Ring of Honor Wrestling is able to carry the motion tonight throughout HONOR CLUB the place ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe will likely be in Proving Floor motion towards former ROH Pure Champion Josh Woods, The Infantry will tackle Shane Taylor Promotions in tag staff competitors, and ROH Ladies’s World TV Champion Purple Velvet will put her title on the road towards Diamante! Plus we are going to see Lance Archer in motion on the heels of becoming a member of The Don Callis Household, the previous Ladies’s World TV Champ Billie Starkz will likely be in motion as effectively, and we hear NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd is coming to ROH for the primary time with an Open Problem laid out on the desk!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT solely on Honor Membership, the vacation spot for ROH’s weekly programming in addition to the house for greater than 20 years of professional wrestling historical past, that includes males like Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness, ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, former ROH Pure Champion Josh Woods, and a particular shock dropping right now within the “Better of ROH” part that won’t put you to sleep!
ROH WOMEN’S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
Purple Velvet(c) vs. Diamante
Diamante and the ROH Ladies’s World TV Champion are not any strangers to 1 one other, they have been going back-and-forth in All Elite Wrestling since 2021 and the February ninth version of DARK match gained by Purple Velvet. But within the three-plus years since that encounter, the 2 ladies have solely clashed one different time in head-to-head competitors, and that came about on the 6/1/21 version of DARK in one other bout the place Purple was victorious. They’ve had tags and trios since, even a 4 Nook Survival throughout HONOR CLUB #49 earlier this yr, however not one other one-on-one contest earlier than tonight.
Tonight they meet as soon as once more, solely now the ROH Ladies’s World TV Championship will likely be on the road in Purple Velvet’s first protection since defeating Billie Starkz at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024. She’s turned away Proving Floor challenges from Allysin Kay and Woman Frost, however now that the title is definitely on the road, can the champion have the identical success? Diamante is coming into this with a 47 second victory in her final ROH bout only a few weeks in the past, to not point out that brutal Lights Out victory over Leyla Hirsch in July and the following Texas Dying Match at DBD ’24 shortly thereafter, matches that took day off her profession, however honed her to a lethal edge. Are these experiences what Diamante wanted to lastly put a title round her waist in Ring of Honor? We are going to discover out tonight when the ROH Ladies’s World TV Championship is at stake!
ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe vs. Premier Athletes’ Josh Woods
Although he is received a ROH World Championship match with Chris Jericho set for WRESTLEDREAM 2024 in simply two days, Mark Briscoe is stepping onto the Proving Floor with one of many high grapplers in professional wrestling right now: “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods! A former ROH Pure Champion, for practically eight years Josh Woods has demonstrated to the ROH devoted why he is a competitor to be feared, making his preliminary impression by successful the 2017 High Prospect Event and entering into the ring throughout that first yr with foes like Jay Briscoe, Shane Taylor, Hangman Web page, Jay Deadly, and even difficult then-ROH World TV Champion Kenny King for his title.
With every passing yr of ROH competitors, Woods grew stronger and extra assured in that ring, bringing his spectacular technical expertise to bear within the 2020 ROH Pure Championship Event the place he defeated Kenny King and PJ Black earlier than being eradicated within the Semifinals of the match. Although he fell quick within the match, Woods saved his devotion to the Pure Division sturdy by competing in Pure Guidelines contests at each alternative, resulting in him laying declare to the title at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2021! For 201 days Woods reigned as champion, amassing seven defenses in competitors each in ROH and across the unbiased wrestling panorama, earlier than lastly being dethroned by Wheeler Yuta at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022. Since then he is challenged Samoa Joe for the ROH World TV Title, Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Title, and Katsuyori Shibata for the ROH Pure Championship. He is gained 10 of his final 12 one-on-one contests since that Shibata combat, and now appears to earn himself one other shot on the ROH World Championship on this third Proving Floor match of his ROH profession. He is 0-2 within the earlier Proving Floor outings, one a 4 Nook Survival and the opposite a Six Man Mayhem, and 0-3 in earlier head-to-head battles towards Mark Briscoe, however all that was earlier than the Premier Athletes have been a part of his life, earlier than the help of “Sensible” Mark Sterling, Ariya Daivari, and Tony Nese grew to become a priority for the lads Josh Woods fought.
Can this be the night time Woods breaks his shedding streak to Mark Briscoe and earns himself a shot on the winner of this Saturday night time’s match at WRESTLEDREAM 2024?
Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)
The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo)
This is not the primary dance between Shane Taylor Promotions and The Infantry; in truth the second match Lee Moriarty fought at Shane Taylor’s facet came about throughout HONOR CLUB #33 final yr and The Infantry stood as their opponents in battle. The Infantry got here again from that with an eight-man tag victory 4 weeks later at HONOR CLUB #37 which in flip led to a STP victory in Three-Manner Tag competitors on HONOR CLUB #45, and culminated their tag staff rivalry in a 2-of-3 Falls battle gained by STP at HONOR CLUB #46.
HONOR CLUB #50 additionally hosted an eight-man victory for the STP, Cole Karter, Griff Garrison quartet, however since then each groups have gone their separate methods in Ring of Honor. So contemplate tonight’s tag staff bout a rivalry renewed as Capt. Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo as soon as extra step onto the battlefield with Shane Taylor and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty! The Infantry are coming into this after a irritating loss to The Outrunners final week whereas Taylor and Moriarty are 5-0 in ROH tag staff competitors, together with these three victories over The Infantry; can Capt. and Carlie lastly rating a victory over their ROH rivals or will it’s one other week of disappointment as each staff in ROH is jockeying for a shot at ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara!
NJPW STRONG OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OPEN CHALLENGE…
Gabe Kidd has reigned as NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion for 151 days since defeating Eddie Kingston at NJPW STRONG RESURGENCE 2024 of their No Rope Final Man Standing combat. Kingston has been on the shelf since that battle whereas Kidd has gone on to defend the title towards each Ultimo Guerrero and Lio Rush, in addition to challenged Kaito Kiyomiya for the GHC Heavyweight Championship in Professional Wrestling NOAH, fought within the 2024 G1 Climax Event, battled in RevPro, fought on the UK leg of CMLL’s FANTASICA MANIA 2024 tour, and naturally thrown down in NJPW together with his BULLET CLUB Conflict Canine. He is been a busy man, preventing everybody he can and instigating everybody else, however tonight it is time for Gabe Kidd to make his ROH-proper debut and what higher manner to take action than by laying out an Open Problem for his NJPW STRONG Openweight Title!
This is not Kidd’s first dance with ROH; he truly challenged Jay Deadly unsuccessfully for the ROH World Title again in December 2018 on an unbiased present in London and fought Kingston in a Continental Crown match for NJPW STRONG at BATTLE IN THE VALLEY 2024 the place the ROH World, NJPW STRONG, and AEW Continental titles have been all at stake, however tonight will mark his first match inside an ROH ring.
Who will reply the decision and step as much as problem essentially the most unhinged competitor in New Japan Professional Wrestling? Watch the above embedded video to search out out…
-Former ROH Ladies’s World TV Champion Billie Starkz!
-“The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer!
