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“The Fallen Goddess” Athena breaks a milestone record THE FOREVER CHAMPION... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena breaks a milestone record On March 22, 2003 at the NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS event, Samoa Joe defeated the late-Xavier to become the 3rd ROH Champion. For ROH that night meant the restoration of honor to championship that had been held for six months by one of the company's most loathed individuals. As talented a wrestler as “The All Around Best” Xavier may have been, his standing as a member of Christopher Daniels' Prophecy meant he did not uphold the Code of Honor, nor respect what it represented to Ring of Honor. With Joe as champion, the title was thrust to the forefront of the company, becoming the prize every competitor fought to claim and he elevated it from a regional promotion's marquee title to a true World Championship. For 645 days, Samoa Joe dominated the competition, securing 29 championship victories over men like “The Notorious 187” Homicide, Colt Cabana, Bryan Danielson, both Mark and Jay Briscoe, as well as engaged in one of the most legendary trilogy of bouts ever held in a ROH ring. His title reign came to an end at FINAL BATTLE 2004 in Philadelphia, and for 7,203 days it has remained the benchmark in ROH history. Only Nigel McGuinness remotely come close to touching that benchmark as ROH World Champion, and even he was 100 days shy of tying Joe's record.  As far as the other championships in Ring of Honor, the ROH Women's World TV Title is too new to even come close, the Men's World TV Title record is held by Joe at 574 days, the World Tag Title record is in the camp of The Foundation with 441 days, and the World Six-Man Title record stands at 405 days with MexiSquad. All of those are a far cry from Samoa Joe's milestone, but if you notice, there is one championship missing from that list, the ROH Women's World Championship, and that is because as of the end of day on 9/15/24, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena has eclipsed Joe's nearly-twenty year record! The fourth champion in the title's history, Athena defeated Mercedes Martinez at FINAL BATTLE 2022 to take the Women's Division crown and in the 646 days since, she has defended her title on 22 occasions against 18 different opponents, with Willow Nightingale and Miyu Yamashita both failing twice, and Kiera Hogan falling to Athena in three bouts. She's put down challenges from former AEW Women's World Champions Nyla Rose and Hikaru Shida, as well as women like Marina Shafir, Skye Blue, Emi Sakura, and Yuka Sakazaki.  Then there is her record in Proving Ground and Eliminator contests; during these last 646 days, Athena has turned away four Eliminator challenges and 27 on the Proving Ground. Of all those challengers attempting to last ten minutes with the champion, the benchmark by which one could earn a future World Title match, Trish Adora lasted the longest at 7:11 with Roxanne falling in just 0:33 when she tried her hand against “The Fallen Goddess”.  Save competitors over the last 22 years who had one or two matches inside a ROH Ring, Athena likely has the strongest winning percentage in ROH's history. With 59 matches on her ROH resume, Athena has only lost twice, and both of those were in tag team competition where Billie Starkz lost the bout for their team. That means 57 victories, a perfect 54 in one-on-one competition, and an overall 96.6 win percentage. She has truly lived up to her self-imposed moniker of “The Forever Champion” given that every one who has stepped to her has been stepped on, stepped over, or smashed to pieces. The record Athena has produced begs the question: is there anyone left? Will “The Fallen Goddess” truly reign over this division forever? For 646 days no one has been able to take the ROH Women's World Championship away from her, will we next see her eclipse Jay Lethal's record of 707 days across two World Title reigns or his 798 days as World TV Champion between two reigns? Can Athena take one title reign and surpass the 1486 days The Briscoes spent as World Tag Champions over their 13 reigns on top? At the rate she is going, all these things seem possible...

On August 25, 2024, after nearly thirteen years away from active competition, Nigel McGuinness returned to the ring during ALL IN: LONDON 2024's Casino Gauntlet Match, all in hopes of earning an AEW World Championship match, and in the case of McGuinness, hoping it also came with “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson defeating Swerve Strickland to claim the AEW World Title, thereby setting up a match a large of group fans had been hoping might come to fruition ever since Nigel first arrived under the AEW umbrella at ROH's SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 and even more so when he was tabbed to be one of the announcers for COLLISION upon its debut in June 2023.  Given that it had been 4,634 days since Nigel had his last professional wrestling match inside a Volunteer Fire Department located in Clarksburg, WV, there is an entire generation of fans who may only know Nigel McGuinness by his voice rather than from the amazing body of work he produced around the world from September 1999 until December 17, 2011. There are those unaware of his experience watching wrestling inside Wembley Stadium on August 29, 1992 and how it inspired him to chase that dream in his own life. There are those oblivious to Nigel's journey from England to Ohio where he trained at Heartland Wrestling Association under the watchful eye of Les Thatcher, the same man who helped break Jon Moxley into wrestling several years later. There are those who aren't aware that Nigel broke in back in 1999 sharing the ring with AEW competitors like The Blade, as well as competitors fresh off television like Mark Jindrak, Jason Jett, Shannon Moore, and others on that track such as the late Lance Cade, the late Matty Anoai (aka Rosey), and Charlie Haas.  But that wasn't all Nigel did; he returned to England where he toured with Brian Dixon's All-Star Wrestling, tours that gave him experience with men like Doug Williams, Jonny Storm, and Ricky Knight (Saraya's father). Upon returning to the States, Nigel branched out beyond the rings of HWA and first encountered the likes of Chris Hero, Colt Cabana, Jimmy Jacobs, and got the attention of the promotion that changed the track of his professional wrestling career: Ring of Honor.  Debuting at WRATH OF THE RACKET on 8/9/03, an event taking place at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Dayton, OH that HWA essentially called home, Nigel impressed enough that he was brought to New Jersey several months later for MAIN EVENT SPECTACLES, and invited back for BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN in Wilmington, OH that January.  Beginning with AT OUR BEST in March 2004, an event in which he took on Jerry Lynn, Nigel became a regular presence on Ring of Honor events around the country, quickly becoming part of the Pure Title mix in late-summer 2004, and having his first meeting with “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson as part of a trios bout at TRIOS TOURNAMENT 2005. Who could've suspected that inauspicious bout would mark the first meeting of those two ROH icons, and that the rivalry that blossomed in the following year would prove to be one of the most definitive in ROH's history? Before they finally found one another as rivals, the path of Bryan and Nigel took very different routes. Danielson walked away from ROH for several months during the Summer of 2005 after failing to win the ROH World Championship, meanwhile Nigel engaged in a very heated rivalry with Colt Cabana that culminated in an unforgettable Soccer Riot Match at NIGHT OF THE GRUDGES II, and just one week later, at DRAGON GATE INVASION, Nigel would take the ROH Pure Title from Samoa Joe. At GLORY BY HONOR IV just a few weeks later, Bryan Danielson would return to wrest the ROH World Championship from James Gibson on the same night Nigel would defeat Roderick Strong in a match for his championship, and over the course of the next several months, each man would solidify their position as the best at what they did.  The unique nature of the Pure Title rules allowed Nigel to find creative ways to defeat Christopher Daniels, Jay Lethal, and Claudio Castagnoli, just to name a few, while Danielson was proving himself the better of challengers like Daniels, Lance Storm, Roderick, Naomichi Marufuji, and Chris Hero, for a few examples. Then came April 29, 2006 and WEEKEND OF CHAMPIONS: NIGHT 2, that night at the Grey's Armory in Cleveland, World Champion faced Pure Champion in a Title vs. Title match with the Pure Rules in effect. What took place that night was magic, a nearly 30-minute battle between two of professional wrestling's finest technicians, that ultimately came down to Bryan attempting a springboard dive into the crowd, McGuinness greeting him with a chair while in-flight, and Bryan being unable to get back to the ring before the 20-count. Under the Pure Title rules, that title could change hands on a countout or disqualification but only that championship, meaning while Nigel won the bout, he only retained his Pure Title. Three months passed before the two met inside the squared circle again, this time at GENERATION NOW only the ROH World Championship was at stake despite Nigel still maintaining his grip on the Pure Title between their two clashes. Just like the first meeting in April, this July '06 contest was red-hot and showed once again that McGuinness was more than capable of hanging in the ring with Danielson, a wrestler even in 2006 people already considered one of the best to ever do it. In fact, Bryan only escaped that match with the World Title by using a bit of trickery, hiding under the ring only to pop out the other side and roll up Nigel into a Small Package pin after 25 minutes of fighting. That was the moment Danielson arrogantly dubbed himself “Mr. Small Package” to rub it in Nigel's face, but their record stood at 1-1 as ROH was on the verge of running their first events in England, an event dubbed UNIFIED slated to feature a Unification Match between these two champions. Undoubtedly the most famous, or perhaps infamous, of their battles inside a ROH ring, this August 12th bout between Danielson and McGuinness took everything they'd done in the previous two contests, and amplified the aggression a hundredfold. Perhaps it was due to Nigel fighting in his home country, and the energy the fans brought to the fight, but it truly seemed like McGuinness dethroning Danielson that night was inevitable. The level of violence in this fight is difficult to watch, the sound of Nigel's head cracking against the ring post is not for the squeamish, and the blood oozing across his skull from the impact hampers him the rest of the bout. As Bryan and Nigel crash their heads together like two bighorn sheep fighting for dominance, it's hard not to wonder just what it will take to make either of these men relent this battle. Ultimately it is Nigel who succumbs to the pain and punishment, or rather it is the referee who makes that choice for McGuinness as he's unable to respond to Bryan's onslaught of elbows. That night the Pure Championship that Nigel McGuinness had truly made through his hard work as champion was retired, unified with the World Title, and it would remain as such until September 11, 2020 when the tournament to crown a new Pure Champion began. That may have marked the end of the Pure Title, but it wasn't the end of the Danielson/McGuinness story. In fact just two weeks after their UNIFIED epic, the two would meet in a 2/3 Falls bout at EPIC ENCOUNTER II, a match that saw Danielson survive as champion with a 1-1 draw after 60 minutes. After their match, in a sign of respect, Bryan returned the Pure Title to Nigel in recognition of all he accomplished carrying that title for 350 days and it felt like a a moment of closure on their rivalry. Sure they shared the ring three more times before the close of 2006, but no one-on-one matches, it seemed as if that chapter in each man's life was closed, but the new year brought a new aspect to their rivalry when both men were in the hunt for the ROH World Championship... ***TO BE CONTINUED*** ATTN: HONOR CLUB SUBSCRIBERS Just added to the BEST OF ROH Section, the “Danielson vs. McGuinness” compilation highlighting their epic rivalry across the landscape of Ring of Honor. This is one of the most definitive collection of history-making matches Ring of Honor ever created, and it is now available here for Honor Club subscribers!

It is Thursday night and that means Ring of Honor is back in action! Dropping at 7pm ET/6pm CT, this week's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB features ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr. in Proving Ground action against “Pretty” Peter Avalon, Lio Rush facing Rocky Romero one-on-one, Queen Aminata battling Harley Cameron, and it seems Billie Starkz has called an Emergency M.E.M! Plus one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions Sammy Guevara will be in action against Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari, and we will see The Outrunners, Preston Vance, Lady Frost, and many others compete inside that ROH ring as well! The action begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club ( www.watchroh.com ), the home for Ring of Honor Wrestling's weekly show as well as the home for its 20+ years of wrestling history, including epic clashes between Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness who look to renew their rivalry at DYNAMITE: GRAND SLAM 2024 in less than two weeks!! PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. vs. “Pretty” Peter Avalon As Atlantis Jr. prepares for a return to CMLL tomorrow to compete on their 91st Anniversary event, he first must square up with a very game “Pretty” Peter Avalon in a Proving Ground match with a future shot at his ROH World Television Championship at stake! It has been 77 days since Atlantis Jr. dethroned Kyle Fletcher at CMLL's June 28th SUPER VIERNES event, and in that time he's successfully defended his title against Serpentico and Robbie Eagles in singles matches, as well as against five simultaneous challengers in DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024's Survival of the Fittest elimination match. This bout tonight marks the first Proving Ground match of Atlantis Jr.'s reign, as well as Peter's first Ring of Honor bout since HONOR CLUB #45 back in January. That last ROH bout saw Avalon fall to former World Champion Dalton Castle, but he's hoping to bounce back strong here by earning a future World TV Title opportunity against Atlantis Jr. Remember, Peter doesn't have to beat the champion to earn his championship bout, he just has to survive the 10-minute time limit and the match will be his! We witnessed it take place when The Infantry took Undisputed Kingdom to the time limit in a World Tag Title Proving Ground match to earn their SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 opportunity, and when Lee Moriarty did it against ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta en route to ending Yute's third title reign at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024. It can be done, but with the ROH World Television Title, it hasn't happened since Rocky Romero won a Three-Way Proving Ground over then-champion Jeff Cobb and Dalton Castle at ROAD TO G1 SUPERCARD: NIGHT 2 on 1/25/19.  Can Avalon be the first  to earn a TV Title shot this way in nearly six years, or will he be shut down by Atlantis Jr. just like so many other hopeful challengers since the inception of the Proving Ground concept in November 2011? SINGLES MATCH... Lio Rush vs. Rocky Romero It's been three and a half years since the last time Lio Rush locked horns with Rocky Romero in singles competition, a qualifying bout in the New Japan Cup USA back on March 5, 2021 won by Lio. Aside from that one outing, all of the engagement between the two men has been as allies fighting together on NJPW STRONG, and then later on New Japan's CAPITAL COLLISON 2023 event while both were members of the CHAOS faction.  The two have also teamed in All Elite Wrestling, first on the 1st anniversary edition of COLLISION back in June, and then during the ALL IN: LONDON 2024 ZERO HOUR, so suffice to say they know one another quite well. Will that knowledge prove beneficial to either man tonight in their HONOR CLUB fracas? ONE-ON-ONE... ROH World Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara vs. Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari Five days ago during the ALL OUT 2024: ZERO HOUR, ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara united with the red-hot Hologram to defeat Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods, and Tony Nese in Trios actions. The Premiere Athletes and “Smart” Mark Sterling are not ones to let anything go, and that is why tonight during HONOR CLUB Ariya Daivari will go head-to-head with “The Spanish God” Sammy Guevara! If Daivari scores the victory here, will it get him and his compatriots closer to a future World Tag Title bout? AN EMERGENCY M.E.M! With just four days to go until ROH Women's World Champion Athena breaks Samoa Joe's 20-year old record as the longest reigning champion in Ring of Honor history, former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz has called an emergency Minion Empowerment Meeting! What is this in regards to? Is it about Abadon and her clear interest in the title around The Fallen Goddess' waist? Is it about what Starkz has experienced since losing the TV Title to Red Velvet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024? Tune into HONOR CLUB tonight starting at 7pm ET to find out just what this emergency may be! SINGLES MATCH... Harley Cameron vs. Queen Aminata Coming off her Eliminator loss to AEW Women's World Champion Mariah May last night on DYNAMITE, Queen Aminata is back in action for the first time since HONOR CLUB #76 one month ago and looking to bounce back from that loss. Aminata has won eight of her last ten singles matches in Ring of Honor, with the two losses both coming in title fights while Harley Cameron comes into this 2-0 in ROH competition. Will tonight be the night of The Outcast or The Queen? FEATURING: -Preston Vance vs. KM -Willie Mack vs. Exodus Prime -Robyn Renegade vs. Angelica Risk ALSO IN ACTION: -AR Fox & Komander! -Lady Frost! -The Outrunners! -The Righteous! -Top Flight & Action Andretti!

Thursday is upon us once again, and with it comes the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, exclusively available at WatchROH.com, the home for Ring of Honor Wrestling's weekly show as well as the outlet for its 20+ years of history. This week we've got a tremendous show on tap with Stardom's Mina Shirakawa taking on Taya Valkyrie, Josh Woods and Katsuyori Shibata going one-on-one, The SAP versus Iron Savages, ROH Women's World Champion Red Velvet in a Proving Ground bout, and so much more going down on this loaded-up edition of ROH programming! Tonight's edition of ROH ON HONORCLUB brings to you a collection of best professional wrestlers competing today, and it all beings at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! Honor Club is the home for ROH's weekly episodes that premiere every Thursday evening, but it's also the spot to experience over 20 years of ROH's rich history including bouts featuring the likes of Samoa Joe, Claudio Castagnoli, Mark Briscoe, Tomohiro Ishii, Hangman Page, Kenny Omega, and so many more! ONE-ON-ONE... Katsuyori Shibata vs. Premier Athletes' Josh Woods HONOR CLUB 23, August 3, 2023, that was the night Josh Woods challenged then-ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata for the title. As a former Pure Champion himself, if there was anyone adequately prepared to take on “The Wrestler” on those terms it was “The Technical Beast”, but after 11 minutes of action, it was Shibata who ended the match still Pure Champion.  The two would meet again just two months ago when Shibata, HOOK, and Samoa Joe took on the full Premier Athletes trio, a bout won by Shibata's contingent, but tonight during HONOR CLUB 80 they will face off in singles competition once more! Unlike their previous bout, this one will be contested under traditional pro wrestling rules, but will that be enough of a game changer to get Josh Woods the victory he's looking for? SINGLES MATCH... “La Wera Loca” Taya Valkyrie vs. RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion Mina Shirakawa Last week RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion Mina Shirakawa came back to Ring of Honor for the first time since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024's amazing Stardom Trios bout, defeating Racheal Ellering in a hard-fought bout, but falling victim to an assault from Taya Valkyrie just moments after.  Was it an assault prompted by jealousy over Shirakawa getting the TV time that Taya wants, or was it more geared towards the championship that Mina wears around her waist? Whatever La Wera Loca's motivations, she's getting her shot at facing the RevPro champion tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB. Could a victory here lead to Valkyrie getting a future title fight? It's been four years since she had a brief taste of RevPro competition, but this could be the way Taya gets another opportunity at that.! TAG TEAM BOUT... Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) vs. Iron Savages (Bronson & Boulder) With Serpentico riding high after reclaiming his mask from Griff Garrison and Maria, but Angelico dejected after losing his ROH Pure Championship bout with Lee Moriarty last week, the two members of Spanish Announce Project unite in tag team action to take on Iron Savages! Though this is a first-time bout for this particular combination, both Angelico and Serpentico have some experience with Bronson and Boulder over the last several years with other partners. Unfortunately for SAP, their combined four bouts against Bronson and Boulder amounted to exactly zero victories for either man. Yet Angelico and Serpentico come into this fight having won three of their last four tag team bouts in ROH while Iron Savages are working to get back into the title picture after a frustrating championship loss to Undisputed Kingdom earlier this year. Which team will rise up to the moment tonight in Arlington and get that much needed victory on their resume? ONE-ON-ONE... Aaron Solo vs. Rocky Romero It's been over seven years since the first time Rocky Romero and Aaron Solo met inside the squared circle. That night it was in tag team action, Rocky with Trent Beretta while Solo was with Ricky Starks, and it was the Roppongi Vice pair that scored the victory in Austin, TX. Fast forward to 2024 and 200 miles up the road into Arlington, and these two competitors are set to meet in their very first singles match!   Solo heads into this after being topped by Angelico in a Pure Rules Match in his last ROH match while Romero, a 3-Time ROH World Tag Champion, comes in off a loss to “The Machine” Brian Cage in his last Ring of Honor outing. Suffice to say both are looking to use the other to bounce back into the win column, but will it be Solo or Romero who gets that elusive “W” in Arlington? SINGLES MATCH... “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker vs. Griff Garrison Three weeks ago Griff Garrison stepped into singles competition against Serpentico with the Spanish Announce Project member's mask on the line and came up short.  The week after that, in an attempt by Maria to build a bridge with MxM Collection, she introduced Griff to Mansoor and Mason Madden but the moment didn't exactly go as hoped. This week Maria's baby boy gets back into singles competition to face “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker, the first-ever ROH singles match for Cool Hand Ang, and his first singles match since a loss on the April 12th edition of AEW RAMPAGE. Parker is looking to get himself on a roll with this bout, to score that victory that gets it all started; can he pull it off tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB? ALSO FEATURING: -Nick Comoroto vs. “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson!! -Fuego Del Sol vs. Dark Order's John Silver!! -Lance Archer & The Righteous in Trios combat! -Abadon in action! -Anthony Henry & Beef in tag team competition! -Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) in action! -Rachael Ellering competes! -And more!

Thursday night is upon us one again, that means an all-new episode of ROH ON HONORCLUB is coming your way! ROH was strongly represented at ALL IN: LONDON 2024 with Dustin Rhodes, Sammy Guevara, The Von Erichs, and ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe all in action, but now its back to the grindstone after that epic pay-per-view presentation and it starts tonight with the ROH Pure Championship on the line! Angelico, after getting a win in his first-ever Pure Rules bout, has already challenged Lee Moriarty to a title match and the champion has readily accepted! Plus ROH Women's World Champion Athena will be in action on the Proving Ground, Mina Shirakawa returns to take on Rachael Ellering, Johnny TV welcomes Sidney Akeem to ROH, Ariya Daivari faces Tomohiro Ishii, and so much more!!! Tonight's episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB is ready to showcase some of the best athletes in professional wrestling today, and it gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! In addition to ROH's weekly episodes that drop every Thursday evening, Honor Club is also the home for 20+ years of rich wrestling history featuring competitors such as new AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson, new AEW International Champion Will Ospreay, new AEW World Trios Champions PAC and Claudio Castagnoli, as well as appearances from men like Shinjiro Otani, Jushin Liger, Great Muta, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, and more!! ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Shane Taylor Promotions' Lee Moriarty(c) vs. The SAP's Angelico Last week on Honor Club, Angelico and Aaron Solo competed in each man's first-ever Pure Rules match. It's not always the easiest rule structure to grasp the first-time around, but each handled themselves well, though it was ultimately Angelico and his llave style that won the day. Clearly this has given the Negro Navarro trained Angelico a boost of confidence because he and Serpentico feel Angelico is prepared to step up to title contender based off that one Pure victory. That's fine by ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, he's not going to back down from any challenge now that he's finally acquired the prize he's been chasing for as long as he's been in Ring of Honor. Inspired by former Pure Champions like Nigel McGuinness, Jay Lethal, and yes even Wheeler Yuta, Moriarty made it a point to hone his mat skills to a killer edge until he finally claimed the Pure Championship for his own. Moriarty turned away the Proving Ground challenge of Action Andretti two weeks ago, but in this dance with Angelico the championship will be on the line! Can TaigaStyle be successful in his first title defense, or will Angelico put his llave stylings to work to claim his first ROH title? ONE-ON-ONE... Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari vs. The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii Ariya Daivari and the Premier Athletes have been a thorn in the side of The Conglomeration for weeks now; be it in Trios competition several weeks ago on COLLISION when Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, and Tomohiro Ishii defeated the lot of them, or just a few weeks ago when Tony Nese fell to Ishii in singles competition, “Smart” Mark Sterling's unit will just not fade away. Tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB another of those men will step up to the plate to try and knock down “The Stone Pitbull”, the ultra-athletic Ariya Daivari! It's been a rough go for Daivari as of late here in ROH, after scoring a tag victory with Tony Nese during HONOR CLUB 75, he had his head kicked off by Katsuyori Shibata two weeks later, and now two weeks after that he's going after Big Tom! Throw in his AEW antics, taking on Hologram and Mistico in tag action, the fight with Jeff Jarrett, and that wild 16-Man during the ALL IN: LONDON 2024 ZERO HOUR and he's been quite the busy man. Then again, Ishii has been as well, getting his own ZERO HOUR work in with that Mixed Tag against Stokely Hathaway and Kris Statlander, then throwing down bombs with Hangman Page just last night on DYNAMITE in their singles match. “The Stone Pitbull” has got to feeling it after that fight with the former AEW World Champion, but he's ready to go again tonight in Ring of Honor action! Can this Conglomeration member finally put an end to Premier Athlete involvement in their lives? PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH Women's World Champion Athena vs. Aleah James On the August 10th COLLISION, Aleah James made her first impression on the AEW audience when she faced Hikaru Shida one-on-one. Tonight during HONOR CLUB #79, she gets into an ROH ring for the very first time with another World Champion as her foe, none other than “The Fallen Goddess”, your forever champion, the ROH Women's World Champion Athena! A native of Essex, England, Aleah James has been honing her craft for the last five years primarily in the UK, but recently made her first excursions to the United States for competition, and thus her answering the Proving Ground challenge against Athena! We know that Abadon has eyes on the “The Fallen Goddess”, and could be lurking around any corner, but will that distract Athena from success in her 31st Proving Ground/Eliminator Match? SINGLES MATCH... RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion Mina Shirakawa vs. Rachael Ellering After watching the Toni Storm/Mariah May dynamic finally explode at ALL IN: LONDON 2024, Mina Shirakawa has to get her head back in the game tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB when she faces the double-tough Rachael Ellering one-on-one! Coming into this bout 1-0 in ROH singles competition, we have not seen Mina in action under the ROH banner since that amazing Stardom Trios bout at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 back in April while Ellering, after healing up from some lingering issues, is coming off a victory over Brooke Havok three weeks ago and looking to work into title contention. A victory over the RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion would be a huge boon to the career of Ellering, but it's going to be a tough fight to score that victory, ain't no doubt about it! ONE-ON-ONE... Johnny TV vs. Sidney Akeem Johnny TV is always ready for his television time, but tonight during HONOR CLUB #79 he's got quite a tough task on hand when he welcomes Sidney Akeem to Ring of Honor for the very first time! Akeem has been making waves on the independent circuit for the last several months, traveling from Florida to Cleveland to LA to Atlantic City, and wowing audiences wherever he goes, and his background training with Cirque de Soleil is going to make this bout with the parkour-inclined Johnny TV quite the intriguing contest. Will Akeem make an impact on Mr. TV Ready in his ROH debut, or will Johnny squash that dream in its infancy? ALSO FEATURING: -Dark Order's Evil Uno vs. Jacoby Watts -Premier Athletes' Josh Woods in action! -Top Flight & Action Andretti in trios competition!! -Leila Grey vs. Promise Braxton! -Blake Christian vs. Rosario Grillo!!! -And we will hear from Shane Taylor Promotions!!

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!!

ROH World Tag Team Championship Match! Undisputed Kingdom—Matt Taven & Mike Bennett (c) vs. ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes & “Spanish God” Sammy Guevara! Mike Bennett avoided an uppercut from Dustin and countered with a thrust kick. Sammy tagged in and wiped out the Undisputed Kingdom with a big cross body press from the top turnbuckle. Sammy flipped over the top with a tope con hiro onto Taven! The fans chanted “Sammy! Sammy! Sammy!” The Kingdom showed why they are ROH World Tag Team champions, isolating Sammy in the corner and keeping him from making the tag to Dustin. Somehow Sammy found the strength to take down Taven with a Spanish Fly! Dustin grabbed a tag and the big Texan clobbered Bennett with a variety of offense! Dustin spiked Taven with a Canadian Destroyer! Dustin planted Taven with the Cross Rhodes, but Bennett jumped in to break up the pin attempt. Rhodes smashed Bennett with a Cross Rhodes! The Beast Mortos and Roderick Strong ran down to the ring. The Beast distracted the referee so Roddy could interfere with the Sick Kick on Dustin! Marshall and Ross Von Erich sprinted to the ring and applied the Iron Claw onto Roddy and the Beast Mortos! Brian Cage and the Gates of Agony ran down and began to brawl with the Von Erichs. The Conglomeration joined the melee, and the teams brawled to the back. Meanwhile in the ring, Bennett and Taven were looking for a spiked piledriver on Dustin. But Sammy knocked Taven from the top! Dustin drilled Bennett with a spinning suplex, and Sammy put a statement at the end of the sentence with a frog splash! Dustin covered Bennett and pinned Bennett! And we have new Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions— “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes and the “Spanish God” Sammy Guevara! The fans chanted “You deserve it! You deserve it!” “Dustin Rhodes is a double champion in Ring of Honor!” said Tony Schiavone.