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SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 is just over two weeks away, and the line-up for ROH's return home to Philadelphia is beginning to take shape! ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston has laid down the challenge to Mark Briscoe for a fight at the Liacouras Center, and former 3-Time AEW Women's World Champion Hikaru Shida stepped up to the challenge of ROH Women's World Champion Athena! We are also barreling towards the crowning of the first ROH Women's World TV Champion as Queen Aminata, Red Velvet, Billie Starkz, and Mercedes Martinez remain to vie for a spot in the finals at SOH '24! This week during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, we will see who advances to the championship fight, as well as welcome Shida for her first ROH fight! But she's not the only ROH debut this week; Anna Jay makes her first appearance in the ROH ring to take on Stardom's Mina Shirakawa in her ROH debut, and Smart Mark Sterling has his first ROH singles match against Serpentico! It all goes down this Thursday night beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for more than 20 years of professional wrestling history from the most influential promotion of this century! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TV TITLE TOURNAMENT... SEMI-FINAL 1... Billie Starkz vs. Mercedes Martinez Diamante proved to be a crucial factor in the Quarter-Final matches for both Billie Starkz and Mercedes Martinez. For Starkz, Diamante's role came in being the woman she defeated to advance to this Semi-Final contest on Thursday night, while for Mercedes Martinez, Diamante may be the only reason she is sitting her as a Semi-Finalist ready to fight Billie Starkz. Her involvement in Mercedes' fight with Abadon directly led to a Martinez victory, so the question has to be asked if she will involve herself in this Semi-Final fight as well; partly for revenge on Starkz and partly to help bolster her ally to the championship fight at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024? As was the case with Diamante in the Quarter-Finals, this is a first time singles bout for Billie Starkz and Mercedes, but Martinez holds that Tornado Tag victory over Starkz from HONOR CLUB #35 while Starkz was part of the victorious team at AEW's WRESTLEDREAM 2023 event. Can Starks overcome the veteran experience, as well as the potential involvement of Diamante, to advance to the finals, or will it be Mercedes Martinez who gets closer to holding the second ROH championship of her career? SEMI-FINAL 2... Queen Aminata vs. Red Velvet On the April 21, 2021 edition of AEW DARK Queen Aminata made her very first appearance inside an All Elite Wrestling ring. That night she was in tag team action and on the opposite side of the ring was none other than Red Velvet. Velvet was on the victorious team that evening, but the two women would meet once more, this time in singles competition on the September 6, 2021 edition of DARK: ELEVATION, but it would once again be Red Velvet scoring the win. That was the last time these two women stood inside the ring together, but that all changes this Thursday night on Honor Club when Queen Aminata and Red Velvet meet in the Semi-Finals of the ROH Women's World TV Championship tournament! Since her debut in ROH on HONOR CLUB #45, Queen Aminata has won six consecutive matches, five of them in singles competition, including a Four Corner Survival over Lady Frost, Diamante, and Trish Adora, and has looked superb in each bout. Her confidence has continued to grow with each victory, and it shows in the words she speaks, the way she carries herself to the ring, and in how she fights each match. Red Velvet made her ROH debut on that same edition as Queen Aminata, and she too remains undefeated with five straight wins, including a Four Corner Survival of her own that included Diamante, Kiera Hogan, and Trish Adora. Just like Queen, Red Velvet continues to build up her confidence and her momentum as she marches forward on this quest to become the first ROH Women's World TV Champion! This is going to be a hard-fought battle, of that there is no doubt, and each woman is going to know they've been through it at the end of the contest, but the winner will know they earned their way into the finals. In a tournament field full of pick'ems, this fight between Queen Aminata and Red Velvet may be the hardest one to call! ONE-ON-ONE... Hikaru Shida vs. Rachael Ellering With SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 approaching, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena made it clear she was looking for something to step up to challenge her on April 5th, and with the opportunity laid out on the table last week, it was 3-Time former AEW Women's World Champion Hikaru Shida who sat down to eat! Her arrival during ROH ON HONOR CLUB marked Shida's first time on ROH programming, and this Thursday night will feature her very first time competing inside ROH's squared circle as she prepares to meet Athena in Philadelphia! Shida has a tough fight on her plate though as Rachael Ellering has accepted the match, and aims to prove her own worth in the championship picture! Ellering may have been eliminated from the TV Title Tournament by her best friend Leyla Hirsch, but that doesn't mean her title aspirations are dead, and if she can overcome Shida so close to her SOH '24 championship match, perhaps it will set Ellering up as the next challenger coming out of April 5th's PPV extravaganza! DEBUTS... Stardom's Mina Shirakawa vs. Anna Jay This bout on Thursday night welcomes two women to ROH competition for the very first time! Anna Jay is a competitor that AEW fans have watched grow before their very eyes, from “The Star of the Show” to “The Queen Slayer” to one of the most dangerous women in that locker room, with her time under the learning trees of Mr. Brodie Lee and Chris Jericho helping to hone her skills. Now she brings those lessons, and her Queen Slayer choke, into the Ring of Honor ring for her first-ever ROH match, but will it be enough when faced with the attack of Stardom's Mina Shirakawa? Shirakawa comes to ROH having held the Future of Stardom Championship, the Artist of Stardom Championship (with Tam Nakano and Unagi Sayaka), the Wonder of Stardom Championship, and the Goddesses of Stardom Championship (with Mariah May), all with just five years of experience to her resume, and even challenged Mayu Iwatani for the IWGP Women's Championship less than a month ago at NEW BEGINNING IN SAPPORO 2024! Shirakawa brings a strike-heavy style to bear, putting her extensive kickboxing training to use in the wrestling ring, and she's even put in training time at the UWF Snake Pit in Japan! She has a predilection for attacking the legs with her kicks, and often looks to finish her foes with the Glamorous Collection MINA or the Glamorous Driver MINA. This is going to be true test of how far Anna Jay has come in her career, but so too will it be a test of what Mina Shirakawa brings to the fight! Anna has shown her willingness to get violent and throwdown when the situation requires, and she is going to give Mina every bit of fight she's got! ALSO FEATURING: -“Big Shotty” Lee Johnson in action! -“Smart” Mark Sterling vs. Serpentico!! -And More!!!

Former 3-time AEW Women's World Champ Hikaru Shida takes on the longest reigning Ring of Honor Women's World Champ Athena at Supercard of Honor! ROH SUPERCARD OF HONOR The Liacouras Center Philadelphia, PA April 5, 2024 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Mark Briscoe finally gets his shot at the Ring of Honor World Title as he takes on the champion Eddie Kingston at Supercard of Honor! ROH SUPERCARD OF HONOR The Liacouras Center Philadelphia, PA April 5, 2024 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Last week on Honor Club, the ROH faithful watched as Red Velvet advanced to the Semi-Final round of the ROH Women's World TV Title Tournament, and this Thursday night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB we will watch the last two Quarter-Final bouts unfold before our eyes! Will it be Billie Starkz or Diamante who advances in the field? Can Abadon get past former ROH Women's World Champion Mercedes Martinez to advance? We will see this Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT only on Honor Club, the home for Ring of Honor's 20+ year history featuring the most influential wrestling company of this century! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Quarter-Finals Billie Starkz vs. Diamante ***WINNER FACES MERCEDES MARTINEZ/ABADON WINNER*** With SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 drawing closer, this Thursday night ROH ON HONOR CLUB presents the last two Quarter-Final match-ups on the Women's World Television Tournament. We have already seen Queen Aminata and Red Velvet advance to the Semi-Finals, leaving four women to claim the other two spots in the Semi's; will it be Billie Starkz, Diamante, Mercedes Martinez, or Abadon? In the match-up between Starkz and Diamante, we've got a battle between some familiar foes who had their share of issues last fall. Starkz was able to score a victory over Diamante in their singles match back on HONOR CLUB #34, but in their Tornado Tag a week later, with ROH Women's World Champion Athena and Mercedes Martinez as their respective partners, the outcome was quite different and Starkz lost one for “The Fallen Goddess”. Fast forward twenty weeks to this Thursday and we find Billie Starkz seemingly more driven than she was heading into her FINAL BATTLE 2023 bout with Athena, and that's saying quite a lot. It's as if the disappointment in that loss, combined with the approval of the ROH Women's World Champion, and Athena pushing Starkz to win this tournament, have unlocked a new level of determination in young Billie. Still, she finds herself up against stiff competition in Diamante, a woman with a wealth of experience and knowledge who's also quite hungry to strap a championship around her waist. There is going to be a tremendous fight between these two on Thursday night to see who advances, but it's also going to be quite interesting to see who advances in the other bout as there's the potential for partners to collide in Mercedes Martinez versus Diamante! Mercedes Martinez vs. Abadon ***WINNER FACES BILLIE STARKZ/DIAMANTE WINNER*** Speaking of Mercedes, she finds herself with the staunch opponent on Thursday in the form of “The Living Dead Girl” Abadon! They've been on strong run in ROH, winning three consecutive bouts, but Mercedes Martinez is a former ROH Women's World Champion, a step up from the competition Abadon has faced thus far in Ring of Honor, though it can be said Mercedes has never faced an entity quite like Abadon either. Mercedes brings heavy firepower to all her fights, but is it enough to put Abadon down for the count and move forward in this tournament? We will find out this Thursday on Honor Club as the shape of the ROH Women's World TV Title Tournament Semi-Finals takes form! TAG TEAM RETURN! 2009 was the last time Orange Cassidy appeared in a Ring of Honor ring and suffice it to say, he was a very different animal way back then. Now he comes into the ROH ring as a former 2-Time AEW International Champion, the man who gave that title its identity and built its value into something coveted by the AEW locker room, but on a mission to prepare for tag team greatness! See with the AEW World Tag Team Championship vacant, there will be a tournament kicking off very soon, and with Chuck Taylor still on the injured reserve, Trent Beretta has tapped Orange Cassidy to be his tag team tournament partner! That means getting in as many reps as possible before the tournament kicks off, and with a tag team bout against Dark Order already set for RAMPAGE, they've decided to step into ROH competition to get into tag team mode! The chase for the AEW World Tag Titles is going to be a hot one, and for the Orange/Beretta tandem, it begins this Thursday night on HONOR CLUB! ALSO FEATURING: -ROH Women's World Champion Athena on the Proving Ground! -Four Corner Survival: AR Fox vs. Jack Cartwheel vs. Komander vs. Slim J!! -Four Corner Survival: Kiera Hogan vs. Lady Frost vs. Leyla Hirsch vs. Robyn Renegade!!! -“The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer in action! -Trios Action: Action Andretti & Top Flight vs. Iron Savages & Jacked Jameson!! -Lee Johnson vs. Aaron Solo -The Workhorsemen vs. Nick Comoroto & Jacoby Watts

Last week the ROH faithful witnessed Queen Aminata become the first woman to advance to the Semi-Final round of the ROH Women's World TV Title Tournament, and this Thursday night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB we will find out The Queen's opponent! It's a renewal of an old rivalry as Red Velvet takes on Leyla Hirsch in the next Quarter-Final match, and we will also see another Quarter-Finalist, Abadon, compete in non-tournament action ahead of her fight with Mercedes Martinez! Plus four teams will collide in Four Corner Survival action with so much more is set to come your way starting at 7pm ET/6pm CT only on Honor Club, your home for the 20+ year history of the most influential wrestling company of this century! Quarter-Finals Red Velvet vs. “Legit” Leyla Hirsch ***WINNER FACES QUEEN AMINATA IN SEMI-FINALS*** Red Velvet and Leyla Hirsch are no strangers to one another, in fact theirs is a relationship that dates back a little over two years to an actual friendship that disintegrated into rivalry. From January to March of 2022, the two athletes engaged in a trio of matches beginning with a submission victory for Hirsch on the 1/26/22 edition of DYNAMITE, followed by a Red Velvet win on the 3/18 RAMPAGE, and ultimately won by Leyla Hirsch on the 3/23 episode of DYNAMITE thanks to a little assist from a piece of steel. Hirsch would unfortunately end up on the injured list just a few weeks later, suffering the injury that kept her out of action for fourteen months, effectively putting an end to the issues between her and Red Velvet, that is until now when both are in the hunt to be the first ROH Women's TV Champion. Both are in a very different place in their careers than where they were in 2022, not just the difference between AEW and ROH, but in terms of how they are handling their business. Hirsch has seemingly found a kindred spirit in Rachael Ellering after both nearly fell into the Maria trap last year while Velvet has chosen to ride solo since her arrival in ROH at the beginning of 2024. Each has had varying degrees of success, and both went through tough fights to get into the Quarter-Final round of this tournament, Red Velvet overcoming the debuting Sandra Moone while Hirsch inadvertently hurt Ellering en route to that victory over her closest friend. This Thursday night, nearly two years since their last match, Red Velvet and Leyla Hirsch will rekindle their rivalry as each tries to advance to the tournament Semi-Finals! Has time healed those old wounds, allowing this to be the competitive wrestling contest it could be, or are they still quite raw, potentially turning this into a bitter fight? ALSO FEATURING: -Abadon in action! -Four Corner Survival: Jack Cartwheel & Gringo Loco vs. Angelico & Serpentico vs. The Workhorsemen vs. The Infantry -Lee Johnson vs. Jon Cruz -“The Native Beast” Nyla Rose competes!!

Last week another four women moved onto the Quarter-Final round of the ROH Women's World TV Title Tournament, and this Thursday night ROH ON HONOR CLUB presents the first bout of that round exclusively on Honor Club! This week we will see Taya Valkyrie take on Queen Aminata in Quarter-Final action while another Quarter-Finalist, Abadon, will compete in non-tournament action ahead of her fight with Mercedes Martinez! Plus Taiji Ishimori returns to ROH for the first time since April 2019's G1 SUPERCARD event at Madison Square Garden, Johnny TV wants custody of The Boys from Dalton Castle, and there's so much more coming to you beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT only on Honor Club; your home for the 20+ year history of the most influential wrestling company of this century! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT... Quarter-Final Match Taya Valkyrie vs. Queen Aminata After her victory last week over Sussy Love, Taya Valkyrie feels like Ring of Honor hasn't challenged her, and the multi-time World Champion is hungry for greater competition in the Women's TV Championship Tournament! Well with how the brackets are laid out, it looks like “La Wera Loca” is going to get that fight she desires in the Quarter-Finals because she's set to face the red-hot Queen Aminata this Thursday! Coming off a dominant victory over J-Rod two weeks ago, Aminata is looking to the past of Taya Valkyrie in hopes that it will spur “La Wera Loca” to step up her game and give The Queen the fight she hopes for. Whether or not that is the smartest call by Aminata remains to be seen, but it goes to show that The Queen does not desire any easy path to the championship, she'd rather be tested with each round so, in the end, she can raise that title over her head knowing it was earned being in the fight rather than avoiding it. This is sure to be a hard-hitting affair as both women are known to throw down once that bell rings, but who will be left standing to move on into the Semi-Final round? FOR THE BOYS! Dalton Castle vs. Johnny TV Ever since FINAL BATTLE 2023, Dalton Castle has been on the hunt to smash Johnny TV's face in for getting him eliminated in Survival of the Fittest, which also meant losing the chance to be the new AEW World Television Champion. Castle has chased Johnny TV from arena-to-arena, he's driven himself a bit mad in the process, and probably pushed Lexy Nair to the brink as she's had to cover all the insanity as it's unfolded. Castle even went so far as to disguise himself as his friend “Hombre de Pavo Real de Montana”, which roughly translates to “Mountain Peacock Man”, in an effort to get a fight with Johnny TV. The attempt failed, after all it was quite obvious that Dalton was the one in disguise, but Johnny promised give the former ROH World Champion a path to the fight...he just made Castle wait to find out. That key to getting an opportunity to punching Johnny TV's face in turned out to be turning The Boys over the Johnny TV and Taya Valkyrie! Dalton looked befuddled, quite unsure of what to do when the proposal was laid out on the table, and last week we didn't even see Dalton Castle as he continued to debate on the right thing to do. But now we know the choice, and Dalton is going to fight Johnny TV this week on Honor Club!! Is this going to be a decision Castle regrets? Has his let his desire to punch that TV-Ready face overwhelm his desire to take care of The Boys? And if Johnny TV wins, just what do he and Taya have planned for these poor souls? ALSO FEATURING: -Komander vs. Blake Christian -Taiji Ishimori vs. Jacoby Watts -Lee Johnson vs. Mike Sydal -AND MORE!

With four women having moved onto the next round of the ROH Women's World TV Title Tournament, ROH ON HONOR CLUB is back this Thursday night with the final first round bouts only at WatchROH.com, but that is not all on tap! ROH Women's World Champion Athena will defend her title against “The Native Beast” Nyla Rose in a 2-Of-3 Falls Tables Match, we've got Four Corner Survival action, Ethan Page taking on The Workhorsemen's Anthony Henry, Brandon Cutler versus Danhausen, and so much more!!! The action begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT only on Honor Club, the home for 20+ years of ROH history, the most influential wrestling company of the century! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT... First Round Taya Valkyrie vs. Sussy Love ***WINNER FACES QUEEN AMINATA*** Billie Starkz vs. Robyn Renegade ***WINNER FACES DIAMANTE*** Abadon vs. Viva Van ***WINNER FACES MERCEDES MARTINEZ*** Red Velvet vs. Sandra Moone ***WINNER FACES LEYLA HIRSCH*** Eight women remain in the first round of the ROH Women's World Television Championship Tournament, and it is quite the eclectic mix of competitors who remain! Five of them are quite familiar to the Ring of Honor fanbase, women who have been grinding it out in ROH (as well as AEW), and have set their sights on making history as the first ROH Women's World TV Champion. Billie Starkz has been set on this path by Athena, Abadon has come to ROH to claim championship success, Red Velvet has been hunting a title since returning from injury just as Taya Valkyrie has since she debuted in AEW, and Robyn Renegade wants to disrupt the entire tournament by knocking Starkz out in the first round. As for the other three women, Sussy Love is making her ROH debut on Thursday night and at just 30 years old, she already has 15 years of experience under her belt working in Mexico. Viva Van has six years of experience under her belt, has scored nearly a dozen championships during that time, and actually challenged Mercedes Martinez for the ROH Women's World Championship back on the 5/31/22 edition of DARK. She also stepped into the ring with Skye Blue during HONOR CLUB #16, and now returns to ROH attempting to make history as the 1st ROH Women's TV Champ, a situation that is also the case for Sandra Moone. Moone, herself a veteran of seven years, has been putting in hard fought bouts at West Coast Pro, and made her lone ROH appearance last year on the Jay Briscoe Tribute & Celebration of Life event. Which four of these women will move onto the Quarter-Finals of the tournament to meet Mercedes Martinez, Leyla Hirsch, Queen Aminata, and Diamante? ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2/3 FALLS TABLES MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. “The Native Beast” Nyla Rose “The Fallen Goddess” Athena has been the face of Ring of Honor Wrestling since FINAL BATTLE 2022 when she defeated Mercedes Martinez to claim the ROH Women's World Championship as her own. In the 439 days since, Athena has successfully defended the title nineteen times across ROH, All Elite Wrestling, and even outside those confines for Prestige Wrestling out of Portland, OR. She's beaten Kiera Hogan on three occasions, Marina Shafir, Yuka Sakazaki, Miyu Yamashita twice, Skye Blue, Willow Nightingale two times, as well as her own minion Billie Starkz, just to name a few of her victims. As if those stats weren't testament enough to Athena's standing atop the whole of ROH, “The Fallen Goddess” is also 47-2 in ROH competition, and completely undefeated in singles bouts with 45 victories. It is a streak unmatched by anyone in the entirety of ROH's 22 year history, and now just one day before that 22nd anniversary of The Era of Honor Begins, Athena will put her title on the line once again, this time against the most imposing force she's faced to date: “The Native Beast” Nyla Rose! Rose, a former AEW Women's World Champion, is a deadly competitor by herself, but when it comes to Table Play, she may be the worst possible opponent Athena could face. Nyla is quick, she's powerful,  can come off the top with that devastating knee, and can Beast Bomb her opponent through the table with devastating force. After all this time standing atop the ROH Women's Division, after all the opponents, and all the championship challengers, has “The Fallen Goddess” finally met a challenge she can't overcome? We will find out this Thursday night only on Honor Club! ALSO FEATURING: -Four Corner Survival: AR Fox vs. Exodus Prime vs. Matt Sydal vs. Komander -Brandon Cutler vs. Danhausen -“All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Anthony Henry -AND MORE!!! Also, in a tradition dating back twenty years, Ring of Honor Wrestling presents one of its marquee events during one of the biggest wrestling weekends of the year with the return of SUPERCARD! SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 will take place on Friday night April 5th at the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University! Tickets go on-sale this Friday February 24th at ROHTix; do not miss out on Ring of Honor's homecoming and the first-ever SUPERCARD in the City of Brotherly Love!!!