It is Thursday evening as soon as once more which suggests Ring of Honor motion is coming your means with the most recent version of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! We watched ROH World Champion Chris Jericho get put down by Tomohiro Ishii this previous Wednesday evening to shut out the trios Battle With out Honor between The Conglomeration and The Studying Tree so one has to marvel how that can impression each males’s futures. We additionally witnessed The Righteous viciously assault the ROH World Tag Workforce Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, The Infantry signal on with Shane Taylor Promotions, and Athena survive the Ring of Horror match with Abadon to retain her ROH Ladies’s World Championship!
This week we have got one other loaded one as “The Fallen Goddess” has referred to as for an Emergency M.E.M, in addition to Premier Athletes’ Josh Woods versus AR Fox, the aforementioned Ishii dealing with Aaron Solo, Diamante taking up Rachael Ellering, Preston Vance dealing with ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara, and a lot extra with The Infantry, The Patriarchy’s Nick Wayne, Leyla Hirsch, and The Righteous!
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Premier Athletes’ Josh Woods vs. AR Fox
AR Fox is a person with a goal on his again, and it is not simply because he is entering into the ring with former ROH Pure Champion Josh Woods tonight throughout HONOR CLUB. It is also as a result of this Saturday on AEW COLLISION he is bought a date with The Patriarchy’s Nick Wayne stemming from the assault Fox and Swerve Strickland perpetrated on Nick some 15 months in the past. Fox is aware of that’s going to be a struggle, however he is bought to search out the power to concentrate on the duty at hand or this Premier Athlete goes to snap him in half!
Woods has had a tough go the final month in ROH competitors; he got here up quick in a Proving Floor match with then-ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe in addition to in battle with “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii simply final week, however this can be a enormous probability to rebound for “The Technical Beast”. Josh Woods has demonstrated many instances over that he is bought the center and talents of a champion, maybe this would be the starting of the highway again to sporting a title round his waist. However, AR Fox undoubtedly wants this victory beneath his belt heading right into a bout with Christian Cage’s “Prodigy” on Saturday evening.
So the query could also be which man wants it extra, and which one will dig deeper to see they get the victory on Honor Membership?
The Conglomeration’s Tomohiro Ishii vs. Aaron Solo
Talking of The Conglomeration’s Tomohiro Ishii, simply 24 hours after pinning ROH World Champion Chris Jericho within the Trios Battle With out Honor on DYNAMITE, “The Stone Pitbull” is true again in motion! Final week’s victory over Josh Woods could have been Ishii’s first match again in ROH since Jericho’s Studying Tree assaulted the person and compelled him to return to Japan, however he is nonetheless received three straight singles matches in ROH throughout 2024 along with that pin on “The Nueve”.
As for Aaron Solo, he appeared fairly spectacular in his Pure Guidelines bouts with Angelico and Matt Taven, in addition to his singles conflict with Rocky Romero, however he must get on the profitable monitor if he hopes to get close to a championship title anytime quickly. A victory over this former ROH World TV Champion is simply the sort of factor Solo wants to start out constructing momentum in Ring of Honor, however he’ll need to take hits from among the hardest fingers within the sport if he hopes to garner a victory.
Will Tomohiro Ishii tally a fourth straight ROH victory tonight throughout HONOR CLUB, or will we see Aaron Solo pull off an upset victory over “The Stone Pitbull”?
Diamante vs. Rachael Ellering
Diamante and Rachael Ellering have some historical past over the course of their wrestling careers. Not solely did they meet in tag group competitors again on HONOR CLUB #45 at first of 2024, however additionally they confronted off through the 2020 AEW Ladies’s Tag Workforce Cup Match. Each these matches have been received by Diamante’s group, however their historical past predates both of these with a number of singles matches across the unbiased circuit. Diamante holds the sting in these bouts, 2-1 in one-on-one conditions, however it’s been over six years since their final assembly and every girl has grown vastly within the interim.
Diamante involves this struggle off a 90-second win on final week’s HONOR CLUB, and that was on the heels of a ROH Ladies’s World TV Title bout with Pink Velvet that ended when Diamante cracked Pink throughout the cranium with the title belt. There is not any query she desires one other shot on the title, however she’s going to need to undergo Rachael Ellering to get there and Rachael has received three of her final 4 ROH matches.
This can be a powerful one to name between two of the hardest ladies in Ring of Honor; who will transfer ahead in the direction of their shared targets of championship success in ROH?
ROH World Tag Workforce Champion Sammy Guevara vs. Preston Vance
As one-half of the ROH World Tag Workforce Champions, Sammy Guevara all the time has a goal on his again from groups trying to take what he and Dustin Rhodes have earned. The Righteous actually put the champions on discover with the assault they perpetrated final week, however Guevara has to lace up his boots and transfer on as a result of he is bought an amazing struggle on his fingers tonight on HONOR CLUB!
Tonight, for the primary time ever, Sammy Guevara will go one-on-one with Preston Vance as the previous anticipates a conflict with The Righteous whereas the latter searches for a brand new route in his wrestling profession. Vance stepped into tag group competitors final week with Peter Avalon as his accomplice, he challenged Lee Moriarty for the ROH Pure Title throughout HONOR CLUB #83, and neither of these endeavors went in his favor. Maybe a victory over one-half of the ROH World Tag Workforce Champions will lead Vance in the direction of the route he must go, or maybe Sammy Guevara will look to this a strategy to ship Dutch and Vincent a message about what’s in retailer for them!
“The Fallen Goddess” Athena could have survived her Ring of Horror struggle with Abadon to retain the ROH Ladies’s World Championship, and lengthen her record-shattering reign to just about 700 days, however what concerning the state of the minions? “Minion Bestie” Lexy Nair should still be standing sturdy in assist of Athena, however it’s been clear for weeks that Billie Starkz is just not even studying the identical e-book as these two, a lot much less the identical web page.
That is just about been the case since Billie misplaced the ROH Ladies’s World TV Title to Pink Velvet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, and Starkz truly took the abuse for a lot longer than any rational particular person earlier than lastly telling Athena and Lexy she was executed. Even after that, following Billie’s victory over Blair Onyx, Lexy nonetheless tried to recruit Starkz into being there for Athena within the Ring of Horror bout however Billie was having none of it. Not solely did she stroll away from Lexy, however after Athena’s victory Nair was the one one there to assist the Ladies’s World Champion stroll out of the sector.
Maybe it’s all that that is led Athena to calling this Emergency Minion Empowerment Meeting tonight throughout HONOR CLUB, maybe her and Billie Starkz are lastly going to have it out about all that is gone on the final 4 months, however the query is the place will they go from there if that’s the case? Can these three ladies discover their means again to the place they was once earlier than DBD 2024, or is that this the tip of the M.I.T?
“The Wrestler” Katsuyori Shibata vs. The Butcher
He could also be standing on his personal within the skilled wrestling world whereas The Blade heals from surgical procedure, however that hasn’t stopped The Butcher from regularly testing himself towards the very best of opponents! From The Beast Mortos to Mark Briscoe to LFI, The Butcher has put himself in a single hard-fought battle after one other in an effort to enhance his sport, 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 competitors together with his solely losses truly happening on AEW programming when Eddie Kingston topped him of their ROH World Title struggle at WRESTLEDREAM 2023 and when Wheeler Yuta defeated him on the 11/25/23 RAMPAGE in a ROH Pure Championship bout. Can The Butcher turn out to be the primary man handy Shibata a loss on ROH programming?
-The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent)!
-Shane Taylor Promotions’ personal The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean)!
-Spanish Announce Undertaking (Angelico & Serpentico)!
-“Legit” Leyla Hirsch Returns!
-The Patriarchy’s Nick Wayne!
