It is Thursday night and we know what that means: an all-new episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB for the ROH faithful! This week we've got a ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty puts his title on the line against Preston Vance, former ROH World TV Champion Tony Deppen returns to take on Action Andretti, and ROH Women's World Champion Athena and Billie Starkz step into tag team competition! Plus we shall see Johnny TV go one-on-one with Komander and Dark Order take on Iron Savages, as well as both Brian Cage and Abadon getting into the fights!
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!
ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
“#TaigaStyle” Lee Moriarty(c) vs. Preston Vance
6-0 in ROH competition with three of those victories in singles bouts; it looks like Preston Vance is on quite a roll right now, and that record has earned him a shot at Lee Moriarty and the ROH Pure Championship! This bout marks #Taigastyle's second defense of the gold since beating Wheeler Yuta at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024, and he also has a victory on the Proving Ground over Action Andretti under his belt back on HONOR CLUB #77. It's a solid start to Moriarty's goal of becoming the greatest Pure Champion in history, but he's got a long way to go to reach Nigel McGuinness status, and that means facing all competition worthy of the opportunity!
Vance has certainly earned a title fight in ROH with that record, but this will be the first time the powerhouse has ever fought in a Pure Rules bout, and the unique rules are going to prove a test of his abilities. The Pure landscape tends to be as much about psychological warfare as physical, about manipulating an opponent into exhausting rope breaks, or even getting themselves disqualified for violating the rules. It's an aspect of the game that Lee Moriarty has been honing since he started his pro wrestling journey, giving him that advantage on paper, but that being said, if Vance locks on his Full Nelson submission in the center of the ring, all the rope breaks in the world may not be enough to save Moriarty's championship run!
ONE-ON-ONE...
Action Andretti vs. Tony Deppen
Former ROH World TV Champion Tony Deppen for the first time since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024, and he's aiming to show the world why he once held that prestigious championship! Unfortunately he's got tough competition standing in his way in the form of Action Andretti, a man who's won two of his last three singles matches in ROH and is getting ready for battle against House of Black on tomorrow's RAMPAGE! With that consuming Andretti's attention, can Deppen score the victory or will he be Andretti's warm-up for the fight on the horizon?
SINGLES MATCH...
Johnny TV vs. Komander
It's all about that TV time when it comes to Johnny TV, and making sure the world sees his face as much as possible. The best way to insure you get that face time in pro wrestling is to win, and with victories in three of his last four one-on-one bouts, and five ROH victories on the year thus far, Johnny's been getting his far share.
This week, Johnny has to to deal with the high-flying Komander to keep those TV victories coming, and overcoming what this luchador brings to the table is no small task. They've met once before in a Four Corner Survival vying for a shot at the ROH World Title, a match Komander won by pinning Lince Dorado, but this will be the first one-on-one engagement of their careers and it should be quite the spectacular one given the styles of each competitor!
TAG TEAM COMPETITION...
Iron Savages (Boulder & Jacked Jameson) vs. Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver)
Last week during HONOR CLUB, the Dark Order combination of Alex Reynolds and Evil Uno were unsuccessful in earning a ROH World Tag Title shot on the Proving Ground, but that doesn't mean it killed their hunger to rip those title from the waists of Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara. Considering Rhodes and Guevara hold victories over the Reynolds/Uno and John Silver/Reynolds combinations, Dark Order will have to fight for their opportunity in tag team competition, and that continues tonight against the Iron Savages combination of Boulder and Jacked Jameson!
Coming into tonight the Savage trio have issues of their own pertaining to The Outrunners and Erica Leigh, but Boulder and Jacked Jameson have to focus on the issue at hand with Dark Order. Though they've had a handful of tag matches together for Coastal Championship Wrestling in Florida, this marks the first time Boulder and Jameson have competed as a tag team in ROH meaning they've got their work cut out for them facing a far more experienced duo in Silver and Reynolds.
Who will climb up the tag ranks towards those belts around Sammy and Dustin's waists, and who will end up at the back of the line?
ALSO FEATURING:
-Abadon in action!
-“The Machine” Brian Cage in singles competition!
-ROH Women's World Champion Athena & Billie Starkz in tag team action!
-And More!
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