DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 was an amazing night time of motion this previous Friday in Arlington, and with it got here the crowning of two new ROH champions! Within the ROH Pure Title conflict between 3-Time champion Wheeler Yuta and Lee Moriarty, it was #TaigaStyle who discovered a approach to finish the 244-day reign of the Blackpool Fight Membership member. Then within the ROH Ladies’s World Tv Championship match, Billie Starkz fell to Crimson Velvet within the champion’s very first title protection since claiming the crown at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 in April!
Within the different title affairs, all champions have been in a position to preserve their titles, even ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr. who needed to outlast 5 different males within the Survival of the Fittest bout. Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erich gained an Eliminator Match over Darkish Order to earn their spot within the ROH World Six-Man Title battle in opposition to Undisputed Kingdom at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XI, and the Texas-born trio made essentially the most of it by changing into the brand new Six-Man Champions! Then there was the unforgettable Texas Demise Match between Leyla Hirsch and Diamante that deserves to go down as some of the memorable bouts in ROH’s historical past!
However not that DBD ’24 is previously, it is time for Ring of Honor to maneuver ahead into the longer term, and meaning getting proper again into motion tonight on Honor Membership! Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs intention to be preventing champions as they put their Six-Man Titles on the road in opposition to Iron Savages and Jacked Jameson whereas Wheeler Yuta seems to be to bounce again from his title loss in a match in opposition to the hard-striking Anthony Henry. Plus, Brian Cage squares off in opposition to Rocky Romero, The Beast Mortos follows up his night time on DYNAMITE with a battle in opposition to AR Fox, The Premier Athletes can be in motion, Fuego Del Sol returns to face Jacoby Watts, and a lot extra!
It will get underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT solely on Honor Membership, your property for Ring of Honor’s weekly presentation each Thursday night time, in addition to the large library that includes over twenty years of essentially the most influential skilled wrestling promotion of this century!
ROH WORLD SIX-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH…
Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erich (Marshall & Ross)(c) vs. Iron Savages (Boulder, Bronson, & Jacked Jameson)
On Friday night time’s DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 occasion, Dustin Rhodes, Marshall Von Erich, and Ross Von Erich took their first step in direction of the ROH World Six-Man Championship when the bested Darkish Order. That win put them in place to battle Undisputed Kingdom of Roderick Sturdy, Matt Taven, and Mike Bennett simply twenty-four hours later at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XI, and the trio from Texas made the many of the alternative, main all to their first-ever Ring of Honor championship, and most significantly, Dustin to his first title in almost a decade!
It was an emotional second for “The Pure”, simply because it was for Marshall and Ross as they received to share it with their father Kevin, and although it’s one thing all three males will doubtless really feel for a while to return, they’re already getting proper again to the grind tonight on Honor Membership!
With an intention to be preventing champions, Dustin and The Von Erichs will put their newly gained Six-Man Titles on the road in opposition to Iron Savages of Bronson and Boulder, and their working buddy Jacked Jameson! It has been over a 12 months for the reason that final time Iron Savages and Jameson challenged for the titles, a dropping effort in opposition to The Mogul Embassy on HONOR CLUB #22, and to say their success fee hasn’t been the best can be an understatement. It isn’t a testomony to their skill, these three are a group of the strongest males in ROH, and collectively they’re able to nice issues, it is only a matter of placing all of it collectively to reside as much as their potential.
Tonight can be the perfect night time for Jameson, Bronson, and Boulder to lastly gel into the dominant monster they’ve the potential to develop into, and if they will, we can be taking a look at new ROH World Six-Man Champions!
Wheeler Yuta vs. Anthony Henry
Just some days in the past Wheeler Yuta stood because the defending 3-Time ROH Pure Champion, a feat unmatched by anybody else within the historical past of that title, a title nobody else had even held on two events for that matter, however by the top of the night time at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, he was dethroned by Shane Taylor Promotions’ Lee Moriarty.
It occurs, nobody reigns endlessly, however Wheeler can discover satisfaction within the truth his 244 days as Pure Champion mark him because the third-longest reigning title holder of all-time. Within the aftermath of such a loss there are two selections for a person, both wallow within the distress of loss or mud your self up and check out once more, and figuring out the guts of The Blackpool Fight Membership, Wheeler Yuta goes to decide on the latter.
So tonight on Honor Membership Yuta begins that strategy of choosing himself again up when he squares off with a person he is solely confronted as soon as earlier than, in tag group competitors at that, one-half of The Workhorsemen: Anthony Henry! Along with his associate JD Drake out recovering from damage, Henry has been searching for the place he matches within the scheme of issues, partnering up with assorted people during the last couple months, however nothing fairly becoming like JD Drake.
Maybe the ticket for Anthony Henry is not discovering different people to unite with however fairly to go it alone till his tag associate returns, and present the ROH devoted the talent which have introduced him championship success throughout the unbiased wrestling panorama during the last twenty years. Henry is a nasty striker, an amazing grappler, with expertise that match-up splendidly in opposition to a competitor like Yuta, and he’s going to present the previous 3-Time Pure Champ a run for his cash tonight on Honor Membership!
“The Machine” Brian Cage vs. “Azucar” Rocky Romero
Brian Cage was moments away from claiming the ROH World Tv Champion from Atlantis Jr. at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 this previous Friday night time. After eliminating each Lee Johnson and Johnny TV from the Survival of the Fittest contest, “The Machine” appeared poised to place the defending champion down and develop into the thirty third World TV Champion, however destiny had different issues in thoughts and Atlantis Jr. escaped Arlington that night time with the championship nonetheless in his possession.
Brian Cage thought he had it, thought he was leaving the Esports Stadium together with his first ROH singles title, as a substitute he’s moving into this match with Rocky Romero and not using a championship round his waist. To say that makes “The Machine” offended can be underselling it, and he goals to make the previous multi-time ROH World Tag Champion endure for what he misplaced on Saturday!
The Beast Mortos vs. AR Fox
The Beast Mortos has been a busy man these previous few days; from competing within the Royal Rampage on AEW RAMPAGE final Friday, to taking over Komander at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, then Hologram at COLLISION, and The Conglomeration simply final night time on DYNAMITE! In every occasion he has demonstrated himself to be an utter drive of nature contained in the squared circle, particularly in that victory over Komander final Friday night time!
Tonight he returns to ROH ON HONOR CLUB motion for the primary time since an April twenty fifth Three Approach bout the place he pinned AR Fox to attain the victory. Appropriately sufficient, his opponent for tonight’s Honor Membership providing may also be AR Fox, however this time it one-on-one, giving Fox an opportunity at redemption for that loss three months in the past!
Robyn Renegade vs. Maya World
Final 12 months, on HONOR CLUB #43, Maya World stepped right into a ROH ring for the primary time to face ROH Ladies’s World Champion Athena on the Proving Floor. Essentially the most attention-grabbing side of this match-up wasn’t Maya making her debut, however fairly that she was doing so in opposition to her coach with a potential World Championship battle on the road. Maya was unsuccessful in her bid, however she impressed sufficient that the younger competitor returned two weeks later to tackle Queen Aminata.
Taking these two experiences to coronary heart, Maya spent the primary half of 2024 competing as a lot as she might in opposition to as many opponents as attainable. California, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and even Philadelphia, she garnered expertise wherever attainable and returned to ROH competitors a number of weeks in the past to face one in every of her coach’s most persistent foes in Crimson Velvet. Once more, victory was not within the playing cards that night time, nevertheless it was invaluable expertise no matter how issues went.
As for Robyn Renegade, she’s been preventing for the reason that very first episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB to raised herself and determine what it takes to develop into among the best within the recreation. Whether or not or not it’s alongside her sister Charlette, or preventing solo, Robyn has stepped into the ring with the perfect competitors round during the last 18 months and would not plan to cease placing within the work till she’s on the high of the ROH Ladies’s Division simply as her mentor Thunder Rosa is the AEW Ladies’s Division.
-Fuego Del Sol vs. Jacoby Watts
-The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) vs. Supastarz (Nikkie Eight & Tommy Mars)
-High Flight in tag group motion!
