FINAL BATTLE 2024 is simply 24 hours away and can hail from the enduring Hammerstein Ballroom within the coronary heart of New York Metropolis! It is a venue that Ring of Honor cemented as knowledgeable wrestling vacation spot with 24 occasions inside its partitions starting with A NEW LEVEL on Could 10, 2008 and culminating in MANHATTAN MAYHEM 2019 on July twentieth. Tomorrow evening ROH returns to these hallowed grounds for its year-end extravaganza, however there’s nonetheless yet another evening of motion earlier than that involves cross!
Tonight throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB we’ll see ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena staff up along with her FB ’24 opponent Billie Starkz in tag staff motion, plus we have an enormous 8-Man Tag Crew battle lined up as Shane Taylor Promotions and Grizzled Younger Veterans unite to face Darkish Order and Undisputed Kingdom! Additionally, after falling to Gates of Agony’s Toa Liona final week, LEEJ’s Lee Johnson is getting proper again within the combat with the opposite half of the Gates, Bishop Kaun, and forward of his title protection at FB ’24 ROH World TV Champion Brian Cage will staff up with Lance Archer to face Iron Savages in tag motion. We may also see Queen Aminata tackle Woman Frost and SAP’s Serpentico shall be in motion!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB will get underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT solely on Honor Membership, your own home for ROH’s weekly programming, FINAL BATTLE 2024, and a plethora of the most effective wrestling on the planet from 20+ years of archival footage as featured within the “Better of ROH” part! We have a complete assortment of bouts from Chris Hero, “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, Bryan Danielson, Matt Taven, and The Briscoes on-hand, in addition to a lot extra! After taking in Thursday evening’s motion, be a part of us in NYC as ROH retakes the Hammerstein Ballroom for FINAL BATTLE 2024!
EIGHT-MAN TAG TEAM BOUT…
Grizzled Younger Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) and Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)
Darkish Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno) and Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Are they higher than this? That’s the query Evil Uno appears to need Alex Reynolds and John Silver to reply about themselves as of late. It appears Uno is sick of the shenanigans, uninterested in seeing Darkish Order maintain much more losses than victories, and needs his two compatriots to be on the identical web page. The actual fact John and Alex have chosen to focus on Grizzled Younger Veterans with their antics for having the audacity to be severe about their craft appears to have particularly rubbed Evil Uno the incorrect manner. Maybe that is why Uno is placing himself in as Alex’s accomplice for this match, the primary time they have been tag companions since an HONOR CLUB #82 World Tag Title Proving Floor match in opposition to The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara). Maybe it is also why he’s reuniting with Undisputed Kingdom for this 8-Man Tag, their first time as a foursome since HONOR CLUB #78 after they fell to The Sons of Texas and The Von Erichs (Ross & Marshall).
Standing throughout the ring from this motley crew would be the mixture of Shane Taylor Promotions, as represented by ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty and Shane Taylor, together with Grizzled Younger Veterans of Zack Gibson and James Drake! It was only one week in the past that Matt Taven fell to Lee Moriarty in an ROH Pure Championship bout, and nearly two months in the past that UK defeated STP and Gates of Agony in a Three-Approach tag on RAMPAGE. However with that loss to Moriarty hanging over Taven’s head, in addition to the little bit of inner strife inside Darkish Order, is it attainable for Undisputed Kingdom and Darkish Order to tug off this victory? Provided that Lee Moriarty is staring down an Open Problem for his ROH Pure Title tomorrow at FINAL BATTLE 2024, he’s definitely combating this bout with a degree to show to whoever steps as much as the desk inside Hammerstein Ballroom!
ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena & Billie Starkz in motion!
What a protracted unusual journey it has been within the relationship between ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena and her FINAL BATTLE 2024 challenger Billie Starkz. One yr in the past, on the ultimate episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB earlier than FINAL BATTLE 2023 (#42 to be precise), followers watched as the 2 ladies threw down following Athena’s 33-second Proving Floor victory over Roxanne, culminating within the champion’s nostril being gruesomely busted open and the ultimate picture we see being that of Starkz holding up the title belt.
Quick ahead one yr and Athena stays the ROH Ladies’s World Champion, Starkz having failed in her FB ’23 problem, and “The Fallen Goddess” happening to shatter Samoa Joe’s 21-year document because the longest reigning champion within the historical past of Ring of Honor. Heading into tonight’s version of HONOR CLUB, Athena has 740 days as champion beneath her belt with the potential to finish two calendar years as champion ought to she depart tomorrow evening’s FINAL BATTLE 2024 occasion nonetheless the champion.
Throughout that timeframe Starkz fought proudly as a Minion, even received the ROH Ladies’s World TV Title at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in Philadelphia in a way that, whereas not applicable within the eyes of her dad and mom at ringside, definitely suited the beliefs of “The Fallen Goddess”. Billie was all in on Athena even after Athena stopped being all in on her after Starkz misplaced the title to Crimson Velvet in her first protection at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024.
Tensions have been constructing ever since that evening 5 months in the past, and it lastly got here to a head final week when Athena stole the win from Billie (who was stealing it from Leyla Hirsch to be trustworthy) within the WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 Worldwide Ladies’s Cup Qualifier. Billie issued the problem for the combat at FINAL BATTLE 2024 tomorrow evening, however on condition that she’s nonetheless a contractually obligated minion there are particular duties that should be fulfilled, and that features teaming up with Athena tonight throughout HONOR CLUB in tag staff motion!
How will these two ladies co-exist tonight given their impending combat tomorrow and all the strain that is been build up since July? We’ll discover out tonight on WatchROH.com when HONOR CLUB goes reside at 7pm ET!
LEEJ’s Lee Johnson vs. Gates of Agony’s Bishop Kaun
Final week on HONOR CLUB #94, “Large Shotty” Lee Johnson stepped as much as Gates of Agony’s Toa Liona in singles competitors and although Lee gave it every little thing he may, the monstrous Toa demolished Johnson. Sadly Toa confirmed himself to be fairly the dishonorable athlete after the bout as, when Lee known as for the Code of Honor handshake, Toa attacked the person fairly than shake his hand. That introduced out one of many few males in ROH who dwarfs Toa Liona, Lee Johnson’s tag staff accomplice EJ Nduka! The face-to-face between these two behemoths was one thing to behold, maybe an indication of issues to come back, however tonight it is Lee Johnson getting into competitors in opposition to GOA as soon as once more, this time reverse Bishop Kaun in his first-ever ROH singles match! It is fairly wild to assume {that a} man who first debuted for Ring of Honor the day after FINAL BATTLE 2018, and is a 3-Time World Six-Man Champion, is simply now having his first singles match.
Will he fare in addition to his accomplice did in opposition to “Large Shotty” or will Lee Johnson hand the Cameroonian Prince an “L” in his first singles outing?
Homicide Machines (ROH World TV Champion Brian Cage & Lance Archer) vs.
Iron Savages (Bronson & Boulder)
With a Survival of the Fittest Six-Man Elimination championship protection scheduled for tomorrow evening, ROH World TV Champion “The Machine” Brian Cage enters into tag staff motion alongside his Don Callis Household accomplice “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer! In AEW competitors this staff dubbed Homicide Machines are 3-0 in tag staff motion, however that is their first foray into ROH motion after their dominating efficiency within the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royale two weeks in the past on DYNAMITE. The unfortunate recipients of their violence would be the Iron Savages of Bronson and Boulder, a duo who could also be highly effective in their very own proper, however are going to wish to discover a entire new degree of sauce to sip in the event that they need to match what Homicide Machines brings to the combat.
It’ll be one of many hardest assessments Iron Savages have ever confronted; can they shock the world with the upset victory or will this function a warning to each the tag staff division and the opposite 5 males within the World TV Title match at FINAL BATTLE 2024?
CARDONA/JERICHO UPDATE…
“The Nueve” Chris Jericho shockingly appeared at Sport Changer Wrestling’s HIGHEST IN THE ROOM 3 occasion in Los Angeles this previous Saturday to assault “The Full” Matt Cardona and provides himself any type of benefit he may forward of their FINAL BATTLE 2024 ROH World Championship combat tomorrow contained in the Hammerstein Ballroom. Tonight we count on to listen to an replace on the state of affairs as the 2 males put together to combat one-on-one for the primary time since younger Cardona scored a pinfall over Jericho in March 2016 on the Barclays Middle just some miles away from Hammerstein Ballroom. Hopefully Cardona remains to be in combating form and Jericho’s try to garner a bonus did not rob the followers of seeing this excessive stakes ROH World Championship battle!
-Serpentico vs. Sidney Akeem!
-Queen Aminata vs. Woman Frost!!
