will Vance lock that Full Nelson in on the stooge and force him to give up the ghost?
ALSO FEATURING:-Brian Cage and Gates of Agony in action!
-STP's Anthony Ogogo in action!!
-Rachael Ellering in action!!!