As All Elite Wrestling heads in direction of FULL GEAR 2024 this Saturday evening dwell from the Prudential Middle in Newark, NJ, Ring of Honor brings to you the newest version of ROH ON HONOR CLUB solely on Honor Membership! Headlined by an ROH World TV Championship match between champion “The Machine” Brian Cage and challenger AR Fox, we may even see ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena tackle Prime Flight’s Leila Gray in a Proving Floor Match! Plus THREE totally different New Japan Professional Wrestling champions will probably be in singles competitors as NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi, NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd, and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Crew Champion Kevin Knight all be a part of the combat!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT solely on Honor Membership, the house for all issues Ring of Honor together with the weekly Thursday evening occasion, in addition to 20+ years of the best professional wrestling on the planet! Since 2002, Ring of Honor has been dwelling to the best wrestlers of this century, and nowhere is that extra clear than within the “Better of ROH” collections the place you may expertise basic matches and interviews from Adam Cole, Roderick Sturdy, The Briscoes, Claudio Castagnoli, and extra!
ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
The Don Callis Household’s Brian Cage(c) vs. AR Fox
“The Machine” Brian Cage was already fairly the imposing drive, be it standing by himself as a solo competitor the place he just lately claimed the ROH World TV Title from Atlantis Jr. or uniting with Gates of Agony to turn out to be 2-Time ROH World Six-Man Champions. But he someway discovered a technique to turn out to be a fair larger menace by signing on with The Don Callis Household and garnering help of that…gentleman…in addition to “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer, AEW Worldwide Champion Konosuke Takeshita, and “The Protostar” Kyle Fletcher.
Final evening on DYNAMITE The DCF went to conflict in opposition to a quartet consisting of Will Ospreay, Mark Davis, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Ricochet in just a little preview of what is to return at FULL GEAR 2024, however tonight “The Machine” goes it solo in his second ROH World TV Title protection! After defeating Komander final month on HONOR CLUB 87, Cage now faces a well-known foe as AR Fox steps as much as problem for the championship!
Fox and Cage aren’t any strangers to at least one one other, not solely have they battled twice with the Ring of Honor World Six-Man Titles at stake, however they’ve additionally been foes in Professional Wrestling Guerrilla, AAW, and diverse different independents over the past decade. Of the singles matches on report, Cage is within the lead 2-1, think about a Triple Risk match from 2016 and their head-to-head encounters flip to a 2-2 tie, however all that’s historic historical past. That is Ring of Honor, and right here these two opponents have by no means met one-on-one earlier than tonight’s version of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, a lot much less with a championship as storied because the ROH World TV Title at stake.
Can AR Fox rise to the event and rating his first Ring of Honor championship or will “The Machine” smash his means by one other opponent making an attempt to take his first ROH singles title away?
ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena vs. Prime Flight’s Leila Gray
Whereas the tensions between ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena, Minion Bestie Lexy Nair, and former ROH Ladies’s World TV Champion Billie Starkz proceed to thicken, there are nonetheless loads of ladies on the market who have not gone toe-to-toe with “The Without end Champion”. She often is the longest reigning champion within the historical past of ROH at 713 days, her single reign having eclipsed Jay Deadly’s mixed 707 days throughout two World Title runs, with 24 profitable title defenses to associate with her 28 Proving Floor and 4 Eliminator Match victories however there is a wealth of gifted skilled wrestlers on the market who have not had their alternative to be the one to finish this run.
One such competitor is Prime Flight’s Leila Gray; regardless of Leila Gray being part of the ROH roster since June 2023 and each being a part of AEW since Could 2022, these two ladies have by no means confronted each other in any match, not even a lot as shared participation in a Battle Royale, however that adjustments tonight! Leila Gray is stepping onto the Proving Floor in hopes of incomes a Ladies’s World Title combat with Athena, a state of affairs the place all she has to do is final 10 minutes with the champ, however a feat that 26 different ladies have failed to perform. As a matter of reality solely a type of ladies, Girl Frost throughout HONOR CLUB #86, was even in a position to push the match previous the eight-minute mark, lasting 8:34 earlier than “The Fallen Goddess” put Frost away in her second Proving Floor try.
Can Leila Gray be the primary girl to hit that 10-minute time restrict and earn a title match? If that’s the case, she would be the first girl throughout Athena’s 57 ROH singles matches since FINAL BATTLE 2022 to not lose to “The Fallen Goddess”! It is probably not the identical as a pinfall or submission victory, actually not the identical ballpark as a title win, however it will be a historic event nonetheless for Leila Gray to go the space with Athena!
NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd vs. SAP’s Angelico
The primary time Gabe Kidd ever entered into the Ring of Honor sphere was on December 28, 2018 when he challenged Jay Deadly for the ROH World Title at an impartial occasion in London England. At that time Kidd was simply previous his seventh anniversary as a wrestler, however he was removed from the brash man who has held the NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship since Could eleventh when he put Eddie Kingston on the shelf on account of their No Rope Final Man Standing match at NJPW STRONG RESURGENCE 2024. That got here on the heels of the 2 males going to a double rely out of their Continental Crown combat at NJPW BATTLE IN THE VALLEY 2024 two months prior, which means one other problem in direction of the ROH World Championship on Kidd’s resume because it, together with the AEW Continental Championship and NJPW STRONG Openweight Title, comprised the Continental Crown.
Nevertheless it wasn’t till October tenth and HONOR CLUB 85 that this BULLET CLUB Struggle Canine made his debut for ROH correct in a profitable Openweight Title protection in opposition to Anthony Henry. That night Kidd seemed as spectacular as ever, displaying the ROH devoted why he is such a drive to be reckoned with, and although he just lately made headlines getting right into a scuffle with Kenny Omega at NJPW’s POWER STRUGGLE 2024 occasion, Kidd’s again in ROH tonight throughout HONOR CLUB to tackle Angelico!
It is “The Mad Man” versus one of the laid again people to ever lace up a pair of wrestling boots, a wrecking ball of a competitor versus a grasp of the llave model; will Angelico use his imperturbable nature to upset the NJPW STRONG Openweight champ?
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Crew Champion Kevin Knight vs. SAP’s Serpentico
Talking of NJPW, within the second match that includes a New Japan champion versus a Spanish Announce Mission member, Serpentico is about to face IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion Kevin Knight! Although we have seen Knight compete in a handful of AEW matches, the final throughout the FORBIDDEN DOOR 2022: BUY-IN, that is his first time in ROH competitors and Knight has come up to now since that final AEW outing! Not solely did he enter into BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIORS 31 event this yr, scoring eight factors with victories over TJP, Kosei Fujita, Clark Connors, and El Desperado, he additionally united with KUSHIDA to defeat BULLET CLUB Struggle Canine of Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney and declare the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles for the second time at KING OF PRO-WRESTLING 2024 simply over a month in the past!
Now Knight involves ROH for the very first time to tackle the lucha-influenced stylings of SAP’s Serpentico, a uncommon singles match for each people as Serpentico’s final was a July victory over Griff Garrison. As for Knight, previous to his November eighth combat with David Finlay for NJPW FIGHTING SPIRIT UNLEASHED 2024, he hadn’t fought one-on-one since battling Shelton Benjamin for DEFY again in September.
Although Serpentico’s observe report is not the perfect, he all the time fights with coronary heart, and maybe that tag group victory two weeks in the past throughout HONOR CLUB 89 will propel him in direction of victory on this bout tonight!
NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi vs. Premier Athletes’ Ariya Daivari
Within the third contest on tonight’s version of ROH ON HONOR CLUB that includes a NJPW champion we’ll see Premier Athletes’ Ariya Daivari tackle present NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi! Now Takagi is not any stranger to ROH motion, the truth is he reigned as one-half of the ROH World Tag Crew Champions from March third to March thirtieth of 2007, defeating The Briscoes at FIFTH YEAR FESTIVAL: LIVERPOOL earlier than dropping them again to Jay and Mark at ALL STAR EXTRAVAGANZA III. Not solely that however from June 3, 2006 till April 28, 2007, Shingo competed on greater than 20 ROH occasions, even difficult Takeshi Morishima for the ROH World Title at GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES on the ultimate evening of his 10-month run.
Shingo appeared a handful extra occasions over the next decade, even taking part within the historic G1 SUPERCARD occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard on April 6, 2019, nevertheless it wasn’t till HONOR CLUB 18 that he arrived within the new period of honor! That evening he and fellow LIJ members BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi unsuccessfully challenged Brian Cage, Toa Liona, and Bishop Kaun for the ROH World Six-Man Titles. That was actually disappointing for Shingo, however for the long-time ROH devoted it was a deal with to see the previous IWGP World Heavyweight Champion again in Ring of Honor even when for just one evening.
Fortunately the bond between AEW/ROH/NJPW runs robust and tonight Shingo returns to the fold to face one of the unbearable, obnoxious, but supremely gifted, people in ROH at present: Ariya Daivari! Little doubt he may have “Sensible” Mark Sterling at his aspect for this one, so perhaps we will probably be fortunate sufficient to observe the ambulance chaser get dropped once more this week…
Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor) vs.
Shane Taylor Promotions added some further firepower to their arsenal with the latest addition of The Infantry to their rankings, and that alliance instantly paid dividends for Capt. Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo within the type of two consecutive tag group victories, together with one over Spanish Announce Mission.
Tonight nevertheless, it is not in regards to the latest members to the STP fold however slightly the unique members of this iteration, ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty and Shane Taylor! We all know Undisputed Kingdom’s Matt Taven is in sizzling pursuit of the title round Moriarty’s waist, however that is one thing Lee goes to must put aside so he and Shane Taylor can give attention to the tag group combat at hand. BEEF and JD Drake had been victorious of their first ROH outing as a group three weeks in the past, beating Preston Vance and Peter Avalon, however got here up quick of their RAMPAGE tussle with Prime Flight on November eighth. Nonetheless the brawny brawlers demonstrated some critical aptitude as a group, and their chemistry might bloom into one thing to be reckoned with down the road.
Sadly they do not have that type of time to search out their groove, not after they’ve received to step into the combat with opponents like Shane Taylor and Lee Moriarty. That is an schooling beneath hearth for BEEF and JD, on-the-job coaching as a tag group in opposition to two males who cowl a wild breadth stylistically. Shane T hits arduous and strikes quick, Lee Moriarty is a surgeon in that ring with some nasty strikes of his personal to go with that floor sport; collectively they seem to be a powerful act to sport plan for even essentially the most seasoned group, and that’s not what we have got with BEEF and JD Drake.
These two are going to must gel collectively quick to prepare for this combat, or they’re going to be those trying up on the lights because the referee counts three!
