ROH: Prelude to Spring BreakThru
- ROH Staff
- Apr 17
- 4 min read
It's an exciting week of wrestling action for All Elite Wrestling and Ring of Honor! With a tremendous edition of DYNAMITE taking place last night that featured three 2025 Owen Hart Foundation Tournament bouts, the debut of “The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander, a hard-fought AEW World Tag Title Match, new AEW World Trios Champions in The Opps, and a stacked episode of COLLISION going down tonight on TNT, ROH is excited to bring to you a special YouTube presentation this afternoon at 12 p.m. ET in addition to Friday afternoon's ROH ON HONOR CLUB episode!
This special presentation will feature CMLL's La Catalina facing “La Wera Loca” Taya Valkyrie with the winner earning a shot at ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet, The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii and Rocky Romero facing Top Flight, Shane Taylor in action, and The Patriarchy's Nick Wayne welcoming RevPro's Michael Oku to ROH as Wayne prepares for his fight with ROH World TV Champion Komander tonight on COLLISION!
ONE-ON-ONE...
The Patriarchy's Nick Wayne vs. Michael Oku
“The Patriarch” Christian Cage laid it out on the table for his “son” Nick Wayne last night on DYNAMITE: SPRING BREAK THRU, and provided a huge opportunity for “The Prodigy” later tonight on COLLISION: SPRING BREAK THRU. Tonight he has the opportunity to impress his surrogate father and show ROH World TV Champion Komander what to expect in their championship rematch just a matter of hours after this contest concludes.
Unfortunately for young Mister Wayne it's not going to be a walk in the park when he steps into the ring with the debuting Michael Oku! Coming to ROH by way of the United Kingdom's RevPro promotion, the reigning 2-Time Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion brings his eight years of experience to Ring of Honor for the very first time. Though he may be new to ROH, this is a man who defeated Will Ospreay in a 47-minute championship match 14 months ago, and a month before that beat Speedball Mike Bailey and Johnny TV on back-to-back nights. Great-O-Khan, Hechicero, GYV's Zack Gibson, Gabe Kidd, and Ultimo Guerrero, among many others, fell to Oku over the course of his RevPro championship reigns, so suffice to that Nick Wayne has got a fight on his hands!
Will Nick pick up this much needed win just hours before he challenges Komander for the ROH World TV Championship or will Michael Oku show “The Prodigy” why he's achieved the great successes he has in his career thus far?
SINGLES MATCH...
La Catalina vs. Taya Valkyrie
***WINNER EARNS WOMEN'S WORLD TV TITLE MATCH***
One month ago, at CMLL's March 16th DOMINGO FAMILIAR event, Taya Valkyrie and Lady Frost united to defeat La Catalina and Persephone in tag team action. Tonight during this YouTube special, La Catalina returns to Ring of Honor to even the score with “La Wera Loca” in their very first singles match! La Catalina is no stranger to ROH competition. Prior to that CMLL tag, La Catalina defeated Lady Frost in singles competition during HONOR CLUB 105 before falling to ROH Women's World Champion Athena in their championship bout during HONOR CLUB 106. After that aforementioned tag, La Catalina returned at HONOR CLUB 108 to defeat Viva Van and set her eyes on the ROH Women's World TV Championship around the waist of Red Velvet!
However Taya Valkyrie has her own plans for Red and that Women's TV Title which is why today during HONOR CLUB the two competitors will go one-on-one with a future shot at the championship at stake! Will Taya experience the same success that she did in the CMLL Tag team battle, or will this be the night La Catalina earns a shot at ROH immortality?
TAG TEAM BOUT...
The Conglomeration (Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii) vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin)
The various members of The Conglomeration may be embroiled in their own endeavors, but their bond remains and the individuals involved still find their way together when the time comes! Just such a moment is taking place this afternoon on YouTube when Rocky Romero and Tomohiro Ishii conglomerate for the first time since a trios bout alongside Mark Briscoe on the November 22, 2024 RAMPAGE and go it as a tag team for the first time since NJPW's SHOWDOWN IN LOS ANGELES on 11/11/19. Though it's been awhile since they've hooked up, Rocky and “The Stone Pitbull” have been teaming up for 14 years in one form or another but that doesn't mean it's easy sailing when they're facing the high-flying offense of Top Flight!
Dante and Darius Martin are coming into this fight with a 6-2 record in ROH tag team competitions, and to be fair there's a huge asterisk next to one of those losses as it was the night Dante suffered a near-career ending injury at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023. Since Dante's return to action, the Martin brothers have won five straight ROH tag team battles and though they've been engaged in a rather violent rivalry with CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush) as of late, they're still focused on chasing down tag team championship success in both ROH and AEW!
A victory over two well-seasoned competitors like Ishii and Rocky would only help bolster their desire to challenge for the ROH World Tag Titles, but that experience advantage the Conglomeration duo has may very well be an insurmountable task for Top Flight!
ALSO FEATURING:
-Shane Taylor in action!
-And More!!