Thursday night is upon us once more which means ROH ON HONORCLUB is back exclusively at WatchROH.com! This week is loaded up with action including ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe defending his title against a man who pinned him in trios action on AEW DYNAMITE several weeks ago: The Beast Mortos! Plus, after the chaotic conclusion to last week's episode, it will be Undisputed Kingdom and Dark Order uniting to face Dustin Rhodes, the Von Erichs, and Sammy Guevara in a huge eight-man tag! Lio Rush will take on Tony Nese, Angelico and Aaron Solo will lock up in a Pure Rules match, and we've got plenty of Women's Division action on tap with Trish Adora, Abadon, and Marina Shafir all competing!
Tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB is loaded up with action and it begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for ROH's weekly episodes each Thursday evening, as well as the place to enjoy ROH's twenty-plus years of wrestling history with bouts from Bryan Danielson, Kyle O'Reilly, The Kings of Wrestling, Matt Taven, Lacey, MsChif, Homicide, and more!!
ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Mark Briscoe(c) vs. The Beast Mortos
On the July 31st edition of DYNAMITE, The Conglomeration of ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, and Tomohiro Ishii fell to the combination of The Beast Mortos, Roderick Strong, and RUSH. The most difficult part of that loss though fell on the shoulders of the ROH World Champion though as his were the ones pinned to the mat by The Beast Mortos. It was the biggest victory the monstrous luchador had scored during his AEW career, and though Mark was able to get a little bit of redemption on COLLISION a few days later, it was as part of an eight-man tag and neither man was involved in the finish of the fight.
Yet clearly the pinfall to Mortos has been lingering in Mark's mind because, after defeating Johnny TV, he issued the challenge to The Beast Mortos for a championship fight tonight during Honor Club! Mark has been a busy man the last month, going from winning Blood & Guts as part of Team AEW to defending his ROH World Championship at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 two days later against Roderick Strong to defeating the Premier Athletes in a Trios Match just 24 hours after that! But that was just the beginning of Mark's wild month; he had the aforementioned Trios and Eight-Man involving The Beast Mortos on July 31st and August 3rd respectively, then last week's fight against Johnny TV, followed by a Conglomeration trios victory over The Butcher and The Outrunners one day later, and now he will step into the ring with The Beast Mortos for this championship clash!
With all that mileage on his body in such a short time, does Mark Briscoe have enough fight in him to stave off the challenge of an individual as powerful as The Beast Mortos? We will find out tonight on Honor Club!
EIGHT-MAN TAG...
ROH World Six-Man Champions Dustin Rhodes, Marshall Von Erich, & Ross Von Erich, and ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara
vs.
Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) and Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver)
In the main event of last week's ROH ON HONOR CLUB, Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs put their ROH World Six-Man Titles on the line against Cage of Agony, and though it was an extremely hard-fought contest for the champions, they seemed to have a victory all wrapped up when Alex Reynolds, John Silver, Evil Uno, Matt Taven, and Mike Bennett all hit the ring to disrupt the proceedings. Dustin and the Von Erichs technically got the victory via disqualification, but the relentless assault continued despite Sammy Guevara, Angelico, Serpentico, and Fuego del Sol all trying to even the odds. One-by-one they all fell, so too did any security that tried to assist, it was only the arrival of officials like Jerry Lynn and Christopher Daniels that brought an end to the attack.
It's not surprising that Undisputed Kingdom and Dark Order both want a piece of this Texas quartet, after all it was Dark Order who lost to Rhodes and the Von Erichs at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 in the ROH World Six-Man Eliminator Match, and it was Undisputed Kingdom who they beat at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XI to claim the vacant titles as their own. That may have been the impetus for that assault, but now factor in how Undisputed Kingdom also lost their ROH World Tag Titles to Dustin and Sammy Guevara last week on COLLISION, just two days after that attack, and now the hostilities have really amped up!
Dustin, Sammy, Ross, and Marshall are aiming to even the score for what happened last Thursday night while Dark Order and UK are aiming for a repeat performance of their show-closing assault! Will the gold-laden quartet from the Lonestar State give their foes their comeuppance tonight?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Tony Nese vs. Lio Rush
Tony Nese and Lio Rush are no strangers to one another, their first bout went down almost eight years ago in Philadelphia, and in the years since they've gone one-on-one a total of three times. Nese holds the edge in that trio of bouts 2-1, but it's been more than four years since their last encounter, and the careers of both men have undergone a great deal of change in that time. Despite all that's taken place, after all this time Nese and Lio Rush find themselves back inside the same squared circle once again, and tonight, at the behest of Paul Wight, they will have their fourth ever singles bout.
For Nese this is a match that could very well determine his championship future in Ring of Honor, Wight himself said that if Tony wins then they will have a conversation about what that future holds, but taking down Lio is easier said than done. Lio picked up a big victory over long-time rival Blake Christian last week on Honor Club while the week prior Tony Nese was on the wrong end of a Tomohiro Ishii beating, so if there's momentum to be had it is certainly on the side of Lio Rush. Can he keep it going in another bout with an old rival, or will Nese (and likely his Premier Athlete cohorts) find a way to achieve victory?
PURE RULES...
Angelico vs. Aaron Solo
What we have here is a first for both competitors; neither Angelico or Aaron Solo have ever competed in a Pure Rules match, but tonight during Honor Club they will share the experience together! Given the in-ring stylings of Angelico, this seems like a bout custom made for the man, but Aaron Solo is no slouch in the world of technical wrestling himself. Fourteen years of experience, training at Lance Storm's school in Canada, he's learned a thing or two about the mat wars, and he's going to have to put it all to use against the llave game of Angelico! Will a victory here lead the winner down the road towards fighting ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty?
TRIOS MATCH...
Cage of Agony (Bishop Kaun, Brian Cage, & Toa Liona) vs. ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr., Fuego del Sol, & Serpentico
After their frustrating ROH World Six-Man Championship disqualification loss last week, a loss caused by Dark Order and Undisputed Kingdom mind you, Cage of Agony is right back into the fight tonight on Honor Club with this Trios bout! Brian Cage and Atlantis Jr. were the final two competitors in the ROH World TV Championship Survival of the Fittest match at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, with the defending champion pinning “The Machine” to retain his title, so Cage is looking forward to an opportunity to even that score from the July event. Cage of Agony certainly has the experience advantage of their opponents who are uniting for the first time, but that unfamiliarity with one another also means opponents won't know who they gel together either. That unpredictability may be the key to Atlantis Jr's team pulling out the victory over Ring of Honor's trio of behemoths!
ALSO IN ACTION:
-EJ Nduka!
-Komander!
-Cool Hand Ang & Daddy Magic!
-And Trish Adora!
-Plus Marina Shafir vs. Tiara James!!