Within the aftermath of FINAL BATTLE 2024, and ROH’s highly-anticipated return to the Hammerstein Ballroom within the coronary heart of New York Metropolis, we return to Thursday evening motion completely on Honor Membership! New ROH World TV Champion Komander is not losing any time constructing his legacy as champ as he’s set to defend the belt towards Johnny TV! Talking of Johnny, his new runway buddies MxM Assortment may even be in motion throughout tonight’s program, as will 3-Time AEW Ladies’s World Champion Toni Storm as she makes her Ring of Honor debut!
ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena, coming off a hellacious protection towards Billie Starkz has known as for a M.E.M, however not E for “empowerment” however moderately E for “expulsion”! AR Fox takes on Blake Christian after each got here up brief of their Survival of the Fittest bid to assert the TV Title, Rocky Romero and a thriller companion are set for battle towards QT Marshall and Aaron Solo, and after their conflict with one another throughout FINAL BATTLE 2024, Katsuyori Shibata and “Dynamite Child” Tommy Billington will staff as much as face Premier Athletes!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB will get underway tonight at 7pm ET/6pm CT with all that motion and extra, and airs completely on Honor Membership! Not solely is it the house for Ring of Honor’s weekly programming, in addition to pay-per-view occasions, it is also the place for 20+ years of top-tier wrestling historical past as showcased within the “Better of…” part with collections from The Briscoes, Nigel McGuinness, Samoa Joe, Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson, and extra dropping each week!
ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP…
Komander(c) vs. Johnny TV
This previous Friday evening in New York Metropolis Komander outlasted 5 different people to develop into the thirty fourth ROH World Tv Champion. After two earlier makes an attempt to assert that title, together with as a part of FINAL BATTLE 2023’s Survival of the Fittest bout, the high-flying sensation lastly claimed his first title in Ring of Honor and would not intention to let it go any time quickly!
That being mentioned Komander additionally goals to be a combating champion and that’s evident tonight throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB the place, simply six days faraway from his title victory, Komander welcomes the problem of Johnny TV! Again on HONOR CLUB #83 Komander scored victory over Mr. TV Prepared, and that was earlier than Johnny discovered himself on this droop he is in, a psychological funk so dangerous Johnny’s really consuming carbs, and MxM Assortment has desperately been making an attempt to assist him.
Can Johnny discover his method again to the highest tonight with a championship victory over the newly topped Komander, or will this be the start of a high-flying period of Honor Membership like we have but to expertise?
ATHENA ISSUES A MINION EXPULSION MEETING?!?
Come hell or excessive water, “The Endlessly ROH Champion” Athena appears to discover a option to preserve the ROH Ladies’s World Title round her waist regardless of who her opponent could also be. It felt like final Friday evening in Hammerstein Ballroom was going to be Billie Starkz’ triumphant second, however Athena discovered a option to win her twenty fifth title protection and go away Billie emotionally devastated within the heart of the ring as her mother and father watched from ringside.
Provided that it was Billie’s second time coming for Athena’s title within the final 12 months, and all that is taken place between the 2 of them since July when Billie misplaced the ROH Ladies’s World TV Title to Purple Velvet, it ought to come as little shock that Athena introduced a Minion Expulsion Assembly for tonight on Honor Membership. It has been a very long time coming, however it appears like this night in New York goes to mark a shift within the M.I.T panorama…
“Dynamite Child” Tommy Billington & Katsuyori Shibata vs.
Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)
At FINAL BATTLE 2024 “Dynamite Child” Tommy Billington made his ROH debut, in addition to return to america for the primary time in 17 months, to face off with “The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata! Billington was unsuccessful in his try handy Shibata his first ROH lack of 2024, however what he did do was earn Shibata’s respect and a spot at his facet on this tag staff battle tonight in NYC!
Now Shibata is kind of accustomed to Josh Woods, Ariya Daivari, and Tony Nese from singles and trios competitors, Woods even challenged him for the Pure Title again on HONOR CLUB #23, however that is the primary time he is met them in tag staff motion in addition to the primary time Billington has stepped into the ring with any members of “Good” Mark Sterling’s camp! Will Shibata shut out his 2024 with the identical success he is skilled the remainder of the 12 months, or will these Premier Athletes head into 2025 in celebration?
Aaron Solo & QT Marshall vs. Rocky “Azucar” Romero & ?????
QT Marshall could have come up brief in his match with Jay Deadly at FINAL BATTLE 2024, however he is getting proper again into the motion with one other former ROH champion in Rocky “Azucar” Romero! A 3-time World Tag Champion, Romero has ROH historical past relationship again to REBORN: STAGE ONE in April 2004, to not point out having traversed the wrestling panorama across the globe, so dealing with him in a thriller companion scenario is kind of the dilemma for QT and Aaron Solo. Rocky might pull a companion from his wealthy ROH historical past, his journeys all through Mexico and Japan, or his work across the unbiased wrestling circuit. Who will step up by his facet for this tag staff conflict?
AR Fox vs. Blake Christian
Although AR Fox and Blake Christian have usually stood on the identical facet of the ring throughout their ROH tenure, even difficult for the World Six-Man Titles collectively again at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, tonight they meet one-on-one for the primary time in ROH within the aftermath of the World TV Title Survival of the Fittest match at FINAL BATTLE 2024! Christian displayed a moderately stunning facet of himself when he hit Mark Davis with a low blow forward of eliminating him from the bout, and almost put down Komander to earn the World TV Title for himself. Finally Komander took the crown, however now that Christian has come so shut, he desires one other shot at incomes his first ROH title and that begins tonight towards AR Fox! They’re 1-1 in earlier one-on-one conferences exterior of ROH; who will add a win to their column on this first Ring of Honor battle?
-Toni Storm’s ROH Debut!!
-LEEJ’s Lee Johnson vs. SAP’s Serpentico
-MxM Assortment in motion!!!
