It is a new yr for Ring of Honor as we enter ROH’s twenty third yr of presenting a few of the greatest skilled wrestling on the planet! Between FINAL BATTLE 2024 and WORLDS END 2024, we closed out the yr in large vogue, and we intention to maintain that thrilling roll going into 2025! We start the yr with two large matches contain ROH championships, an ROH Legend in motion as soon as once more, and an enormous 8-Man tag!
It might even be neglectful to not point out that each ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena and ROH World Tag Workforce Champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) might be in motion at WRESTLE DYNASTY 2025 this Sunday night time on the Tokyo Dome! The previous will participate within the Worldwide Ladies’s Cup 4-Approach with Willow Nightingale, Stardom’s Momo Watanabe, & CMLL’s Persphone whereas the latter defend their titles towards Home of Torture’s SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB will get underway tonight at 7pm ET/6pm CT when all that motion, and extra, drops solely on Honor Membership! Not solely is it the house for Ring of Honor’s weekly programming each Thursday, but in addition pay-per-view occasions, in addition to the vacation spot 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 in celebration of his return to the AEW stage, the Kenny Omega: One Winged Angel assortment!!
ROH WOMEN’S WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
At FINAL BATTLE 2024 Pink Velvet efficiently turned away the championship problem of “Legit” Leyla Hirsch however hers wasn’t the one triumph that night time. Stardom’s HANAKO made her ROH debut in the course of the ZERO HOUR with a victory over Harley Cameron! Simply 24 years outdated, HANAKO made her professional wrestling debut within the fall of 2022 earlier than arriving in Stardom at their March 2023 pay-per-view entitled NEW BLOOD PREMIUM. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than HANAKO crossed the paths of Mina Shirakawa and Mariah Could in tag staff motion, and although she fought her coronary heart out each single occasion, it took 4 months for HANAKO to attain her first victory in STARDOM, a trios bout on the MIDSUMMER CHAMPIONS 2023 PPV. A couple of weeks later she had the chance to staff with Mina and Mariah for trios motion, and slowly started to construct herself up inside the promotion. A number of one-on-one bouts with Mina confirmed the Stardom devoted what HANAKO delivered to the desk, and in January 2024 she truly joined Mina’s unit that turned often known as Empress Nexus Venus and that proved the catalyst for her profession shifting ahead, greatest illustrated by she and Maika making it to the finals of Stardom’s GODDESS OF STARDOM Tag League finals on December eighth, and HANAKO profitable the New Blood Tag Titles with Waka Tsukiyama on December twenty sixth!
So with that momentum HANAKO heads into this large championship alternative tonight throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB towards the equally red-hot Pink Velvet! Pink hasn’t misplaced a one-on-one match since an April thirteenth title struggle with ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena at BATTLE OF THE BELTS X, going 9-0 in that timeframe, and she or he additionally added a number of journeys to Mexico for CMLL to her resume throughout 2024. Pink’s already had three hard-fought title defenses throughout her reign so far, and she or he’s about so as to add one other one to the listing; the one query is that if she’ll go away Hammerstein Ballroom with the title tonight as she did at FINAL BATTLE 2024?
ROH World TV Champion Komander vs. QT Marshall
Final week throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB, newly topped ROH World TV Champion Komander put his title on the road towards a really sport Johnny TV. The high-flying luchador was in a position to retain his maintain on the championship regardless of the struggle Mr. TV Prepared gave him, however Komander isn’t resting on the laurels of that victory!
Tonight he will get proper again into the struggle, this time with Proving Floor motion as he welcomes the problem QT Marshall! Now Komander has been on the Proving Grounds a couple of occasions attempting to earn ROH World Tag Title pictures, however this might be his first because the champion attempting to rebuke a possible problem. It is also the primary time QT has ever set foot on the Proving Floor, in addition to the primary dance between he and Komander, so that is going to be fairly the fascinating take a look at for each champion and challenger. All QT Marshall has to do is final the ten minute time restrict or beat Komander to be able to earn a future World TV Title match; can he pull it off when honor takes Manhattan?
“The Infamous 187” Murder & Rocky Romero vs. Motion Andretti & Lio Rush
Final week former ROH World Champion Murder returned dwelling to Ring of Honor, marking his first bout in 4 years for the promotion he helped construct from the bottom up, and he did so in assist of one in all his oldest allies: Rocky “Azucar” Romero! There’s is a historical past courting again to 2004 when Romero, together with tag associate Ricky Reyes, made a huge effect of their debut versus The Briscoes at REBORN: STAGE ONE after which went on to hitch Murder’s Rottweilers unit. Although the alternatives for the 2 of them to compete strictly as a tag staff had been uncommon, they did not stop them from trying like a well-oiled machine final week of their victory over QT Marshall and Aaron Solo.
Tonight they’re proper again in motion, this time towards AEW’s high contenders to the World Tag Titles held by Non-public Get together, Motion Andretti and Lio Rush! This Saturday on COLLISON Lio and Andretti will get their shot on the gold, however first they have to outlive a run towards the reunited Rottweilers! Will Murder’s homecoming proceed to be a profitable one, or will AEW’s #1 Contenders add some extra momentum to their impending championship alternative?
Shane Taylor Promotions (ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, Capt. Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo, & Shane Taylor) vs. Darkish Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno) and Iron Savages (Boulder & Bronson)
Shane Taylor Promotions already has one title below their umbrella with ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, however they intention to make 2025 the yr the place they take over all of the titles in Ring of Honor. Greater than that, the members of STP wish to impress upon the wrestling world that they’re a dominant power within the sport and that begins tonight as they compete as a 4-Man unit for the primary time since The Infantry signed on for responsibility!
Although they’re additionally going through a foursome in Darkish Order and Iron Savages who’ve by no means united earlier than tonight, at the very least STP are all on the identical web page and working with the identical mission. Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, Bronson, and Boulder couldn’t be extra completely different and in reality each time they’ve shared the ring previous to tonight it has been as opponents. Their solely unifying issue is the need to earn victory to kick off the brand new yr on the correct foot, however will that be sufficient to beat the unified power of Shane Taylor Promotions?
