It is Thursday evening and meaning an all-new episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB drops tonight for the ROH trustworthy! We’ve a number of Proving Floor matches on faucet, together with ROH Girls’s World Champion Athena dealing with an outdated foe in Nicole Matthews, ROH World Tv Champion Kyle Fletcher welcoming Canada’s personal Mentallo to ROH, and the ROH World Tag Champions The Undisputed Kingdom additionally stepping onto the Proving Floor! Plus, Skye Blue faces Rachael Ellering, Jay Deadly and Satnam Singh face The Darkish Order, and a lot extra on your viewing pleasure!
The fights start at 7pm ET/6pm CT solely on Honor Membership, the one residence for ROH’s wealthy twenty-plus yr historical past that includes among the best pound-for-pound skilled wrestling ever seen, in addition to bouts from rivals who proceed to mould the game {of professional} wrestling each week!
ROH Girls’s World Champion Athena vs. Nicole Matthews
Nicole Matthews first stepped right into a ROH ring practically fifteen years in the past at CLASH OF THE CONTENDERS, an occasion held in Collinsville, IL on the Gateway Middle, simply throughout the bridge from legendary wrestling metropolis St. Louis, MO. At that time, Matthews was barely three years into her wrestling profession. Competing nearly solely in Canada, it was Nicole’s introduction into SHIMMER in October 2007 that launched her to a bigger viewers, and allowed her to garner expertise in contrast to every other. For practically 700 days Nicole, together with Portia Perez, reigned as SHIMMER Tag Crew Champions, and when that got here to its finish, Matthews would struggle her solution to the SHIMMER Championship, incomes the title at VOL. 68 by defeating the legendary Cheerleader Melissa, Madison Eagles, and Athena in a 4 Method Elimination. The truth is, Matthews was instantly chargeable for eliminating Athena from that match, marking the second time Nicole pinned Athena in SHIMMER competitors, the primary happening two years prior at VOL. 46.
Matthews, fourteen years after her lone look, lastly returned to Ring of Honor Wrestling in July 2023, dropping to Leyla Hirsch throughout ROH ON HONOR CLUB #21, and although many hoped it might be the start of extra ROH apperances for Nicole Matthews, that was sadly to not be. So it’s with nice pleasure that ROH welcomes Nicole Matthews again to competitors, and with the potential to step proper into title rivalry with a Proving Floor match in opposition to “The Fallen Goddess” Athena! It has been practically ten years since these girls final met in that aforementioned 4 Method bout, and it is unlikely both has forgotten their earlier encounters, particularly within the case of Athena who misplaced each of these SHIMMER outings.
Can Matthews repeat the success she had previously with Athena and earn herself a championship struggle? Survive the time restrict or beat the champ, that is the way it will get executed on the Proving Floor, will Matthews be the primary to drag if off in opposition to the “Perpetually Champ”?
ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher vs. Mentallo
For twenty-six years the masked Winnipeg native often known as Mentallo has been competing contained in the squared circle, with matches in opposition to the likes of Kenny Omega, Jimmy Jacobs, Matt Taven, Vincent of The Righteous, and Chase Owens, to not point out the very best the Canadian impartial scene has needed to provide throughout his practically three many years as a rivals.
But the closest Mentallo ever got here to Ring of Honor competitors was November sixteenth of 2018 when Matt Taven, Vincent, and TK O’Ryan introduced the ROH World Six-Man Championship to Canadian Wrestling’s Elite STRUTTIN’ AND CUTTIN’ TOUR and defended them in opposition to Mentallo, Rekka, and Roy Flash.
That modifications this Thursday evening when Mentallo competes in his first correct Ring of Honor match, and beneath the auspices of the Proving Floor no much less! ROH World TV Champion Kyle Fletcher comes into this struggle on the heels of DYNAMITE’s tag workforce loss in opposition to The Blackpool Fight Membership and that little question means he’ll be preventing indignant, trying to bounce again with a vengeance at Mentallo’s expense!
Can this veteran of the ring wars earn himself a ROH World TV Championship match this Thursday evening, or will this Don Callis Member of the family proceed on his twelve match profitable streak that dates again to ROH ON HONOR CLUB #35 final October?
Skye Blue vs. Rachael Ellering
Let’s simply put it on the market immediately, after listening to her feedback within the clip embedded above, if there was any doubt about it, Maria’s phrases to Rachael Ellering simply clarified that she will not be a superb individual.
With that out of the best way, Ellering wants to drag her focus again onto doing what she does greatest, stepping between the ropes and preventing, and utilizing her wrestling presents to get to the highest of the Girls’s Division. Racheal felt just like the Girls’s World TV Title Event was going to be her path, however that journey was derailed by her personal associate Leyla Hirsch within the very first spherical, and Ellering’s try and bounce again in opposition to Hikaru Shida a number of weeks later was additionally stiffled by the previous 3-Time AEW Girls’s World Champion.
Nonetheless it is a new day, and meaning a brand new alternative to work in the direction of title rivalry, however Racheal begins it off with stiff competitors within the type of Skye Blue! Skye comes into this struggle 7-1 in ROH singles competitors, her lone loss coming by the hands of Athena nearly a yr in the past, and with an 11-1 report general. The vindictive, vicious perspective that Julia Hart introduced out of Skye Blue has served her effectively in each ROH and AEW, and its going to make Thursday evening a tough return to motion for Rachael Ellering!
Can Ellering take these phrases uttered by Maria and shove them again down her throat, or will Skye Blue take residence the victory on Honor Membership?
Jay Deadly & Satnam Singh (w/ Sonjay Dutt) vs.
Darkish Order (Evil Uno & John Silver w/ Alex Reynolds)
And talking of people with their work reduce out for them, on Thursday evening The Darkish Order have the glory of welcoming Satnam Singh to Ring of Honor competitors for the very first time! ROH competitors is outdated hat for Jay Deadly, in spite of everything he is a former ROH Grand Slam Champion and the second longest reigning TV Champion of all-time, however for Satnam Ring of Honor is a brand new playground the place he will get to toss some our bodies round!
It is going to be a tricky street for Evil Uno and John Silver come Thursday evening, but when they will isolate Jay Deadly from his associate, and hold Satnam out of the ring, maybe they cannot solely survive this tag workforce battle, however really decide up a win over the 7’2” monster and “The Franchise of ROH”!
-Proving Floor: ROH World Tag Crew Champions Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. Jason Geiger & London Lightning
-Darius Martin & Motion Andretti vs. Jon Cruz & Levi Evening
-“The Star of the Present” Anna Jay in motion!
