Legendary composer Jim Johnston has created his first entrance theme since departing WWE.
ROH announced today that Johnston has composed a new theme for PCO. It will debut at ROH’s Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view tomorrow (Friday, September 27).
“It’s been great fun to work on a new theme for PCO and Ring of Honor,” Johnston told ROH’s website. “The energy there has been all positive, and it’s been my honor to hopefully make a small contribution to their continued success.”
“It really brings the essence of PCO and adds another dimension to the immortality,” PCO said about the theme. “It reinforces that PCO is not human. Adding this piece of the puzzle on top of everything else, the success of The French-Canadian Frankenstein becomes limitless.”
After working for WWE for more than 30 years, Johnston departed the company when his contract wasn’t renewed in 2017.
Death Before Dishonor is taking place at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada. PCO is facing Kenny King in a Final Battle number one contender’s first-round match at the PPV.
The first round of the number one contender’s tournament is being held at Death Before Dishonor and ROH’s post-Death Before Dishonor television tapings. The semifinals and finals will take place at Glory By Honor on October 12, with the winner challenging for the ROH World Championship at Final Battle in December.
Jeff Cobb vs. Brody King will take place on the Death Before Dishonor pre-show later this month. The pre-show will air for free starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, September 27. That’s a half hour before the Death Before Dishonor main card begins.
In addition to the outlets where the PPV is available, the Death Before Dishonor pre-show will stream live on Facebook and YouTube.
ROH’s announcement of Cobb vs. King claimed that they’re “presenting this main event-caliber match as a special treat for fans and to once again show everyone in the wrestling world why it is the absolute best wrestling on the planet.”
Cobb defeated Matt Taven, Kenny King, and Jay Lethal in a Defy or Deny match at Honor for All last month. The win set up that Cobb will challenge for the ROH World Championship at ROH’s Honor United show in Bolton, England on October 27.
Taven is defending his ROH World title against Rush in the main event of Death Before Dishonor.
Brody King holds the ROH Six-Man Tag Team titles with his Villain Enterprises stablemates Marty Scurll & PCO. Scurll vs. Colt Cabana and PCO vs. Kenny King are set for Death Before Dishonor. Both are first-round matches in the tournament to decide a World title challenger for Final Battle.
Death Before Dishonor is taking place at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
ROH has also announced that Silas Young & Vinny Marseglia will face The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brawler Milonas) in a Bar Room Brawl at Death Before Dishonor. The updated card is:
ROH World Champion Matt Taven defending against Rush
ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defending against LifeBlood (Bandido & Mark Haskins)
ROH Television Champion Shane Taylor defending against Flip Gordon and Tracy Williams in a triple threat match
Women of Honor World Champion Kelly Klein defending against Angelina Love
PCO vs. Kenny King in a Final Battle number one contender’s tournament first round match
Marty Scurll vs. Colt Cabana in a Final Battle number one contender’s tournament first round match
Jay Lethal vs. Jonathan Gresham
Silas Young & Vinny Marseglia vs. The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brawler Milonas) in a Bar Room Brawl
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ROH has confirmed two more additions to the card for Death Before Dishonor.
Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham will face off at the pay-per-view. The Women of Honor World Championship match for the event has also been announced, with Kelly Klein set to defend her title against Angelina Love.
Lethal & Gresham lost to Silas Young & Josh Woods on the final night of ROH’s Global Wars Espectacular tour on Sunday. Young went to use a steel chair but was caught by referee Todd Sinclair. As Sinclair was distracted, Gresham tried to get Lethal to use a chair against Woods. Lethal refused to use the chair, and Young soon pinned him after hitting Misery.
Lethal and Gresham argued after the match and got into a pull-apart brawl. ROH then posted video of a backstage interview with Lethal. He said that Gresham is on the wrong path and the only thing he can think of that would help is settling things in the ring at Death Before Dishonor.
Love pinned Klein during a tag match at June’s Best in the World PPV after Mandy Leon hit Klein with a shoe. Klein teamed with Stacy Shadows against Love & Leon at Sunday’s Global Wars Espectacular show. Klein got the win by pinning Love, but Leon sprayed hair spray in Klein’s eyes after the match. Love then laid Klein out with a DDT.
Death Before Dishonor is taking place at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, September 27.
ROH has confirmed when Rush is getting his shot at their World Championship.
Rush will challenge for the ROH World title in the main event of the promotion’s Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, September 27. Matt Taven currently holds the ROH World Championship but has one more title defense prior to Death Before Dishonor.
Volador Jr. will challenge for Taven’s title at night two of ROH’s Global Wars Espectacular tour with CMLL. That show is taking place in Villa Park, Illinois this Saturday. Rush & Jeff Cobb will then team against Taven & Vinny Marseglia at Global Wars Espectacular night three in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sunday.
ROH is holding a number one contender’s tournament that will begin at Death Before Dishonor and their post-Death Before Dishonor television tapings. The winner of the tournament will challenge for the ROH World title at Final Battle in December.
The semifinals and finals of the number one contender’s tournament are set for Glory By Honor in New Orleans on Saturday, October 12. Dalton Castle, Jay Lethal, Kenny King, Marty Scurll, Bandido, Colt Cabana, Mark Haskins, and PCO will be the eight wrestlers in the tournament.
Ring of Honor returns to pay-per-view tonight as Death Before Dishonor 2018 takes place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
We’re looking for your thughts on this show, as well as tomorrow night’s Bellator show and Sunday’s New Japan Long Beach show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected].
Jay Lethal will defend his ROH World Championship against Will Ospreay in the main event. With much of the NJPW roster in the United States for Sunday’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed show in Long Beach, Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Beretta & Chuckie T) will also be facing the Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) tonight.
ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes will put their titles on the line against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian, Sumie Sakai defends her Women of Honor Championship against Tenille Dashwood, and Chris Sabin challenges for Punishment Martinez’s TV title.
Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young in a tables match and Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kenny King round out tonight’s card. Our live coverage begins at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
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JUSHIN LIGER VS. KENNY KING
The story is that these are both honorable guys and they did a babyface match. Even though King is from Las Vegas and Liger is an all-time great, it didn’t seem to have a lot of heat. Mach was decent. Nothing special. Liger did a top rope superplex and then started selling his back. He got a few more near falls. The story is that King was too respectful of Liger and not aggressive enough to beat him. Then, when he was giving Liger time to recover, he nailed him with a spinebuster for the pin. He thanked Austin Aries for giving him the killer instinct. The idea was it was a heel win cheating to beat a legend, except he didn’t cheat at all.
MARK & JAY BRISCOE VS. FRANKIE KAZARIAN & CHRISTOPHER DANIELS FOR ROH TAG TITLES
The story here is that Daniels & Kazarian are going to be fired after their contracts are up at final Battle unless they have titles. The Briscoes retained with Jay pinning Daniels with the Jay driller. Earlier Jay had given him a Jay driller on the floor. The problem here was the lack of either eat or crowd micing, but on the air there was very little response. Daniels worked most of the way. First he was selling. Kazarian took a uranage by Mark on a chair and the back of his head was split open and he never tagged in again. Daniels got a near fall with a best moonsault ever, used a running flip ive over the post. Lots of near falls. Would have been a good match if the crowd was reacting but that hurt the broadcast version a lot.
SUMIE SAKAI VS. TENILLE DASHWOOD FOR WOH TITLE
Long match. The story is that Dashwood had a right shoudler injury and kept selling it. There were a lot of near falls and big spots like Sakai giving her a power bomb of the apron to the floor. Dashwood used a power bomb but Sakai then got an armbar and held it for a long time. Really too long without tapping. It almst got skilly. Then they did a ref stoppage with the idea Dashwood passed out. Crowd didn’t like the ref stoppage aspecg. At the end there was some reaction
PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ VS. CHRIS SABIN FOR TV TITLE
The action was really good. Sabin had most of hte offense with fast moves and several different dives. There was a ref bump by Paul Turner and Sabin used a tornado DDT on a chair Martinez came back and won with a curb stomp. After the match Martinez was about to curb stomp him into a chair when Jeff Cobb came out. Cobb got the biggest reaction so far on this show. Martinez backed down and left. Then Martinez hit him with a chair and Cobb no sold it. Crowd got really loud and Cobb laid him out with the Tour of the Islands. Cobb held up the TV title belt.
SILAS YOUNG & BULLY RAY VS. COLT CABANA & FLIP GORDON IN A TABLES MATCH
I don’t know what to say about this. Gordon did some cool stuff. Bully is a great heel. The match had more heat than any match so far. The rules were an elimination match. Announcer Ian Riccobani was taunted by Bully. He came to ringside. Bully ended up power bombing Cabana through a table to eliminate him. They beat on Gordon until Bully and Young has a miscue and then they started figthing each ohter. Bully threw Gordon into a table in the corner but he walked up the table and flipped. Bully went to charge at him, Gordon moved and Bully went through the table. Then we had another ref bump by Todd Sinclair. Gordon put Young through a table with a 450 splash. But the ref was down and didn’t see it. Bully then recovered and attacked Gordon, pulled Young away from the broken table and put Gordon on the broken table. Sinclair got up, saw Gordon in the table and called for the bell. Crowd wasn’t happy at all by this. Bully whipped Grodon with a chair and the knee after the mach and hit Gordon with pieces of the broken table.
Somebody attacked Dashwood backstage and injured her shoulder again.
YOUNG BUCKS & CODY & MARTY SCURLL & HANGMANB PAGE VS. KAZUCHIKA OKADA & TOMOHIRO ISHII & CHUCKIE T & BARETTA & ROCKY ROMERO
Ring of Honor returns to pay-per-view tonight as Death Before Dishonor 2018 takes place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
We’re looking for your thughts on this show, as well as tomorrow night’s Bellator show and Sunday’s New Japan Long Beach show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected].
Jay Lethal will defend his ROH World Championship against Will Ospreay in the main event. With much of the NJPW roster in the United States for Sunday’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed show in Long Beach, Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Beretta & Chuckie T) will also be facing the Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) tonight.
ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes will put their titles on the line against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian, Sumie Sakai defends her Women of Honor Championship against Tenille Dashwood, and Chris Sabin challenges for Punishment Martinez’s TV title.
Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young in a tables match and Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kenny King round out tonight’s card. Our live coverage begins at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
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JUSHIN LIGER VS. KENNY KING
The story is that these are both honorable guys and they did a babyface match. Even though King is from Las Vegas and Liger is an all-time great, it didn’t seem to have a lot of heat. Mach was decent. Nothing special. Liger did a top rope superplex and then started selling his back. He got a few more near falls. The story is that King was too respectful of Liger and not aggressive enough to beat him. Then, when he was giving Liger time to recover, he nailed him with a spinebuster for the pin. He thanked Austin Aries for giving him the killer instinct. The idea was it was a heel win cheating to beat a legend, except he didn’t cheat at all.
MARK & JAY BRISCOE VS. FRANKIE KAZARIAN & CHRISTOPHER DANIELS FOR ROH TAG TITLES
The story here is that Daniels & Kazarian are going to be fired after their contracts are up at final Battle unless they have titles. The Briscoes retained with Jay pinning Daniels with the Jay driller. Earlier Jay had given him a Jay driller on the floor. The problem here was the lack of either eat or crowd micing, but on the air there was very little response. Daniels worked most of the way. First he was selling. Kazarian took a uranage by Mark on a chair and the back of his head was split open and he never tagged in again. Daniels got a near fall with a best moonsault ever, used a running flip ive over the post. Lots of near falls. Would have been a good match if the crowd was reacting but that hurt the broadcast version a lot.
SUMIE SAKAI VS. TENILLE DASHWOOD FOR WOH TITLE
Long match. The story is that Dashwood had a right shoudler injury and kept selling it. There were a lot of near falls and big spots like Sakai giving her a power bomb of the apron to the floor. Dashwood used a power bomb but Sakai then got an armbar and held it for a long time. Really too long without tapping. It almst got skilly. Then they did a ref stoppage with the idea Dashwood passed out. Crowd didn’t like the ref stoppage aspecg. At the end there was some reaction
PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ VS. CHRIS SABIN FOR TV TITLE
The action was really good. Sabin had most of hte offense with fast moves and several different dives. There was a ref bump by Paul Turner and Sabin used a tornado DDT on a chair Martinez came back and won with a curb stomp. After the match Martinez was about to curb stomp him into a chair when Jeff Cobb came out. Cobb got the biggest reaction so far on this show. Martinez backed down and left. Then Martinez hit him with a chair and Cobb no sold it. Crowd got really loud and Cobb laid him out with the Tour of the Islands. Cobb held up the TV title belt.
SILAS YOUNG & BULLY RAY VS. COLT CABANA & FLIP GORDON IN A TABLES MATCH
I don’t know what to say about this. Gordon did some cool stuff. Bully is a great heel. The match had more heat than any match so far. The rules were an elimination match. Announcer Ian Riccobani was taunted by Bully. He came to ringside. Bully ended up power bombing Cabana through a table to eliminate him. They beat on Gordon until Bully and Young has a miscue and then they started figthing each ohter. Bully threw Gordon into a table in the corner but he walked up the table and flipped. Bully went to charge at him, Gordon moved and Bully went through the table. Then we had another ref bump by Todd Sinclair. Gordon put Young through a table with a 450 splash. But the ref was down and didn’t see it. Bully then recovered and attacked Gordon, pulled Young away from the broken table and put Gordon on the broken table. Sinclair got up, saw Gordon in the table and called for the bell. Crowd wasn’t happy at all by this. Bully whipped Grodon with a chair and the knee after the mach and hit Gordon with pieces of the broken table.
Somebody attacked Dashwood backstage and injured her shoulder again.
YOUNG BUCKS & CODY & MARTY SCURLL & HANGMAN PAGE VS. KAZUCHIKA OKADA & TOMOHIRO ISHII & CHUCKIE T & BARETTA & ROCKY ROMERO
Excellent match. All action. 21 minutes of mostly great moves ending when Scurll beat Romero with the chicken wing. Baretta and Romero stood out as the stars but perhaps the bbest part of the match was Nick Aldis doing color. This was textbook. He got over the guys, buried Cody (his rival) constantly, got over his match with Cody, got over the belt plugged the rematch and how to watch the rematch. Ishii even did a flip plancha onto everyone. Chuckie did a running flip dive off the stage nad over the steps. Cody did a couple of dives. Okada refusd to face Scurll. The other story is even though they won, The Bullet Club kept messing up and hitting each other over and over. Baretta gave Nick a piledriver on the apron. .
Cody came out and accepted the 2/3 falls match with Nick Aldis in Nashville on 10/21.
JAY LETHAL VS. WILL OSPREAY FOR ROH TITLE
Super match. Ospreay has gained weight since July and worked a very different style. He was awesome but in a very different way than usual. Less acrobatics and more hard hitting but still pulled off high speed mvoes out of nowhere. The finish saw Ospreay go for a Super Frankensteiner and Lethal turned it into a power bomb on he way down and hit the Lethal injection for the pin. Lethal had earlier kicked out of the Oscutter. All kinds of great stuff here but not nonstop big moves and more building to it. You can tell Ospreay is preparing for New Japan heavywight style which is his end destiny anyway.,
TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marseglia attacked both of them after the match, Jonathan Gresham made the save and attacked Marseglia. Marseglia and O’Ryan attacked Gresham. This was looking at setting up Lethal & Gresham against them. Matt Taven showed up and hit Lethal with a purple replica ROH title belt and called it the real world title belt.
Bully Ray walked out on Young during a tag match against Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor at ROH’s television tapings in July. In a post-show angle, Bully Ray said he did it to motivate Young and bring out the old version of him. Bully & Young then faced Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham at last month’s tapings.
The Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will host Death Before Dishonor on September 28 and a set of TV tapings on September 29. Here’s the updated card for the PPV:
ROH World Champion Jay Lethal defending against Will Ospreay
Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor)
Women of Honor Champion Sumie Sakai defending against Tenille Dashwood
ROH Tag Team Champions The Briscoes defending against Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
ROH Television Champion Punishment Martinez defending against Chris Sabin
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kenny King
Flip Gordon & Colt Cabana vs. Bully Ray & Silas Young in a tables match
Ring of Honor has confirmed the Television title match for next month’s Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view and announced one of NJPW’s top stars for the post-PPV tapings.
The Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Beretta & Chuckie T) in a 10-man tag match, Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay for the ROH World Championship, The Briscoes vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian for the ROH Tag Team titles, and Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood for the Women of Honor Championship are the other matches that have been made official for Death Before Dishonor.
Jushin Thunder Liger will also be wrestling at the PPV.
Death Before Dishonor is taking place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 28. The venue will host a set of ROH TV tapings the next night, and ROH revealed today that Hiroshi Tanahashi will be wrestling on the tapings. Like KUSHIDA, SANADA, EVIL, and Chase Owens, Tanahashi is only advertised for the tapings.
It will be The Briscoes defending their titles against SoCal Uncensored members Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian at the PPV. The teams have been feuding since Best in the World in June, where SCU said they wanted the titles after making the save while The Briscoes were attacking The Young Bucks.
The Briscoes are also set to face Kazarian & Scorpio Sky in a non-title match at All In (during the Zero Hour broadcast on WGN America) this Saturday.
Death Before Dishonor is taking place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 28. The Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) will take on Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, Beretta & Chuckie T) in a 10-man tag match, and Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay for the ROH World Championship and Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood for the Women of Honor title were set up for the PPV at ROH’s television tapings over the weekend.
Another member of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster is set for Ring of Honor’s next pay-per-view.
ROH announced today that Jushin Thunder Liger will be wrestling at Death Before Dishonor in Las Vegas on Friday, September 28. Liger last appeared for ROH as part of their War of the Worlds tour with NJPW in May. He also wrestled against Rocky Romero at NJPW’s event with CEO Fighting Game Championships in Orlando this summer.
As was announced yesterday, Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Romero, Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) will be teaming against the Bullet Club (Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page) in a 10-man tag match at Death Before Dishonor. That’s the first match to be confirmed for the PPV.
While Death Before Dishonor was held at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas in 2016 and 2017, this year’s show will take place at the Orleans Arena.
Kazuchika Okada will return to Ring of Honor this September at Death Before Dishonor.
ROH announced this afternoon that he will be a part of a ten man tag team featuring stars from both Ring of Honor and New Japan. Okada will team with CHAOS teammates Baretta, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero and Chucky T against Bullet Club members Cody, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Marty Scurll and Hangman Page.
Okada hasn’t wrestled much for Ring of Honor in recent years beyond the joint ROH/New Japan shows in Japan despite the strong alliance between the two companies. He last wrestled for the promotion two years ago, where he defeated Dalton Castle at Death Before Dishonor XIV, then competed in a six man tag team match the next day at a television taping.
Death Before Dishonor XVI will take place on September 28 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Honor Club members will be able to grab tickets tomorrow.
As Ring of Honor returns to pay-per-view at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas tonight, Minoru Suzuki also returns stateside for his first match in the United States in over 25 years.
We’re looking for your thoughts on the show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
Suzuki will challenge Cody Rhodes for the ROH World Championship in the main event of Death Before Dishonor XV, which was set up in storyline when he answered an open challenge from Cody. The match will be Cody’s first opportunity to defend the title on PPV since winning it at Best in the World in June.
The Young Bucks have two title defenses set for tonight. They’ll renew their rivalry with Motor City Machine Guns as Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin get a shot at the tag titles, and they’ll also team with Hangman Page in a six-man tag title defense against the winners of a match between Bully Ray & The Briscoes and The Kingdom.
Elsewhere on the card, Kenny King gets a shot at KUSHIDA’s TV title, Silas Young faces Jay Lethal in a last man standing match, Jay White squares off with Punishment Martinez in a street fight, and Marty Scurll takes on Chuck Taylor.
Our live coverage starts at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
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BULLY RAY & BRISCOES VS. MATT TAVEN & VINNY MARSEGLIA & TK O’RYAN
Bully & The Briscoes won with a Doomsday Device on O’Ryan. Jay Briscoe was mad at Bully after the match and they did some dissension teaes during the match, so that may play into something later. Good match with a series of dive spots midway through including Bully, who looks close to 350, doing a plancha off the top rope to the floor on everyone. Taven knocked Jay into Bully which saw Bully fall to the floor. Fast paced all action match, TK O’Ryan broke his leg doing a dive in this building earlier in the year and they teased him doing the same dive, but he woudn’t do it.
They announced Kenny Omega would be working four Global War events.
They are pushing the Where’s Hangman storyline like he’s not there for the six man titles. They announced it would be a 2-on-3 handicap ma tch if Hangman doesn’t show up.
CHUCK TAYLOR VS. MARTY SCURLL
This turned into a hot match. Scurll own via submission with the chicken wing when Taylor was distracted by ref Todd Sinclair. Taylor worked really hard, not everything was smooth but he was doing dives, including a bodyblock from the floor like Ultimo Guerrero does over the barricade. Then he went from outside the barricade with a dive inside. Lots of big spots here including Taylor taking Scurll off the top rope with a Bruno backbreaker and then gave him a dominator into a spike like a piledriver.
JAY WHITE VS. PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ IN A LAS VEGAS STREET FIGHT
Great job by White and Martinez showed a ton of potential here. The crowd didn’t get into them right away but by the end were really into White. Lots of shots with chairs and garbage can lids. Martinez kicked out of the Kiwi crusher. Martinez did a great running dive over the top. White set up four chairs with two chairs on top of them but it was Martinez who gave White a last ride power bomb onto the chairs. White kicked out. The crowd go way behind White chanting his name. But Martinez then brought in thumbtacks and choke slammed White on the thumbtacks for the pin. It was clearly trying to push Martinez into a higher spot. Crowd was chanting for White after the match.
YOUNG BUCKS & HANGMAN PAGE VS. BRISCOES & BULLY RAY FOR SIX MAN TITLES
They teased Page wasn’t there but Page showed up with his hands tied together and mouth tied with duct tape. Page then, still tied up, did a moonsault off the top rope to the floor. Match was short but fast paced. It was really just an angle to do the turn. Bully was taking out both Bucks. Bully told Mark to get the table after doing the wazzup spot. Jay threw the tabel at Bully’s head and Page pinned him to win the match. Mark looked surprised that Jay turned on Bully, but Jay told him that they were a great tag team and they didn’t need Bully. They pushed it as Bully’s first loss in ROH. It was very much Jay that turned heel even though in the build you’d think it was going to be Bully.
KUSHIDA VS. KENNY KING FOR TV TITLE
King won the TV title with the royal flush after blocking a huracanrana and putting Kushida on his shoulders. The idea was that King was going for the tite in front of his home town and and his daughter who celebrated with him after the match. This was a super match, just a great one man show by Kushida, who was on a different level than everyone else so far. Kushida kept working for hoverboard lock spots including one off the ropes. Kushida did a flip plancha over the post. They also showed Kushida’s mom in the front row.
JAY LETHAL VS. SILAS YOUNG LAST MAN STANDING
Young won a crazy match. The finish saw both guys at the top of a ladder on the floor and the ladder tipped over and both went through a table on the floor. Young barely got up and Lethal didn’t, so Young won. Young had zip tied Lethal’s wrist to the ladder but in the bump, Lethal wasn’t tied to the ladder and I think he was supposed to stay tied up. Young’s Long brutal match. Both men whipped each other with belts. Young used the Lethal injection but broke up ref Todd Sinclair’s count. Lethal did two Lethal injections. Beer City Bruiser interfered early int he match and went for a splash off the top rope when Lethal was on a table but Lethal moved and Bruiser went through the table and was helped out. Lethal also bled badly when Lethal had Young in the figure four, but Young kicked him and they bonked heads with Todd Sinclair and Lethal was opened up badfly. Excellent match.
YOUNG BUCKS VS. CHRIS SABIN & ALEX SHELLEY FOR THE ROH TAG TITLES
Sabin & Shelley won the titles in a great match with a double-team falcon arrow on Matt after Sabin jumped off Nick’s back and did a German superplex on Matt as he was on the top rope for a moonsualt. This had by far the most crowd reaction on the show. It was nonstop moves, which the crowd really got into the first time the Bucks used the double sharpshooter spot. All kinds of big moves until Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian interfered and attacked the Machine Guns. Then they also attacked the Bucks. This led to a double indy taker on the floor with the Bucks and Machine Guns working together to spike both on the floor when Daniels & Kazarian had teased a Best Meltzer ever on the floor. Then they went back to wrestling each other but went right to the finish.
CODY VS. MINORU SUZUKI FOR ROH TITLE
Suzuki looked good here, Cody told him to kiss the ring and Suzuki bit his fingers and put him in the Fujiawra armbar. Most of the match was Suzuki doing his usual combination of striesk adn his usual submissions. Suzuki went for the Gotch piledriver but Cody got out of it. Cody did a diaster kick but Suzuki went back to the choke. The finish saw Cody hit the crossorads out of nowhere and get the pin. I think the one thing here is that people were smart enough to know the title wasn’t changing hands so while they reacted to Suzuki, people really didn’t react to the winning and losing aspect and the finish came when people weren’t expecting it and came off flat. Suzuki sold the move big and Cody put the ring in his mouth like he was kissing it. Suzuki left and threw a punch at one of the ring boys.
Minoru Suzuki’s first match in the United States in over 25 years will be for the Ring of Honor World Championship.
It was announced on ROH TV this week that Cody Rhodes would be defending his title against Suzuki in the main event of the promotion’s Death Before Dishonor XV pay-per-view in Las Vegas on September 22nd.
Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana set up that Cody had issued an open challenge before a video package hyping Suzuki as a feared competitor was shown, with the storyline being that Cody wasn’t happy about Suzuki being revealed as his opponent.
Cody had previously tweeted that facing Suzuki was one of his dream matchups.
Dalton Castle had appeared to be next in line to challenge for Cody’s title, but there was an injury angle with Cody attacking him on the War of the Worlds UK tour.
Both Suzuki and KUSHIDA will be heading from New Japan Pro Wrestling’s tour to ROH for the Death Before Dishonor PPV weekend. Dave Meltzer noted in the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the only other US match that he could find for Suzuki was against Ken Shamrock on March 20th, 1992.
Headlined by Ring of Honor Champion Jay Lethal defending his title against the Bullet Club’s Adam Cole, ROH returns to pay-per-view on Friday night from Las Vegas, NV with Death Before Dishonor XIV.
The show will also feature stars from New Japan Pro Wrestling, with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito, IWGP Intercontinental Champion Michael Elgin, NEVER Openweight Champion Katsuyori Shibata, and more NJPW talent scheduled to appear.
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Lethal and Cole have been engaged in a heated storyline that included Cole shaving Lethal bald. ROH matchmaker Nigel McGuinness ruled that Cole would not be eligible to receive any more title shots, but Lethal insisted that this match had to happen.
The card also includes a huge match for the ROH Tag Team Championship as The Addiction defend against Tanahashi & Elgin and Naito & EVIL in a triple threat tag match.
Also scheduled for the show, Okada will take on Dalton Castle in a non-title match, ROH World Television Champion Bobby Fish will defend against Mark Briscoe, Shibata will face Silas Young, and more.
Our coverage starts on Friday night at 9 p.m. ET. The card for the show is:
ROH World Champion Jay Lethal vs. Adam Cole in a championship match
ROH World Television Champion Bobby Fish vs. Mark Briscoe in a championship match
ROH Tag Team Champions The Addiction vs. Tetsuya Naito & EVIL vs. Michael Elgin & Hiroshi Tanahashi in a triple threat tag team championship match
Lio Rush vs. Jay White vs. Donovan Dijak vs. Kamaitachi in a TV title number one contenders match
JAY WHITE VS. LIO RUSH VS. DONOVAN DIJAK VS. KAMAITACHI FOR THE TOP CONTENDER FOR THE TV TITLE
Dijak got the pin on Rush using feast your eyes, which is a fireman’s carry into a knee, like a GTS but not exactly. All action match. Rush was the flashiest of the four with several dives including a reverse huracanrans on the floor. Dijak, who was twice hte size of the other three, did a springboard screw plancha. Looks like we’re having trouble witht he mic’ing but there were chants and stuff.
Silas Young did an interview anti-New Japan saying New Japan guys get all the good spots when they come in and made fun of all the fans being nerds.
KATSUYORI SHIBATA VS. SILAS YOUNG
The crowd reacted real big for Shibata, Shibata won as expected with the choke and penalty kick. Young got a lot of offense including a split legged moonsault. The two traded slaps after the match and then shook hands and stared each other down after the match. Match was fine, they built to a big spot where Shibata was about to head-butt Young but Young slapped him.
This was mostly built around Yano’s comedy. Yano pinned Takahashi with a low blow. After the match, The Bulet Club beat down Chaos and in paricular Yano. Hangman Page put the noose on Yano’s neck until Jay Briscoe made the savae. This set up Briscoe vs. Page
JAY BRISCOE VS. HANGMAN PAGE IN AN ANYTHING GOES MATCH
This was a long brutal match. This was to put Page over on Jay and make him a star. The finish saw Page block a Jay driller on the apron and instead used the rights of passage, which is an Omori driver on Jay through the table. Both were hurt as the table took a chunk out of Page’s left knee and Jay was bleeding badly from the back. Page then used the bullrope to choke Briscoe out and then gave him another rights of passage in the ring for the pin. They put it over like this was the biggest win in Page’s career. There were lots of spots with the noose and with chairs throguhout the match. The crowd seemed like they really liked it. We’ll try and see how Page is because he was screaming in pain regarding his knee, finished the match and seemed like he was hurting bbad as soon as it was over.
The Boys had the Okada dollar bills and Castle said he understands The Boys love New Japan. He said he loves New Japan but he loves dropping people on their heads and ate an Okada bill.
KAZUCHIKA OKADA VS. DALTON CASTLE
The crowd loved Okada. They’re chanting his name and throwing streamers. Good match although it struggled early. Castle got a lot of offense but the fans never truly believed he could win. He even did the bang a rang but Okada rolled out of the ring to avoid the pin. Castle did a lot of different suplexes. They teased that The Boys were big Okada fans and at one point they were helping him. Okada won getting out of the bang a rang, hit the tombstone piledriver and rainmaker for the pin. Both shook hands after and both men and The Boys all posed together at the end.
BOBBY FISH VS. MARK BRISCOE FOR THE TV TITLE
Fish retained with an exploder into the turnbuckles and a falcon arrow. Earlier Briscoe kicked out of the falcon arrow and Fish kicked out of the froggy bow. This was solid and the crowd did some chants but something was missing. It was hard hitting early and went long with the near falls. Not sure if the crowd micing is hurting this or it’s the crowd into moves but not the match. Hard to say from TV. It’s also seemed like the crowd was more into seeing New Japan stars live than seeing ROH major matches.
CHRISTOPHER DANIELS & FRANKIE KAZARIAN VS. HIROSHI TANAHASHI & MICHAEL ELGIN VS. TETSUYA NAITO & EVIL FOR TAG TITLES
Daniels & Kazarian retained in a great match with a clever finish. Tanahashi was on the top rope and Daniels touched his boot as a tag. Tanahashi hit the high fly flow on Evil and went for the pin but technically Daniels was the legal guy and he jumped in and cradled Evil while Tanahashi was on top so they retained the titles. Matt Taven did the heel commentary trying to be obnoxious and did a real good job of that. Elgin was the star of the match doing all kinds of power moves like a German suplex on Daniels & Kazarian at the same time, the fallaway on Naito & Evil at the same time and he even did a running flip dive on everyone. Naito and Tanahashi were really over with the crowd. Tanahashi & Elgin seemed on the verge of winning when Kamaitachi came out and distracted which allowed Daniels to hit both Tanahashi & Elgin with belt shots and Kazarian to hit Evil with one.
JAY LETHAL VS. ADAM COLE FOR THE ROH TITLE
Cole ended the one year plus title reign after an Ushigoroshi, a shining wizard and another Ushigoroshi. The match saw them kick out of each others’ big moves including Lethal kicking out of the Canadian Destroyer off the ropes and Cole kicked out of the Lethal injection. Long match and crowd loved it at the end with the fans on their feet and going crazy for the near falls. Afte the match Kyle O’Reilly showed up durign the celebration and cltheslined Cole. O’reilly laid himn out with a brainbustrer so it looks like Cole vs. O’Reilly coming up at All-Star Extravaganza at the end of next month. Among the highlights were Lethal doing an elbow off the top rope to a table on the floor about two-thirds of the way to the other side and Cole moved and Lethal crashed through and busted his head open. It took forever to set up the spot because Lethal couldn’t find where the table was under the ring and when he did find it, it was covered in streamers and he had to get rid of the streamres. Lethal also did five straight topes, but on the sixth Cole sidestepped him and Lethal crashed into the barricade.
In the final episode before the Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view, Ring of Honor television featured a contract signing between Jay Lethal and Adam Cole for their world title match this Friday night. Also, the Young Bucks must go through Roppongi Vice to become the next contenders for the tag team titles.
After opening with a video package recapping the feud between Lethal and Cole, the show started with the last two Top Prospect tournament winners in a match against one another.
Donovan Dijak w/ Prince Nana defeated Lio Rush
In adhering to the Code of Honor, they went to shake hands before the match. The height difference between the two was quite noticeable. Dijak played on that by mocking Rush when he crouched down to shake Rush’s hand, smirking as he looked him in the eyes.
The smaller Rush got ragdolled by Dijak as he got thrown around early on. He came back and looked to have the advantage after Dijak crashed into a guardrail. Nana caused a distraction and got shoved down by Rush in the process. However, the distraction allowed Dijak to gain the advantage.
Still, Rush made another comeback that led into him doing a springboard off the apron into a corkscrew plancha.
The pace quickened and they exchanged near falls in the latter half of the match. Lots of flying from Rush then Dijak would counter with power moves. When Dijak gave Rush a chokebreaker (chokeslam into a backbreaker), Nana ordered him to do it again. Rush countered and hit a splash off the top for a near fall.
The crowd was really into the match at this point. Dijak went to set him up for his Feast Your Eyes finisher, but Rush countered that with a crucifix to score the deciding pinfall. Afterwards, Dijak attacked Rush and started giving him a beatdown. Jay White ran in to make the save. Kamaitachi ran down to attack White. They all began brawling before being separated. This sets up a match at Death Before Dishonor.
Dalton Castle, with The Boys, was cutting a promo when The Cabinet interrupted so they could make political puns and threaten Castle.
Footage from earlier in the day showed Shane Taylor and Keith Lee attacking War Machine as they arrived to the building. They beat them down and left them laying, setting up a future match.
At ringside, Kevin Kelly interviewed “Hangman” Adam Page. He talked about the Bullet Club wanting to have all the titles they could get. He mentioned wanting the Briscoes IWGP heavyweight tag team titles, which was referring to a match from Japan last week on the G1 finals card.
Page said the issue with him and Jay Briscoe is also personal. Briscoe came down to ringside to confront Page and they had a pull-apart. The two meet in a match this Friday night on the PPV.
Highlights from footage taped earlier had tag champions The Addiction bragging about having the night off since their originally scheduled opponents, the Motor City Machine Guns, were out due to an injury.
Roppongi Vice came out to challenge the champs, then the Young Bucks interrupted and suggested making the match a three-way dance. Instead, an impromptu match with the Bucks vs. RPG Vice was made to determine new contenders for a tag title match in two weeks.
The Young Bucks defeated Roppongi Vice
The Addiction provided guest commentary. Matt Jackson and Rocky Romero started off with several exchanges until Romero went for an eye poke only for Matt to too sweet him in the eye. Romero cut him off moments later. Romero worked over Matt until tagging in Trent Baretta, who looked to run wild. Nick Jackson jumped in the fray to knock both Baretta and Romero off the apron.
Shortly thereafter, the action spilled to the outside where the Bucks both did dives out to ringside, spoofing Kenny Omega’s Terminator routine in doing so. However, the Bucks were soon cut off and Baretta picked up Nick so Romero could hit a flying knee off the apron.
RPG Vice got heat on Nick, building to a hot tag. Matt ran wild with a series of moves before hitting a superkick on Romero, followed by superkick on Baretta. Matt jumped off the top with an elbow drop for a near fall. Romero jumped in to help cut off a crotch-chopping Matt. Back-and-forth action for a bit before Nick saved Matt from a double team.
The Bucks superkicked the trash-talking Addiction as they sat at the announce table. That started a superkick party that led into Nick doing a 450 splash as Baretta was draped on the ropes for a near fall.
The crowd started a “Meltzer” chant as the Bucks set up for their finisher. The Addiction broke it up by trying to interfere. Nick stopped them with a moonsault to the outside. Baretta hit his Dudebuster finisher for a near fall.
Baretta gave Nick a German suplex off the top and Romero did a tope to the outside on Matt. Baretta hit a running knee and went to cover Matt, but Matt hooked him in a crucifix and got the pin as the crucifix appeared to be the key to victory in both matches on this episode.
Jay Lethal and Adam Cole contract signing and melee
Matchmaker Nigel McGuinness presided over the contract signing for the world title match at the PPV. Challenger Adam Cole sat down at at the table. Champion Jay Lethal tossed his chair out of the ring, choosing to stand.
Cole spoke first and tried to belittle Lethal. Cole told Lethal that the now infamous head shaving was not personal. Rather, he said it was a message that he can take from Lethal as he pleases. Cole added he plans on stealing the title instead of them stealing the show.
Lethal took his shirt off and asked McGuinness where to sign the contract. Before signing, Lethal wanted to point out something to Cole. In the past, Lethal said his matches were about the world title. This time it’s different because it’s personal. He wants revenge for the head shaving.
Cole taunted him by saying he was signing away the world title when he signed the contract. Lethal produced a pair of scissors and slammed them down on the table. Then, he smashed Cole’s head into the table and a brawl broke out.
Cole was getting the better of Lethal when Lethal hit him with a low blow. The Young Bucks ran down to pull Cole out of the ring to safety. Lethal raised the title overhead and sneered at Cole as the show closed.
