It's Thursday night and that means it is time for another edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, coming your way exclusively at WatchROH.com, and featuring three championship matches, a Proving Ground match, and plenty more action featuring a collection of the best pro wrestling going today! ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe puts his title on the line against Johnny TV, ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. faces a challenge from New Japan in TMDK's Robbie Eagles, and ROH World Six-Man Champions Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs make the second defense of their championship. Plus ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty faces Action Andretti on the Proving Ground, Serpentico tries to reclaim his mask from Griff Garrison, we will hear from ROH Women's World Champion Athena, and so much more on tap for Honor Club!
This jam-packed night of championship action gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for Ring of Honor's weekly episodes every Thursday night, as well as ROH's massive library featuring twenty-plus years of wrestling history including Bryan Danielson, Adam Cole, The Briscoes, Jay Lethal, Sara Del Rey, Madison Rayne, Samoa Joe, and more!!
ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Mark Briscoe(c) vs. Johnny TV
Coming off his victory over Roderick Strong at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, Mark Briscoe is right back into the fight tonight on Honor Club when he steps into the ring with the ever-dangerous Johnny TV with the ROH World Championship on the line! Johnny heads into this one following a victory over Fuego Del Sol last week, and a hunger to claim any ROH championship after coming so close to the ROH World TV Championship at DBD '24.
Lucky for him Ring of Honor has a fighting champion at the helm in Mark Briscoe and he's willing to lay his championship on the line against any one brave enough to step up to the plate! That's why tonight in Arlington, it will be Mark Briscoe making the third defense of his ROH World Title reign against Johnny TV in their first-ever meeting! It's a huge opportunity for a world-traveled, TV ready man like Johnny, but is he ready for the kind of fight one of Dem Boyz brings?
ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Atlantis Jr.(c) vs. TMDK's Robbie Eagles
Atlantis Jr. went through it at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 in an effort to retain his ROH World Television Championship. With five men vying for the title around his waist in Survival of the Fittest 2024, the luchador was the last man standing after nearly twenty minutes of non-stop action, pinning “The Machine” Brian Cage to remain TV Champion.
Tonight he's back in action, putting his title on the line once again, this time against TMDK representative Robbie Eagles who made his victorious return to Ring of Honor competition last week for the first time in over a year. A former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Eagles is a threat to any title holder, and now we've got another first-time match on our hands with this Eagles/Atlantis clash that's quite an exciting prospect!
Can Atlantis Jr. successfully retain his title for a third time, or will it change hands from a CMLL competitor to one from NJPW?
ROH WORLD SIX-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erich (Marshall & Ross)(c) vs. Cage of Agony (Brian Cage, Toa Liona, & Bishop Kaun)
Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs have been busy men these last couple weeks; after winning their Eliminator Match at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 to earn a spot in the ROH World Six-Man Championship match, they made the most of the moment and defeated Undisputed Kingdom at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XI to become the new champions. Just five days later that trio from Texas made the first defense of their newly won titles against Iron Savages, then last week Dustin teamed up with Sammy Guevara to beat Dark Order in tag team action.
This Thursday night Rhodes is right back in action alongside Marshall and Ross to defend the ROH World Six-Man Championship once again, this time against former champions Cage of Agony! Brian Cage, Toa Liona, and Bishop Kaun are 2-Time Six-Man Champions, with a combined 351 days between their reigns, with a total of eleven defenses, nine of which came during their first reign, making them one of the most successful six-man units to hold the titles since their inception at FINAL BATTLE 2016.
Only one team has held these titles on three occasions, The Kingdom of Matt Taven, Vinny Marsegila, and TK O'Ryan. Can Cage of Agony become the second unit to accomplish that feat, or will the Rhodes-Von Erich legacy continue to grow tonight on Honor Club?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Ariya Daivari vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Katsuyori Shibata has his hands full dealing with “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho, “Bad Apple” Bryan Keith, and “The Redwood” Big Bill, but now that HOOK is back in action, he's got some help on that front. That doesn't mean he's not willing to show up on the Ring of Honor stage to teach a lesson to another group of individuals who insist on running their mouths in the Premier Athletes.
“The Wrestler” has tangled with “Smart” Mark Sterling's clients before, on the June 22nd edition of COLLISION he, Samoa Joe, and HOOK took them down in Trios competition, he also defended the ROH Pure Title against Josh Woods, but this is the first time he's taken on Daivari in singles competition.
Now Ariya certainly lives up to his billing as a Premier Athlete, his fitness is off the charts, he's strong, his cardio conditioning is stellar, but he's up against a man in Shibata who is as deadly on the mat as he is with his strikes. Being dubbed “The Wrestler” in a world full of them means he's the best at what he does, and what he does is commit violent acts to those in the ring with him.
Will Ariya regret taking this match against Shibata when he wakes up tomorrow morning?
GRUDGE MATCH...
Griff Garrison (w/ Maria) vs. SAP's Serpentico
This is it, Serpentico finally has an opportunity to get his mask back from the clutches of Maria and Griff Garrison! This rivalry has been raging on for months now, but tonight on Honor Club it finally comes to a head but with the entire identity of Serpentico at stake. As heard in the video embedded above, Serpentico agreed to take this match on at the risk of permanently losing his mask! Not the one Maria is threatening to turn into a purse, but any mask he could possibly put over his face when he steps into the squared circle. That's right, if Serpentico loses this fight, he will have to de-mask in front of the whole world and never compete with one on again!
Will this be the biggest mistake of Serpentico's wrestling career, or the biggest victory of his life? Tune into Honor Club later tonight to find out!
PROVING GROUND MATCH...
ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty vs. Action Andretti
Almost since the moment Lee Moriarty signed on with Shane Taylor Promotions, there have been issues with Top Flight and Action Andretti. They battled on HONOR CLUB #37 last year, they went into Trios competition on the July 12th edition of RAMPAGE, and they've exchanged plenty of words in that time.
Yet this is the first time that Lee Moriarty and Action Andretti will go one-on-one, and it was the Pure Champion who chose to up the ante by putting the Pure Title into the mix! If Andretti can last the ten minute time limit with Moriarty, or actually defeat Lee in that time, he will earn a future shot at the Pure Championship! That's how Moriarty got his shot against Wheeler Yuta at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, going the distance with Yuta in a Proving Ground, perhaps Action Andretti will do the same tonight on Honor Club!
ALSO FEATURING:
-Words from ROH Women's World Champion “The Fallen Goddess” Athena!
-Harley Cameron vs. Viva Van!
-Blake Christian vs. Lio Rush
-Anthony Henry & Beef in action!