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DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR has been a staple of ROH's calendar since 2003's event at The Rexplex in Elizabeth, NJ! It all began with ROH World Champion Samoa Joe defending against the departing Paul London, a legendary Dog Collar Match, Jeff Hardy's infamous debut, and The Briscoes challenging AJ Styles & The Amazing Red for the ROH Tag Titles! From that July 19th night in front of ROH's largest crowd to that point until tonight's pay-per-view broadcast on Honor Club, DBD has grown into one of the most important events of ROH's year! From Chicago to Philadelphia and from the historic Hammerstein Ballroom to the Tsongas Center, DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR has come to the ROH faithful from venues around the country, and this year it hails from Texas for the very first time! On top of the card we will see former ROH World Champion Roderick Strong challenge current ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe in their first singles match since 2016! Plus, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena is forced to put her AEW Women's World Championship on the line against Queen Aminata while her minion Billie Starkz is defending her AEW Women's World Television Title against the double-tough Red Velvet, and Leyla Hirsch battles Diamante in a Texas Death Match! It begins at 8pm ET/7pm CT exclusively on Honor Club , with the ZERO HOUR coming to you on the official ROH YouTube channel at 7:00p. It's ROH's biggest event of the summer, and where the road to FINAL BATTLE 2024 begins, so do not miss out on the hottest professional wrestling action on the planet when Ring of Honor comes to Arlington, TX and the Esports Arena! ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Mark Briscoe(c) vs. Roderick Strong The history between Mark Briscoe and Roderick Strong dates back twenty years to their first encounter on May 22, 2004 at the GENERATION NEXT event. That night Roderick was part of a group that co-opted the name of the show as their own, proceeded to dominate everyone they fought that night, including a foursome comprised of Mark, his later brother Jay Briscoe, the late Jimmy Rave, and future ROH Pure Champion John Walters. It could've been the beginning of a tremendous rivalry, but just a few months later Mark was in a very serious motorcycle accident, and the repercussions from that meant The Briscoes were absent from Ring of Honor for eighteen months. When they returned to the fold, Roderick stood as one-half of the ROH Tag Team Champions alongside former ROH World Champion Austin Aries, but frankly the tag division had grown quite anemic.  The return of The Briscoes and their subsequent rivalry with Strong and Aries over the titles reinvigorated that division and led to some incredible fights over the course of 2006. Be it the Jack Evans/Roddy bout with The Briscoes at BEST IN THE WORLD 2006, the tag title matches with Strong/Aries at RING OF HOMICIDE and DESTINY, or their top-tier final championship clash at the historic UNIFIED event in Liverpool, England, the battles between them set a new bar for tag team excellence in Ring of Honor, and independent wrestling as a whole. Even Mark and Roderick's first singles clash at HOW WE ROLL was a hard-hitting affair between the two young athletes, but it was all just setting the stage for what was to come over the next two decades.  The rivalry between The Briscoes and Roderick Strong expanded beyond the borders of ROH, pitting them against each other in different fashions at 1PW in England, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla where PAC and Strong beat Jay and Mark for the tag titles in DDT4 2007, and FIP in Florida, a promotion that was considered a sister to ROH for several years in the mid-aughts. Still, Ring of Honor was the home for the vast majority of their wars, and no matter who Roderick Strong allied himself with, he inevitably ended up in competition with Dem Boys. The No Remorse Corps of Strong and Rocky Romero faced them in a pair of ROH World Tag Title matches, and were actually the first team to score a fall on the brothers while they were in the midst of a dominating unbeaten streak in 2/3 Falls Matches. When Strong was with The House of Truth, he found himself in the ring with Jay, Mark, and Papa Briscoe at one point and even after he formed The Decade with Jimmy Jacobs, Roderick invariably collided with Mark and Jay.  In the midst of all their fighting, the two did grow a strong bond, one that led to a rather amusing bout at the riotous MICHAEL BENNETT'S BACHELOR PARTY event, a match where the loser wasn't allowed to drink. As hard as they fought, they were capable of having fun with one another as well, but the competitive streak in both men ultimately dominated their interactions, though they did occasionally find themselves on the same side of the fight. So bonded were the two men that as Roderick Strong was heading towards the end of his run with Ring of Honor in June 2016, Mark Briscoe was Roddy's final pay-per-view opponent at BEST IN THE WORLD 2016. Coincidentally, Roddy's last actual opponent in Ring of Honor was Dalton Castle, the man he defeated to earn this shot at Mark Briscoe's ROH World Championship. All told, Mark and Roddy have clashed in six singles matches over the last 18 years with the record split evenly between the two, but of course the balance in their clashes changes when factoring in multi-man matches, tag team affairs, etc, but when just looking at their meetings since coming into All Elite Wrestling, it feels appropriate they are 1-1 in their two multi-man affairs. But this is a different playground. Not only is it DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, it's also a homecoming for Roderick Strong after eight years away, and it is one-on-one. No Undisputed Kingdom at Roddy's side, no Conglomeration at Mark's, just the two of them picking up where they left off in the place where both made their names in professional wrestling! As a member of the ROH locker room from day one, Mark fought long and hard to become ROH World Champion, battled through multiple failures trying to claim his first ROH singles title and that dream came true at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in Philadelphia, the city where Ring of Honor was born! Now Strong is aiming to end that dream, and give birth to one of his own where he joins the ranks of multi-time ROH World Champions! He's already a Triple Crown winner in ROH, having previously reigned as ROH World Champion, a 2-Time Television champ, and a Tag Team Champion, but adding 2-Time ROH World Title holder to that resume would make him just the seventh individual to accomplish that feat.   One final statistical note for each man as it pertains to their DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR history; Roderick Strong participated in fourteen DBD events during the course of his ROH career, netting a 6-8 record over those bouts, and is 0-1-1 in title fights taking place on those cards. As for Mark Briscoe, he's got twenty-three DBD events on his resume, racking up a record of 9-14 across the last twenty years, but when titles are on the line, he's just 2-7 overall. Roderick and Mark have never fought at this ROH tentpole event, so this is quite a seminal moment for both in that regards, but the question is now who will be left standing when that final bell rings? Will “Chicken” continue moving forward as ROH World Champion, or will “The Messiah of the Backbreaker” live up to his other moniker of “Mr. ROH” and bring that belt to the Undisputed Kingdom?  ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Queen Aminata 594 days; when she walks into Arlington, TX tonight for DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena will have reigned as champion since FINAL BATTLE 2022 on December 10, 2022 when she defeated Mercedes Martinez. In that time frame she's turned away twenty-one challenges from eighteen different women, including a rematch with Martinez ten months after their initial fight, and shut down thirty Proving Ground/Eliminator attempts to earn a title fight! In the entirety of ROH's history, there is only Samoa Joe's 645-day World Title reign that surpasses what Athena has accomplished during her domination of the division.  But then came this injury, and as a result the only competition “The Fallen Goddess” has seen since HONOR CLUB #66 on May 30th was at Prestige Wrestling on July 12th where she wore her boot to the ring and used it as a weapon to defeat Masha Slamovich. Initially no one questioned the injury, but as time wore on the queries could not be avoided, and when Athena refused to vacate the title it threw further suspicion on just how valid the injury was at this point. ROH cameras even captured her doing some things that clearly she would not have been doing had the injury still been a valid concern.  In the midst of all this controversy over Athena's injury, and in the wake of failing to become the first AEW Women's World TV Champion at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in her bout with Billie Starkz, Queen Aminata emerged as the top contender to The Forever Champion's crown. She's won three consecutive bouts since then, and nine of her ten singles match in ROH competition, including one over ally Red Velvet en route to the TV Championship Tournament Finals. As a result, Queen Aminata has become the top contender for Athena's championship, and the two women will clash tonight at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024!    This night marks Aminata's first DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR event while Athena celebrated her first last year with a victory over Willow Nightingale; will the Queen have the same success as the champion did or will “The Fallen Goddess” find a way to overcome her “injuries” and continue to push towards surpassing Samoa Joe's historic feat? ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Billie Starkz(c) vs. Red Velvet Billie Starkz became the first-ever ROH Women's World Television Champion at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 when she beat Queen Aminata, albeit with some seriously underhanded trickery, in front of ROH's hometown Philadelphia audience. Since then Starkz has successfully turned away...not one single challenge to her championship...but has defeated five different women in Proving Ground competition. That is an accomplishment of course, but going more than three months without putting the title on the line against a single challenger is more an indictment to your worthiness as a title holder than anything else. Tonight during DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, any illusion of choice that Billie Starkz may have had about her title challengers crumbles to dust as she faces a woman she's never beaten before in Red Velvet! Their two previous bouts took place on AEW programming, one during DARK #176 on 12/27/22 and the other on the 1/30/23 edition of ELEVATION, and both went in favor of Red Velvet in less than six minutes combined.  To be fair, Starkz has come along way since then, especially since coming under Athena's wing as one of her minions, but there's still that psychological edge of knowing how your opponent has dominated you in the past. Starkz can't possibly look at Red Velvet and not think about how she beat Billie in less than two minutes in their first fight, and how their second encounter wrapped up in less than four. She has to look at Red Velvet and see how, in her nine Ring of Honor matches, the only bout she lost was to Queen Aminata, the woman Billie had to cheat out of becoming the first World TV Champion.  That being stated, Billie Starkz is on a huge roll of her own right now; since losing to Athena at FINAL BATTLE 2023, Billie has won fourteen consecutive matches, thirteen of them in one-on-one competition, meaning there's no one save her mentor Athena who is on a bigger roll in Ring of Honor. The question is if that roll is a big enough morale booster to Billie Starkz to get past the knowledge of her history with Red Velvet? Is it enough to get the Women's World TV Champion over the hump and help her earn that first victory over Red, or will we see the crowning of a new champion at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024? TEXAS DEATH MATCH... Diamante vs. “Legit” Leyla Hirsch A week ago Diamante managed to defeat “Legit” Leyla Hirsch, a rematch of their HONOR CLUB #69 contest from June 20th, a bout won by Hirsch but it was Diamante left standing after she assaulted the winner following the pinfall. It was far from their first encounter, the two women first tangled on opposite sides of a tag match back on the April 26, 2021 edition of DARK: ELEVATION, fought singles battles on DARK #87 and DARK #100, both won by Hirsch, as well as battled in a few tags and trios in 2021.  It wasn't until ROH was reborn once more that these two women became entangled once again, first meeting under the Ring of Honor banner during an HONOR CLUB #45 on January 4th of this year. Diamante and Mercedes Martinez won that tag bout, and Diamante followed that up with a Four Corner Survival victory during HONOR CLUB #50, scoring the pinfall directly on Hirsch albeit with her feet on the ropes. Those two matches were just the beginning; the two women were on opposite sides of a Trios Match during HONOR CLUB #60 where Hirsch's team scored the win, then they'd meet again in Trios competition three weeks later, with different partners this time around, and it would be Diamante's team that got the victory. In neither match did the deciding fall come between Hirsch and Diamante, though Diamante did get the deciding fall on HONOR CLUB #63 for her team. HONOR CLUB #68 put the two women opposite one another once more in a third Trios battle, only this time it was Leyla Hirsch who took the pinfall, albeit to Alex Windsor rather than Diamante, but the result came from Diamante's trio being coordinated enough to work the referee out of position and take advantage of the situation. It was that result that led to their HONOR CLUB #69 singles match, and the aftermath of that bout that led to HONOR CLUB #73's Lights Out match, but technically that fight doesn't exist. In terms of official wins and losses, a Lights Out Match never happened, the official record still shows that in one-on-one Ring of Honor matches, Leyla Hirsch holds a 1-0 advantage over Diamante. Officially that is what the record book states, but the reality doesn't support that narrative, the reality is that Diamante beat Hirsch in that Lights Out match, and thus their record in ROH stands at 1-1. That is why these two warriors will enter the Esports Stadium tonight at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 and lock horns in a Texas Death Match! It has been seven years since Ring of Honor has presented this kind of match, at the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2017: NIGHT 2 event to be precise, and that was just the third time in the company's history a Texas Death Match has taken place. The first time was back in 2002 at the inaugural GLORY BY HONOR event, the second in 2012 at THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS, and then that aforementioned ROH World Title fight between Cody Rhodes and “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels. It's a rarity in ROH, and this will be the first time such a potentially violent affair has gone down between members of the Women's roster.  After the Lights Out contest, Leyla Hirsch and Diamante both showed their capacity for violence, and if Diamante thinks Hirsch can't sink down to the depths, she best remember this is the same woman who frequently used one of the ring hooks as a weapon not too long ago! At DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022 a year ago fans witnessed a wild Fight Without Honor involving The Dark Order and  The Righteous; this Texas Death Match could surpass what that brought to the table, let's just hope that it brings an end to the hostilities between these two warriors before one end ups with permanent damage! ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Lee Moriarty Last night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, The Blackpool Combat Club duo of ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta and Claudio Castagnoli scored a victory over Shane Taylor Promotions as represented by Lee Moriarty and Anthony Ogogo. With the knowledge of this championship fight fueling Yuta and Moriarty in the tag battle, it was a crucial victory for The BBC's only champion, especially after being taken to a time limit draw the last time he was in the ring with Lee Moriarty for the Proving Ground match. That ten-minute draw, only the second Proving Ground bout in the Pure Title's history, is what earned Moriarty this defense, and his second chance to finally earn a title that seems custom-made for his wrestling style. Yet it's more than that simply because Wheeler Yuta is the man holding the Pure Championship, see theirs is a history dating back years before either stepped into an AEW ring, even before their was an All Elite Wrestling ring to step into for that matter. They'd encountered one another in BEYOND, AIW, BLP,  and of course in the era of honor that was reborn with SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022. Their lone singles match over the last two years saw Yuta victorious, and it just underlined the journey taken by both men over the course of their careers. They are both of a generation who began their wrestling careers in a world where Ring of Honor already existed; it was inspirational to both men, a goal to be achieved, but Yuta was the only one of the two who had the opportunity pre-FINAL BATTLE 2021. Then when both men came to occupy space in the AEW locker room, both came onto the radar of a Blackpool Combat Club that, at the time, consisted of Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, and William Regal. Lee Moriarty fought Bryan Danielson, he fought Jon Moxley, but ultimately it was Yuta who ended up standing side-by-side with The BCC while Moriarty drifted from the tutelage of Matt Sydal to standing with Stokely Hathaway's Firm before ultimately finding a home with Shane Taylor as the former ROH World TV Champion reorganized his Shane Taylor Promotions for ROH and AEW. For the first time since coming to ROH/AEW, Lee Moriarty found a place that he felt fit him, allies that shared his aspirations, and who fought with the same mentality as him.  Moriarty has always been a technical marvel, he even demonstrated a willingness to go strike-for-strike with an opponent when the time called for it, but under the STP banner he found a viciousness that wasn't there before, just as Wheeler Yuta found with The BCC's tutelage. There's a reason Yuta is the only 3-Time ROH Pure Champion (for that matter the only 2-Time as well), and it's because of the experience he's garnered training with Danielson, Moxley, and Castagnoli, and the blood he's spilled fighting in environments like Anarchy in the Arena, Blood & Guts, and Stadium Stampede. It's because of the fights with men like Daniel Garcia, Katsuyori Shibata, and Eddie Kingston that Yuta is the fighter he's become, and even with months off recovering from injury, he's come back without missing a beat, possibly angrier than ever before because of the time he missed. So what we have here tonight in this Pure Championship bout is a meeting of two men walking similar path, who each found a home that's made them better fighters, and who are both quite hungry to prove they are the best at what they do. The difference being only one has found championship success walking their path while the other has been routinely frustrated in their quest, can this be the night Lee Moriarty adds his name to a lineage that includes, among others, Jay Lethal, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuinness, and Katsuyori Shibata, or will Yuta continue pushing towards possibly becoming the greatest Pure Champion of all-time? ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)(c) vs. The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii) The Undisputed Kingdom has been trying to convince Kyle O'Reilly to join their ranks essentially from the moment Kyle returned to All Elite Wrestling after struggling through injuries for over a year. The history between Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong was clearly the strongest tie, but there's a bond between individuals who shared Ring of Honor locker rooms over the years, even if they were at each other's throats during those years, and that's essentially put Matt Taven and Mike Bennett in the same sphere as Roddy when it comes to O'Reilly. They are connected through the letters ROH, they are bound together by their experiences under that banner, and now they return to that stage with a new battle on their hands. With Kyle's repeated rejection of The Undisputed Kingdom, he has now become a target, especially for Taven and Bennett, but thankfully for Kyle's welfare he found like-minded individuals in ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, and now “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii. Briscoe dubbed this collection of disparate individuals a “Conglomeration” several weeks ago, and the name has stuck ever since, but it suits them as a mish-mosh of competitors with so little in common on the surface. But underneath the skin they are all bonded by their issues with The Undisputed Kingdom, while all but Orange Cassidy are bonded by their ROH history, and tonight they get to be bonded by violence in pursuit of championship gold! Despite their protestations and pleas for a night off to celebrate Roderick Strong's birthday and (hopeful) World Championship victory, the ROH World Tag Team Champions will defend their titles at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 against The Conglomeration pairing of Kyle O'Reilly and Ishii! Kyle and Ishii were foes in the past, they've been allies as of late, uniting during FORBIDDEN DOOR 2024's ZERO HOUR in a Four Way tag bout then again on the July 19th RAMPAGE for a Trios victory over The Undisputed Kingdom. After hearing Paul Wight's decree last night, it looks like this Conglomeration pair has a huge opportunity to knock The UK off the top of the tag team mountain, so will tonight see the end of The Undisputed Kingdom's third reign as ROH World Tag Champions, or will we see Kyle wear that title again for the first time since April 4, 2105, and Ishii for the first time?  ROH WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP ELIMINATOR MATCH... The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, & John Silver) vs. Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erich (Marshall & Ross) ***WINNER FACES UNDISPUTED KINGDOM AT BOTB XI*** We witnessed Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs unite last week during AEW COLLISION, and saw some of the results of their partnership last night on HONOR CLUB when Marshall and Ross defeated Alex Reynolds and John Silver in tag team competition. It was a bit of a shock to The Dark Order given that their level of experience as a team far surpasses the Von Erich brothers, but there's something to be said for how that familial bond enhances a tag team dynamic, how growing up side-by-side creates the chemistry unrelated tag partners take years to cultivate. That's what The Von Erichs have here, as well as the knowledge passed down to them from father Kevin, and now it's been melded with what “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes has to offer as man whose experience inside the squared circle has taken him through one evolution of the game after another. There is likely not a better active wrestler to take the lessons learned across his career, meld them when the current flow of professional wrestling, and teach it all to those coming up now. That's what has brought Dustin, Marshall, and Ross together, and tonight during DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, it's what they will have to meld if they hope to become the new ROH World Six-Man Champions! That's right; in the aftermath of The Patriarchy defeating The Bang Bang Gang to claim the AEW World Trios Titles, the Ring of Honor World Six-Man Championship is vacant and tonight in Arlington one team will step closer to filling that void when Rhodes and The Von Erichs meet The Dark Order trio looking to even the score for Thursday night's tag team loss! Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, and John Silver are one of the most experienced trios in All Elite Wrestling with their 15-7 record, and in the Ring of Honor landscape they are 7-5 together, whereas this will be just the second time Dustin, Marshall, and Ross have teamed up together though it's been five months since their first outing together on AEW RAMPAGE. Dark Order has long been in pursuit of achieving status as the Six-Man Champions, and now stand on the precipice of making their unit's dream a reality, but can they shut down the experience/youth combination that is “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs? The future of the ROH World Six-Man Titles begins now; who will take one step closer to leading the division into the future? ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2024... ***WINNER EARNS A FUTURE ROH WORLD TITLE MATCH*** ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. vs. “The Machine” Brian Cage vs. Johnny TV vs. “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson vs. Lio Rush vs. Shane Taylor Atlantis Jr. defeated Kyle Fletcher on June 28th at Arena Mexico to become the 32nd ROH World Television Champion. It certainly shocked Kyle Fletcher to see his hard-earned championship snatched away while on his first visit to CMLL, especially considering the battle he went through to earn it at FINAL BATTLE 2023, and the ones he went through to keep it. After winning the 2023 Survival of the Fittest tournament to claim the vacant TV Championship, Fletcher stated his mission was to become the greatest TV Champion of all-time, a lofty endeavor considering what Samoa Joe had just accomplished before him, and what Jay Lethal had done as the longest-reigning champion before Joe's dominance. Suffice to say Fletcher's aspirations were torn to shreds by Atlantis Jr., but that just meant it was time for someone new to attempt to chase the greatness established by those two former ROH World TV Champs. Atlantis Jr. wasted little time, getting to ROH proper as soon as possible after winning the title, and putting it on the line against Serpentico to truly begin his reign as champion. It was an impressive beginning for the new champ, but last night on HONOR CLUB he (along with Lio Rush) was shutdown by the unique pairing of Shane Taylor and Johnny TV. Prior to this match taking place it was announced that those four men, along with “The Machine” Brian Cage and “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson, would meet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 in the 2024 Survival of the Fittest elimination match! That meant their tag team bout was an opportunity to get a fall on the TV Champion just before the title bout, and Shane Taylor pinning Atlantis Jr. is exactly what we saw go down! That brings us to tonight where the ROH World Television Champion puts his belt on the line against five other challengers! SOTF means elimination rules, meaning Atlantis Jr. has to stay alive through four eliminations to make it to the end and hold on to his title. This is just the second time a title has been on the line in a SOTF bout, the first being the FINAL BATTLE 2023 bout where Fletcher was crowned, but given that December bout was for a vacant title, this is the first where a champion is actively defending the belt. Now there is a mix of experiences within these six individuals as far as Ring of Honor is concerned; for the defending champion, this is just his third match for Ring of Honor, and obviously his first time entering a Survival of the Fittest match. Johnny TV has garnered quite a bit of ROH experience over the last year, even taking part in a Fight Without Honor against Dalton Castle at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024, though he is also a newcomer to SOTF competition. For “The Machine” Brian Cage it's the first time competing in Survival of the Fittest, but he's a 2-Time ROH World Six-Man Champion, and once battled Samoa Joe over the ROH World TV Title two years ago. Lee Johnson comes in having recently given Kyle Fletcher the two toughest defenses of his ROH World TV Title reign, including a classic 2/3 Falls Match during HONOR CLUB #69, and he was a participant in the FINAL BATTLE 2023 Survival of the Fittest bout over the ROH World TV Title, though he was the first eliminated in the contest. Then we've got Shane Taylor and Lio Rush, two men quite familiar with SOTF, the World TV Title, as well as one another.  Second one first; before Thursday night's tag team bout, the last time Lio Rush competed in a ROH ring was April 22, 2017 and the man who beat him in that final appearance was none other than Shane Taylor. Prior to that, Lio Rush made his ROH debut in December 2015 before participating, and winning, the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament. A victory in that tournament propelled him to a ROH World Title fight with Jay Lethal, and though that SUPERCARD OF HONOR X fight was a loss, it put Rush into a position for some of the most important fights of his career. Over the next year Rush would  go to war with Christopher Daniels, Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, The Briscoes, even making it to the Finals of the 2016 Survival of the Fittest Tournament where he was one of the last two men remaining. He was one-third of the team fighting to crown the first-ever ROH World Six-Man Champions, stepped into the ring with The Young Bucks to challenge for the ROH World Tag Team Titles, and challenged for the ROH World TV Title at 15th ANNIVERSARY as one of his last ROH bouts. Suffice to say Lio Rush amassed a great deal of experience under the ROH banner in a very short time, and now he's back to pick up where he left off but now with a great deal more experience under his belt. Then there is Shane Taylor, one of the most dominant ROH World TV Champions of all-time who reigned for 218 days with 12 total defenses during that period, as well as a former World Six-Man Champion, and a finalist of the 2017 Survival of the Fittest Tournament. His eyes are on the ROH World Championship, of that there is no doubt, but he's game to fight for any championship opportunity presented, and that World TV Title represents a great deal to Shane T. It's going to be a rough night for Atlantis Jr. as he tries to retain his title under these most difficult of circumstances; will he wake up Saturday with the title still securely in his possession or will it go home with another man after Survival of the Fittest 2024? ALSO FEATURING: -Komander vs. The Beast Mortos ZERO HOUR -MXM Collection make their debut! -Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs. The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 gets underway at 8pm ET/7pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, with the ZERO HOUR kicking the night off on the official ROH YouTube channel at 7:00pm! We've got three huge championship matches lined up thus far for ROH's biggest event of the summer, and there's plenty more action to join them! The road to FINAL BATTLE 2024 begins now so you do not want to miss out on Ring of Honor's return to Arlington, TX and our debut at the Esports Stadium! Then be sure to join us on Sunday for two separate Ring of Honor taping sessions to experience the fallout from DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 first-hand!

With just twenty-four hours to go until DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, Ring of Honor returns to HONOR CLUB for an action-packed night setting the table for one of ROH's premier annual events! DBD has been a staple of the ROH calendar since 2003, and this year it's hailing from Texas for the very first time, and there are plenty of competitors looking get in on that piece of history! That means tonight is loaded up with action, including ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr teaming with Lio Rush to face the equally unique pairing of Shane Taylor and Johnny TV! Meanwhile Shane T's STP allies, Lee Moriarty and Anthony Ogogo, square off with Blackpool Combat Club members Claudio Castagnoli and ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta, The Gates of Agony are in action against The Spanish Announce Project, The Dark Order take on The Von Erichs, Lexy Nair interviews Queen Aminata and Red Velvet ahead of their DBD '24 title bouts, and so much more from the Esports Stadium! It kicks off tonight at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for Ring of Honor's weekly programming, as well as premier events like DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, and the 20+ years worth of history contained in the video library featuring competitors like Samoa Joe, Jay Lethal, Jay Briscoe, Lacey, Nigel McGuinness, Colt Cabana, and more! TAG TEAM BATTLE... Blackpool Combat Club (ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Anthony Ogogo & Lee Moriarty) On the July 4th edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, ROH Pure Champion met Lee Moriarty in a Proving Ground match, the second time a Pure Title opportunity has ever been on the line in such a situation, but unlike the first time back on the December 14, 2023 edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, the challenger took the champion to the ten-minute time limit. While Yuta seemed happy he escaped the match without being beaten by Moriarty, the fact of the matter is that with that draw, the Shane Taylor Promotions member earned himself a Pure Championship match with the Blackpool Combat Club's lone champion.  It was announced on Wednesday that Moriarty would get that opportunity tomorrow night  at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, but before they clash in that title fight, the two men will meet tonight on Honor Club in tag team competition! It's BCC versus STP when Yuta teams up with Claudio Castagnoli to face Moriarty and Anthony Ogogo, and this will certainly have ramifications on tomorrow night's Pure Title fight! It's about picking up momentum just twenty-four hours before DBD '24, but the question is which man will get that extra push behind them? Tune in to see how everything breaks down tonight on Honor Club! THE CHALLENGERS AND ATHENA'S BESTIE... Last week during HONOR CLUB #73, AEW Women's World Champion Athena told Queen Aminata and Red Velvet that they'd have five minutes of uninterrupted time with Lexy Nair during this week's program. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes-levels of perception to see that this is quite the skewed situation. Lexy is, quite proudly, a member of The M.I.T. And “The Fallen Goddess” Athena has embraced Nair as her bestie for quite some time now. Does that lend itself towards any sort of journalistic neutrality or seem like a situation ripe for exploitation by the ROH World and ROH Women's World TV Champions? Queen Aminata and Red Velvet better have eyes in the back of their heads during this interview time... TAG TEAM BOUT... ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. & Lio Rush vs. Johnny TV & Shane Taylor Atlantis Jr. surprised the wrestling world when he defeated Kyle Fletcher to claim the ROH World TV Championship on the June 28th CMLL event, and as soon as he was able, he made sure to be a defending champion when he faced Serpentico in a championship fight during HONOR CLUB #72 two weeks ago.  Well now he's right back in action in a tag team match that is certainly made of strange bedfellows! The ROH World TV Champion will be joined by Lio Rush, making his first ROH appearance since the April 22, 2017 edition of ROH WRESTLING. Coincidentally enough, Rush's opponent that night was none other than Shane Taylor, one of the men who will also be his opponents, and it will be Johnny TV serving as the former ROH World TV Champion's partner. Shane Taylor has repeatedly stated his desire to become a champion once again in ROH, though his focus has largely been on ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, but surely he'd take a crack at the ROH World TV Title if the opportunity was presented.  That's what this bout represents, the potential to score a fall on Atlantis Jr. and possibly earn a shot at that World TV Title as a result! How will these two unique combinations function tonight during HONOR CLUB, and which odd couple will gel together enough to score victory? TAG TEAM ACTION... The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. The Von Erichs (Marshall & Ross) Last week on COLLISION we heard Dustin Rhodes, along with Kevin Von Erich and his sons Marshall and Ross, discuss their intent to work together to help cultivate the careers of the two young men. Tonight during HONOR CLUB, we get our first look at what the knowledge shared by “The Natural” has done for the Von Erich boys when they square up with one of the most experienced tag teams in ROH, The Dark Order's Alex Reynolds and John Silver! Will it be the experience of The Dark Order that wins out, or the youth of The Von Erichs, combined with anything Dustin Rhodes has been able to pass down over the last few days, that scores victory tonight? TEN-MAN TAG... The Iron Savages (Boulder & Bronson), Anthony Henry, Jacked Jameson, & Nick Comoroto vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin), Action Andretti, Fuego del Sol, & Komander  There's only one word to describe what this ten-man tag team affair means to HONOR CLUB tonight, and that is chaos! It's Fuego Del Sol making his first appearance inside a ROH ring, it's the experienced trio of Top Flight and Action Andretti teaming up with Fuego and Komander, two men with whom they've never untied, and facing off a quintet in a similar situation. The Iron Savages and Jacked Jameson are quite familiar with one another, but less so with Anthony Henry and Nick Comoroto, and who knows where Nick is coming from given his associations with Jacoby Watts in recent months.  This ten-man tag is destined to breakdown and it's going to be a blast for the ROH faithful to watch go down on HONOR CLUB tonight! ALSO FEATURING: -“The Judge” EJ Nduka vs. Jon Cruz!! -Abadon in action! -And more!!!

DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 is just eight days away, and we already know that the ROH World Championship will be on the line between Mark Briscoe and Roderick Strong, the ROH Women's World Title will be at stake between “The Forever Champion” Athena and Queen Aminata, and that Billie Starkz will defend her Women's World TV Championship against Red Velvet. We know Lee Moriarty is owed a ROH Pure Championship match after lasting the time limit on the Proving Ground with 3-Time champ Wheeler Yuta, and that ROH World Tag Champions Matt Taven and Mike Bennett are angling for a night off, but we shall see what else is on tap for ROH's Summer tent pole event! The night begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club , your home for all ROH programming, from the weekly episodes to pay-per-view events like next week's DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 , as well as more than twenty years of wrestling history featuring combatants such as Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, Adam Cole, Allison Danger, The Briscoes, Daizee Haze, Matt Sydal, and more! LIGHTS OUT MATCH... “Legit” Leyla Hirsch vs. Diamante Lights Out; that means there are no rules, this doesn't count towards anyone's records, and has no bearing on championship or contention. This is a first for Ring of Honor, having a Lights Out stipulation that reflects this utter lack of rules, any other matches called as such were more akin to a Last Man Standing where the competitor who couldn't answer the ten count lost. Look through the archives of ROH's twenty-two year history and the closest to this iteration of the Lights Out stipulation would be the seven Unsanctioned matches held since 2002.  It's been more than three years since this type of match took place in Ring of Honor, a fight between Vincent and Matt Taven at the 19TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW to be exact, but none of these matches have ever taken place in the Women's Division, that is until tonight on Honor Club! After everything Leyla Hirsch and Diamante have been through in ROH, three singles matches, a Four Corner Survival, as well as multiple tags and trios, the two women are finally aiming to settle their issues in this Lights Out Match! With the rules tossed out the window, with only their pride on the line, who will be able to walk about of this fight under their own power? Hirsch has been the victor in their three previous one-on-one wrestling matches, but this isn't a hold-for-hold wrestling bout, this is a playground where tables and chairs and weapons of any kind are perfectly legal to use at all times! It's going to be a violent night on Honor Club as we head towards DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 next Friday night; will either of these women be in any shape to partake in that PPV extravaganza? TRIOS MATCH... Dalton Castle & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs. Lance Archer & The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) Fans saw The Outrunners show their support for Dalton Castle last Saturday night on COLLISION when he faced Roderick Strong with the DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 World Championship match on the line, primarily to serve as a balance for Matt Taven and Mike Bennett, but theirs is a bond that just seems to fit. So while Castle may now be on the outside of the ROH World Title fight between Strong and Mark Briscoe on July 26th, he's still got eyes on finding a way to be part of DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, so that means getting right back into competition with this Trios match against the rather terrifying force of The Righteous and Lance Archer! Dutch, Vincent, and “The Murderhawk Monster” are 6-2 in Trios competition here in Ring of Honor, one of the loses coming as part of a Four Corner Survival Trios bout and the other in a ROH World Six-Man Title fight with The Mogul Embassy back in January. Suffice to say they are a much more experienced group than Dalton, Truth Magnum, and Turbo Floyd, and it's going to be an uphill battle for the former ROH World Champion to lead The Outrunners to victory! Still, Castle has shown a knack for Trios competition over the years, a true skill at honing competitors into a well-oiled Trio, and perhaps he can do that with The Outrunners starting tonight on Honor Club!!! THE M.I.T. SPEAKETH! ROH Women's World Champion Athena and ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz both have title defenses on tap next week in Arlington, TX, the former against Queen Aminata and the latter against Red Velvet, and lets just say that neither is happy about Athena's situation. She claims injury but cameras have captured footage that claims otherwise, and Athena even stepped into a Prestige Wrestling week just six days ago for her first match since May, though she did so wearing that boot on her foot (an accessory she actually used to win the match). Regardless of if Athena's injury has legitimacy, and ROH medical would not clear there if they felt it did, she's got a title match in just eight days, Billie Starkz has one in eight days, so tonight on Honor Club we will hear from both women as they prepare for the championship contests! ALSO FEATURING: -Women's World Championship #1 Contender Queen Aminata in action! -Women's World TV Title #1 Contender Red Velvet in action!! -Cage of Agony (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun, & Toa Liona) in Trios competition!!! -And more!

On Friday July 26th at Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, TX ROH Triple Crown winner Roderick Strong will attempt to recapture the Ring of Honor World Title when he takes on ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe at Death Before Dishonor! ROH Death Before Dishonor Esports Stadium Arlington Arlington, TX July 26, 2024 Buy Tickets

After months of continued back and forth, ROH Women's World Television Champion Billie Starkz and challenger Red Velvet will clash for the title at ROH Death Before Dishonor! ROH Death Before Dishonor Esports Stadium Arlington Arlington, TX July 26, 2024 Buy Tickets

With an injury still in question, ROH Women's World Champion Athena will defend her title against Queen Aminata at ROH Death Before Dishonor! ROH Death Before Dishonor Esports Stadium Arlington Arlington, TX July 26, 2024 Buy Tickets

The clock is ticking down towards DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 ( www.rohtix.com ) on July 26th and we now know that ROH Women's World Champion Athena will defend her title against Queen Aminata while ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz puts hers on the line against Red Velvet. In addition, we recently witnessed Lee Moriarty earn a ROH Pure Championship match on the Proving Ground with Wheeler Yuta, and we know there are plenty of teams gunning for the ROH World Tag Championship held by The Undisputed Kingdom!  The face of DBD '24 will continue to take shape tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB as Billie Starkz welcomes another competitor onto the Proving Ground as Lee Johnson and The Infantry go into Trios combat with The Dark Order, Skye Blue fights in ROH action, as does Diamante, and we've got a Three Way fight between Marina Shafir, Robyn Renegade, and Taya Valkyrie! Plus newly crowned ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr. faces Serpentico on the Proving Ground, and The Righteous go into Trios combat with Lance Archer at their side! The bouts begin at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for  ROH programming, the weekly program as well as pay-per-view events like the upcoming DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, plus over twenty years of wrestling history featuring fighters like Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, Jay Lethal, Sara Del Rey, Serena Deeb, The Briscoes, The Kingdom, Samoa Joe, and more! TRIOS ACTION... Lee Johnson & The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) vs.  The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, John Silver, & Evil Uno) Last week we saw The Dark Order compete against members of The Bang Bang Gang in trios competition, albeit not the triumvirate that hold the Undisputed World Trios Championship, but rather The Gunns and Juice Robinson, and though they gave it their best effort, The Dark Order was stifled in their attempt at victory. It was a continuation of the roller coast year that they've had in 2024, ups and downs with consistency slipping through their fingers, but that doesn't mean they'll just roll over and let the losses take their toll. Instead they are right back in the mix tonight on Honor Club when The Dark Order takes on the combination of Lee Johnson and The Infantry! This is just their second outing as a trio, the first taking place way back on HONOR CLUB #48, but they demonstrated a lot of promise in that victory over The Iron Savages, and aim to pick up where they left off in this Dark Order battle! Can Reynolds, Uno, and Silver get it on track and become contenders for the Trios Championship or will they be frustrated once again as they were in their fight with The BBG? PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. vs. Serpentico On June 28th, at CMLL's SUPER VIERNES event, Atlantis Jr. defeated “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher to become the new ROH World Television Champion. It was a simultaneous first, Atlantis Jr.'s first match involving Ring of Honor and Kyle Fletcher's first match for CMLL, and it proved a historic night for both of them! Now, tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, Atlantis Jr. marks another historic moment in his career as he wrestles on ROH programming for the very first time when he invites Serpentico onto the Proving Ground! This marks Serpentico's third Proving Ground match, his first with a potential TV Title match at stake, can he succeed here where he failed against Claudio Castagnoli and Eddie Kingston with ROH World Title fights on the line? PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz vs. Mackenzie Morgan Billie Starkz and “The Fallen Goddess” Athena both learned last week that at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 ( www.rohtix.com ) they will be defending their ROH Women's World TV Title and ROH Women's World Championship against Red Velvet and Queen Aminata respectively. Athena can claim “not medically cleared” all she wants, but clearly the ROH Board of Directors and ROH President Tony Khan think otherwise and have slotted her for a title defense in Arlington, TX! But before we get there, Billie Starkz still has to deal with potential challenges to her crown in the form of Proving Ground competition, and this week that means facing Southaven's own Mackenzie Morgan! Morgan, creeping on her two year anniversary as a professional, has racked up quite a bit of experience in her time competing, even holding the Women's Title for CWFM (Championship Wrestling From Memphis) for 310+ days and counting, but this is a huge leap up in competition for Morgan. That being said, it's also a huge opportunity to make an impression and earn a title fight. Last ten minutes, or actually beat the champion; thus far no one has beaten Billie Starkz on the Proving Ground, and no one has lasted longer than five minutes. With Starkz focused on Red Velvet and DBD '24, can Mackenzie Morgan be the first? ALSO FEATURING: -Skye Blue in action! -Diamante steps into the ring!! -And more!!!

DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 is twenty-two days away and the champions of Ring of Honor (most of them at least) are looking to see who will step up to challenge them in Arlington, TX! Last week then-ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher tried to be the one heading into that tentpole event as both TV Champion and ROH World Champion, but Mark Briscoe turned away his challenge last Thursday during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, and then Atlantis Jr. defeated him for the ROH World TV Title in CMLL on Friday!   In the realm of the two women's championship in ROH, we witnessed Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz turn away another Proving Ground challenge and heard Women's World Champion Athena claim she would now be out eight months thanks to Red Velvet and Queen Aminata, but we will hear more from them tonight during the show. The ROH World Tag Team Champions are on the lookout for new challenges, so they'll be in Proving Ground action against Komander and Metalik, while ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta returns to ROH competition for the first time since FINAL BATTLE 2023 to meet Lee Moriarty on the Proving Grounds! It all begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club ( www.watchroh.com ), your home for all ROH programming, both the weekly program and pay-per-view events like the upcoming DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, as well as more then twenty years of the best pound-for-pound wrestling on the planet featuring men like Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, The Briscoes, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly,  The Kings of Wrestling, and more! THE M.I.T HAS WORDS TO SHARE... ROH Women's World Champion Athena claimed she was injured so it would be several months before she'd return to action, now she claims that the actions of Red Velvet and Queen Aminata two weeks ago caused further damage and it will be up to eight months before she's able to compete. Regardless of if there is any truth in any of her claims, Athena refuses to relinquish the ROH Women's World Title she's now held for 573 days while her compatriot Billie Starkz keeps knocking down potential challengers on the Proving Ground. With DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 right around the corner, and both Red Velvet and Queen Aminata gunning for those titles, we will hear from the M.I.T contingent tonight on HONOR CLUB! PROVING GROUND... ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta vs. Lee Moriarty It has been six months since the last time ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta defended his title, seven months since he last appeared on ROH programming at FINAL BATTLE 2023, but that is all no fault of his own. Injury put him on the shelf following his Continental Crown bout with Eddie Kingston at AEW's RAMPAGE: HOMECOMING 2024 event, and it has been just one month since Yuta returned to action in All Elite Wrestling. He has had four matches in that time; a tag, a trios bout, and two eight-man tags, so that makes this Proving Ground match tonight Yuta's first singles since 1/12/24 and his first Pure Rules bout since the 1/5/24 defense against Komander.  It seems appropriate that it is Lee Moriarty who Yuta meets in this situation, theirs is a rivalry dating back five years, and one of Yuta's first matches as a BCC member actually include Moriarty in the opposing trio. The two men even fought in a Pure Rules match during ROH ON HONOR CLUB #39 back in November of last year, a bout won by Yuta that set him up for winning his third Pure Title just two days later on RAMPAGE when he beat Shibata. That's another tie that binds these two actually, the only Pure Championship challenge Moriarty has experienced was against Shibata on the 6/2/23 edition of RAMPAGE, a loss that has haunted Lee ever since as he feels this is a title custom made for his particular skill set. Well tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, Moriarty will have a chance to earn his another shot at the title when he faces Yuta in a Proving Ground match contested under Pure Rules! This is just the second time a Pure Championship opportunity has been made possible via Proving Ground, the first taking place during HONOR CLUB #42 last December, also featuring Yuta as the champion putting it on the line. Will Lee Moriarty succeed where Jason Geiger failed? All he need do is last the ten minute limit with  Yuta to get his shot, but an actual fall on the champ would be so much sweeter!  PROVING GROUND... ROH World Tag Team Champions Matt Taven & Mike Bennett vs. Komander & Metalik The Undisputed Kingdom of Matt Taven and Mike Bennett have reigned as ROH World Tag Team Champions since December 27th, and in that time have successfully defended their titles on three occasions. Now some may look at three defenses in 190 days as avoiding challenges, but it doesn't take into consideration the nine Proving Ground matches in which they've faced potential challengers, or the eight times they've prevented teams from earning a future title opportunity. The Infantry were the only team Taven and Bennett faced that were capable of taking them to the time limit draw, but Carlie Bravo and Capt. Shawn Dean were unsuccessful in claiming the belts in their title fight at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024.  So now The UK continues to search for another team capable of giving them a challenge, of conquering the Proving Ground, and earning a ROH World Tag Team Championship bout. In that quest to find challengers as DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 draws near, Taven and Bennett welcome one man familiar to Proving Ground competition and another new to the opportunity. Komander, alongside Bryan Keith, faced Taven and Bennett in the first Proving Ground match of their third championship reign and fell just ninety seconds shy of lasting the ten minute time limit. Metalik, on the other hand, has never been in the ring with Bennett or Taven in any capacity despite being part of this new era of honor since FINAL BATTLE 2022, and his prior Proving Ground experience was in World Six-Man mode against The Mogul Embassy. Clearly the UK have the experience advantage, this is just the second time Metalik and Komander have been a tag team, but their unpredictable offense could be the ticket to being the second team to overcome Taven and Bennett on the Proving Ground!

Thursday evening means Ring of Honor is back in action exclusively on Honor Club, and the action gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT featuring the ROH World Championship on the line between Mark Briscoe and ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher, ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz in Proving Ground action, as well as “The Problem” Marina Shafir back in the ring, The Righteous and Lance Archer in Trios competition, and kicking off with The Dark Order's Alex Reynolds facing “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson! ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Mark Briscoe(c) vs. ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher In recent weeks ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe and ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher have had their run-ins on AEW television. In fact, it was just two weeks ago that Fletcher pinned Mark in a Trios bout, a situation that often results in the champion putting their title on the line against the individual who pinned them. Yet that's not all Kyle Fletcher has on his resume to justify a championship match, it also goes even deeper than his status as ROH World TV Champion, though he's been an exemplary one in both title fights and Proving Ground bouts. Fletcher's worthiness as a World Championship challenger is also bolstered by the fact he's unbeaten in singles competition in Ring of Honor, a winning streak dating back to May 2022 and ROH ON HONOR CLUB #11 where he bested former ROH World TV Champion Tony Deppen, and currently standing at eighteen consecutive victories including the six-way Survival of the Fittest elimination bout where he own the World TV Title, and last week's 2/3 Falls championship victory over Lee Johnson. “The Protostar” has demonstrated his in-ring prowess time after time here in ROH, but now he's faced with the biggest challenge of his tenure in this ROH World Championship fight with Mark Briscoe! Mark's ROH accolades speak for themselves, thirteen times over a World Tag Champion with brother Jay, former World Six-Man champion, a man who has been part of the company since day one, but only captured his first singles title at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 when he bested Eddie Kingston. After taking some time for his family and the latest addition to the Briscoe lineage, Mark got embroiled in House of Black business along with Adam Copeland and Eddie Kingston, got wrangled into Don Callis Family affairs as well, and even earned his way into Sunday night's TNT Championship Ladder Match at FORBIDDEN DOOR 2024, but through it all he's never taken his mind off ROH business, even engaging in a war of words with Shane Taylor over social media. But tonight's ROH World Championship battle is no war of words, it's a battle for the heart and soul of ROH, and the risk of its twenty-plus year history now being held under the umbrella of the Don Callis Family. Mark isn't about to let that happen without giving the biggest fight of his life, and he's not about to let this title he's worked so hard to earn slip away on his first defense. That being said, Kyle Fletcher is going to throw everything he's got at Chicken in order to join the ranks of ROH Triple Crown winners, as well as become just the second man (after Jay Lethal) to simultaneously hold the ROH World and TV Championships. Will we wake up Friday morning to find a new day has dawned under the shadow of Kyle Fletcher or will Mark Briscoe keep the ROH World Championship in Sandy Fork as he then moves towards adding the TNT Championship to his trophy case? PROVING GROUND... ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz vs. Angelica Risk Making her fourth appearance inside a ROH ring, Angelica Risk steps onto the Proving Ground for the second time in her set of matches. Coincidentally her very first match for ROH was also that first PG match, and it was against ROH Women's World Champion Athena! Now Risk did her level best to earn that title shot against “The Fallen Goddess”, actually surviving five minutes of the ten minute time limit, which is better than many of the Proving Ground challengers accomplished against Athena. That was May 4th of 2023, ROH ON HONOR CLUB #10 to be exact, and though Risk would step into the ring with Marina Shafir and Leyla Hirsch, she wouldn't score a victory in her trio of 2023 matches for ROH. Well it's been nearly a year since her ROH ON HONOR CLUB #27 appearance, and Angelica Risk has amassed plenty of experience in that time! Will it be enough to overcome Billie Starkz, or at least last the time limit to earn a title shot? And given how last week went with Queen Aminata and Red Velvet, one can't help but wonder if Starkz will have her mind focused on this fight or be more concerned with the whereabouts of the women who have their sights set on the M.I.T! ONE-ON-ONE... “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson vs. The Dark Order's Alex Reynolds A week ago “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson had the opportunity of a lifetime when he challenged Kyle Fletcher for the ROH World Television Championship in a 2/3 Falls match. Though the bout did not go Johnson's way, he managed to score a fall on the defending champion roughly fifteen minutes into the bout, proving he was capable of beating “The Protostar”. Unfortunately Lee would fall to Fletcher five minutes later, leaving the challenger rather unsatisfied, but with a taste of what it would feel like to defeat Kyle to claim the World TV Title as his own. Now he wants more, after facing Kyle in that bout and their previous SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 fight, Lee Johnson wants another shot at becoming a champion in Ring of Honor, but that means earning his way back into contention with victories. “Big Shotty” hopes to begin another road to the title tonight on Honor Club when he faces The Dark Order's Alex Reynolds in singles competition! Singles bouts are a rare thing for Reynolds since joining The Dark Order, more often competing in tags, trios, and other multi-man bouts over the past several years, but that doesn't mean Alex isn't a threat in the singles games just as he is those formats. This is quite the exciting clash set for tonight on Honor Club that could make a real impact on future contention for the World Television Championship! ALSO FEATURING: -Taya Valkyrie vs. Trish Adora! -“The Problem” Marina Shafir in action! -Lance Archer & The Righteous in Trios competition! DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 is a month away and everyone in the ROH locker room wants to be a part of the extravaganza in Arlington, TX! Will we have a new ROH World Champion heading into the twenty-first year of DBD? Who will earn contendership for the other champions in Ring of Honor? There are a whole lot of questions to be answered as July 26th draws near and those answers can be found every Thursday night only on Honor Club!