Athena continues to make historical past as ROH Ladies’s World Champion. On Friday night time, she and Billie Starkz did not simply grow to be the first girls in ROH historical past to headline Hammerstein Ballroom — Athena additionally prolonged her already record-breaking reign, which now stands at 742 days as of this writing.
Athena confronted her former protégé in a rematch of final 12 months’s Closing Battle foremost occasion, which additionally noticed her retain the title. Starkz devoted the match to the inaugural Ladies of Honor Champion, Sumie Sakai, and wore her gear from that inaugural title match to the ring. Starkz and Athena rapidly made the match really feel private; Starkz did an Alabama Slam off the apron and adopted with a swanton from the center rope. There was a ref bump which allowed Lexy Nair to slide the champion her microphone in a callback to final 12 months, however Starkz was prepared and countered. She additionally countered the O-Face comparatively early within the match, however Athena hit the transfer within the closing sequence and pinned Starkz’ shoulders to the mat for 3 to proceed the “eternally reign.”
Subsequent up for Athena? The Tokyo Dome. Final week, she beat Starkz, “Legit” Leyla Hirsch, and Ladies’s TV Champion Purple Velvet to qualify for the inaugural Worldwide Ladies’s Cup at Wrestle Dynasty.
