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- ROH on HonorClub Episode 93 Preview
Thursday night is here once again which means ROH ON HONOR CLUB is back and loaded with red-hot wrestling action! We are just two weeks out from FINAL BATTLE 2024 where we now know ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet will defend against “Legit” Leyla Hirsch and that ROH World Champion “The Nueve” Chris Jericho will be on-hand to defend his championship, but what else will fall into place for ROH's return to the Hammerstein Ballroom? The Righteous are in pursuit of the ROH World Tag Titles, Matt Taven is on the hunt to claim the ROH Pure Championship from Lee Moriarty, and that's just the tip of the iceberg! onight we've got a huge trios main event on tap between Shane Taylor Promotions and Top Flight/Action Andretti, STP's Trish Adora taking on Rachael Ellering, WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 Women's International Cup hopeful Billie Starkz taking on Lady Frost, Gates of Agony in tag team action, Katsuyori Shibata versus Dark Order's Alex Reynolds and so much more! Be sure to join us on December 20th for FINAL BATTLE 2024 live from the Hammerstein Ballroom in the heart of New York City, and exclusively on Honor Club, your home for ROH's weekly show, as well as the destination for 20+ years of wrestling history as showcased in the “Best of ROH” section. There you'll find collections showcasing The Briscoes, Chris Hero, Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness, and more of the athletes who've made ROH the most influential wrestling promotion of the century! TRIOS BOUT... Shane Taylor Promotions (Capt. Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo, & Shane Taylor) vs. Action Andretti & Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) The Infantry of Carlie Bravo and Capt. Shawn Dean are 2-0 in tag team competition since coming under the umbrella of Shane Taylor Promotions and taking a harder edge to their in-ring style. They've certainly demonstrated a willingness to not only bend the rules but also, as demonstrated in the aftermath of Shane Taylor and Lee Moriarty's victory over BEEF and JD Drake two weeks back, to lay down a beating if they feel the need. So while The Infantry has done well in tag action, tonight on Honor Club the cohesiveness of STP gets put to the test as they face a trio who is 8-0 in ROH competition as a unit: Action Andretti and Top Flight! Though they haven't exactly been on the same page as of late, Action, Dante Martin, and Darius Martin are still one of the most consistent groups in ROH competition and one of the toughest tests this combination of Shane Taylor Promotions could possibly face. There's no doubt Action and Top Flight are worthy contenders for the World Six-Man Titles when The Von Erichs return to action, but Shane Taylor and The Infantry could put themselves in that conversation as well by giving Action and the Martin brothers their first ROH trios loss tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB! ONE-ON-ONE... Billie Starkz vs. Lady Frost We know former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz will be one of four women representing Ring of Honor in the WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 International Women's Cup Qualifiers, meaning either her, Leyla Hirsch, ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet, or ROH Women's World Champion Athena will ultimately end up competing at the Tokyo Dome on January 5th. The winner of the ROH bracket will be joined at WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 by a representative from AEW (either Jamie Hayter, Willow Nightingale, or Serena Deeb) as well as one from CMLL (Zeuxis, Reyna Isis, Sanely, or Persephone) and one from Stardom (TBD) to crown the first winner of the International Women's Cup Tournament. Though Billie Starkz is already slated to be one of the competitors vying for the spot, that doesn't mean every match on the way there isn't crucial to her position, and just because she holds a singles victory over Lady Frost from HONOR CLUB #31 last September doesn't mean the former champ should take it for granted she's got this one in the bag. Frost is a game competitor who gave Athena two of her toughest Proving Ground battles, as well as the longest one of her record-setting World Title reign at 8:34. She's been in a Proving Ground battle with Red Velvet for the Women's World TV Title, she's been in there with Willow Nightingale, Skye Blue, Leyla Hirsch, Mercedes Martinez, and continually demonstrated growth in her abilities. The difficult part for Frost has been consistency, as evidenced by the fact her last victory took place three months ago during HONOR CLUB #81, but never a question of skill. Can she put it all together to stifle any momentum Billie Starkz is hoping to build towards the International Women's Cup, or will it be Billie squashing the hopes Lady Frost has of breaking through to that next level? TAG TEAM MATCH... Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. Griff Garrison & Preston Vance 17-1; that is the record Gates of Agony hold in ROH tag team competition since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022: ZERO HOUR when they were first unleashed on the Ring of Honor roster! 14 victories in standard tags, two of them in a 3-Way Tag, one in a 4-Way, and that single blemish was a result of another 4-Way tag in which Undisputed Kingdom of Matt Taven & Mike Bennett emerged victorious at Dark Order's expense. It's impossible to argue they aren't deserving of a championship opportunity, and yet it is an opportunity that's eluded them for well over two years, yet unlike many, Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona are not the ones to complain and gripe about the circumstances. Instead they will continue to smash heads, take names, and rack up victories until their status as contenders is utterly undeniable. Tonight that brings them into a fight with a very promising tag team in Griff Garrison and Preston Vance, two individuals looking for a fresh start in ROH who have managed to find that combining their talents. During HONOR CLUB #90 they picked up their first as a team, but with this bout against Gates of Agony, well suffice to say they are taking a quantum leap in the quality of competition. Will Garrison and Vance end up the 18th victim of Gates of Agony, or can they find a way to be the first team in the 979 days since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022 to defeat Kaun and Toa in a traditional tag? SINGLES MATCH... STP's Trish Adora vs. Rachael Ellering As a member of Shane Taylor Promotions, Trish Adora has indulged in her violent side a little more than usual, but she's always been a hard-hitting competitor with her in-ring style. Tonight on HONOR CLUB she's matched up with another competitor who has no problem throwing down, a woman Trish has never fought before in any fashion, the ever-dangerous Rachael Ellering! Ellering comes in having won two of her last three singles matches while Adora is 1-2 in hers, but Adora now has the support of STP in her corner, and that may make all the difference! Can Trish show and prove in her first match since signing on with Shane Taylor Promotions, or will this be Rachael Ellering's night to make it three victories over her last four? ONE-ON-ONE... “The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata vs. Dark Order's Alex Reynolds Coming off a tremendous trios victory on last week's RAMPAGE alongside Mascara Dorada and Atlantis Jr, Katsuyori Shibata returns to ROH competition to meet his second Dark Order member of the year! Back on HONOR CLUB #73 Shibata defeated Evil Uno via referee stoppage, but this week it's Alex Reynolds who is stepping up to battle the former ROH Pure Champion in solo competition! Shibata is 16-2 in ROH competition since returning to the fold at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 after six years away, his only losses coming at the hands of Wheeler Yuta and Eddie Kingston in championship fights, and is currently riding a six-match win streak into this battle. As for Reynolds, this is a rare singles match for him, and just his second under the ROH banner with the last taking place on HONOR CLUB #70 in a loss to Lee Johnson. Can Reynolds rise to the occasion against “The Wrestler”, or will Shibata continue his domination of the ROH ranks? TV TIME WITH ROH WORLD CHAMPION CHRIS JERICHO... Tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, 2-Time ROH World Champion “The Nueve” Chris Jericho has promised to reveal who he will defend his title against at FINAL BATTLE 2024 on December 20th! There are plenty of men who want a shot at the title Jericho robbed from Mark Briscoe in their Ladder War several weeks ago, but who will step up to the plate when Ring of Honor returns to the historic Hammerstein Ballroom for our annual year-end extravaganza? ALSO FEATURING: -BEEF & JD Drake in action! -And More!!
- ROH on Honor Club Episode 92 Preview
Thanksgiving Thursday is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by catching the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! Everyone's eyes are looking ahead to ROH's triumphant return to the Hammerstein Ballroom on December 20th for FINAL BATTLE 2024 , and that means fighting to earn a spot on that year-end extravaganza every single week! Tonight that means we will see Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven continue to make his case for an ROH Pure Championship match with Lee Moriarty as he faces former Pure Champion Josh Woods in a Pure Rules match. Plus, MxM Collection returns to ROH competition for a bout with Iron Savages, JD Drake & Beef try to stop the path of destruction The Righteous are on, AR Fox faces Dark Order's John Silver, The Conglomeration are in trios action against Grizzled Young Veterans and Pat Buck, and we've got another Emergency M.E.M on our hands with ROH Women's World Champion Athena's World Tour! It all gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT on Honor Club , your home for Ring of Honor's weekly action every Thursday night as well as the destination for 20+ years of the greatest professional wrestling as showcased by the “Best of ROH” section featuring the greatest of The Briscoes, Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, and the Chris Hero: Ring of Hero collection just added! EMERGENCY M.E.M REDUX! The ROH bracket of the WRESTLE DYNASTY Women's International Cup has been set with ROH Women's World Champion Athena, ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet, Leyla Hirsch, and Billie Starkz competing to see who will walk into the Tokyo Dome on January 5th. Obviously there is a great deal of history wrapped up between those four competitors, and perhaps this is why “The Fallen Goddess” has called another Emergency M.E.M for tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! Given that these emergency situations have been coming on with increased frequency, perhaps Athena needs to take a look at her own camp and figure out why it's been one emergency after another! Is Billie Starkz the reason? Is it the Minion Bestie Lexy? Or just maybe it's Athena herself who's turned her camp into a perpetual emergency situation? What will “The Forever Champion” have to say as she enters the 719th day of her championship reign? TAG TEAM BATTLE... The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) vs. JD Drake & BEEF The Righteous of Dutch and Vincent are in hot pursuit of the ROH World Tag Titles held by Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, and just as intensely interested in making their championship aspirations a personal attack on “The Natural”. That video embedded above is just one indicator of the lengths Dutch and Vincent are willing to go to, but we've also witnessed them assault the tag champs seemingly at will, all while the sounds of that cowbell echo in the distance. Tonight The Righteous continue to make their case as challengers for the ROH World Tag Titles when they face BEEF and JD Drake, men who were victims of a heinous assault by Shane Taylor Promotions one week ago. The odd couple of BEEF and Drake have shown great promise as a team, but can The Righteous be stopped at this point? PURE DIVISION ACTION... Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven vs. Premier Athletes' Josh Woods Things are escalating between ROH Grand Slam champion Matt Taven and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty as the former continues his pursuit of the only ROH championship he's never held. Last week it was running off Shane Taylor Promotions as they assaulted JD Drake and BEEF, but this week it takes the form of a Pure Rules match between former Pure Champion Josh Woods and Taven! Surprisingly this is the first-time these two men have ever met inside the squared circle one-on-one, though they have been mutual participants in several multi-man affairs during their Ring of Honor tenure. Woods has also been in pursuit of reclaiming that Pure Title ever since Wheeler Yuta dethroned him two years ago, so this battle tonight has a definite impact on the future of Lee Moriarty's title reign. Will Matt Taven continue to justify his status as a contender with another Pure Rules win, or will this be the night “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods reminds everyone why he was champ for 201 days? TAG TEAM BOUT... MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) vs. Iron Savages (Bronson & Boulder) It's been a few weeks since we were last graced with their presence on Honor Club, but tonight MxM Collection is back on the ROH runway! Mansoor and Mason Madden are 4-0 in tag team competition since their debut during the DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024: ZERO HOUR, and looking to add to that record with this Iron Savages bout. The sauce-sippin' hosses Bronson and Boulder could not be more different than the pristine manicured MxM Collection, but the one thing they have in common is a desire to rise up the rankings and challenge for the ROH World Tag Team Titles! Which pair will end up thankful for their success this Thanksgiving? ALSO IN ACTION: - The Conglomeration vs. Grizzled Young Veterans & Pat Buck! -Queen Aminata! -LEEJ (Lee Johnson & EJ Nduka)!! -And More!!!
- ROH on Honor Club Episode 91 Preview
As All Elite Wrestling heads towards FULL GEAR 2024 this Saturday night live from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Ring of Honor brings to you the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB exclusively on Honor Club! Headlined by an ROH World TV Championship match between champion “The Machine” Brian Cage and challenger AR Fox, we will also see ROH Women's World Champion Athena take on Top Flight's Leila Grey in a Proving Ground Match! Plus THREE different New Japan Pro Wrestling champions will be in singles competition as NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi, NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd, and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Kevin Knight all join the fight! ROH ON HONOR CLUB starts at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for all things Ring of Honor including the weekly Thursday night event, as well as 20+ years of the greatest pro wrestling on the planet! Since 2002, Ring of Honor has been home to the greatest wrestlers of this century, and nowhere is that more clear than in the “Best of ROH” collections where you can experience classic matches and interviews from Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, The Briscoes, Claudio Castagnoli, and more! ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... The Don Callis Family's Brian Cage(c) vs. AR Fox “The Machine” Brian Cage was already quite the imposing force, be it standing by himself as a solo competitor where he recently claimed the ROH World TV Title from Atlantis Jr. or uniting with Gates of Agony to become 2-Time ROH World Six-Man Champions. Yet he somehow found a way to become an even bigger threat by signing on with The Don Callis Family and garnering support of that...gentleman...as well as “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer, AEW International Champion Konosuke Takeshita, and “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher. Last night on DYNAMITE The DCF went to war against a quartet consisting of Will Ospreay, Mark Davis, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Ricochet in a little preview of what's to come at FULL GEAR 2024, but tonight “The Machine” goes it solo in his second ROH World TV Title defense! After defeating Komander last month on HONOR CLUB 87, Cage now faces a familiar foe as AR Fox steps up to challenge for the championship! Fox and Cage are no strangers to one another, not only have they battled twice with the Ring of Honor World Six-Man Titles at stake, but they've also been foes in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, AAW, and assorted other independents over the last decade. Of the singles matches on record, Cage is in the lead 2-1, factor in a Triple Threat match from 2016 and their head-to-head encounters turn to a 2-2 tie, but all that is ancient history. This is Ring of Honor, and here these two competitors have never met one-on-one before tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, much less with a championship as storied as the ROH World TV Title at stake. Can AR Fox rise to the occasion and score his first Ring of Honor championship or will “The Machine” smash his way through another opponent trying to take his first ROH singles title away? ONE-ON-ONE... The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii vs. Undisputed Kingdom's Mike Bennett With less than a week until his ROH World Championship clash with “The Nueva” Chris Jericho on DYNAMITE, and ahead of his Trios bout on RAMPAGE tomorrow, “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii will be in action tonight against Undisputed Kingdom's Mike Bennett! Most recently these two men clashed during DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 when UK defended the ROH World Tag Titles against Ishii and Kyle O'Reilly, but they've fought several times, including during the 2014 WORLD TAG LEAGUE for New Japan Pro Wrestling, yet never once in a singles match. Tonight on HONOR CLUB that changes as Ishii prepares for his ROH World Championship battle, while the fights between The Conglomeration and The Undisputed Kingdom continue! Kyle O'Reilly has long been at the center of this struggle between the two sides given his relationship with the men involved, but this one is all about Bennett and Ishii going head-to-head for the first time! PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH Women's World Champion Athena vs. Top Flight's Leila Grey While the tensions between ROH Women's World Champion Athena, Minion Bestie Lexy Nair, and former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz continue to thicken, there are still plenty of women out there who haven't gone toe-to-toe with “The Forever Champion”. She may be the longest reigning champion in the history of ROH at 713 days, her single reign having eclipsed Jay Lethal's combined 707 days across two World Title runs, with 24 successful title defenses to go along with her 28 Proving Ground and four Eliminator Match victories but there's a wealth of talented professional wrestlers out there who haven't had their opportunity to be the one to end this run. One such competitor is Top Flight's Leila Grey; despite Leila Grey being a part of the ROH roster since June 2023 and both being part of AEW since May 2022, these two women have never faced one another in any match, not even so much as shared participation in a Battle Royale, but that changes tonight! Leila Grey is stepping onto the Proving Ground in hopes of earning a Women's World Title fight with Athena, a situation where all she has to do is last 10 minutes with the champ, but a feat that 26 other women have failed to accomplish. As a matter of fact only one of those women, Lady Frost during HONOR CLUB #86, was even able to push the match past the eight-minute mark, lasting 8:34 before “The Fallen Goddess” put Frost away in her second Proving Ground attempt. Can Leila Grey be the first woman to hit that 10-minute time limit and earn a title match? If so, she will be the first woman across Athena's 57 ROH singles matches since FINAL BATTLE 2022 to not lose to “The Fallen Goddess”! It may not be the same as a pinfall or submission victory, certainly not the same ballpark as a title win, but it would be a historic occasion nonetheless for Leila Grey to go the distance with Athena! ONE-ON-ONE... NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd vs. SAP's Angelico The first time Gabe Kidd ever entered into the Ring of Honor sphere was on December 28, 2018 when he challenged Jay Lethal for the ROH World Title at an independent event in London England. At that point Kidd was just past his seventh anniversary as a wrestler, but he was far from the brash man who has held the NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship since May 11th when he put Eddie Kingston on the shelf as a result of their No Rope Last Man Standing match at NJPW STRONG RESURGENCE 2024. That came on the heels of the two men going to a double count out in their Continental Crown fight at NJPW BATTLE IN THE VALLEY 2024 two months prior, meaning another challenge towards the ROH World Championship on Kidd's resume as it, along with the AEW Continental Championship and NJPW STRONG Openweight Title, comprised the Continental Crown. However it wasn't until October 10th and HONOR CLUB 85 that this BULLET CLUB War Dog made his debut for ROH proper in a successful Openweight Title defense against Anthony Henry. That evening Kidd looked as impressive as ever, showing the ROH faithful why he's such a force to be reckoned with, and though he recently made headlines getting into a scuffle with Kenny Omega at NJPW's POWER STRUGGLE 2024 event, Kidd's back in ROH tonight during HONOR CLUB to take on Angelico! It's “The Mad Man” versus one of the most laid back individuals to ever lace up a pair of wrestling boots, a wrecking ball of a competitor versus a master of the llave style; will Angelico use his imperturbable nature to upset the NJPW STRONG Openweight champ? SINGLES MATCH... IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Kevin Knight vs. SAP's Serpentico Speaking of NJPW, in the second match featuring a New Japan champion versus a Spanish Announce Project member, Serpentico is set to face IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion Kevin Knight! Though we've seen Knight compete in a handful of AEW matches, the last during the FORBIDDEN DOOR 2022: BUY-IN, this is his first time in ROH competition and Knight has come so far since that last AEW outing! Not only did he enter into BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIORS 31 tournament this year, scoring eight points with victories over TJP, Kosei Fujita, Clark Connors, and El Desperado, he also united with KUSHIDA to defeat BULLET CLUB War Dogs of Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney and claim the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles for the second time at KING OF PRO-WRESTLING 2024 just over a month ago! Now Knight comes to ROH for the very first time to take on the lucha-influenced stylings of SAP's Serpentico, a rare singles match for both individuals as Serpentico's last was a July victory over Griff Garrison. As for Knight, prior to his November 8th fight with David Finlay for NJPW FIGHTING SPIRIT UNLEASHED 2024, he hadn't fought one-on-one since battling Shelton Benjamin for DEFY back in September. Though Serpentico's track record isn't the best, he always fights with heart, and perhaps that tag team victory two weeks ago during HONOR CLUB 89 will propel him towards victory in this bout tonight! ONE-ON-ONE... NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi vs. Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari In the third contest on tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB featuring a NJPW champion we will see Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari take on current NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi! Now Takagi is no stranger to ROH action, in fact he reigned as one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions from March 3rd to March 30th of 2007, defeating The Briscoes at FIFTH YEAR FESTIVAL: LIVERPOOL before losing them back to Jay and Mark at ALL STAR EXTRAVAGANZA III. Not only that but from June 3, 2006 until April 28, 2007, Shingo competed on more than 20 ROH events, even challenging Takeshi Morishima for the ROH World Title at GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES on the final night of his 10-month run. Shingo appeared a handful more times over the subsequent decade, even participating in the historic G1 SUPERCARD event at Madison Square Garden on April 6, 2019, but it wasn't until HONOR CLUB 18 that he arrived in the new era of honor! That night he and fellow LIJ members BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi unsuccessfully challenged Brian Cage, Toa Liona, and Bishop Kaun for the ROH World Six-Man Titles. That was certainly disappointing for Shingo, but for the long-time ROH faithful it was a treat to see the former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion back in Ring of Honor even if for only one night. Thankfully the bond between AEW/ROH/NJPW runs strong and tonight Shingo returns to the fold to face one of the most insufferable, obnoxious, yet supremely talented, individuals in ROH today: Ariya Daivari! No doubt he will have “Smart” Mark Sterling at his side for this one, so maybe we will be lucky enough to watch the ambulance chaser get dropped again this week... TAG TEAM ACTION... Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor) vs. BEEF & JD Drake Shane Taylor Promotions added some additional firepower to their arsenal with the recent addition of The Infantry to their rankings, and that alliance immediately paid dividends for Capt. Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo in the form of two consecutive tag team victories, including one over Spanish Announce Project. Tonight however, it's not about the newest members to the STP fold but rather the original members of this iteration, ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty and Shane Taylor! We know Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven is in hot pursuit of the title around Moriarty's waist, but that's something Lee is going to have to set aside so he and Shane Taylor can focus on the tag team fight at hand. BEEF and JD Drake were victorious in their first ROH outing as a team three weeks ago, beating Preston Vance and Peter Avalon, but came up short in their RAMPAGE tussle with Top Flight on November 8th. Still the brawny brawlers demonstrated some serious aptitude as a team, and their chemistry could bloom into something to be reckoned with down the line. Unfortunately they don't have that kind of time to find their groove, not when they've got to step into the fight with competitors like Shane Taylor and Lee Moriarty. This is an education under fire for BEEF and JD, on-the-job training as a tag team against two men who cover a wild breadth stylistically. Shane T hits hard and moves fast, Lee Moriarty is a surgeon in that ring with some nasty strikes of his own to compliment that ground game; together they're a tough act to game plan for even the most seasoned team, and that is not what we've got with BEEF and JD Drake. Those two are going to have to gel together fast to get ready for this fight, or they'll be the ones looking up at the lights as the referee counts three!
- Ring Of Honor Returns To The Hammerstein!
From the first time Ring of Honor came to the Hammerstein Ballroom on May 10, 2008 for A NEW LEVEL until MANHATTAN MAYHEM 2019 on July 20th, the venue was hallowed ground for ROH. It hosted many of the most pivotal fights of that decade, matches like Bryan Danielson versus Takeshi Morishima at FINAL BATTLE 2008, Kevin Steen versus El Generico in a Ladder War at FINAL BATTLE 2012, Jay Briscoe winning his first ROH World Title at SUPERCARD OF HONOR VII, The Young Bucks versus LIJ at WAR OF THE WORLDS 2017, and so much more. It was a venue that created an environment unlike any other, one where ROH ran more events than any other wrestling company, and a place fans have clamored for ROH to return to ever since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022 launched a new era of honor! Well the wait is over; after five years away, on Friday night December 20th, live on Honor Club, Ring of Honor returns to the Hammerstein Ballroom to present FINAL BATTLE 2024! FINAL BATTLE has been one of ROH's marquee events since 2022, and this year will be no different! Who will hold the titles walking into the Manhattan Center that night? Who will challenge for the gold? What grudges will be settled? Who will the world be talking about come December 21st? Ring of Honor never fails to deliver on pay-per-view so do not miss out on your opportunity to watch the action at one of ROH's historic professional wrestling venues! ROH FINAL BATTLE 2024 December 20, 2024 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom 311 W. 34th Street New York, NY 10001 Start Time: 7:00pm ET On Sale: 11/25/24
- ROH on Honor Club Episode 90 Preview
It that time once again; Thursday is upon us and that means ROH ON HONOR CLUB is back for your viewing pleasure with a wild night of action, including an ROH Women's World Television Championship Street fight! Red Velvet looks to settle her score with Diamante after the assault perpetrated on the champion in their last meeting, Komander aims to get another victory over Premier Athletes as he faces Josh Woods, and after the interaction between ROH Women's World Champion Athena, Billie Starkz, and Lexy Nair last week, it looks like we've got an Emergency M.E.M on our hands! Plus, the race for contention in the tag team division continues as Undisputed Kingdom, Gates of Agony, Dark Order, and making their ROH in-ring debut, Grizzled Young Veterans, clash in a Four-Way Tag Team bout! Katusyori Shibata is set to face Aaron Solo, Abadon is back in action after coming up short in the Ring of Horrors match two weeks ago, and there's so much more in store for the ROH faithful tonight! ROH ON HONOR CLUB begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your destination for everything Ring of Honor including our weekly event every Thursday night! In addition, fans can experience more than 20 years of history from the most influential wrestling promotion of the last two decades with collections like our “Best of ROH” where you can experience classic matches from Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, The Briscoes, Samoa Joe, and more! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TELEVISION TITLE STREET FIGHT... Red Velvet(c) vs. Diamante Five weeks ago, HONOR CLUB 85, ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet faced Diamante with her title on the line, and although she left the night with the title still in her possession thanks to a disqualification finish, Velvet was battered and bruised at the hands of her challenger. Prior to last week's return as seen above, that was the last time Red stepped into an ROH ring, though she was able to take part in a six-date tour with CMLL in Mexico. While that tour was a tremendous learning experience for Red Velvet, tonight it's all about her championship title and even the score for the beating Diamante delivered five weeks ago! This will be just the third Street Fight in the history of ROH's Women's Division, both of those with the ROH Women's World Title at stake, and the most recent taking place between Athena and Kiera Hogan during HONOR CLUB 17 last year. In both previous Street Fights the champion retained their title; will Red Velvet join that short list or will tonight be the night Diamante wins her first championship in Ring of Honor? ONE-ON-ONE... Premier Athletes' Josh Woods vs. Komander Two weeks ago during HONOR CLUB 88, Komander was able to pick up a win against Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari despite the distractions and interference provided by Daivari's cohorts. For Komander it was match to get back on track after failing to defeat Brian Cage in their ROH World TV Championship match, but tonight he's got to deal with “Smart” Mark Sterling and PA once again as “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods steps up to face the high-flying luchador! Will the former ROH Pure Champion fall victim to the Cielito Lindo, or will Woods and his ilk find a way to bring Komander crashing down to the ground? EMERGENCY M.E.M! It's been months since things were copacetic between ROH Women's World Champion Athena, her minion bestie Lexy Nair, and former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz. Basically since DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 when Starkz lost the title, she has been on the outs with “The Fallen Goddess” and nothing she's tried has made things right. It's gotten to the point that Starkz had given up on even trying, walking out on Athena celebrating her own record-setting and refusing to be there for her “Minion Overloard” during the Ring of Horror match with Abadon two weeks ago. Then we've got the moment captured above where Starkz attempted to engage with Athena only to be rebuked, a problem dumped on Lexy Nair's plate, and left standing there frustrated once again. That brings them all to tonight where an Emergency M.E.M has been called yet again! Will anything change for Billie Starkz, or will this be another moment of humiliation for the former Women's World TV Champion at the hands of someone she's looked upon as a mentor for the last 16 months? FOUR-WAY TAG... Gates of Agony (Kaun & Toa Liona) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) We know The Righteous are hot on the chase for a shot at ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, in fact both teams will be in action tonight during HONOR CLUB, but Dutch and Vincent aren't the only pair wanting to get in the title picture. Undisputed Kingdom of Mike Bennett and Matt Taven, Gates of Agony of Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona, and the Dark Order duo of Alex Reynolds and John Silver have all had their eyes on those titles since the moment Dustin and Sammy claimed them. For Taven and Bennett it's reclaiming the titles they lost to the Texas two and becoming the only team besides The Briscoes to win four World Tag Titles. For Kaun and Toa, it's about adding those titles to a resume that includes two reigns as an ROH World Six-Man Champion for Toa and three for Kaun while paying off their undefeated, seventeen win, tag team streak in ROH with a title victory. For Reynolds and Silver it's about living up to the potential that the late-Mr. Brodie Lee saw in them when Dark Order first formed and earning their first title in ROH. Then there is Grizzled Young Veterans, Zack Gibson and James Drake; for them this is a huge moment because it is their Ring of Honor debut and a chance to put themselves into the title conversations with a victory tonight! Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, The Righteous, they may have plenty on their tables dealing with each other, but they should keep an eye on this one because the winner may be a glimpse of their future! SINGLES MATCH... Katsuyori Shibata vs. Aaron Solo “The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata is on a roll in Ring of Honor competition! After defeating The Butcher last week during HONOR CLUB 89, the former Pure Champion has won his last five bouts in ROH and extended his record to 15-2 overall. Tonight Aaron Solo steps up to the plate to square up with Shibata, continuing to demonstrate a willingness to test himself against the best competitors around despite coming up short in recent bouts with Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, and even a Pure Rules contest with Matt Taven. Clearly Solo is learning with every fight he enters, and every competitor he's tested against, but will this be the one where he turns the corner and secures the biggest victory of his ROH career? Or will it be Shibata moving to 16-2 in his ROH career and continuing to show the world why he is called “The Wrestler”? ALSO FEATURING: -Abadon vs. Viva Van! -ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara in action! -The Righteous of Dutch & Vincent in tag team competition! -Griff Garrison & Preston Vance unite! -And much more!
- ROH on Honor Club Episode 89 Preview
It's Thursday night once again which means Ring of Honor action is coming your way with the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! We watched ROH World Champion Chris Jericho get put down by Tomohiro Ishii this past Wednesday night to close out the trios Fight Without Honor between The Conglomeration and The Learning Tree so one has to wonder how that will impact both men's futures. We also witnessed The Righteous viciously assault the ROH World Tag Team Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, The Infantry sign on with Shane Taylor Promotions, and Athena survive the Ring of Horror match with Abadon to retain her ROH Women's World Championship! This week we've got another loaded one as “The Fallen Goddess” has called for an Emergency M.E.M, as well as Premier Athletes' Josh Woods versus AR Fox, the aforementioned Ishii facing Aaron Solo, Diamante taking on Rachael Ellering, Preston Vance facing ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara, and so much more with The Infantry, The Patriarchy's Nick Wayne, Leyla Hirsch, and The Righteous! ROH ON HONOR CLUB gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club , your home for Ring of Honor's weekly presentation every Thursday night, plus the only place to experience more than 20 years of the most influential wrestling promotion of the last two decades as demonstrated with our “Best of ROH” section! There you will find collections featuring Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness, Samoa Joe, Claudio Castagnoli, and The Briscoes, with more uploaded regularly!!! ONE-ON-ONE... Premier Athletes' Josh Woods vs. AR Fox AR Fox is a man with a target on his back, and it's not just because he's stepping into the ring with former ROH Pure Champion Josh Woods tonight during HONOR CLUB. It's also because this Saturday on AEW COLLISION he's got a date with The Patriarchy's Nick Wayne stemming from the assault Fox and Swerve Strickland perpetrated on Nick some 15 months ago. Fox knows that is going to be a fight, but he's got to find the ability to focus on the task at hand or this Premier Athlete is going to snap him in half! Woods has had a rough go the last month in ROH competition; he came up short in a Proving Ground match with then-ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe as well as in battle with “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii just last week, but this is a huge chance to rebound for “The Technical Beast”. Josh Woods has demonstrated many times over that he's got the heart and abilities of a champion, perhaps this will be the beginning of the road back to wearing a title around his waist. On the other hand, AR Fox definitely needs this victory under his belt heading into a bout with Christian Cage's “Prodigy” on Saturday night. So the question may be which man needs it more, and which one will dig deeper to see they get the victory on Honor Club? SINGLES MATCH... The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii vs. Aaron Solo Speaking of The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii, just 24 hours after pinning ROH World Champion Chris Jericho in the Trios Fight Without Honor on DYNAMITE, “The Stone Pitbull” is right back in action! Last week's victory over Josh Woods may have been Ishii's first match back in ROH since Jericho's Learning Tree assaulted the man and forced him to return to Japan, but he's still won three straight singles matches in ROH during 2024 in addition to that pin on “The Nueve”. As for Aaron Solo, he looked quite impressive in his Pure Rules bouts with Angelico and Matt Taven, as well as his singles clash with Rocky Romero, but he needs to get on the winning track if he hopes to get near a championship title anytime soon. A victory over this former ROH World TV Champion is just the kind of thing Solo needs to start building momentum in Ring of Honor, but he's going to have to take hits from some of the hardest hands in the game if he hopes to garner a victory. Will Tomohiro Ishii tally a fourth straight ROH victory tonight during HONOR CLUB, or will we see Aaron Solo pull off an upset victory over “The Stone Pitbull”? HEAD-TO-HEAD... Diamante vs. Rachael Ellering Diamante and Rachael Ellering have some history over the course of their wrestling careers. Not only did they meet in tag team competition back on HONOR CLUB #45 at the beginning of 2024, but they also faced off during the 2020 AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament. Both those matches were won by Diamante's team, but their history predates either of those with several singles matches around the independent circuit. Diamante holds the edge in those bouts, 2-1 in one-on-one situations, but it's been over six years since their last meeting and each woman has grown greatly in the interim. Diamante comes to this fight off a 90-second win on last week's HONOR CLUB, and that was on the heels of a ROH Women's World TV Title bout with Red Velvet that ended when Diamante cracked Red across the skull with the title belt. There's no question she wants another shot at the title, but she's going to have to go through Rachael Ellering to get there and Rachael has won three of her last four ROH matches. This is a tough one to call between two of the toughest women in Ring of Honor; who will move forward towards their shared goals of championship success in ROH? ONE-ON-ONE... ROH World Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara vs. Preston Vance As one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions, Sammy Guevara always has a target on his back from teams looking to take what he and Dustin Rhodes have earned. The Righteous certainly put the champions on notice with the assault they perpetrated last week, but Guevara has to lace up his boots and move on because he's got a tremendous fight on his hands tonight on HONOR CLUB! Tonight, for the first time ever, Sammy Guevara will go one-on-one with Preston Vance as the former anticipates a clash with The Righteous while the latter searches for a new direction in his wrestling career. Vance stepped into tag team competition last week with Peter Avalon as his partner, he challenged Lee Moriarty for the ROH Pure Title during HONOR CLUB #83, and neither of those endeavors went in his favor. Perhaps a victory over one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions will lead Vance towards the direction he needs to go, or perhaps Sammy Guevara will look to this a way to send Dutch and Vincent a message about what's in store for them! AN EMERGENCY M.E.M!! “The Fallen Goddess” Athena may have survived her Ring of Horror fight with Abadon to retain the ROH Women's World Championship, and extend her record-shattering reign to nearly 700 days, but what about the state of the minions? “Minion Bestie” Lexy Nair may still be standing strong in support of Athena, but it's been clear for weeks that Billie Starkz is not even reading the same book as those two, much less the same page. That's pretty much been the case since Billie lost the ROH Women's World TV Title to Red Velvet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, and Starkz actually took the abuse for far longer than any rational person before finally telling Athena and Lexy she was done. Even after that, following Billie's victory over Blair Onyx, Lexy still tried to recruit Starkz into being there for Athena in the Ring of Horror bout but Billie was having none of it. Not only did she walk away from Lexy, but after Athena's victory Nair was the only one there to help the Women's World Champion walk out of the arena. Perhaps it is all that that's led Athena to calling this Emergency M inion E mpowerment M eeting tonight during HONOR CLUB, perhaps her and Billie Starkz are finally going to have it out about all that's gone on the last four months, but the question is where will they go from there if that is the case? Can these three women find their way back to where they used to be before DBD 2024, or is this the end of the M.I.T? SINGLES MATCH... “The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata vs. The Butcher He may be standing on his own in the professional wrestling world while The Blade heals from surgery, but that hasn't stopped The Butcher from continually testing himself against the best of opponents! From The Beast Mortos to Mark Briscoe to LFI, The Butcher has put himself in one hard-fought battle after another in an effort to improve his game, and tonight that continues when he steps into the ring with “The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata! Shibata, a former ROH Pure Champion, is 14-2 in ROH competition with his only losses actually taking place on AEW programming when Eddie Kingston topped him in their ROH World Title fight at WRESTLEDREAM 2023 and when Wheeler Yuta defeated him on the 11/25/23 RAMPAGE in a ROH Pure Championship bout. Can The Butcher become the first man to hand Shibata a loss on ROH programming? ALSO IN ACTION: -The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent)! -Shane Taylor Promotions' own The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean)! -Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)! -EJ Nduka & Lee Johnson! -“Legit” Leyla Hirsch Returns! -The Patriarchy's Nick Wayne!