DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR has been a staple of ROH’s calendar since 2003’s occasion at The Rexplex in Elizabeth, NJ! All of it started with ROH World Champion Samoa Joe defending towards the departing Paul London, a legendary Canine Collar Match, Jeff Hardy’s notorious debut, and The Briscoes difficult AJ Kinds & The Wonderful Purple for the ROH Tag Titles! From that July nineteenth night time in entrance of ROH’s largest crowd to that time till tonight’s pay-per-view broadcast on Honor Membership, DBD has grown into probably the most necessary occasions of ROH’s 12 months!
From Chicago to Philadelphia and from the historic Hammerstein Ballroom to the Tsongas Heart, DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR has come to the ROH trustworthy from venues across the nation, and this 12 months it hails from Texas for the very first time! On prime of the cardboard we’ll see former ROH World Champion Roderick Robust problem present ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe of their first singles match since 2016! Plus, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena is compelled to place her AEW Ladies’s World Championship on the road towards Queen Aminata whereas her minion Billie Starkz is defending her AEW Ladies’s World Tv Title towards the double-tough Purple Velvet, and Leyla Hirsch battles Diamante in a Texas Demise Match!
It begins at 8pm ET/7pm CT completely on Honor Membership, with the ZERO HOUR coming to you on the official ROH YouTube channel at 7:00p. It is ROH’s largest occasion of the summer time, and the place the highway to FINAL BATTLE 2024 begins, so don’t miss out on the most well liked skilled wrestling motion on the planet when Ring of Honor involves Arlington, TX and the Esports Enviornment!
ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Mark Briscoe(c) vs. Roderick Robust
The historical past between Mark Briscoe and Roderick Robust dates again twenty years to their first encounter on Could 22, 2004 on the GENERATION NEXT occasion. That night time Roderick was a part of a bunch that co-opted the title of the present as their very own, proceeded to dominate everybody they fought that night time, together with a foursome comprised of Mark, his later brother Jay Briscoe, the late Jimmy Rave, and future ROH Pure Champion John Walters. It might’ve been the start of an amazing rivalry, however just some months later Mark was in a really critical motorbike accident, and the repercussions from that meant The Briscoes have been absent from Ring of Honor for eighteen months. After they returned to the fold, Roderick stood as one-half of the ROH Tag Group Champions alongside former ROH World Champion Austin Aries, however frankly the tag division had grown fairly anemic.
The return of The Briscoes and their subsequent rivalry with Robust and Aries over the titles reinvigorated that division and led to some unimaginable 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 Robust/Aries at RING OF HOMICIDE and DESTINY, or their top-tier ultimate championship conflict on the historic UNIFIED occasion in Liverpool, England, the battles between them set a brand new bar for tag workforce excellence in Ring of Honor, and unbiased wrestling as a complete. Even Mark and Roderick’s first singles conflict at HOW WE ROLL was a hard-hitting affair between the 2 younger athletes, but it surely was all simply setting the stage for what was to return over the following twenty years.
The rivalry between The Briscoes and Roderick Robust expanded past the borders of ROH, pitting them towards one another in numerous fashions at 1PW in England, Professional Wrestling Guerrilla the place PAC and Robust beat Jay and Mark for the tag titles in DDT4 2007, and FIP in Florida, a promotion that was thought-about a sister to ROH for a number of years within the mid-aughts. Nonetheless, Ring of Honor was the house for the overwhelming majority of their wars, and irrespective of who Roderick Robust allied himself with, he inevitably ended up in competitors with Dem Boys. The No Regret Corps of Robust and Rocky Romero confronted them in a pair of ROH World Tag Title matches, and have been truly the primary workforce to attain a fall on the brothers whereas they have been within the midst of a dominating unbeaten streak in 2/3 Falls Matches. When Robust was with The Home of Fact, he discovered himself within the ring with Jay, Mark, and Papa Briscoe at one level and even after he shaped The Decade with Jimmy Jacobs, Roderick invariably collided with Mark and Jay.
Within the midst of all their preventing, the 2 did develop a powerful bond, one which led to a reasonably amusing bout on the riotous MICHAEL BENNETT’S BACHELOR PARTY occasion, a match the place the loser wasn’t allowed to drink. As laborious as they fought, they have been able to having enjoyable with each other as properly, however the aggressive streak in each males finally dominated their interactions, although they did sometimes discover themselves on the identical aspect of the combat. So bonded have been the 2 males that as Roderick Robust was heading in the direction of the tip of his run with Ring of Honor in June 2016, Mark Briscoe was Roddy’s ultimate pay-per-view opponent at BEST IN THE WORLD 2016. Coincidentally, Roddy’s final precise opponent in Ring of Honor was Dalton Fortress, the person he defeated to earn this shot at Mark Briscoe’s ROH World Championship.
All informed, Mark and Roddy have clashed in six singles matches over the past 18 years with the file break up evenly between the 2, however in fact the steadiness of their clashes modifications when factoring in multi-man matches, tag workforce affairs, and so forth, however when simply their conferences since coming into All Elite Wrestling, it feels applicable they’re 1-1 of their two multi-man affairs. However this can be a completely different playground. Not solely is it DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, it is also a homecoming for Roderick Robust after eight years away, and it’s one-on-one. No Undisputed Kingdom at Roddy’s aspect, no Conglomeration at Mark’s, simply the 2 of them choosing up the place they left off within the place the place each made their names in skilled wrestling!
As a member of the ROH locker room from day one, Mark fought lengthy and laborious to grow to be ROH World Champion, battled by way of a number of failures making an attempt to assert his first ROH singles title and that dream got here true at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in Philadelphia, the town the place Ring of Honor was born! Now Robust is aiming to finish that dream, and provides start to considered one of his personal the place he joins the ranks of multi-time ROH World Champions! He is already a Triple Crown winner in ROH, having beforehand reigned as ROH World Champion, a 2-Time Tv champ, and a Tag Group Champion, however including 2-Time ROH World Title holder to that resume would make him simply the seventh particular person to perform that feat.
One ultimate statistical notice for every man because it pertains to their DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR historical past; Roderick Robust participated in fourteen DBD occasions through the course of his ROH profession, netting a 6-8 file over these bouts, and is 0-1-1 in title fights going down on these playing cards. As for Mark Briscoe, he is obtained twenty-three DBD occasions on his resume, racking up a file of 9-14 throughout the final twenty years, however when titles are on the road, he is simply 2-7 total. Roderick and Mark have by no means fought at this ROH tentpole occasion, so that is fairly a seminal second for each in that regards, however the query is now who might be left standing when that ultimate bell rings? Will “Hen” proceed transferring ahead as ROH World Champion, or will “The Messiah of the Backbreaker” reside as much as his different moniker of “Mr. ROH” and convey 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 could 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 completely different ladies, together with a rematch with Martinez ten months after their preliminary combat, and shut down thirty Proving Floor/Eliminator makes an attempt to earn a title combat! Within the entirety of ROH’s historical past, there’s solely Samoa Joe’s 645-day World Title reign that surpasses what Athena has completed throughout her domination of the division.
However then got here this harm, and consequently the one competitors “The Fallen Goddess” has seen since HONOR CLUB #66 on Could thirtieth was at Status Wrestling on July twelfth the place she wore her boot to the ring and used it as a weapon to defeat Masha Slamovich. Initially nobody questioned the harm, however as time wore on the queries couldn’t be averted, and when Athena refused to vacate the title it threw additional suspicion on simply how legitimate the harm was at this level. ROH cameras even captured her performing some issues that clearly she wouldn’t have been doing had the harm nonetheless been a sound concern.
Within the midst of all this controversy over Athena’s harm, and within the wake of failing to grow to be the primary AEW Ladies’s World TV Champion at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in her bout with Billie Starkz, Queen Aminata emerged as the highest contender to The Without end Champion’s crown. She’s gained three consecutive bouts since then, and 9 of her ten singles match in ROH competitors, together with one over ally Purple Velvet en path to the TV Championship Match Finals. Because of this, Queen Aminata has grow to be the highest contender for Athena’s championship, and the 2 ladies will conflict tonight at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024!
This night time marks Aminata’s first DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR occasion whereas Athena celebrated her first final 12 months with a victory over Willow Nightingale; will the Queen have the identical success because the champion did or will “The Fallen Goddess” discover a option to overcome her “accidents” and proceed to push in the direction of surpassing Samoa Joe’s historic feat?
ROH WOMEN’S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Billie Starkz(c) vs. Purple Velvet
Billie Starkz grew to become the first-ever ROH Ladies’s World Tv Champion at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 when she beat Queen Aminata, albeit with some critically underhanded trickery, in entrance of ROH’s hometown Philadelphia viewers. Since then Starkz has efficiently turned away…not one single problem to her championship…however has defeated 5 completely different ladies in Proving Floor competitors. That’s an accomplishment in fact, however going greater than three months with out placing the title on the road towards a single challenger is extra an indictment to your worthiness as a title holder than the rest.
Tonight throughout DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, any phantasm of selection that Billie Starkz could have had about her title challengers crumbles to mud as she faces a girl she’s by no means overwhelmed earlier than in Purple Velvet! Their two earlier bouts passed off on AEW programming, one throughout DARK #176 on 12/27/22 and the opposite on the 1/30/23 version of ELEVATION, and each went in favor of Purple Velvet in lower than six minutes mixed.
To be honest, Starkz has come alongside approach since then, particularly since coming below Athena’s wing as considered one of her minions, however there’s nonetheless that psychological fringe of realizing how your opponent has dominated you previously. Starkz cannot probably have a look at Purple Velvet and never take into consideration how she beat Billie in lower than two minutes of their first combat, and the way their second encounter wrapped up in lower than 4. She has to have a look at Purple Velvet and see how, in her 9 Ring of Honor matches, the one bout she misplaced was to Queen Aminata, the girl Billie needed to cheat out of turning into the primary World TV Champion.
That being said, Billie Starkz is on an enormous roll of her personal proper now; since dropping to Athena at FINAL BATTLE 2023, Billie has gained fourteen consecutive matches, 13 of them in one-on-one competitors, which means there isn’t any one save her mentor Athena who’s on an even bigger roll in Ring of Honor. The query is that if that roll is a sufficiently big morale booster to Billie Starkz to get previous the information of her historical past with Purple Velvet? Is it sufficient to get the Ladies’s World TV Champion over the hump and assist her earn that first victory over Purple, or will we see the crowning of a brand new champion at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024?
Diamante vs. “Legit” Leyla Hirsch
Per week in the past Diamante managed to defeat “Legit” Leyla Hirsch, a rematch of their HONOR CLUB #69 contest from June twentieth, a bout gained by Hirsch but it surely was Diamante left standing after she assaulted the winner following the pinfall. It was removed from their first encounter, the 2 ladies first tangled on reverse sides of a tag match again on the April 26, 2021 version of DARK: ELEVATION, fought singles battles on DARK #87 and DARK #100, each gained by Hirsch, in addition to battled in a number of tags and trios in 2021.
It wasn’t till ROH was reborn as soon as extra that these two ladies grew to become entangled as soon as once more, first assembly below the Ring of Honor banner throughout an HONOR CLUB #45 on January 4th of this 12 months. Diamante and Mercedes Martinez gained that tag bout, and Diamante adopted that up with a 4 Nook Survival victory throughout HONOR CLUB #50, scoring the pinfall immediately on Hirsch albeit together with her toes on the ropes.
These two matches have been just the start; the 2 ladies have been on reverse sides of a Trios Match throughout HONOR CLUB #60 the place Hirsch’s workforce scored the win, then they’d meet once more in Trios competitors three weeks later, with completely different companions this time round, and it might be Diamante’s workforce that obtained the victory. In neither match did the deciding fall come between Hirsch and Diamante, although Diamante did get the deciding fall on HONOR CLUB #63 for her workforce. HONOR CLUB #68 put the 2 ladies reverse each other as soon as extra in a 3rd Trios battle, solely this time it was Leyla Hirsch who took the pinfall, albeit to Alex Windsor reasonably than Diamante, however the outcome got here from Diamante’s trio being coordinated sufficient to work the referee out of place and make the most of the scenario.
It was that outcome 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, however technically that combat does not exist. By way of official wins and losses, a Lights Out Match by no means occurred, the official file nonetheless exhibits that in one-on-one Ring of Honor matches, Leyla Hirsch holds a 1-0 benefit over Diamante.
Formally that’s what the file e-book states, however the actuality does not assist that narrative, the fact is that Diamante beat Hirsch in that Lights Out match, and thus their file in ROH stands at 1-1. That’s the reason these two warriors will enter the Esports Stadium tonight at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 and lock horns in a Texas Demise Match!
It has been seven years since Ring of Honor has introduced this sort of match, on the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2017: NIGHT 2 occasion to be exact, and that was simply the third time within the firm’s historical past a Texas Demise Match has taken place. The primary time was again in 2002 on the inaugural GLORY BY HONOR occasion, the second in 2012 at THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS, after which that aforementioned ROH World Title combat between Cody Rhodes and “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels. It is a rarity in ROH, and this would be the first time such a doubtlessly violent affair has gone down between members of the Ladies’s roster.
After the Lights Out contest, Leyla Hirsch and Diamante each confirmed their capability for violence, and if Diamante thinks Hirsch cannot sink right down to the depths, she greatest keep in mind this is identical lady who regularly used one of many ring hooks as a weapon not too way back! At DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022 a 12 months in the past followers witnessed a wild Struggle With out Honor involving The Darkish Order and The Righteous; this Texas Demise Match might surpass what that dropped at the desk, let’s simply hope that it brings an finish to the hostilities between these two warriors earlier than one finish ups with everlasting injury!
ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Lee Moriarty
Final night time throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB, The Blackpool Fight Membership 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 information of this championship combat fueling Yuta and Moriarty within the tag battle, it was a vital victory for The BBC’s solely champion, particularly after being taken to a time restrict draw the final time he was within the ring with Lee Moriarty for the Proving Floor match. That ten-minute draw, solely the second Proving Floor bout within the Pure Title’s historical past, is what earned Moriarty this protection, and his second likelihood to lastly earn a title that appears custom-made for his wrestling type.
But it is greater than that just because Wheeler Yuta is the person holding the Pure Championship, see theirs is a historical past courting again years earlier than both stepped into an AEW ring, even earlier than their was an All Elite Wrestling ring to step into for that matter. They’d encountered each other in BEYOND, AIW, BLP, and naturally within the period of honor that was reborn with SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022. Their lone singles match over the past two years noticed Yuta victorious, and it simply underlined the journey taken by each males over the course of their careers. They’re each of a era who started their wrestling careers in a world the place Ring of Honor already existed; it was inspirational to each males, a purpose to be achieved, however Yuta was the one one of many two who had the chance pre-FINAL BATTLE 2021.
Then when each males got here to occupy house within the AEW locker room, each got here onto the radar of a Blackpool Fight Membership that, on the time, consisted of Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, and William Regal. Lee Moriarty fought Bryan Danielson, he fought Jon Moxley, however finally it was Yuta who ended up standing side-by-side with The BCC whereas Moriarty drifted from the tutelage of Matt Sydal to standing with Stokely Hathaway’s Agency earlier than finally discovering a house with Shane Taylor as the previous ROH World TV Champion reorganized his Shane Taylor Promotions for ROH and AEW. For the primary time since coming to ROH/AEW, Lee Moriarty discovered a spot that he felt match him, allies that shared his aspirations, and who fought with the identical mentality as him.
Moriarty has at all times been a technical marvel, he even demonstrated a willingness to go strike-for-strike with an opponent when the time referred to as for it, however below the STP banner he discovered a viciousness that wasn’t there earlier than, simply as Wheeler Yuta discovered with The BCC’s tutelage. There is a purpose Yuta is the one 3-Time ROH Pure Champion (for that matter the one 2-Time as properly), and it is due to the expertise he is garnered coaching with Danielson, Moxley, and Castagnoli, and the blood he is spilled preventing in environments like Anarchy within the Enviornment, Blood & Guts, and Stadium Stampede. It is due to the fights with males like Daniel Garcia, Katsuyori Shibata, and Eddie Kingston that Yuta is the fighter he is grow to be, and even with months off recovering from harm, he is come again with out lacking a beat, probably angrier than ever earlier than due to the time he missed.
So what we now have right here tonight on this Pure Championship bout is a gathering of two males strolling related path, who every discovered a house that is made them higher fighters, and who’re each fairly hungry to show they’re the perfect at what they do. The distinction being just one has discovered championship success strolling their path whereas the opposite has been routinely annoyed of their quest, can this be the night time Lee Moriarty provides his title to a lineage that features, amongst others, Jay Deadly, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuinness, and Katsuyori Shibata, or will Yuta proceed pushing in the direction of probably turning into the best 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 making an attempt to persuade Kyle O’Reilly to hitch their ranks basically from the second Kyle returned to All Elite Wrestling after struggling by way of accidents for over a 12 months. The historical past between Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Robust was clearly the strongest tie, however there is a bond between people who shared Ring of Honor locker rooms through the years, even when they have been at one another’s throats throughout these years, and that is basically put Matt Taven and Mike Bennett in the identical sphere as Roddy with regards to O’Reilly. They’re linked by way of the letters ROH, they’re sure collectively by their experiences below that banner, and now they return to that stage with a brand new battle on their arms.
With Kyle’s repeated rejection of The Undisputed Kingdom, he has now grow to be a goal, particularly for Taven and Bennett, however fortunately for Kyle’s welfare he discovered like-minded people in ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, and now “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii. Briscoe dubbed this assortment of disparate people a “Conglomeration” a number of weeks in the past, and the title has caught ever since, but it surely fits them as a mish-mosh of opponents with so little in frequent on the floor. However beneath the pores and skin they’re all bonded by their points with The Undisputed Kingdom, whereas all however Orange Cassidy are bonded by their ROH historical past, and tonight they get to be bonded by violence in pursuit of championship gold!
Regardless of their protestations and pleas for an evening off to have fun Roderick Robust’s birthday and (hopeful) World Championship victory, the ROH World Tag Group Champions will defend their titles at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 towards The Conglomeration pairing of Kyle O’Reilly and Ishii! Kyle and Ishii have been foes previously, they have been allies as of late, uniting throughout FORBIDDEN DOOR 2024’s ZERO HOUR in a 4 Manner tag bout then once more on the July nineteenth RAMPAGE for a Trios victory over The Undisputed Kingdom. After listening to Paul Wight’s decree final night time, it seems to be like this Conglomeration pair has an enormous alternative to knock The UK off the highest of the tag workforce mountain, so will tonight see the tip of The Undisputed Kingdom’s third reign as ROH World Tag Champions, or will we see Kyle put on that title once more for the primary time since April 4, 2105, and Ishii for the primary time?
ROH WORLD SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP ELIMINATOR MATCH…
The Darkish Order (Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, & John Silver)
Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erich (Marshall & Ross)
***WINNER FACES UNDISPUTED KINGDOM AT BOTB XI***
We witnessed Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs unite final week throughout AEW COLLISION, and noticed a number of the outcomes of their partnership final night time on HONOR CLUB when Marshall and Ross defeated Alex Reynolds and John Silver in tag workforce competitors. It was a little bit of a shock to The Darkish Order on condition that their degree of expertise as a workforce far surpasses the Von Erich brothers, however there’s one thing to be stated for the way that familial bond enhances a tag workforce dynamic, how rising up side-by-side creates the chemistry unrelated tag companions take years to domesticate. That is what The Von Erichs have right here, in addition to the information handed right down to them from father Kevin, and now it has been melded with what “The Pure” Dustin Rhodes has to supply as man whose expertise contained in the squared circle has taken him by way of one evolution of the sport after one other. There’s probably not a greater energetic wrestler to take the teachings discovered throughout his profession, meld them when the present move {of professional} wrestling, and train all of it to these arising now. That is what has introduced Dustin, Marshall, and Ross collectively, and tonight throughout DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, it is what they must meld in the event that they hope to grow to be the brand new ROH World Six-Man Champions!
That is proper; within the aftermath of The Patriarchy defeating The Bang Bang Gang to assert the AEW World Trios Titles, the Ring of Honor World Six-Man Championship is vacant and tonight in Arlington one workforce will step nearer to filling that void when Rhodes and The Von Erichs meet The Darkish Order trio trying to even the rating for Thursday night time’s tag workforce loss!
Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, and John Silver are probably the most skilled trios in All Elite Wrestling with their 15-7 file, and within the Ring of Honor panorama they’re 7-5 collectively, whereas this might be simply the second time Dustin, Marshall, and Ross have teamed up collectively although it has been 5 months since their first outing collectively on AEW RAMPAGE.
Darkish Order has lengthy been in pursuit of attaining standing because the Six-Man Champions, and now stand on the precipice of constructing their unit’s dream a actuality, however can they shut down the expertise/youth mixture that’s “The Pure” Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs? The way forward for the ROH World Six-Man Titles begins now; who will take one step nearer to main the division into the long run?
ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2024…
***WINNER EARNS A FUTURE ROH WORLD TITLE MATCH***
ROH World Tv Champion Atlantis Jr. vs. “The Machine” Brian Cage vs. Johnny TV vs. “Large Shotty” Lee Johnson vs. Lio Rush vs. Shane Taylor
Atlantis Jr. defeated Kyle Fletcher on June twenty eighth at Enviornment Mexico to grow to be the thirty second ROH World Tv Champion. It actually shocked Kyle Fletcher to see his hard-earned championship snatched away whereas on his first go to to CMLL, particularly contemplating the battle he went by way of to earn it at FINAL BATTLE 2023, and those he went by way of to maintain it. After successful the 2023 Survival of the Fittest event to assert the vacant TV Championship, Fletcher said his mission was to grow to be the best TV Champion of all-time, a lofty endeavor contemplating what Samoa Joe had simply completed earlier than him, and what Jay Deadly had finished because the longest-reigning champion earlier than Joe’s dominance. Suffice to say Fletcher’s aspirations have been torn to shreds by Atlantis Jr., however that simply meant it was time for somebody new to aim to chase the greatness established by these two former ROH World TV Champs.
Atlantis Jr. wasted little time, attending to ROH correct as quickly as doable after successful the title, and placing it on the road towards Serpentico to really start his reign as champion. It was a formidable starting for the brand new champ, however final night time on HONOR CLUB he (together with Lio Rush) was shutdown by the distinctive pairing of Shane Taylor and Johnny TV. Previous to this match going down it was introduced that these 4 males, together with “The Machine” Brian Cage and “Large Shotty” Lee Johnson, would meet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 within the 2024 Survival of the Fittest elimination match! That meant their tag workforce bout was a chance to get a fall on the TV Champion simply earlier than the title bout, and Shane Taylor pinning Atlantis Jr. is precisely what we noticed go down!
That brings us to tonight the place the ROH World Tv Champion places his belt on the road towards 5 different challengers! SOTF means elimination guidelines, which means Atlantis Jr. has to remain alive by way of 4 eliminations to make it to the tip and maintain on to his title. That is simply the second time a title has been on the road in a SOTF bout, the primary being the FINAL BATTLE 2023 bout the place Fletcher was topped, however on condition that December bout was for a vacant title, that is the primary the place a champion is actively defending the belt. Now there’s a mixture of experiences inside these six people so far as Ring of Honor is worried; for the defending champion, that is simply his third match for Ring of Honor, and clearly his first time getting into a Survival of the Fittest match. Johnny TV has garnered fairly a little bit of ROH expertise over the past 12 months, even collaborating in a Struggle With out Honor towards Dalton Fortress at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024, although he’s additionally a newcomer to SOTF competitors.
For “The Machine” Brian Cage it is the primary time competing in Survival of the Fittest, however he is a 2-Time ROH World Six-Man Champion, and as soon as battled Samoa Joe over the ROH World TV Title two years in the past. Lee Johnson is available in having not too long ago given Kyle Fletcher the 2 hardest defenses of his ROH World TV Title reign, together with a traditional 2/3 Falls Match throughout HONOR CLUB #69, and he was a participant within the FINAL BATTLE 2023 Survival of the Fittest bout over the ROH World TV Title, although he was the primary eradicated within the contest. Then we have got Shane Taylor and Lio Rush, two males fairly aware of SOTF, the World TV Title, in addition to each other.
Second one first; earlier than Thursday night time’s tag workforce bout, the final time Lio Rush competed in a ROH ring was April 22, 2017 and the person who beat him in that ultimate look was none apart from Shane Taylor. Previous to that, Lio Rush made his ROH debut in December 2015 earlier than collaborating, and successful, the 2016 Prime Prospect Match. A victory in that event propelled him to a ROH World Title combat with Jay Deadly, and although that SUPERCARD OF HONOR X combat was a loss, it put Rush right into a place for a number of the most necessary fights of his profession. Over the following 12 months Rush would go to battle with Christopher Daniels, Roderick Robust, Adam Cole, The Briscoes, even making it to the Finals of the 2016 Survival of the Fittest Match the place he was one of many final two males remaining. He was one-third of the workforce preventing to crown the first-ever ROH World Six-Man Champions, stepped into the ring with The Younger Bucks to problem for the ROH World Tag Group Titles, and challenged for the ROH World TV Title at fifteenth ANNIVERSARY as considered one of his final ROH bouts. Suffice to say Lio Rush amassed a substantial amount of expertise below the ROH banner in a really quick time, and now he is again to select up the place he left off however now with an ideal deal extra expertise below his belt.
Then there’s Shane Taylor, probably the most dominant ROH World TV Champions of all-time who reigned for 218 days with 12 complete defenses throughout that interval, in addition to a former World Six-Man Champion, and a finalist of the 2017 Survival of the Fittest Match. His eyes are on the ROH World Championship, of that there isn’t a doubt, however he is sport to combat for any championship alternative introduced, and that World TV Title represents an ideal deal to Shane T.
It will be a tough night time for Atlantis Jr. as he tries to retain his title below these most troublesome of circumstances; will he get up Saturday with the title nonetheless securely in his possession or will it go dwelling with one other man after Survival of the Fittest 2024?
-Komander vs. The Beast Mortos
-MXM Assortment make their debut!
-Prime Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs. The Outrunners (Fact Magnum & Turbo Floyd)
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 will get underway at 8pm ET/7pm CT completely on Honor Membership, with the ZERO HOUR kicking the night time off on the official ROH YouTube channel at 7:00pm! We have three large championship matches lined up so far for ROH’s largest occasion of the summer time, and there is a lot extra motion to hitch them! The highway to FINAL BATTLE 2024 begins now so you do not need to overlook out on Ring of Honor’s return to Arlington, TX and our debut on the Esports Stadium! Then you’ll want to be a part of us on Sunday for 2 separate Ring of Honor taping periods to expertise the fallout from DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 first-hand!
