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Ring of Honor TV live results: Rhino teams with Hologram

Posted on by Jeff Moss

For the first time since 2014, Rhino will return to Ring of Honor on tonight’s ROH on HonorClub.

The former multi-promotion star and past SCUM member will team with the undefeated Hologram to take on The Frat House’s Griff Garrison & Cole Karter.

CMLL’s La Catalina returns to battle Trish Adora.

In two separate big man matches, Lance Archer and Satnam Singh will be in action.

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…But not against each other, which let’s be honest, is what we’d all like to see.

Ring of Honor is back in it’s Thursday Night time slot and ready to rock and/or roll!

La Catalina defeated Trish Adora (w/Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean)

Catalina has “Future Star” written all over her. She has been racking up wins in CMLL and all over Mexico, as well as some ROH heavy hitters like Taya Valkyrie. Adora has been doing her best to adopt the Shane Taylor Promotions methodology like Dean & Bravo have done and it’s paying off in spades with wins over Rachael Ellering (twice!) and Harley Cameron, sans-puppet.

Adora definitely had the bruiser advantage, but Catalina brought luchadore speed to the match. Adora tried to power over Catalina off the top, but Catalina actually remained in control, keeping the match to her chosen pace.

Catalina showed off her hard-hitting skills as well with some really stiff dropkicks on Adora. Adora easily won the posing game though, taking many opportunities to work the crowd as she focused on Catalina’s arm.

Catalina turned the tables though with a really devastating high knee out of the corner. Catalina then went for a modified facebuster with a certain pedigree, but Adora kicked out at two. Things slowed down considerably here which gave Adora more chances to hit big moves, but she couldn’t put Catalina away.

Catalina hit an electric chair on Adora then climbed up for a big frog splash. That was it for Adora as Catalina pinned her and got the win. After the match, Adora showed respect and shook hands with Catalina.

Match Result: La Catalina defeated Trish Adora

-Taya Valkyrie joined us from the back to let us know that the impending Women’s Pure Tournament is a casting call and she’s the main character. She said that she was the headline, not the conversation.

Lance Archer defeated Diego Hill

Hey, here’s a question: Why do members of the Callis Family not have to change their last name to Callis? Just wondering. Anyway, the Murderhawk Monster, Lance Archer returns to ROH by himself for the first time since beating up Crowbar last month. This time, he was looking to beat up Diego Hill who… has neat pants, I guess?

Archer got caught with a kick off the top and started bleeding, leading him to quote the classic movie Dodgeball and exclaim “nobody makes me bleed my own blood!” That was about the end of Hill’s offense as one can probably imagine.

The talkative Archer proclaimed “you done messed up now” as he pummeled HIll, actually attempting to bend him in half in some kind of reverse crab hold. Hill tapped out and Archer didn’t even wait for the music to stop before hitting him with a Blackout for good measure.

Match Result: Lance Archer defeated Diego Hill

-Next a vingette aired announcing the return next week of ROH’s Forever Champ, Women’s World Champion Athena.

ROH Pure Title Match: Lee Moriarty (c) (w/Shawn Dean) defeated Matt Mako

Up next was a surprise ROH Pure Title Match between Matt Mako and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty. This match was from ACTION DEAN~!!!2, an event in honor of Dean Rasmussen, who passed away in 2023. The match took place on May 24th, 2025 as part of the ACTION/ROH Youtube special.

The match started off a little strange for Moriarty, who was forced to use two of his rope breaks within the first 1:44 of the match. He also went for the Border City stretch very early, forcing Mako to use his first rope break at 2:32.

Mako clearly studied Moriarty and seemed to have everything scouted pretty well. he was able to reverse or deflect most of what Moriarty threw at him, but used up his second rope break at 3:25.

The only rough part of the match was that it took place outside at night in Waterdance Plaza in Glendale, Arizona. It looked like kind of a Times Square type place, but the only outdoor lighting was from big LED signs. So it was hard to see the match at times as the ring was flooded with red and blue lights every few minutes.

As the match passed its halfway mark, it was a pretty even affair. Mako changed tactics and tried to over power Moriarty with some big strikes and spinning kicks. Moriarty held on though luring Mako into the corner and dropping him on his face. A second Border City Stretch (complete with hand stomps) forced Mako to use his last rope break at 7:14.

Mako locked in an armbar at 8:44 causing Moriarty to use up the last rope break of the match. With time ticking away, Mako tried to put Moriarty down with a quick rollup into a rear choke, but Moriarty locked in a third Border City Stretch that Mako had to tap out of because he was out of rope breaks.

Killer match though!!

Match Result: ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty (w/Shawn Dean) defeated Matt Mako

Torneo Cibernetico Ten Man Elimination Match: Blue Panther, Hologram, Neon, Valiente & Virus defeat Averno, Dr. Cerebro, Euforia, Volador Jr. & Xelhua

Up next was more surprise action from ACTION DEAN~!!!2: a Toreno Cibernetico match! What’s that you ask? No idea. But that’s what Wikipedia is for!

“The match format sees two teams of varying sizes face off against each other. It uses standard lucha libre tag team rules with elimination occurring with a pinfall, submission, disqualification and count out and allows a wrestler to enter the match when their tag team partner exits the ring as well as when they tag out. A special ‘batting’ order system is used in which the wrestlers are given a specific order and may only tag in and out in this order.“

So there you go. I had no idea what to expect in this match, but I like Luchadores and I like a lot of them, so I was excited to see how this played out.

For the first ten minutes or so, it was pure luchadore madness. In spite of the allegedly organized manner of the match and the aforementioned lighting issues, it was very, very hard for anyone watching, including the commentary team, to keep track of who was in the ring against who. They were great about calling out eliminations though, so I kept up as best I could.

Virus survived Blue Panther, Dr Cerebro and managed to eliminate Xelhua (via tapout) before being eliminated himself by Euforia. Volodor Jr entered after that and the tags started flying. Hologram entered to a big ovation and showed why he’s a star against Averno before a huge brawl broke out.

Volador Jr. managed to eliminate Valiente via backbreaker into pinfall before Hologram & Neon jumped in and teamed up to eliminate Euforia after dueling top rope stomps and moonsaults, bringing the match down to 3-on-3.

Next, Blue Panther eliminated Dr. Cerebro with a move that seemed to even surprise him, but that brought in Neon who battled Averno, but found himself eliminated after Averno hit a big facebuster from the top rope.

That left Blue Panther & Hologram against Averno & Volador Jr. They hit a superplex on Panther from the top rope, but Hologram broke up the double pin attempt. Panter returned the favor a few minutes later, saving Hologram.

Panther and Hologram then double eliminated Volador Jr and Averno. Panther eliminating Averno with the move he used earlier to eliminate Dr Cerebro and Hologram used a spinning blue thunder bomb to pin Volador Jr.

Match Result: Blue Panther, Hologram, Neon, Valiente & Virus defeated Averno, Dr. Cerebro, Euforia, Volador Jr. & Xelhua

Wow., Just incredible, but I have to say, after this match I have new appreciation for those “RAW” and “SMACKDOWN” t-shirts that teams wore in Survivor Series a few years back. It was really hard to tell who was who on what team, but damn, was it fun to watch. Definitely check it out on Youtube if can!

Satnam Singh defeated Facade

Back in the ROH arena, and because a Lance Archer squash just wasn’t enough beating up of a little guy by a big guy, Satnam Singh was up next. What can be said about Singh that hasn’t already been said? He’s huge. He was one half of the AAA World Tag Team Champions with the one and only Raj Dhesi (fka WWE Champion Jinder Mahal). He’s going to probably murder Facade. That’s all you need to know, really. 

Singh threw Facade around and pie faced him in the corner for a bit before chopping him hard enough that the first row felt it. He did that a few more times before throwing him across the ring, literally. From post to post.

Facade managed to get a quick chinbreaker on Singh, who simply shrugged it off and threw Facade at the ground a few times until he stopped moving. Singh made the pin and that was it.

Singh is very fun to watch, but like a lot of big men he needs someone to feud with that can bring something different out of him.

Match Result: Satnam Singh defeated Facade

Hologram & Rhino defeated The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison) (w/Jacked Jameson & Preston Vance)

The mysterious and enigmatic Hologram made his second appearance on the show, which was his ROH debut with this match. Try not to think about that too much.

Hologram has taken on stalwarts like Blake Christian and Max Castor up in AEW and even had a win over the dreaded Beast Mortos. His partner needs no introduction. He’s Rhino. If you don’t know of any of Rhino’s myriad of accomplishments in pro wrestling, stop now and do some Googling. Their opponents are local jerkbags, The Frat House. As always, it will be a pleasure watching these guys get punched in their various mouths.

Garrison started things off against Hologram which was really fun as they both have similar fast-moving styles. Hologram got the better of Garrison until he got caught in a headlock. Garrison couldn’t hang onto Hologram long though as Hologram put on a show.

Garrison tagged in Karter who waited until Hologram’s back was turned to jump him. Hologram tagged in Rhino though to a massive ovation. Rhino did was Rhino does which is scrunch up his face and beat the ever-loving heck out of whoever is in front of him. In this case, Karter.

Vance and Jameson saved Karter from a Gore by pulling him outside and giving him a chance to regroup. Garrison tried to help but ate a superkick from Hologram. Jameson tried to cause a distraction, which allowed Vance to pull Hologram out and deliver a few stiff shots before sending him back in.

The dust settled and Karter and Hologram were the legal men. Hologram ran into Karter’s high knee, but hit a Spanish Fly to retaliate. Hot tags were made and Rhino and Garrison charged in, with Garrison eating a big belly-to-belly suplex.

Hologram dove out of the ring and got a 3-for-1, taking out Vance, Jameson and Karter. In the ring, Garrison tried to use the pledge paddle on Rhino, but left himself open for a Gore straight from this history books. Rhino made the pin, and the Frat house was defeated.

Match Result: Hologram & Rhino defeat The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison)

Great episode!!

Ring of Honor TV live results: CMLL trios showcase

Posted on by Jeff Moss

Ring of Honor returns to Friday night once again for a short episode that is airing both on YouTube and HonorClub.

In a CMLL trios showcase that is becoming a signature of ROH, Volador Jr., Hechicero & Barbaro Cavernario challenge former ROH Men’s TV Champion Atlantis Jr., Fuego & Neon.

In a Pure rules bout, Queen Aminata takes on the returning Allysin Kay.

Ahead of Sunday’s Anarchy in the Arena bout at AEW Double or Nothing, Marina Shafir goes one-on-one with Laynie Luck while the main card is rounded out by Gringo Loco vs. Blake Christian.

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Episode 117 of ROH on Honorclub kicked off with the ROH Women’s Forever Champion, Athena. Athena told us that she has entered Billie Starkz in the upcoming Women’s Pure Championship. Under Pure Rules, she can’t receive any help, so Athena said she was on her own, and that she expects Starkz to win!

Marina Shafir defeated Laynie Luck

To tap in the 2-ft putt, Laynie’s luck might just have run out as she takes on Marina Shafir. Shafir has made a habit of decimating anyone who gets in the ring with her and has not lost a singles match since 2023. Luck has not actually won a Ring of Honor match since 2021. I admire the tenacity, but I don’t see either of those stats having much of a chance of changing here. 

There was a definite contrast in styles to this match. Luck had flair and color, while Shafir’s style employed more murder than anything else. Shafir locked in an armbar right off of the Code of Honor, twisting Luck in ways that did not seem natural.

Shafir dragged her to the middle of the ring and Luck tried to flip Shafir onto her back, but only got a two count. Luck tried to pull Shafir out of the ring, but got a triangle choke for her trouble. Shafir delivered a snap suplex and sent Luck into the corner for some deep shots.

Shafir will be in Anarchy In The Arena this sunday and that was all the commentators really cared about. In the ring, Shafir locked in an STF. Luck actually managed to power out of it, but her comeback was short lived as Shafir quickly got her into Mother’s Milk and Luck was forced to tap out.

Match Result: Marina Shafir defeated Laynie Luck

Blake Christian (w/ Lee Johnson) defeated Gringo Loco

Christian has been on a red-hot streak in ROH, being undefeated in singles matches since July 2024. In fact, his only loss has been as part of a six-man match for the ROh TV title way back at Final Battle 2024. He’s one of the most successful heels in ROH right now, but now he’s up against someone like Gringo Loco, who almost earned a shot at the ROH World title in a Proving Ground match a couple of weeks ago. Christian and Loco have a lot of history on the indies so this should be a banger!

Christian jumped Loco before the bell, stomping him in the corner. Christian’s strategy was to keep Loco off his feet, but that only lasted so long. Loco could easily match Christian in speed, and the two traded lucha-style moves all around the ring.

Loco went up top for a split-legged moonsault, but Christian kicked out at two. Loco seemed to over power Christian, knocking him down with some huge strikes. Loco went up top again, but Christian joined him and slammed Loco’s face into the turnbuckle, sending him out of the ring.

Back inside, Christian took over with a series of Judo throws and a big leg drop. He began toying with Loco, which came back to bite him when Loco nailed a spin out flatliner. The punches flew and it looked like Loco was going to put this one away when Christian reversed the momentum with a 450 double stomp from the top rope. Only a two count though.

Christian took a trip to the 619 area code and hit a poisonrana. He set up Loco in Vanilla Choke Zero and Loco tapped out in the middle of the ring, preserving Christian’s 2025 undefeated streak.

Match Result: Blake Christian defeated Gringo Loco

Pure Rules Match: Queen Aminata defeated Allysin Kay

There is an impending tournament to crown the first ever Women’s Pure Champion in ROH and Aminata is sure to be a main player in those brackets. She even said as much in a promo last week. Kay is a likely participant as well, but her last ROH appearance was a loss to Aminata back in January. 

For those not in the know, in a Pure Rules match competitors are allowed one closed fist warning and three rope breaks. There is a 10 minute time limit and if there is any outside interference it’s an immediate DQ.

Kay had a size advantage over Aminata, but Aminata has been brushing up on her technical skills, quickly locking in a reverse submission, causing Kay to use up a rope break just :45 seconds in. Kay tried to get an armbar in the middle of the ring, but Aminata reversed it into a face lock. Kay dragged them both to the ring ropes, using her second rope break at 2:05.

Kay followed that up with a straight shot to Aminata’s face, earning her one closed fist warning. Kay tried to over power Aminata with a series of shots and slams. Aminata rolled to the outside to regroup, but Kay followed and worked her over by the barricade.

Aminata fought back though and tossed Kay back into the ring. Kay tried a butterfly slam, but Aminata kicked out. Aminata delivered some big forearms, but Kay rolled through and locked in a head scissors. Aminata powered out though and got her with a headbutt. Aminata tried an inside figure four and at 6:06, Kay tapped out, making us 3-for-3 on submission finishers tonight.

Match Result: Pure Rules Match: Queen Aminata defeated Allysin Kay

-Serena Deeb, Aminata’s first round opponent whenever the Women’s Pure tournament starts, cut a promo from the back. Deeb wondered what she has to show for her five years in AEW/ROH and she is tired of pretending to be happy about it. She isn’t here for anything but proving she’s the best at professional wrestling. She said that the ROH Women’s Pure Championship was made for her and she was made for it.

Atlantis Jr., Fuego & Neon defeated Barbaro Cavernario, Hechicero & Volador Jr.

The so-called (by me) Crisis of Infinite Luchadores that ran through ROH this spring returns in this six-man bout! Former ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr teams with CMLL;s Fuego and 1/3rd of the CMLL Trios Champions, Neon. Literal caveman Cavernario heads up his team with Los Infernales member Hechicero and 27-year veteran Volador Jr. 

Volador and Fuego kicked things off, with Fuego tossing Volador out of the ring. Cavernario took his place, and met with a similar face. Even Hechicero found himself right back on the outside when facing Fuego.

Caervnario and Atlantis faced off next, with Volador and Hechicero coming in for a triple team while Fuego and Neon, uh, watched. Atlantis managed to distribute backbreakers to them all though and tagged in Neon. Volador volunteered to face him, but it wasn’t long before Cavernario and Hechicero tried their hands. Neon got a similar triple team treatment until Fuego managed to run off the other team.

Cevernario delivered a missile dropkick in midair as Fuego was thrown backwards by Volador. The timing was perfect. Atlantis jumped in to avenge his teammate but Hechicero and Volador knocked him down with a reverse monkey flip double kick. Yes, that’s what it was.

Atlantis fought back though, hitting Cavernario so hard he did the worm. Atlantis dove through the ropes and hit Cavernario into the barricade as in the ring, Neon and Fuego took out Volodor and Hechicero.

Cavernario dragged Atlantis back into the ring and hit a big DDT, but could only get a two count. He tried a springboard drop but Atlantis blocked it and hit a frog splash from the top rope. Atlantis picked up the win while Neon and Fuego held Hechicero and Volador to the outside. Bueno Lucha!

Match Result: Atlantis Jr., Fuego & Neon defeated Barbaro Cavernario, Hechicero & Volador Jr.

Ring of Honor TV live results: Dustin Rhodes teams with all of his championship partners

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Ring of Honor Tag Team and Six-Man Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes will unite with all of his championship friends on tonight’s ROH on HonorClub.

Rhodes will join fellow Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara and fellow Six-Man Champions Ross & Marshall Von Erich to battle MxM Collection (Mansoor & Madden) and Tony Nese & Ari Daivari of the Premier Athletes.

In singles action, Wheeler Yuta will return to ROH against Matt Mako, the former Matt Makowski, in his first ROH match in four years.

The show is rounded out by Trish Adora against Rachael Ellering, and a tag team match between The Frat House’s Cole Karter & Griff Garrison against Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Alex Reynolds.

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ROH on Honorclub returns to Thursday for Episode 116 and we return with it!

Wheeler Yuta defeated Matt Mako

And so did Wheeler Yuta! It’s been a few months since we’ve seen Yuta in ROH, pre- his Dave Grohl lookalike phase. Yuta’s been busy in AEW being a Death Rider. Speaking of which, do they like, ride the grim reaper? Is that it? Anyways, he’s been doing that, so it’s cool of him to show up here to take on Mako, in what is technically his ROH Debut. Mako had a couple matches in the 2021 version of Ring of Honor, but went by Makowski at the time. He’s hit the reset button here though and so shall we all. 

After a traditional test of strength lockup, waist locks were traded and Mako actually got the drop on Yuta with a cross armbreaker hold. Yuta got out of it bu standing on Mako’s head until he let go. Yuta relied on his Pure Wrestling skills but a lot meaner in order to keep Mako off his feet and on the mat.

Yuta set in with a very casual bridged indian deathlock, before dragging Mako to the corner for some patented chopping of the chest. Mako showed a flurry of offense, but Yuta was able to quickly recover, putting an end to it with a right angle slam.

Mako locked in a really vicious armbar, but Yuta wiggled free and delivered a high knee to the face. Yuta then put Mako in a Cattle Mutilation and Mako passed the heck out, giving Yuta the victory

Match Result: Wheeler Yuta defeated Matt Mako

-A promo aired showcasing Tom Lawlor and Josh Woods’ history and their match at AEW x ACTION DEAN~!!!2 on May 24th. It was about 17 minutes long. TLDR: They know each other and are going to fight.

Trish Adora (w/Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) defeated Rachael Ellering

Ellering and Adora have only met one other time in ROH, way back on Episode 93 in November of last year. Adora came out on top in that match and is looking to do the same here with Bravo and Dean in tow. Ellering is more than likely looking ahead to the ever-impending Women’s Pure Title Tournament that’s right up her alley. The wild card(s) here would be Shane Taylor protegees Dean and Bravo.

These two were pretty evenly matched in terms of strength and size, as well as attitude. It felt like the match could devolve into a brawl at any second. Both women worked with hard strikes, Ellering a particularly nasty shoulder block and Adora with a huge fisherman bridge suplex.

Adora managed to get the drop on Ellering with a huge lariat that actually put Ellering down for the three. Quick and dirty with no Infantry involvement.

Match Result: Trish Adora (w/Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) defeated Rachael Ellering

-Red Velvet cut a promo in the back, saying that her TV Title is much more important than a Pure Title that no one has even won before. She then tried out a few new catchphrases that didn’t really land and ended it off demonstrating how she stirs it up.

The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison) (w/Jacked Jameson & Preston Vance) defeated The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)

The story here is as old as time: The Frat House are the cool, cocky jocks and the Dark Order are the kids who spend their lunchtime plotting DnD campaigns. They are natural enemies in the wild and even if you raise them as puppies, there is bound to be some conflict. In this case, the conflict is simply two groups of people who (in wrestling parlance) cannot co-exist. 

A couple of NPC pledges accompanied the Frat House to the ring. The best part of the Frat House intro was the much thinner Garrison flexing next to Jameson and Vance. the Dark Order arrived with their usual poses and the fight was on.

Karter and Reynolds kicked things off, with Karter casually addressing Reynolds and Reynolds exploding with anger, causing a flailing Karter to get a quick tag to Garrison. Uno joined the fray and the Order hit a double neckbreaker on Garrison and Karter.

Uno and Garrison carried the match into the next phase where Vance tried to get involved in an attempt to distract Uno. It didn’t work, but Karter managed to trip Uno up and leave him open for a double team. The numbers game (6 against 2) began to catch up to the Order here.

Uno was dragged to the outside where the Pledges, Vance and Jameson worked him over. The ref saw it but couldn’t really do much about it. Back in the ring Uno finally managed to get a a tag to Reynolds who cleared the ring of Garrison and Karter. Uno took out the Pledges and Reynolds went up top for a double stomp on Karter.

The Order hit a Gory Special on Garrison, but Jameson distracted the ref so that they couldn’t get a pin. Karter grabbed a pledge bat, but Uno wrestled it away. The ref caught it and gave it back to Jameson. While he was doing that, Vance hit a lariat on Uno, knocking him silly. Garrison got the pin when the ref’s attention returned.

Match Result: The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison) (w/Jacked Jameson & Preston Vance) defeated The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)

The Sons Of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) & The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross Von Erich) defeated MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) & The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)

At this point, I think that everyone in this match has wrestled each other so often over the last few months, they should know how to do this in their sleep. Rhodes’ worlds collide here as his Tag Team Champion Partner (Guevara) teams up with his Six-Man Championship partners (The Von Erichs). All of them as Sons of Texas, but I’m just going to call the team Dustin’s Pals for simplicity. MxM and the Premier Athletes (or MxMxPA as I’ll be referring to them) have been making the Frat House look like polite gentlemen with their antics over the last few months, but have failed to claim any of the gold on the other side of the ring with resorting to thievery. Also, whatever happened to Danhausen? 

Guevara and the Von Erichs have benefited greatly from Rhodes’ veteran influence and it showed by the pile of gold (well, silver) around their waists. The Crowd was hot as a chili dog for this one too, loud and raucous.

Nese and Marshall kicked things off and immediately, Nese isolated Marshall in the MxMxPA corner. MxM tagged in and double teamed him. He got a little help from Eric who managed to tag himself in and isolate Mansoor. Guevara tagged in and put on a show of dropkicking Mansoor. He played a little too long to the crowd though and Mansoor nearly got the drop on him.

The match progressed and Eric and Daivari locked up. Daivari went up top for a splash, but Eric dodged it and got a tag to Rhodes to a huge ovation. Rhodes played his greatest hits on Nese and Daivari and went for a pin, but MxM broke it up.

Sterling caused a distraction which sent Rhodes into Marshal and left Guevara open to a powerbomb neckbreaker from MxM. Rhodes pulled Sterling into the ring and set him up for a Shattered Dreams that would surely result in a lawsuit. Marshall and Eric locked dueling Iron Claws on Nese and Daivari and both tapped out simultaneously, ending the match.

Match Result: The Sons Of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) & The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross Von Erich) defeated MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) & The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)

After the match, strange music hit and who should come wandering out for reasons unknown? Cru; Action Adretti and Lio Rush. They have a match against Guevara and Rhodes coming up and stared them down as the show came to a close.

Ring of Honor TV live results: Deonna Purrazzo in action, Jay Lethal vs. Atlantis Jr.

Posted on by Jeff Moss

With the upcoming inaugural Women’s Ring of Honor Pure Championship tournament, Pure rules will be showcased on this week’s special Friday edition of ROH TV on HonorClub and YouTube.

Tournament participant Deonna Purrazzo will be in action in a Pure rules bout against Ashley Vox while another tournament competitor — Leila Grey — will take on Marina Shafir of the Death Riders in a traditional rules match.

Former ROH Men’s TV Champion Atlantis Jr. will battle former ROH World Champion Jay Lethal.

Blake Christian & Lee Johnson will team up against the Spanish Announce Team’s Serpentico & Angelico.

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Its a special day for Ring of Honor, coming at you with Episode 115 of ROH on Honorclub! With a pair of Proving Ground matches, a Pure Rules bout and two ROH Legends going head to head, it promised to be very special indeed!

Atlantis Jr. defeated Jay Lethal

Even if you’re not aware of the lengthy ROH history that Atlantis and Lethal have built for themselves, who wouldn’t want to see this match? Atlantis was the ROH World Television champion up until a few weeks ago when he lost said ROH TV title on AEW TV. Lethal is a Grand Slam Champion in ROH, with World, Tag, Pure and TV title reigns under his belt. His lineage in ROH goes all the way back to 2002, so this is definitely home for Lethal. 

Atlantis Jr is actually undefeated in singles bouts in ROH. Which makes total sense when you think about him winning and losing the ROH TV Title. A code of honor was shared between these two heavy hitters and the match was on.

Lethal seemed a bit back on his heels early on as Atlantis’ speed seemed to get the best of him. Lethal bailed to the outside and Atlantis followed with a suicide dive into the barricade. Atlantis seemed in complete control, moving slowly but steadily until Lethal reversed and armdrag into a hip-toss dropkick.

Lethal went up to the top rope for his big elbow drop, but Atlantis was wiggling around too much and he couldn’t find a good angle from three of the four turnbuckles. Atlantis climbed up and grabbed Lethal into a superplex, knocking Lethal silly.

Lethal fought back though and hooked Atlantis into a figure four leg lock. Atlantis managed to wiggle his way to the rope to break the hold. Lethal continued to work the knee though, delivering some stiff kicks to Atlantis before attempting a Lethal Injection. Atlantis caught him though and Lethal tried again, but Atlantis had it scouted and hit a powerslam.

Atlantis nailed a frog splash from the top rope and that was it. He got the pin 1-2-3.

Match Result: Atlantis Jr. defeated Jay Lethal

Marina Shafir defeated Leila Grey

Shafir has been running around with a little group you may have heard of called the Death Riders. I don’t know if that means I can still make “problem” jokes at her expense, but regardless she is a big problem for Grey. These women are set to participate in the ROH Women’s Pure Tournament when it starts up and would make a heck of a first round match. Just saying, booking people. 

The bell rang and as with most Shafir matches, so she controlled the pace from the start. Grey was caught completely off guard by the no-nonsense Shafir style. Grey kept making mistakes by posing for the crowd, allowing Shafir to kick her to death.

Grey never really recovered, taking everything Shafir dished out, including kicks and judo throws. Shafir couldn’t get the three count though as Grey got the shoulder up at the last second every time. Shafir locked in a really crazy half-crab stretch, but left Grey’s leg unattended so she was able to wriggle out.

Grey tried to fight back, but Shafir no-sold every strike. Grey tried a rolling neckbreaker and shotgun dropkick, but Shafir didn’t even leave her feet. She slammed Grey to the mat and locked in the Mother’s Milk submission, causing Grey to tap out.

Match Result: Marina Shafir defeated Leila Grey

Blake Christian & Lee Johnson defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)

I’m just going to come right out and say it: Blake Christian is a bad influence on that nice Lee Johnson. His mom should really talk to Christian’s mom about the path Christian is walking and the trouble he can get Johnson into! After losing via the dreaded numbers game to the Frat House last week, nice boys Angelico and Serpentico just wanted to have a nice, fun, laid back match, but with that dastardly Christian around, it was bound to get somewhat chippy. 

Angelico and Christian kicked things off and Christian set the tone by kicking away the Code of Honor. From there it was an oddly slow exchange. Christian held Angelico in a wristlock for what seemed like 10 minutes (it wasn’t, but time has no meaning).

Angelico picked up the pace with some good old fashioned punches to the face, which brought Serpentico in to work a double team. Johnson caught a blind tag and took down Serpentico, giving Christian an opening to spear him on his way to the corner.

Even though it was their first time teaming together, Johnson and Christian worked really well together. They set each other up for moves as if they had done it a hundred times before. They then started messing with Serpentico’s mask, which made me think that Serpentico might want to get less cool masks because someone seems to always been trying to steal his.

Angelico tagged in and cleared house for his partner. Angelico’s lankiness has always been a strength and he was able to wind and dodge around Johnson, setting him up for a Snakebomb from the top rope from Serpentico.

Angelico got planted by Christian and tossed to the outside. Serpentico avenged him with a monkey flip. He tried it again on Johnson, but got caught in a super destroyer from the top rope. Johnson pinned Serpentico and that was that.

Match Result: Blake Christian & Lee Johnson defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)

Pure Rules Match: Deonna Purrazzo defeated Ashley Vox

With the ROH Women’s Pure Championship Tournament about to kick off, Purazzo and Vox get a bit of a warm up and the audience got a bit of a reminder how Pure Rules matches work. In case you missed it, the match has a ten minute time limit and each competitor gets 3 rope breaks. Once those are exhausted, a person can be submitted or pinned even if they get to the ropes. Competitors also get one warning for a closed fist and a second instance is a DQ. This would actually be the first ever Women’s Pure Rules match, which is a nice bit of history.

The clock started ticking as the two women locked up. Purrazzo seemed to have the confidence as they traded wristlocks. Purrazzo dragged Vox to the ground and locked in a hold forcing Vox to use the rope at 1:36. Purrazzo strong armed her way out of a fishook hold next as Vox tried everything she could.

Purrazzo dropped the finesse at that point and clubbed Vox down to the mat. She tied up Vox with a hammer lock into a half-crab. vox used her second rope break at 3:25 to get out of it. Purrazzo followed that up with a single arm DDT.

A lariat got Purrazzo a two-count, and then she hit a powerbomb into a Venus De Milo hold. Vox was way to far away to use her final rope break and was forced to tap. Purrazzo becomes the first woman to win a Pure Rules match in ROH history.

Match Result: Deonna Purrazzo defeated Ashley Vox

-Backstage, Queen Aminata talked to the camera about how she has learned so much during her time in ROH. She assured us that she will out-work every other woman in the Pure Tournament. At this point they had talked a LOT about the Tournament but never really mentioned when it was due to start.

ROH Women’s World Television Title Proving Ground Match: Red Velvet [c] defeated Laynie Luck

Red Velvet has held the ROH Women’s TV Championship for 287 days as of this writing. In that time, she’s had some great matches but virtually no one has come close to taking the title from her. Luck is currently the Glory Pro Women’s World Crown Champion and has been for 194 days. Winning this Proving Ground match would give her a shot at being a double champion, which seems like a lot, but I’m told is really great for nicknames and stuff. 

Velvet got the drop on Luck off the top with a tight headlock. Luck wormed out and responded with a shoulder tackle and gator roll suplex, which woke the crowd up. Luck blocked a casa dora from Velvet, who slid out of the ring to regroup. Luck tried a baseball slide, but got wrapped up in the ring apron, allowing Velvet to regain control.

Velvet then landed a meteora to the back of the head of Luck and used her boxing skills to pepper Luck with shots. The time was ticking away though and Velvet seemed to be unaware of it as she laid in a choke in the corner.

Luck battled back with a snap Spiccoli driver that looked absolutely devastating. It only got her a two count though. Velvet came back with a twisting neckbreaker and that was enough to put Luck away and give Velvet the win.

Match Result: Red Velvet [c] defeated Laynie Luck

Satnam Singh defeated Lord Crewe

In case you missed it, Satnam Singh is big. Like, really big. He stands at 7’2” and weighs over 300lbs. That gives him an ability to move that most men of his height don’t have. Crewe was last seen on ROH back in January when he was chewed up and spit out by The Beast Mortos. Crew is not a small man, but even at 6’3” he still gives up a foot of vertical to Singh. If these two don’t break the ring, it should be a fun match!

The two locked up and Singh honestly made Crewe look like a small child. He threw him into the corner like a ragdoll and chopped him so hard I think they heard it in Texas, where AEW is holding All In, in case you didn’t know or missed the 13 promos for it during this episode.

Singh then picked up Crewe by the beard and threw him across the ring. Crewe tried to fight back, coming in off the ropes to try and get the big man off his feet.

Spoiler: He didn’t.

Singh picked up Crewe and dropped him on his head before landing a 12-foot chokeslam to get the victory.

Match Result: Satnam Singh defeated Lord Crewe

ROH World Title Proving Ground Match: Bandido [c] defeated Gringo Loco

Bless Bandido and his actually defending the ROH World Championship on ROH TV. It’s a small thing, but it really makes the show more exciting when the champions are working the shows they are champions of. Loco is no slouch either. He’s currently the Warrior Wrestling Lucha Champion and the Demand Royal Canadian Tag Team Champion (with Arez as Los Desperados). So this should be a super fun lucha fest! (Also the name of my J-pop band). 

The crowd was firmly behind the champion, chanting his name as he got his gear off and the match began. Loco was the bigger of the two, but he moved like a man half his size. The two dove and twisted with each other before pausing for a brief dance off. This was entertaining, but since there’s a 10-minute time limit on these Proving Ground matches, didn’t seem very prudent.

Bandido matched Loco’s strength with a huge hit on the outside and celebrated with the crowd, again wasting more and more time and giving Loco a bit of an advantage.

Back in the ring, Loco hit a dropkick and got a two count before heading to the top rope to hit a bouncing split legged splash on Bandido. From there, he chopped the champion to the mat again and again. Loco caught Bandido in midair and hit a powerbomb as the mid-point of the match passed by.

Bandido landed an around the world DDT and he jumped to the top rope for a picture perfect frog splash, but Loco kicked out at two. Bandido bounced off the ropes, but Loco turned him inside out with a superkick. Loco dragged Bandido to the top turnbuckle for what appeared to be an inverted Angle slam from the top rope, but again Bandido kicked out at two.

“This is awesome” chants began to rain down as Bandido joined Loco on the top turnbuckle again. Bandidio hit a super-rana on him followed by a shining wizard and that was it for Loco. Just under the time wire, Bandido got the win in an absolutely killer match.

Match Result: Bandido [c] defeated Gringo Loco

Ring of Honor TV live results: Red Velvet vs. La Catalina, Mina Shirakawa returns

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Ring of Honor Women’s TV Champion Red Velvet will return to action for the first time since January on tonight’s HonorClub show.

Velvet will put her title on the line against CMLL’s La Catalina who earned the title shot earlier this month. Velvet will be looking for her seventh title defense as a full year as titleholder looms on the horizon.

Mina Shirakawa will make her return stateside as an AEW contracted wrestler as she battles Leila Grey.

MxM Collection & Johnny TV will continue their trios run as they will be in action.

In tag team action, Serpentico & Angelico team up against Cole Karter & Griff Garrison.

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It’s another Thursday and another episode of ROH on Honorclub! This was episode #114 for those scoring at home and kicked off with a big return!

Mina Shirakawa defeated Leila Grey

Shirakawa was last seen in ROH in August of 2024 and has been predominantly hanging out in Stardom ever since. Her return took place against Leila Grey, who may or may not still be a flight attendant, and picked up a win against Lady frost in her last ROH appearance. 

Shirakawa is fantastic to watch in the ring (in spite of some quesitonable entrance music). Grey has been climbing the ladder in ROH, getting better with each match and still managing to make time to hang out with Top Flight. Shirakawa had an edge in speed, but Grey was able to keep up with her.

Grey got the first near fall and caught Shirakawa looking with a running neckbreaker. Shirakawa had a smile on her face the whole time though, using the ropes to her advantage with several springboard strikes. She also worked Grey’s knee over a bunch, trying to keep Grey off her feet.

There was a lot of dancing between moves, as well. A lot.

Shirakawa almost got Grey with a slingblade off the top rope that was really impressive. From there she went back to working Grey’s knee, but Grey fought back with a shotgun dropkick. Shirakawa got Grey into a figure four though, wrenching that softened up knee. Grey struggled to get out of it, but in the end had to tap.

Match Result: Mina Shirakawa defeated Leila Grey

MxM Collection (Mansoor & Madden) and Johnny TV defeated Rosario Grillo, Cameron Russell and Alan Russell

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; MxM and Johnny TV are a match made in heaven. They are like peanut butter & jelly, bronzer and spray tans, hair gel and… well, hair. They have to be worrisome to the ROH Six-Man Champions, Dustin Rhodes and the Von Erichs, and not just because they keep stealing belts. 

Grillo and Mansoor kicked things off with a Tip-Touch of Honor. Immediately, Mansoor asked aloud “Why am I doing this?” and tagged in the much bigger Madden. Madden took Grillo so seriously, he didn’t even bother to take off his sunglasses.

Alan tagged in next, but Madden made short, short work of him. Madden dragged Alan to the corner, isolating him in the corner and tagging in TV. TV and Mansoor double teamed him with chops and stomps. Madden used some butt-based offense to knock Alan across the ring and MxMxTV all posed in the ring.

TV went up top, but missed the mark, allowing Alan to tag in Cameron who battled with Mansoor. From there, MxMxTV just collectively beat up their opponents. Eventually, they landed a Super Centerfold and executed a triple pin for the win.

Match Result: MxM Collection (Mansoor & Madden) and Johnny TV defeated Rosario Grillo, Cameron Russell and Alan Russell

ROH Women’s World TV Champion Red Velvet defeated La Catalina

As of this writing, Red Velvet has held the ROH Women’s TV title for 279 days. Not too shabby when you consider she’s only the second person to hold the title, after Billie Starkz. Velvet put Ashley Vox down in under 5 minutes in a Proving Ground match last week and this week takes on #1 Contender La Catalina, who beat Taya Valkyrie for the honor.  

These two are both really good at what they do. Velvet had the veteran’s edge, but Catalina wrestles a luchadore hybrid style that Velvet hadn’t faced before. Catalina was able to roll her up out of nowhere quite often in the opening minutes.

Once Velvet was able to get Catalina out of the ring though, we saw her toughness. On the outside Catalina brought a straight up slugfest until Velvet got the upper hand and wrapped her knee around the ringpost.

Catalina hit a huge fisherwoman’s suplex and came within a half-second of becoming the champion. Velvet stayed in it though, even through a shotgun dropkick from the top rope and a big electric chair.

Catalina went up top for her signature splash, but Velvet climbed the ropes and brought her down and put her into a vicious half-crab hold. Catalina struggled to get to the ropes, but couldn’t last when Velvet grabbed the rope for leverage. Catalina tapped and Velvet retains the title.

Match Result: ROH Women’s World TV Champion Red Velvet defeated La Catalina

The Frat House (Griff Garrison & Cole Karter w/Preston Vance & Jacked Jameson) defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)

In another universe, I feel like The Frat House and Spanish Announce Project probably attended a lot of the same house parties in high school. They hung out on different floors of the house, but were still there. SAP took a loss last week as one half of a team with The Kingdom in an 8-man battle and The Frat House picked up a trios win a couple of weeks ago and have probably started eyeing the titles held by Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs. Mainly to use as beer coasters, I presume. 

The Frat offered up some red solo cups of Honor, but immediately threw their contents in SAP’s face. SAP responded by kicking their butts, leaving Karter alone in the ring for some double teaming. Angelico bowed out and Serpentico went one-on-one with Garrison, who had quickly tagged in.

Serpentico took out both Garrison and Karter with a dive through the ropes while Jameson and Vance… watched? Serpentico tried to go high, but Karter pulled him off the turnbuckle, sending him into the Frat Corner, where all four got their shots in.

The Frat House took control from there, with Garrison and Karter trading quick tags to hit Serpentico with a succession of moves. They threw him out of the ring and Vance and Jameson added their two cents as well.

Off of a hot tag, Angelico finally returned to the match, clearing the ring of Frat-people. Garrison got back in and the two collided in a double cross-body. That left Serpentico and Karter in the ring, and Jameson tried to hit on the ref at ringside. That let Vance get a few shots in on Serpentico, softening him up for Karter to get the pin through nefarious means.

Match Result: The Frat House (Griff Garrison & Cole Karter w/Preston Vance & Jacked Jameson) defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico)

After the match, the Frat House beat up SAP in the ring, trying to steal Serpentico’s mask again. That brought out ROH World Champion Bandido who picked apart the Frat House, clocking Vance specifically with the title belt. SAP Got to their feet and the three hugged in the ring.

Ring of Honor TV live results: Two tag teams return, WCW’s Crowbar in action

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Tonight’s Ring of Honor on HonorClub features two key tag teams making their return in addition to Crowbar of WCW fame making his promotional return.

The 51-year-old Crowbar, formerly known as Devon Storm, first appeared in ROH in 2011 with his last appearance coming in a 2020 battle royal. He takes on Lance Archer tonight.

Several tag teams will be in action including the returning Righteous (Dutch & Vincent); the returning Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett); The Premier Athletes’ Tony Nese & Ari Daivari; as well as the Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico).

Both Taven and Bennett and Dutch and Vincent last wrestled in ROH in December.

In an eight-man tag, Mark Briscoe teams with Top Flight and AR Fox against Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty and The Infantry.

ROH Women’s TV Champion Red Velvet will put a future title shot on the line in a Proving Ground bout.

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Fresh off the cancellation and rescheduling of Supercard of Honor (see you in July!) and in spite of a treasure trove of returns, Episode 113 of ROH on Honorclub was chock full of question marks. Most of those question marks would be who the returning wrestlers would be facing in the ring, but also “would there be hot dogs?” My wife’s answer: doubtful

The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) & The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling) defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) & The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)

So, Ring of Honor decided that with so many tag teams returning, why not put them all in the same match? There was no indication that this 8-man match was happening until it did, so, cool? Anyway, Daivari and Nese are like PB and J in the ring, with Sterling making the nice white bread that surrounds them. The Kingdom  haven’t been seen since Final Battle 2024. My assumption is that they have been using the time to find new and exciting baseball caps for Bennett to wear backwards. 

Spanish Announce Project are back from somewhere with lots of black lights and a chilled out vibe, I assume, and when we last saw Dutch and Vincent they were torturing and ultimately losing to the Sons of Texas at Final Battle. Now, having spent some time… doing who knows what, they are back and looking to prove they haven’t missed a step

The match began and The Righteous Athletes worked well together, often isolating a member of the opposing team for some stiff shots and skullduggery. Sterling got involved whenever someone was outside of the ring. The Spanish Announce Kingdom did something unexpected, which was play by the rules. I guess Bennett and Taven are returning with a new, good guy attitude? It might have something to do with Bennett’s new beard.

It was great to see Dutch and Vincent back. They are honestly one of the most exciting teams in wrestling right now and they are completely unorthodox. It was interesting seeing them paired with the Athletes who are so technical based, but never above a little cheating to get the job done.

Bennett got a hot tag to Taven at one point and he single-handedly cleared the ring. Daivari was the legal man in there with him, but that didn’t stop Dutch and Vincent from executing a little double teaming. Angelico saved the day though, taking out Dutch on the outside. Sterling tried to cause a distraction and ate a double superkick from the Kingdom, which was always nice to see.

In the end, Serpentico was left to the Righteous’ devices and after an orange sunshine, Vincent made the pin to get the victory. The Athletes celebrated like they got the pin and Dutch flicked his tongue at them until they left. Weird.

Match Result: The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) & The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling) defeated Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) & The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)

Lance Archer (w/Don Callis) defeated Crowbar

Bad haircuts aside, anyone with “murderhawk” in their nickname such as Lance Archer is a dangerous person to be around (even though I have no idea what a murderhawk actually is. The bird is just trying to eat, Lance. It’s not a crime). Archer has thrown in with Don Callis of the eponymously named Callis Family which makes him even more dangerous. Crowbar (Yes, the Crowbar that used to hang with David Flair in WCW) was last seen helping me move a large rock. Then I put him down somewhere and haven’t been able to find him since. 

So, if it isn’t obvious, Crowbar is very old. That said, he’s still pretty entertaining. I don’t quite understand the thinking in bringing him in to essentially just get beaten up by Archer, but that’s what happened.

Crowbar managed to to more damage to himself than Archer did though. He began by taking back bumps in the ring for no reason, then threw himself over the top rope where Callis stomped him. There may have been method to the madness though, when Archer joined them on the outside, Crowbar sent him into the ring steps with a drop toe hold.

That seemed to make Archer mad, and he introduced Crowbar’s face to his foot repeatedly. Crowbar then tried to introduce his literal crowbar into the match, but the ref stopped him, allowing Archer to chokeslam the WCW legend. After a blackout, Crowbar was done and Archer got the pin.

Match Result: Lance Archer (w/Don Callis) defeated Crowbar

ROH Women’s World Television Title Proving Ground Match: Red Velvet [c] defeated Ashley Vox

Last week, the announcement of a new ROH Women’s Pure Title had the division all excited. But, Velvet, the reigning ROH Women’s TV Champion is not to be forgotten. In this Proving Ground match, her opponent must pin or submit Velvet or last to a ten-minute draw to earn a shot at the ROH Women’s TV Title. Ashley Vox got married last weekend. That was all they said about her.

Velvet dominated early, as expected. Vox tried to sneak in a few quick rollups, but that did not work out well for her as Velvet sent her face-first into the ropes. Vox did look all right though, throwing some pretty solid haymakers that seemed to surprise the Champion.

Velvet is such a good worker (and credit to Vox as well) that even her chinlocks look devastatingly painful. Velvet also has Olympic Boxers in her family, so when she starts throwing hands, it looks really, really good.

Vox looked like she might have a shot with a big missile dropkick from the top rope, followed by some headbutts. She locked in a fish hook around half way through the match, but was unable to capitalize. Velvet turned it around though and landed her patented “punch you in the face really, really hard” move and got the pin on Vox, dashing her title shot hopes.

After the match, La Catalina (the #1 Contender for Velvet’s Title) sauntered down to the ring. The two jawed at each other in the ring for a few minutes before Velvet got bored and left.

Match Result: ROH Women’s World Television Champion Red Velvet defeated Ashley Vox

-A vignette aired next with Leila Grey, Deonna Purrazzo and Taya Valkyrie all declaring themselves entrants in the tournament to crown the inaugural ROH Women’s Pure Champion.

AR Fox, Mark Briscoe & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Carlie Bravo, Lee Moriarty, Shane Taylor & Shawn Dean)

Suddenly, it was Main Event time and oh yes!! Mark Briscoe and Shane Taylor facing off? You can let the other six men in the match take a powder in my humble opinion. I love these big battles, especially when STP are involved. But the one-on-one match between Taylor and Briscoe is where the money is. Perhaps this will be the start of the road towards that? …Tony? Are you listening? 

Briscoe set the tone by tossing a chair in the ring during the entrances. It was quickly cleared out, but I think the point was made. Hearing my pleas, Briscoe and Taylor started things off with Taylor spitting on Briscoe’s hand when a Code of Honor was offered. They immediately began exchanging blows until Taylor tried to get Briscoe up in a driver, but Briscoe broke free and tagged in Fox. Taylor took the hint and brought in Moriarty.

Fox has really been impressive the last few weeks, so he and Moriarty were a great fit. Fox battled Moriarty on the outside and Bravo on the inside of the ring at the same time which was really fun. Dean tagged in though and isolated Fox in the corner so all four members of STP could take turns hurting him.

Fox finally got a tag to Darious and he and Dean mixed it up next. Top Flight and the Infantry are kinda like Batman and the Joker: Two sides of the same coin, destined to battle forever. However, Taylor tagged in and crushed Darious though, screaming “We hate flights!” which in 2025, who doesn’t?

Next, Duante threw himself around the ring, landing splashes and flips on all four of his opponents. Moriarty was legal with the dust cleared, but didn’t make much head way. Briscoe tagged in and took on both members of the Infantry with some classic Redneck Kung Fu.

Fox, and Top Flight launched themselves around the ring taking out STP. Bravo and Briscoe were left alone in the ring and Briscoe landed a picture perfect Jay Driller to get the pin and the victory for his team.

Match Result: AR Fox, Mark Briscoe & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Carlie Bravo, Lee Moriarty, Shane Taylor & Shawn Dean)

Ring of Honor TV live results: Six-Man Tag Team title match

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Ring of Honor returns for their second show in as many days, headlined by a Six-Man Tag Team title bout as Dustin Rhodes will team with Marshall & Ross Von Erich to defend against MxM Collection & Johnny TV.

Sammy Guevara will go one-on-one with Lee Johnson.

Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Alex Reynolds will take on Rosario Grill & Jon Cruz while ROH World Champion Bandido will team with Komander to challenge The Infantry in tag team action.

The Frat House’s Griff Garrison, Preston Vance & Cole Karter will be in trios action while a CMLL showcase will feature Atlantis Jr.

Lexy Nair will hold a sit-down interview with Serena Deeb and Queen Aminata.

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As tends to happen in ROH, a bunch of stuff transpired outside of ROH’s regular programming since ROH on Honorclub Episode 111. This week, ROH held what they called a “Special Episode” on Youtube. Officially it was a prelude to the Spring Break Thru episode of AEW Collision, on at a special time in its own right. Unofficially it was a quartet of decent matches that probably should have been part of ROH on Honorclub episode #112. The special featured: 

  • Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) (w/Leila Grey) defeated The Conglomeration (Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii)
  • Shane Taylor (w/Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) defeated KM
  • ROH Women’s World Television Title #1 Contendership: La Catalina defeated Taya Valkyrie
  • Nick Wayne (w/Mother Wayne) defeated Michael Oku (w/Amira)
  • Also, Nick Wayne won the ROH World Television Title from Komander on Collision. 

So, now that we are all caught up, lets dig into Ring of Honor on Honorclub episode 112!

ROH World Champion Bandido & Komander (w/Alex Abrahantes) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions’ The Infantry(Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) (w/Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)

ROH World Champion Bandido is definitely a working champion having won the title just over a week ago and already had a Proving Ground match. Now, this obviously non-title tag match puts him in the crosshairs of the Kingpin of ROH, Shane Taylor. Taylor has re-invented Bravo and Dean in his image and one can’t help but wonder if this match is a way for Taylor to jump the queue and get in the Champion’s face. Komander is stinging from having just lost the ROH TV title to Nick Wayne on Collision, so his energy level may be low for this match. 

Bandido was sporting some taped up ribs as Bravo and Dean jumped their opponents during the Code of Honor. Bandido fought out of it though, but he ended up on the outside and face first into the barricade. The infantry relied on chop-blocks to injure the knee of the Champion, isolating him from his partner. 

Moriarty and Taylor jawed on the outside while Dean and Bravo swapped in and out, working the knee of Bandido. Eventually Bandido ducked a big boot from Dean and rolled into a hot tag with Komander. Komander showed no amount of run rust from last night’s loss as he flew around the ring taking on both members of the Infantry. 

Suddenly, Shane Taylor climbed to the ring apron (the hardest part of the ring) and laid a shot into Bandido’s face. Thinking quickly, Komander propelled Bandido onto Taylor and the champ executed a sunset flip, sending him onto his cohorts on the outside. 

Bandido then hit a 21 Plex on Dean to get the win.

Match Result: ROH World Champion Bandido & Komander (w/Alex Abrahantes) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions’ The Infantry(Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) (w/Lee Moriarty & Shane Taylor)

ROH World Six Man Tag Team Title Match: Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross von Erich) (c) defeated Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)

This is it. For all the marbles. Well, all three of them, IE the ROH Six-Man Tag Titles. Rhodes and the Von Erichs have held the straps for 265 days, with many of them spent waiting for the Von Erichs to return from injury. During that time, the MxM Collection made life tough for Rhodes and his Tag Team Championship partner, Sammy Guevara for months. Now, everyone’s here, they’re ready and Johnny TV has joined the fray.

And what a fray it was! MxMxTV jumped their opponents from behind as they made their entrance. Rhodes was knocked out and it looked like Ross was injured, but the ref checked he was good to go so the match officially started. 

Mansoor and Marshall battled in the ring, Marshall’s hard strikes knocking the smaller Mansoor from post to post. Rhodes stayed out of it, still recovering from the beatdown on the ramp. Ross tagged in and the brothers Von Erich manhandled Mansoor. 

Mansoor caught Ross and Madden jumped in to deliver a big kick to the face. TV joined the party and a triple team was on. Even Taya Valkyrie got involved, stomping Ross on the outside with some serious heels (the boots, not the alignments). 

With Rhodes still MIA, the numbers game was catching up to the Von Erichs, especially the recently returned from injury, Ross. TV planted him with a diving front wheelbarrow, as Rhodes staggered to his feet. Instantly, Mansoor attacked him on the outside, delivering a hard shot to the ribs. 

Ross and Mansoor hit each other with a double clothesline, giving Ross the chance to get a red-hot tag to Marshall. Just as he was about to reach it though, Madden grabbed Marshall off the apron and smashed his face into the ring steps. With that, Rhodes made it to the apron and took the tag from Ross to face off against TV. 

Rhodes cleaned house, but Madden caught him and set up a chokeslam. The Von Erichs hit a double dropkick to save their partner. A brawl broke out and all six men battled in the ring. When the dust settled, Madden was hung up for a Shattered Dreams. TV tried to help but Rhodes stacked him on Madden for a double Shattered Dreams followed by a Texas Destroyer. 

Ross locked the Iron Claw on Mansoor and Rhodes delivered a modified CrossRhodes to TV to get the pin and retain the titles for his team. 

Match Results: Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross von Erich) (c) defeated Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)

Sammy Guevara defeated Lee Johnson (w/Blake Christian)

It was a surprise to see Johnson coming to the ring with Christian, who notoriously does not play well with others. It was also a surprise to see Christian in casual leather pants. However, if there was any question about Johnson’s drift the heel side, its confirmed by an association with notorious jerkbag Christian. Guevara has been wrestling his truest and bluest in singles and with his Tag Team Champion partner, Dustin Rhodes. 

Surprisingly, the two locked up off the top and kept the pace slow. Wristlocks and headlock takedowns were a plenty. The two ended up face to face after a double kip-up. Guevara was impressed and offered his hand, but Johnson took the opportunity to deliver a stiff shot to the face.

Christian got involved, pulling Guevara to the outside which allowed Johnson to nail him with a big flip over the top rope. Back in the ring, Johnson began working over Guevara in the corners. Quick Irish Whips and diving forearms were his weapons of choice. Guevara got to his feet and the two traded chops, with Guevara coming out on top.

Guevara managed to get Johnson in the air for a GTH, but Johnson wriggled free. Guevara caught him coming off the ropes though and managed to get a schoolboy threecount for the win.

Match Result: Sammy Guevara defeated Lee Johnson (w/Blake Christian)

After the match, Guevara tried to show respect, but Christian jumped him. Suddenly a newly refreshed Dustin Rhodes appeared and cleared the ring. Then even more suddenly, MxMxTV appeared and beat up the Sons of Texas! Then truly even more suddenly, the Von Erichs appeared and things erupted into chaos with an all-out brawl.

TV landed a shining Wizard on the face of Rhodes as the heels overtook the faces. TV put an exclamation point on things by smashing a Tag Title belt into Rhodes. Guevara tried to protect him, taking the brunt of the beatdown.

The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno) defeated Jon Cruz & Rosario Grillo

The Dark Order have had their hands full lately with The Frat House. Like many beefed-out jock types, The Frat House doesn’t like the Order because they are different. Cruz and Grillo? I’m sure they get along with them just fine. They seem pretty laid back. 

Cruz and Uno kicked things off which was very fun. Uno can move like a man half his size and Cruz is a man half his size. A big boot from Reynolds brought in Grillo, but the Order was waiting and double teamed him. Cruz and Reynolds kept it going with Reynolds getting the upper hand by way of hit elbows in the corner.

Cruz sent Reynolds to the opposite corner and Grillo grabbed his tights to keep him isolated from Uno. The two double teamed Reynolds while Uno watched helplessly.

Uno finally managed to get a tag from Reynolds and he cleaned the ring. Reynolds helped Uno execute a Gory Special and Uno got the pin on Grillo.

Match Result: The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno) defeated Jon Cruz & Rosario Grillo

Then, (sigh) The Frat House arrived. They had a new flag and new members in the form of a couple of unnamed Pledges. Jameson said a bunch of gibberish about winning or losing and boozing (it made no sense, but rhymed, so people liked it). The Frat House then jumped their own pledges for some reason? Commentary seemed to think that it was because they knew that the Dark Order would be upset by this hazing.

This led to a “match” involving the Frat House taking on their pledges, one of whom we learned was named” “Love Doug.” It didn’t matter much as the Frat House quadruple teamed him and pinned him to get the “win.”

I mean, there was a ref and the bell tolled, but it’d be hard pressed to call this a match.

The Dark Order rushed the ring with chairs, and the Frat House bailed, leaving their Pledges writing around the outside of the ring.

-Backstage, Queen Aminata and Serena Deeb joined Lexy Nair. This was a big deal because it was an announcement of a newly-created ROH Women’s Pure Championship! There will be a tournament to crown the inaugural champion and Aminata and Deeb will face off in the opening first round match. Deeb ran down Aminata and her generation, saying she’s the person this title was made for. Aminata responded saying she believed in herself and that Deeb should be careful what she wishes for because this student is now the master.

Atlantis Jr., Esfinge & Fuego defeated Barbaro Cavernario, Euforia & Zandokan Jr.

The main event of this special episode was a Crisis of Infinite Luchadores match featuring the very popular Atlantis Jr, the very orange Fuego and the very pantsless Esfinge taking on the very brutal Cavernario, the very flamey Euforia and the very debuting Zandoken Jr.

A six-man brawl kicked things off with huricanranas and headscissors being delivered all across the board. Cavernario and Fuego ended up in the ring when the dust settled, but quickly Esfinge and Zandokan joined them and a 4-way battle commenced.

Fuego and Cavernario ended up one-on-one in the ring and Fuego’s speed out paced Cavernario’s brawn. Euforia fared better though, powerbombing Fuego, bringing in Esfinge.

The theme here seemed to be older luchadores vs younger ones as wrestlers swapped in and out. It’s really fun watching these matches because we know of the high-flying luchadores, but we rarely get to see the more hard-hitting and brutal ones. Zandokan would fit this bill.

Zandokan knocked Atlantis silly, and untied his mask. Zandokan, Euforia and Cavernario triple power bombed him and tried to take the mask, but Fuego and Esfinge came to the rescue and took out the other two, leaving Atlantis and Zandokan to battle it out.

Euforia slid in and Atlantis knocked him out with a dropkick followed by a big frog splash from the top rope to get the pin and the victory.

Match Result: Atlantis Jr., Esfinge & Fuego defeat Barbaro Cavernario, Euforia & Zandokan Jr.

Ring of Honor TV results: Bandido vs. Jay Lethal title eliminator

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Days after kicking off his second Ring of Honor World title reign, Bandido will put a future title shot on the line as part of tonight’s HonorClub streaming show.

Bandido will face former ROH World Champion Jay Lethal in a Proving Ground match where if the challenger can draw or defeat the champion, a future shot is his. While they have shared the ring plenty through the years, this will be their first ever singles match.

For the first time since last September, ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions Dustin Rhodes & the Von Erichs will be in action against Violence is Forever and Davey Bang.

NJPW’s Tomohiro Ishii will make his return to the black and red brand to challenge Preston Vance.

After returning to action recently, Marina Shafir will look get on the winning track tonight against Nixi XS.

MxM Collection and Johnny TV will reunite for a trios bout against Drake Daniels, Jordan Kross & Ryan Matthews.

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A brand new ROH World Champion, a pair of high-profile six-man tag matches and the return of a certain problem are all backed tightly into ROH on Honorclub episode 111! 

(Also, Preston Vance will be there).

Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) (w/ Taya Valkyrie) defeated Drake Daniels, Jordan Kross & Ryan Matthews

Johnny TV, Mansoor and Madden are a match made in gorgeous heaven. So, I’ll be calling their Trios Team MxMxTV. A while back, Madden and Mansoor stole a championship belt from Dustin Rhodes, tonight carried to the ring by Taya Valkyrie. So that makes MxMxTV 1/3rd of the Six-Man belt holders. Or something like that. Daniels, Cross and Matthews (who sound like a 1970’s folk trio) were all making their ROH debuts in this match. 

TV and Kross kicked things off like anyone would: by engaging in a dance battle (TV won). He used that advantage to deliver some really devastating knees to the face of Kross. Mansoor and Madden isolated Kross in the corner and doubled teamed him with various pose-based offense. Matthews tried to help, but it did not work.

While Valkyrie and TV made out over the title belt at ringside, Daniels entered the match and was immediately destroyed by the much, much bigger Madden. Kross and Matthews were easily dispatched while TV, Madden and Mansoor hit a three-way Centerfold and posed with the beaten Daniels.

Match Result: Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) (w/ Taya Valkyrie) defeated Drake Daniels, Jordan Kross & Ryan Matthews

Marina Shafir defeated Nixi XS

Shafir was back in ROH after spending some time hanging out with Voldemort’s forces in AEW. …What? …Death RIDERS? Oh, that’s totally different. Either way, she’s back and ready to face off against XS in her ROH debut. 

XS looked straight out of an episode of GLOW, which was a great juxtaposition to the more straight forward look and style of Shafir. Shafir used the Code of Honor to whip XS around in a series of Judo throws. XS had a very, very expressive face, so she was able to really sell Shafir’s offense. Shafir on the other hand, no-sold everything that XS threw at her. One Mother’s Milk submission later and XS was tapping out.

Match Result: Marina Shafir defeated Nixi XS

-Backstage the ROH Trios Champions (with all three belts?) cut a promo. The Von Erichs talked about how it made them mad that MxM stole Rhode’s title belt. Rhodes called MxM stupid. Yes, Stupid. Rhodes then issued a challenge to MxMxTV to show up next week so he could take his belt back.

Tomohiro Ishii defeated Preston Vance (w/ Jacked Jameson)

Vance, Jameson and their Frat House compadres Griff Garrison and Cole Karter have been running around being professionally obnoxious in ROH for a few weeks now. Their very presence makes me seethe with rage (which means they are very good at their jobs. And being jerks. Their job is to be jerks), so it’s with great pleasure that everyone welcomed Ishii back to ROH to smash, cook up and eat  at least one member of the Frat House. 

Vance tied up with Ishii and even though he had about a foot on him in height, Ishii has the density of a dying sun and was able to shrug off just about everything Vance threw at him. Vance tried to turn up the speed of the match, but Ishii ended up being grabbed by Jameson and pulled out of the ring.

Jameson gave Ishii a few shots while Vance distracted the Ref and tossed him back into the ring. Vance hit Ishii in the back of the head and delivered a suplex which seemed to enrage Ishii who began growing with every elbow Vance threw at his head.

The match devolved into the two of them just punching each other until Ishii caught Vance with a side slam. Vance ran the ropes and brought down Ishii with a football-style tackle. He tried for a discus lariat, but Ishii avoided it and clotheslined Vance.

Jameson jumped up on the ring apron (the highest part of the ring!) and tried to cause a distraction, but Ishii knocked him off and he and Vance traded strikes until Ishii landed a big head butt followed by a brainbuster to pick up the victory.

After the match, Ishii called out Jameson, who claimed that he had a “broken nose” so he couldn’t fight. Sure.

Match Result: Tomohiro Ishii defeated Preston Vance (w/ Jacked Jameson)

-An interview with Bandido aired from backstage at AEW Dynasty. He’s very excited to be ROH World Champion and was grateful to God to be there with his family. He declared his mom “the real champ” for her support. Then he challenged her to a Ladder match for the belt. OK, that didn’t happen, but I’d watch it. Just saying.

ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs (Marshall & Ross) defeated Davey Bang, Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku in a non-title match

It’s the return of Texas’ favorite (grand)sons to team up with one half of the Sons of Texas! Marshall and Ross Von Erich have been on the shelf due to injury since February and their return couldn’t have come at a better time, as MxM just stole Rhodes’ Championship title belt, which we dealt with earlier. Their opponents tonight Bang, Garrini and Ku were all last seen in ROH in 2023 with a collective 0-5 record between them. 

Rhodes and one of the other guys kicked things off and Rhodes made him look good. At this point, I need to note that the commentary team was absolutely terrible this week regarding who was in the ring with the better known wrestlers. It was like they didn’t know who was who and shared that lack of knowledge with the audience.

Anyways, (I think) Bang and Garrini tried to isolate Ross in the corner with a double team. Garrini tried to do the same with Ku, but that allowed Ross to get the tag to Marshall who cleaned house. When the dust settled, it was Marshall and Ku, with Ross and Rhodes keeping the other two at bay.

Bang tried to go up top, but ended up jumping right into an Iron Claw from Marshall. Marshall transitioned it into a front slam and got the pin to pick up the victory for his team.

Match Result: Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs (Marshall & Ross) defeated Davey Bang, Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku

-Backstage, Taya Valkyrie cut a promo about how she has the opportunity to take on Red Velvet and get a shot at the ROH Women’s TV title. The one thing stopping her is La Catalina, who Valkyrie claims copied her by coming to ROH via Mexico. The two will face off next week, with the winner getting a shot at Red Velvet’s ROH Women’s Television championship.

ROH World Champion Bandido defeated Jay Lethal in a Proving Ground match

Bandido defeated Chris Jericho (not an ROH Wrestler) at AEW Dynasty (not an ROH Show) to become the ROH World Champion for the second time. Unlike his predecessor, this ROH World Champion actually appears on the show and got right down to business here with a Proving Ground match against one of the legends of ROH, a former ROH World, Pure, Television and Tag Team Champion, Jay Lethal. If Lethal scored a victory or lasted to the 10 minute time limit, he’d be slingshotted right into challenging for Bandido’s not-even-cold-yet title. (No word on if Bandido’s Mom will be there).

The two locked up and almost immediately the action left the ring. Lethal landed a running dive through the ropes, knocking Bandido almost back up the ramp, before tossing him back into the ring. Lethal tried to get a figure four on, but Bandido reversed it into a small package for a two count.

Lethal and Bandido then traded chops with Lethal having the advantage because he has “calloused hands from years of weightlifting” according to Ian Riccabonni. Lethal spun Bandido around with a bit lariat and tried for another figure four, which Bandido reversed into another small package, and got another two count.

Third time was the charm though as Lethal got a figure four on Bandido in the center of the ring. Bandido wormed his way to the ropes though and Lethal broke the hold, but continued working the knee of the Champion.

Lethal went for a Lethal Injection, but Bandido caught him midair and threw him to the ropes. The Champion then hit a 21 plex and picked up the win over Lethal. After the match, Lethal shook Bandido’s hand, showing respect to the new Champion.

Match Result: Bandido defeated Jay Lethal

And that does it for Episode 111. Next week: Taya Valkyrie vs La Catalina.

Ring of Honor TV live results: Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara in action, Pure title match

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A future Ring of Honor Tag Team title opportunity will be on the line as part of tonight’s tag team heavy HonorClub lineup.

Reigning champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) will face The Frat House’s Cole Karter & Griff Garrison. If the challengers can either defeat or draw the champions, they will earn a future title match.

Ring of Honor Pure Champion Lee Moriarty will put his title on the line against AR Fox.

The Infantry (Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) will battle Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Alex Reynolds.

The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum) will look to rebound from their recent AEW Tag Team title challenge loss when they take on Arya Daivari & Tony Nese of the Premier Athletes.

The Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) will also be in action.

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Ring of Honor’s Tag Team Scene is absolutely on fire right now, so it makes sense that tonight’s episode of ROH on Honorclub (number 110 for those scoring at home) featured not one, not two, but FOUR big tag matches!

ROH World Tag Team Title Proving Ground Match: The Sons Of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) defeated The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison) (w/Jacked Jameson & Preston Vance)

After a six-man victory (with Willie Mack) against the MxM Collection and Johnny TV, the Sons of Texas once again fell before the quick hands of Mansoor and Madden who stole an ROH World Tag Title (or Six-Man Title, there was some confusion) belt for a record 28th time (give or take). The Frat House spent last week making life difficult for the Dark Order last week, taunting, jeering and generally being huge pains in the asses before finally interfering in their match against the Premier Athletes. If the Frat House can pin the champs or last ten minutes, they will get a shot at the ROH Tag Team Titles (Title?).

The Frat House came to the ring with custom balls for beer pong that were immediately snatched by Rhodes and Guevara and tossed into the crowd. That’s right, the Sons of Texas grabbed the Frat House’s balls and disposed of them.

Karter and Garrison tried to jump the champs off the top but they were ready for them and dispatched them to the outside quickly. That pit Karter against Guevara to start off the match proper.

Rhodes and Guevara have been working in perfect sync since teaming up last year. Garrison and Karter have been a team even longer, so both of the duos in this match were able to give it their best with some classic quick-tag chain wrestling. The wild cards were Vance and Jameson who got some shots in from the outside whenever the ref’s back was turned.

Since it was a Proving Ground match, Karter and Garrison kept the pace slow, isolating Guevara early to keep him from bringing in Rhodes. Guevara went for a hot tag to Rhodes but Vance pulled Rhodes off the ring apron, allowing Karter to continue the assault.

Guevara finally got the tag to Rhodes who played his greatest hits on Garrison and Karter’s repsective faces. It looked like it was over, but the puin got broken up. Guevara hit a senton from the top rope onto Vance and Jameson on the outside while Rhodes Shattered both of Karter’s Dreams in the ring.

Suddenly, the Dark Order slowly wandered to the down the ramp, distracting all four members of the Frat House and allowing Guevara to hit a big cutter on Garrison from the top rope. He pinned him and got the victory for the tag team champs.

Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) defeated Cal Bloom & Deonn Rusman

The one tag match that has nothing to do with anything this week was Gates of Agony vs Bloom and Rusman. The only purpose of this match was to give the Gates a chance to hirt some folks, and Bloom and Rusman drew the short straws. Bloom (FKA NXT’s Von Wagner) is looking for a fresh start after leaving NXT and Rusman was trained at Seth Rollins’ Black and Brave Academy, so both have ties to WWE. Also both are about to get real hurt. 

Bloom is very, very big so he started of the match against Kaun. Bloom held his own as the two pounded on each other, forcing Kaun to wrestle harder than he’s had to in a long time. Rusman tagged in and Kaun settled back into the hard hitting double teams with Liona that he’s used to.

Bloom continued to impress, hitting Kaun with side slams and big boots. Liona actually had to jump in and break up a pin, which is the first time I think I’ve ever seen that. Rusman tagged in to pick over the bones of Kaun and land a big spinebuster.

It was looking like an upset might be possible when Liona managed to tag in across from Rusman. Liona dominated the (slightly) smaller man, delivering huge elbows in the corners. Yes, corners. It went on for a while. Bloom tried to interfere, but Kaun took him out on the outside. Linoa pinned Rusman and added another win for the Gates.

The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) defeated The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling)

The Outrunners rule. There’s not much else to say about them and this week everyone was glad to see them in wrestling action instead of messing around with Basketball mascots (boo local sports team!). The Premier Athletes formed a loose coalition with the Frat House last week, proving that obnoxious jocks of a feather do tend to flock together.

Magnum kicked things off with Daivari and once it began I realized something: These two teams are perfect for each other. The Outrunners classic, hard hitting babyface style is the perfect foil for the modern, technical heeling of the Athletes. This showed as the two went back and forth in a great exchange.

Suddenly, Mark Sterling grabbed a mic and told Floyd that it was “illegal to use dropkicks” in Milwaukee. I cannot confirm or deny this.

In the ring, Daivari tossed Magnum out of the ring and while Floyd was trying to point it out to the ref, Sterling and Nese stomped a proverbial mudhole in him before tossing him back in the ring. Nese went for a big elbow, but Magnum managed to dodge it and tried to get a hot tag to Floyd, but Nese pulled him off the apron.

Daivari and Nese tried a double team, but a miscommunication led to a collision and that allowed Magnum to tag in Floyd who used Nese as a weapon, slamming him onto Daivari. A brawl broke out between all four with the Outrunners coming out on top. They grabbed a dazed Daivari and hit their patented double elbow. Floyd spammed a few clotheslines and Sterling jumped in to cause a distraction. That won him the prize for dumbest move in the match as Floyd laid him out.

The Outrunners hit Total Recall on Daivari and scored the pinfall to make the crowd very happy.

The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) defeated The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)

Last week, the Dark Order took an L to the Premier Athletes due to interference and general douchebaggery from the Frat House. So it makes perfect sense that this week they aim to settle that score when they take on (checks notes)… The Infantry. Bravo and Dean are no slouches with the might of Shane Taylor Promotions at their backs, but this match seems somewhat randomly put together. Not that I’m complaining. 

Bravo and Reynolds started things off with some trash talk and face shoving with BRavo coming out the winner in both categories. Reynolds tried for an early pin, but Bravo kicked out and tagged in Dean, keeping Reynolds on the other side of the ring from Uno. When he finally tagged him in, Uno got a big cheer from the crowd.

From there, the Order were in control, giving Dean a taste of his own medicine by isolating him from his partner. Bravo pulled Reynolds to the outside and threw him into the steel staircase before popping back into the ring to double team Reynolds with Dean. Dean hit a huge clothesline on Reynolds, but Uno broke up the pin attempt by raking his back.

Uno jumped in for a one-man double team on Dean and Bravo, landing a double DDT on them. The Infantry fought back, but Reynolds evened the score and Uno landed a wheelbarrow German suplex. That brought out The Frat House in all their shirtless glory. They jumped up on the ring apron, distracting the Ref so that a low blow could be dealt to Uno. It broke both his Dark Orders and Bravo was able to pick up the pin and victory.

ROH Pure Title Match: Lee Moriarty (c) w/ Shane Taylor defeated AR Fox

AR Fox had a really great match against Kevin Knight back on Epsiode 108 of ROH on HonorClub. Even though that match went to a time limit draw, Fox was really impressive so I spoke to the ROH Board of DIrectors (who I assume are still a thing) and lined up this Main Event Pure Title Match against Moriarty. Most of that is not true, but Fox did look good against Knight and he and Moriarty are a great matchup. 

After a Code of Honor, the match started out with an extended feeling out process, including a classic test of strength thing that Moriarty won. He quickly got an armbar on Fox, forcing him to use his first rope break inside of the first minutes.

Fox fought back and was gaining momentum until his face ran into Moriarty’s foot. That didn’t stop Fox’s agility though as he utilized a slingshot-rope-assisted-russian-legsweep into a crossface. Moriarty used his first rope break to get out of it at 2:23. Immediately afterwards, Fox was issued his one warning for a closed fist as he punched Moriarty in the face.

Moriarty worked the arm of Fox, wrenching it into a kimura lock at 3:53 and Fox used a rope break to get out of it. Moriarty continued working the arm of Fox, trying to force Fox to use up his last rope break so he couldn’t get out of the next submission. Fox used the top rope to hit a huge stomp on Moriarty on the ring apron (the hardest part of the LCD TVs around the ring!).

Fox hit a swandive from the top rope, but Moriarty managed to kick out at two. Moriarty went right back to the arm and locked in another crossface. Fox scooted back, looking for that last rope break. he finally landed it at 6:24.

Moriarty, with two roper breaks remaining tried a suplex, but Fox countered sending him to the corner. Fox hit a pendulum destroyer in the corner and Moriarty was about to be pinned before he got his foot on the rope, saving himself with a rope break.

Fox tried a 450, but Moriarty dodged it as the “This is awesome” chants broke out. Moriarty wrapped fox up in a modified tarantula hold around the ropes and with no breaks left, Fox was forced to tap out, giving the win to Moriarty.

What a great match! Between the Tag division and the Pure title, ROH is a good time for those who like great wrestling.

Ring of Honor TV live results: Athena teams with Diamante, CMLL stars in action

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Reigning “forever” Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion Athena will team with Diamante as part of tonight’s ROH on HonorClub from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The show will also feature more CMLL stars in action as Atlantis Jr., Titan and Fuego take on Volador Jr., Rugido and Barbaro Cavernario in a trios bout while Dark Panther battles Okumura.

In the continuation of a feud dating back to February, ROH Tag Team Champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) will team with Willie Mack against MxM Collection (Mansoor & Madden) and Johnny TV. MxM recently stole the title belts and have been making them their own.

Premier Athletes (Arya Daivari & Tony Nese) will go heads-up against Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Alex Reynolds as both teams jockey for position for a future title shot.

Queen Aminata will look to rebound from her trilogy defeat to Julia Hart in AEW as she takes on Viva Van.

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The number 109 is a perfect triangular super-prime number and the number of stops in the pipe organ in Paris’ famed Notre-Dame Cathedral. It’s also the episode number for tonight’s Ring of Honor on Honorclub action!

-The show opened with ROH Women’s Champion Athena firing up her tag partner and seemingly new Minion, Diamante. Billie Starkz was there as well and Athena made it very clear that the MiT Program needed some new blood and that Starkz might not be around much longer.

Dark Panther defeated Okumura 

I’m so excited for this match, I’m going to skip the usual jabbering and give you a few fun facts about the participants:

Dark Panther: “Approximately 36 or 35 years old in 2025,” 860+ career matches with a 53% win rate, lost a barn-burner of a match to ROH World Television Champion Komander last week. 

Okomura: 52 years old, 2300+ career matches, 42% win rate. One-half of the current MLW Tag Team Champions. 

Now let’s fight!

Panther tried to fire up the crowd off the top, but Okomura came charging out of the corner after the bell, laying him out with a clothesline. Okomura, a CMLL veteran wrestled a Japanese style, which kept the match speed low and Panther, confused.

Panther changed the course of the match with a big dropkick and tossed Okomura to the outside before following him with a springboard splash from the top rope. Panther knows a thing or two about hitting ahrd and he was able to match Okomura’s strength, blow for blow. It was only when the match slowed down that Panther seemed vulnerable.

Panther dropped his straps as “fight forever” chants broke out. After two suicide dives onto Okomura on the outside, Panther allowed the crowd to goad him into a third which drove Okomura into the barricade. Back in the ring, Okomura turned the tables with an attempted leg hold submission, but Panther was able to roll him onto his shoulders and pick up a quick victory!

Six Man Tag Team Match: The Sons Of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) & Willie Mack defeated Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)

One third of the Six Man Tag Team Champions, Dustin Rhodes engages in this six-man match with his two-man Tag Team Champion partner Guevara and I assume the first guy they saw at catering this morning who turned out to be Willie Mack.  Johnny TV and The MxM Collection are natural partners and it was teased a few months ago that they’d be looking to join forces, but then TV had to deal with the LA fires and MxM had to deal with their emerging petty theft and belt-alteration business. Nice to see them back together now though. 

Mack and TV kicked things off making me yearn for the days of Lucha Underground (which I do pretty much daily). Mack can move like he’s 100lbs lighter than he is so he hand TV were able to have a really fun exchange before Guevara tagged in. TV blocked a big chop and set Guevera on his butt to tag in Mansoor. Mdden went with him for a double team, but Guevara took them both out with a moonsault.

Rhodes tagged in and he and Guevara delivered double uppercuts to Mansoor. Madden hit Rhodes from behind though, giving Mansoor an opening for another double team. Madden and Mansoor put Rhodes’ head in between their butts and knocked him back and forth before TV tagged in. Rhodes, now isolated took punishment from all three in the corner.

Rhodes hit a snap powerslam on Mansoor and hot tags were landed on both sides of the ring, bringing Guevara in to face TV. Mack jumped in and took out Mansoor and Madden, but fell victim to TV’s kicking feet. Rhodes hit a Texas Destroyer and set up Mansoor for some Shattered Dreams.

Madden them tried to clean house, but Mack stopped him. Mack hit a standing moonsault on Madden and Guevara landed a GTH on TV to get the pin and the victory for his team.

After the match, Mansoor and Madden knocked the Tag Champs out of the ring and beat up Mack. TV joined the fun with a Starship Pain and then pretended to pin Mack. Mansoor counted three and madden stole one of the title belts again.

Athena & Diamante defeated Jordan Blu & Mazzerati

Athena has been ROH Women’s Champion for a staggering 836 days as of this writing. For context, when Athena won the title, ChatGPT was not a thing. Also during her (ongoing) reign: “Twitter” Became “X,” Elton John completed an EGOT andThe New England Patriots have had three head coaches. Not bad for the “Forever Champ.” During that same period, her partner tonight, Diamante had roughly 58 matches and won 29 of them. That doesn’t answer the standard wrestling tag team question of “CAN THEY COEXIST?!?!” but it’s interesting nonetheless. As for their opponents, Blu was making her ROH debut and Mazzerati’s last ROH win came in 2019. Yes, 2019. 

Diamante started off against Mazzerati and then Blu. Every time she knocked down an opponent, she turned to Athena for approval and offered her the chance to come in and finish them off. Athena declined and instead shouted instructions from the corner. Mazzerati got in a little bit of offense, but Diamante easily deflected it. Diamante took on both women two-on-one before Athena tagged in.

Athena laid out Mazzerati with a big ol’ punch to the face and pinned her to get the victory without having to break a sweat thanks to Diamante.

-Next, Footage was shown from AEW Collision where ROH World Champion Chris Jericho taunted and enraged Bandito, setting up a title match between the two. Jericho cut a promo and declared that he wants Bandito’s mask, so their match will be Title For Mask at AEW Dynasty.

The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese) defeated The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)

The Premier Athletes and the Dark Order both share something in common: They are currently kind of lost in the shuffle in a red-hot ROH Tag Team Division. Both are entertaining in their own right, but seem to serve as stepping stones for other teams to move up a rung. Facing each other here kind of seems like putting a hat on a hat, but since both the Athletes and the Order know how to work a crowd, this match had the potential to be very, very fun. 

As the Premier Athletes did their schtick in the ring, The Frat House (Cole Karter, Griff Garrison, Preston Vance and Jakked Jameson) were shown watching from the crowd at ringside. Daivari went over and “cheers’ed” the Frat House who chanted “Dark Order Sucks!”

Nese and Daivari jumped Uno and Reynolds off the bell, but The Dark Order got the best of them with double running splashes in the corner. I mean, corners. Things settled down briefly after that, with Reynolds and Nese battling in the ring. Nese sent Reynolds to the outside where Daivari and Sterling stomped him.

Nese and Daivari tagged in and out, beating on Reynolds until he was finally able to battle back, but Nese took out Uno on the outside, so there was no one there to take the tag. The Frat House cheered loudly at ringside, leading duelling “Athletes Rule! Athletes Suck!” chants with the crowd.

Finally, Uno was able to tag in and began clearing house, hitting a double DDT on Nese and Daivari. Reynolds came back in for a Gory Special, but Nese broke up the pin. Daivari and Reynolds traded blows in the ring, with Reynolds sending Daivari to the outside and hitting both him and Nese with a dive.

Then, the Frat House threw a drink on Reynolds, hoping to cause a distraction. Reynolds didn’t fall for it though and tossed Nese at them as revenge. Back in the ring, Reynolds had Daivari pinned, but Sterling caused a distraction and the ref didn’t see it. Vance hopped the rail and knocked out Reynolds, allowing Daivari to get the pin and the stolen victory for the Premier Athletes. The Frat House then joined them in the ring, shaking hands with Sterling. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new supergroup?

-Up next, Renee Paquette talked to QT Marshall. Marshall threw a drink on Paul Walter Hauser at the AEW Revolution pre-show and Hauser, who has been sober for three years, was not impressed. He wants a match. Marshall said that Hauser is way overblowing it and doesn’t deserve a match until Hauser has the guts to ask him personally.

Queen Aminata defeated Viva Van

Still struggling to get her first ROH singles win, Van, fresh off a loss to La Catalina last week, seems to have drawn the short straw again and therefore has to take on her polar opposite in Aminata. Aminata has not lost in ROH since July of 2024 and in that process chalked up wins over Alysin Kaye, Lady Frost and Harley Cameron, just to name a few. Well, three, but you get it. 

Aminata, rocking her best Beyonce hair, exchanged wristlocks with Van until finally twisting her into an armbar. After getting out, Van ran the ropes and got Aminata into an armbar of her own. Aminata was able to get a leg on the ropes though and it was broken up.

Aminata then brought the strikes, hitting and kicking Van until she didn’t know which way was up. Aminata then threw her into the ropes, but Van bounced back with a spinning heel kick and half-crab submission hold.

The two then traded chops in the middle of the ring. Aminata came out on top and set up Van for a huge knee that knocked her through the ropes. Aminata dragged her back in and pinned Van for the victory.

-Backstage, the Premier Athletes cut a promo. Sterling assured everyone they are the best Tag Team in the industry and everyone knows it. They will be future Tag Team Champions because “Athletes Rule.” So there.

Atlantis Jr., Fuego & Titan defeated Barbaro Cavernario, Rugido & Volador Jr.

This week’s Crisis of Infinite Luchadores match features ROH mainstay Atlantis Jr, Titan and Fuego taking on Cavernario, Rudigo and Volador Jr. But you probably already knew that because you read the headline. Anyways, these Luchardore matches have been absolutely unreal and as someone who has only a passing familiarity with CMLL and the Luchadore scene, it’s been awesome seeing these performers every week. 

All six men started off in the ring. Superkicks were flying and when the dust settled it was Fuego and Cavernario in the ring. Cavernario bailed early and Volador jumped in against Titan. That was no fun, so Rugio came in to take on Titan, but Atlantis preferred it would be him, so he jumped in. Suddenly Cavernario was in the ring too, but Atlantis dispatched him and danced with Fuego.

Whew.

These luchadore matches are amazing, but sometimes so fast paced that these North American eyes can barely keep up!

Titan found himself alone in the ring facing a triple team while Fuego and Atlantis recovered on the outside. Volador and Rugido worked cohesively, but Cavernario landed the real hard hits on the prone Titan. Atlantis tried to save him, but inadvertently took his place in the three-on-one mayhem. Not to be left out, Fuego jumped in and met a similar fate.

Fuego, Atlantis and Titan all tagged in and out, but Cavernario, Rugido and Volador just stayed in the ring the whole time, triple teaming whoever tagged in. Why one team used tags and the others didn’t was beyond me, but that was their strategy and they stuck with it.

Cavernario tried to take Atlantis’ mask off with his teeth, but was unsuccessful. Atlantis hit a backbreaker on Cavernario and Fuego and Titan jumped in to handle Volador and Rugido. They were successful until Caverario took them both out. Atlantis then dispatched him and Fuego and Titan went for a double pin, that got a two-count.

Back and forth, back and forth, the match was still up for grabs with neither team able to get the high ground on the other. Titan and Volador ended up the legal men and traded blows in the middle of the ring. Titan hit a big hurricanrana then dove to the outside with Fuego taking his place. He took Volador to the outside and Atlantis and Cavernario battled in the ring. Atlantis hit a massive Mexican Destroyer on Cavernario followed by a frog splash to get the pin and the victory for his team!

That was amazing, incredible and exhausting! I need a nap, but a happy nap nonetheless thanks to great night of wrestling!

Ring of Honor TV live results: Mistico & Atlantis in CMLL trios action

Posted on by Jeff Moss

The stars of CMLL will once again be part of Ring of Honor on HonorClub.

Mistico will team with the legendary Atlantis and Esfinge to battle Gran Guerrero, Euforia and Rocky Romero in the night’s featured bout.

Ahead of his AEW International title eliminator bout against Ricochet Saturday, former ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata will take on Lee Johnson.

CMLL’s Dark Panther will go one-on-one with Aaron Solo while Blake Christian will look to run his singles winning streak to eight when he takes on indie star Titus Alexander.

In women’s action, Lady Frost and Leila Grey will do battle while The Frat House (Cole Karter & Preston Vance) will team with the Premier Athletes (Arya Daivari & Tony Nese) against Top Flight and the Gates of Agony.

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Sing along with me, won’t you?

Ring-Of-Honor (clap clap, clap clap clap)

One-Oh-Seven (clap clap, clap clap clap)

Is-On-The-Air (clap clap, clap clap clap)

Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) defeated Alpha Zo & CSJ

… and it kicked off in style with the return of Spanish Announce Project! In recent months, SAP have been, y’know, chillin.’ Serpentico and Angelico were last seen teaming to pick up a win way back in November of 2024. Angelico has been out of action with injury, but Serpentico has been keeping the porch lights on, picking up wins over the likes of Brandon Cutler, and losses to the likes of Ricochet. They made their return against Zo (a former Hoodslam INTERGALACTIC Tag Team Champion) and the current IZW Heavyweight (but Earthly) Champion, CJS (aka Can’t Stop Jamaal). 

Angelico kicked things off against Zo and he looked like he hadn’t missed a step while he was off. The taller Angelico was able to take whatever the beefier Zo threw at him and shake it off with style. He even showed an uncharacteristic aggressive streak, grabbing dreadlocks of Zo to keep him in an arm hold.

Serpentico tagged in for a double team or two (as well as some smoooooth dancing) an d clearly had the veteran’s advantage over Zo. Serpentico’s agility lets him move fast, but stop on a dime. He controlled the pace of the match until Zo caught him with a backbreaker.

Zo tagged in CSJ and of the two, Zo was the more impressive talent. CSJ was a competent brawler, and isolated Serpentico early on, but did not have the speed of his partner to keep up with the luchadores. Serpentico hit a big double DDT and got a hot tag to Angelico who cleared the ring with ease.

Angelico caught Zo with a spinning heel kick, but CSJ broke up the pin. CSJ and Zo tried to double team, but Angelico was able to get the grapevine on CSJ causing him to tap out and give SAP the win in their big return. I’d love to see these guys take on Rhodes and Guevara for the titles.

-ROH World Champion Chris Jericho joined us from the past at Revolution and cut a promo about his “match” with Gravity and ongoing feud with Bandito. This was a darker Jericho. During that match he almost assaulted Gravity’s mother and sister, and instead of his usual schtick, Jericho sat in a chair and talked with gravitas, calling Bandito out. There was no cheery “thanks guys!” so maybe this is a bit of a turn for Jericho.

Blake Christian defeated Titus Alexander

Christian has been mean, belligerent, awful and really, really good at wrestling for months now. His newfound attitude has racked up a string of wins, but hasn’t gotten him closer to any kind of ROH gold. Alexander has yet to pick up a win in ROH, but to be fair this is only his second bout in the promotion. His finisher is the “Big Ugly” which I personally don’t get because he’s a handsome man. 

Christian had a spiffy new haircut and lured Alexander into some big stomps off the top. What followed was a clinic in how to beat someone up at great speed. Christian flew around the ring, keeping Alexander confused and off his feet.

Eventually though, Alexander got a really stiff shot in that sent Christian to the outside. He was waiting for Alexander though and sent him head first into the barricades. Christian threw Alexander back into the ring and began working him over, stomping his arm and raking his eyes.

Alexander for his part seemed like he was able to keep up with Christian in terms of speed and agility. The problem was, Christian wasn’t giving him enough time to get set, so Alexander was always on defence, trying to recover from all kinds of kicks and holds.

Christian, a killer heel in the traditional style, got under the crowd’s skin so much they were fully, fully behind Alexander, erupting in cheers whenever he managed to get some momentum. Christian turned the tables though and hit a modified curb stomp into Vanilla Choke Zero, forcing a submission to get the win under a chorus of boos.

Leila Grey defeated Lady Frost

Before the match, a vignette for Grey aired, seemingly revealing her new “Baddie” persona. Grey has put together a decent 4-2 record in ROH since last fall. Her only singles losses coming at the hands (and feet and knees and elbows, etc) of ROH Wormen’s World Champion Athena in a Proving Ground Match, and ROH Women’s TV Champion Red Velvet. Frost, on the other hand, has not won a televised singles match in ROH since July of 2024. She is currently on a 7-match losing streak, but hey, maybe this will be different?

Frost was looking absolutely jacked as she entered the ring, but Grey was able to keep up with her, trading strength for control in the way of a very long headlock. Grey put Frost in a backslide for a 2-count, and that seemed to empower Grey who took it to her in the corner.

Frost for her part showed what she always shows: That she’s a very very good wrestler who tends to make a single mistake that her opponents can capitalize on. It’s not so much that she loses, as mich as she just doesn’t win.

Grey put a knee into Frost’s face and locked in a Dragon Sleeper. Frost struggled for the ropes, but Grey didn’t let up. Frost sent Grey to the mat with a backdrop, and Grey caught her in a rollup to get the pin and continue Frost’s impressive losing streak.

Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) defeated The Frat House (Cole Karter & Preston Vance) & The Premier Athletes (Ari Daivari & Tony Nese) (w/Jacked Jameson & Mark Sterling)

This week’s Traditional ROH “Everybody Into the Pool” match comes to us with two tag team duos of… duos. Gates of Agony recently ate up and spat out challengers such as Terry Yaki and Bad Dude Tito, but Top Flight have been grounded as of late with their Flight Attendant (are we still calling her that?) Leila Grey picking up more wins than they have, one as recently as this show. On the other side The Frat House and Premier Athletes share a certain amount of douchebaggery between the four of them. They teamed together in Feb in a 12-man match, but lost, so perhaps this scaled-down version of that teaming will yield better results. 

The Frat House have a bunch of new gear with their logos prominently displayed on their crotches. For that alone, they deserve what they got in this match. Gates of Agony were met with a huge ovation and went straight for the Frat House, beating up Vance and Karter on the outside. In the Ring, Top Flight took it to the Athletes and somewhere in there a bell rang and the match was on.

Nese and Dante battled in the ring with the dust had settled and it was a great matchup. Nese has always been excellent in the ring with both strength and speed. Dante sent him to the corner though which brought in Karter to face off against Kaun who flattened him.

It was hard to keep track of who was legal because people kept jumping in and out and there were multiple assaults on the outside by Sterling and Jameson. Toa grabbed a chair though and ran them off while Daivari and Darius fought in the ring.

No matter how much momentum the Frat-thletes got though, all it took was 10 seconds in the ring with either Liona or Kaun and the momentum would shift back to Top Gates. Kaun sent Karter over the top rope and it looked like he smashed his knee on the ring apron on the way down (the hardest part of the ring!). Kaun then used Dante as a weapon, throwing him out of the ring onto all four members of the Frat-thletes, much to the crowd’s delight.

Jameson tried to cause a distraction for Vance, but ended up distracting Vance himself. That let the Gates of Agony hit, well, the Gates of Agony and Liona sat down squarely on Vance’s chest for the win.

Honestly, the tag scene in ROH is HOT right now and there are about half a dozen teams that could line up for a shot at the titles.

Dark Panther defeated Aaron Solo

The great CMLL/ROH: Crisis of Infinite Luchadores crossover continues with Dark Panther taking on workhorse Aaron Solo. Panther has a TV title match next week and was in a Panther, Panther, Panther match last week which his team won (probably because of all the panthers) and Solo lost to Adam Page on Dynamite two weeks ago in :54 seconds. So he’s got that going for him. 

ROH TV Champion Komander was at ringside to scout Panther for their match next week and was probably a little nervous watching Panther absolutely manhandle Solo. Solo was not ready for Panther’s speed and ended up eating a big chunk of the ring apron (the most delicious part of the ring!)

Solo had a one high spot (literally) with a double stomp off the top rope that seemed to slow Panther down. Panther wasn’t out though, responding with a bit tilt-o-whirl backbreacker. The two traded chops after that, which was not a great decision on Solo’s part, given he was giving up about 50lbs to Panther.

Panther caught him with a really vicious armbar until the ref yelled at him in Spanish to break the hold. The crowd was on Panther’s side as he set Solo up for a Suicide Dive on the outside and throwing him into the barricade in front of Komander before tossing him back in the ring.

Panther hit a big missile dropkick from the top rope and followed it up with another one for good measure. That put Solo away, giving Panther the win and impressing Komander, who he faces next week for the ROH TV Title.

After the match, Panther unwrapped his wrist tape and threw it at Komander who hopped the rail. The Ref stepped in though and kept the two separated.

Katsuyori Shibata defeated Lee Johnson

Shibata makes his return to ROH here against the “Lee” in LEEJ, Lee Johnson. Shibata was last seen back in January defeating Shane Taylor and has since made a play for the AEW International Title then held by Konosuke Takeshita, but came up empty. Johnson has been hanging out with EJ Nduka and is fresh off a rest after losing to ROH World Television Champion Komander about a month ago. 

This was a first-time matchup for these two and a test of strength was in order off the top. I never know who actually wins those things, so we’ll say it was Shibata because Johnson ended up in a headlock. Shibata began working Johnson’s right arm as the two went through a really technical series, ending up with Johnson in a Figure Four.

Johnson managed to get free but Shibata began chopping him in the corner. At this point, Johnson was limping from the figure four, had a dangling arm and a swollen chest. He rolled out of the ring and Shibata followed, but Johnson was able to get the advantage and throw him into the barricades.

Back in the ring, Johnson talked a lot of trash and even went for Shibata’s eye, nearly causing a DQ. Switching to running chops, Johnson woke the beast in Shibata who began no-selling them and getting right into Johnson’s face before throwing a dozen chops of his own, knocking Johnson silly.

Johnson fought back though, saying that Shibata had “nothing” and then hit a really scary looking driver on Shibata’s head. Shibata was ok though and popped up to lick in an Iron Claw followe dbut a back suplex and big kick to the jaw. That was it for Johnson and Shibata got the pin.

-Lexy Nair interviewed the Frat House in the back. Jameson arrived with red solo cups allegedly containing beers and they chugged them. Vance declared that “win or lose, they booze!” That conjured 2/3rds of the Dark Order. Evil Uno confronted Vance and told him to grow up. Life is about more than partying. Vance thew his solo cup at Alex Reynolds and Uno assured him that the Frat House would get theirs.

Atlantis, Esfinge & Mistico defeated Euforia, Rocky Romero & Valiente

The Main Event of the night featured another CMLL/ROH: Crisis of Infinite Luchadores crossover match, but, like, with more of them. Atlantis (A legend, who once held the NWA Light Heavyweight Championship for a staggering 1353 days) teams with current Mexican National Light Heavyweight Champion, Esfinge and Mistico who is the current MLW Middleweight Champion. Across the ring is 1/3rd of the CMLL Trios Champions, Euforia and Valienta who held that very same title with a few different teammates for over 1500 collective days. Also, Rocky Romero was there. 

This match was under Luchadore Rules, which meant that if someone rolled out under the bottom rope, it counted as a tag and a new team member could jump in. Euforia, taking a break form playing drums for Carlos Santana, started it off against Mistico, with a helping hand from Romero.

To try and keep up with who was legal when was a fools errand, but the match was full of amazing spots. Euforia hit a big splash from the top rope on Atlantis. Romero and Valiente double teamed Mistico until he hit a headscissor on Euforia. Esfinge and Valiente had a spirited exchange until Romero jumped in and Esfinge cleared the ring of them both.

Esfinge tagged in Atlantis to the crowd’s joy but Euforia tooke their breath away by knocking him silly. Atlantis fought back and landed a big backbreaker on Euforia, then dished out a couple to his teammates as well. Mistico and Valiente faced off next, with the former facing a lot of boos from the crowd.

A twisting wristlock takedown sent Valiente to the ouside and brought in Euforia. Mistico dispatched him the same way and then catapulted onto Euforia over the top rope on the outside. From there all six men brawled, with Esfinge left legal against…. one of the other guys. Everyone was simply choosing the opposing luchadore nearest to them and fighting them. In the ring, Mistico and Euforia battled until Mistico caught Euforia with an armbar, forcing the lucha legend to tap out.

Another great night of wrestling in ROH!

Ring of Honor TV live results: Athena vs. La Catalina Women’s title defense

Posted on by Josiah MacDonald

The Ring of Honor Women’s World title will be on the line as part of ROH on HonorClub as Athena will defend against CMLL’s La Catalina.

After competing on AEW Dynamite, former AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa will return to the red and black brand for only the second time this year.

In a CMLL trios showcase, Blue Panther will team with his sons Blue Panther Jr. and Dark Panther against Gran Guerrero, Euforia and Valiente.

Former ROH Women’s TV Champion Billie Starkz will be in action as will be reigning ROH Tag Team Champions The Sons of Texas (Sammy Guevara & Dustin Rhodes).

Two high-flying brothers — Bandido & Gravity — will battle The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) while the Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) will take on Bad Dude Tito & Che Cabrera.

Satnam Singh & Jay Lethal will be in tag team action in addition to The Beast Mortos.

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Chris Jericho was backstage with Renee Pacquette at Dynamite, talking to Big Bill and Bryan Keith about their losses to Bandido and Will Hobbs. Jericho talked about how there was huge opportunities to be main event players, and they were not living out to the potential and expectations that Jerich has for them. Keith and Bill walked away looking focused.

ROH Women’s World Champion Athena defeated La Catalina

Really solid opening match for ROH this week, with Athena and Catalina both looking good. Athena continues to be one of the best parts of these shows, and somehow still gets heat as a heel despite being their top champion for so long.

Catalina and Athena kept the Code of Honor, but it didn’t take long before Athena started mocking Catalina. Catalina won a test of strength with Catalina, but it was countered into a cradle. Catalina hit a dropkick after some misdirection, and hit a shotgun dropkick to send Athena to the floor. Athena hit a swinging uranage on the floor on Catalina and ordered Aubrey Edwards to check on Catalina.

 Catalina countered a handspring from Athena with a Basaiku knee and another dropkick. Catalina hit an electric chair drop for a 2-count. Catalina went for an inside cloverleaf, and attempted to get Athena to submit, but Athena got to the ropes and fought out. Athena blocked a German suplex and hit a popup powerbomb, held on, and hit another powerbomb on Catalina for a 2-count. Athena went for a modified gogoplata, but Catalina leaned forward and got a 2-count. Athena transitioned into a LaBell lock, but Catalina countered out and hit a Pedigree for a 2-count. Athena hit a hard elbow and went to the top rope to hit the O-Face for the pinfall.

–MXM was backstage with their own customized ROH World Tag Team Championship that they stole from Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara with custom faceplates with their faces on them. The claimed they did not lose their title in Australia because Australia isn’t real.

Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh (w/ Sonjay Dutt) defeated McCallion & Slade

Lethal started the match with McCallion, but Slade blind tagged in and they started getting heat on Lethal early on. Lethal flipped out of a back suplex attempt and rolled towards Singh and paused, smiled, and as the fans cheered for him to tag in Singh, the two heels tried to shush the audience, which was hilarious. The audience cheered, and Singh tagged in and massacred McCallion, who lost his mask as Singh repeatedly hit short chokeslams on him. Singh then chokeslammed both men, body slammed Slade on McCallion, and pinned them both. That was fun.

Billie Starks defeated Mylo

Starks was quite violent in this match, showing that Athena has had more of an effect on her than she would like to admit as she continues to be one of Athena’s minions. Mylo’s offence in this match did not look that great, but that didn’t stop Starks from looking good with her senton bomb finish.

–A hype video aired for The Outrunners as they hawked Outrunner merch. It was great.

The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) defeated Jon Cruz & Olumide

Guevara started the match with Olumide, sending him from the ring quickly to also throw Cruz across the ring. Dustin Rhodes tagged in and ate a punch from Cruz, which his funny given their size difference. Cruz ate a flying forearm from Rhodes, and Guevara hit a standing moonsault for a 2-count. Guevara hit a stalling suplex on Cruz, but Cruz raked the eyes of Guevara and tagged out to Olumide. Rhodes tagged in and took control, before setting up Guevara for a senton bomb for the pinfall.

–MXM Collection came out and attacked The Sons of Texas from behind, and attempted to double team Guevara by hitting him with the tag title, but Mansoor accidentally hit Mason Madden. Guevara setup Mansoor in the corner, superkicked Mansoor, and let Rhodes hit the shattered dreams. Guevara took back his tag title and ripped the stickers off the belt as Mansoor & Madden were infuriated.

The Beast Mortos defeated Sonico

Mortos swarmed Sonico fast, throwing him all over the ring. Mortos hit a popup Samoan Drop before spiking Sonico on his head and pinning him. There is nothing like a great squash match, and this was one of them.

Thunder Rosa defeated Brittnie Brooks

Rosa kept this match pretty simple, hitting a lariat and bodyslam after a few opening moves, but Brooks managed to hit a suplex after blocking one from Rosa. Rosa ducked a chop and hit a hard one of her own on Brooks, but Brooks did a corner charge, trash talked, and ate a dropkick for it. Rose hit a hip attack in the ropes and then a Northern Lights suplex for a 2-count. Rosa countered a reverse DDT with a package bomb for the win.

Gravity & Bandido defeated The Infantry (Cpt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo)

Dean started the match exchanging holds with Gravity, who lured Dean in with his spacewalk, and Dean was obviously flustered. Gravity tagged out to Bandido, who got a nice reaction from the audience that treated him like a star. Bandido hit a dropkick on Bravo and tagged back out to Gravity. Dean blind tagged in, leading to Bravo being able to clip the knee of Gravity and smash his knee against the ring post.

The Infantry kept up their attack for a few minutes, relentlessly attacking the knee of Gravity. Dean hit a Tiger Bomb and then locked on a half crab. Gravity ducked under a clothesline from Bravo and rolled into a tag. Bandido gorilla pressed Dean and tossed him into Bravo, leading to both Gravity and Bandido hitting stereo tope suicidia dives. Bandido popped up Gravity into the air, and he landed with a splash on Bravo for a 2-count that Dean broke up.

Dean and Bravo hit a double team uranage but Gravity broke up the pinfall attempt. Bravo kicked the knee of Gravity, but Bandido shoved Gravity out of the way and hit a wacky knee to Bravo. Instead of hitting the 21-Plex on Bravo, Bandido hit a tope con giro onto Dean while Gravity hit the 21-plex instead for the win.

–Big Bill and Bryan Keith ran out and attacked Gravity and Bandido. Chris Jericho slowly made his way down to the ring and hit Gravity with the ROH World Championship ad Big Bill forced Bandido to look on. Jericho then nailed Bandido with the title as the crowd booed. Simple, effective angle, with Bill and Keith getting a measure of revenge on Bandido, while Jericho continues his campaign against Bandido.

–Athena was backstage with her Minions in Training, asking them to praise her, while Diamante shoved the minions away, claiming that she was minion #1 now.

The Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) defeated Bad Dude Tito & Che Cabrera

The audience was really into Toa Liona in this match as he basically massacred both men at the same time. I am not a fan of seeing Bad Dude Tito in a bit of a squash, but I can’t deny that I really enjoyed this match. Seeing a big guy like Liona crush his opponents was fantastic. Tito, thankfully, did not eat a pin here , with Cabrera taking Open the Gates and being pinned by Liona.

Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., & Dark Panther defeated Gran Guerrero, Euforia, & Valiente

This was a ton of fun. It was very much so a standard lucha tag, but since we see a true lucha style tag so rarely, this was delightful.

Blue Panther took his time going around to the front row, shaking hands and high fiving fans. A true babyface. This marked Blue Panther’s first time appearing in ROH, which is very cool. Blue Panther Jr. started with Valiente, with both men exchanging chops. Since the match was lucha rules, as soon a someone goes outside, a partner comes in. Blue Panther and Dark Panther hit a double flying headbutt on Valiente, and the Panther team hitting a wishbone split and a headbutt on Gran Guerrero.

Euforia was able to hit a powerbomb after an assist by Gran Guerrero and Valiente. Guerrero raised the roof and hit a basement slide dropkick that sent Blue Panther Jr. crashing to the mats on the floor hard. The fans started chanting at the heels, calling them dogs in Spanish, and they were very upset, despite their cheating and triple teaming Blue Panther causing it.

Gran Guerrero chopped Blue Panther as Euforia and Valiente held him, and he fired up to attack Guerrero, but ended up getting triple teamed. Eventually, Panther managed to escape and got a hot tag to Blue Panther Jr. and he ran wild. Blue Panther hit a flipping senton off the apron onto Valiente, while the others hit dives to the other opponents. Blue Panther hit a hurricanrana off the apron onto Euforia, which was impressive given his age. Dark Panther hit a powerbomb on Valiente for a 2-count. After a tope sucidia by Dark Panther, Blue Panther cradled Euforia for the win.

Ring of Honor TV spoilers from Oakland: Mistico returns

Posted on by Jim Valley

The following are spoilers for future editions of Ring of Honor TV, taped before and after Saturday’s AEW Collision in Oakland, California:

  • Billie Starkz defeated Mylo
  • Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) defeated Alpha Zo & CSJ
  • Blake Christian defeated Titus Alexander. For the first several minutes, Christian dominated Alexander, who you may have seen in NOAH, until Alexander hit a springboard cutter. Alexander hit a dive outside and then a shining wizard on Christian. Later, Christian rolled through a belly to back suplex, hit a curb stomp, and then slapped on the Vanilla Choke Zero for the win.
  • ROH Tag Team Champions Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) defeated Jon Cruz and Olumide. MxM Collection attacked the champions and took their belts until Rhodes and Guevara turned the tables with a superkick/Shattered Dreams to get their belts back.
  • Dark Panther defeated Aaron Solo. ROH Men’s TV Champion Komander and Alex Abrahantes watched from ringside. Komander and Panther had a face off with a little physicality before Aubrey Edwards intervened.
  • Katsuyori Shibata defeated Lee Johnson
  • Leyia Grey defeated Lady Frost
  • Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) and The Gates of Agony (Toa Leona & Bishop Kaun) defeated Premier Athletes (Arya Daivari & Tony Nese) and The Frat House (Cole Karter & Preston Vance)
  • Gravity defeated Griff Garrison
  • Mistico, Atlantis & Esfinge defeated Rocky Romero, Valiente & Euforia. This was action packed. Heat on the technicos. Big monkey flips on the rudos by Esfinge. Almost as high as a backdrop. Mistico paired off against Valiente. Good stuff. Mistico spring board outside onto Euphoria. Dives outside by Atlantis and Esfinge. Mistico locked La Mistica on Euforia for the submission.

Ring of Honor TV live results: CMLL stars in action

Posted on by Jeff Moss

Tonight’s Ring of Honor on HonorClub will be another showcase for CMLL stars with a pair of trios bouts in addition to two singles matches.

Mexican legend Atlantis will team with Esfinge & Fuego against Gran Guerrero, Euforia & Rocky Romero. It’s the first ROH action for Atlantis since a June 2018 challenge for the ROH Six-Man titles.

In another, former ROH Men’s TV Champion Atlantis Jr. will join Templario and Mascara Dorada against Magnus, Soberano and Volador Jr.

Dark Panther will face the returning Gravity who hasn’t been in ROH since February 2024 while La Catalina will prepare for her impending challenge of ROH Women’s World Champion Athena with a clash against Lady Frost.

Blake Christian will seek to extend his win streak to seven as he challenges Fuego Del Sol.

The announced lineup is rounded out by The Infantry in tag team action and The Beast Mortos in singles action.

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Episode 105 of ROH on Honorclub is here to continue Episode 104’s spotlighting of CMLL’s legendary legion of luchadores with a pair of big time six-man matches! Names like Atlantis, Fuego, Atlantis Jr, Fuego Del Sol and Dark Panther are all in action tonight!

Atlantis, Esfinge & Fuego defeated Euforia, Gran Guerrero & Rocky Romero

Atlantis is 62 years old. That’s it. That’s all you need to know. Joining him are Esfinge, the  CMLL Mexican National Light Heavyweight Champion and CMLL mainstay Fuego. They’ll be taking on Rocky Romero, who ROH fans may remember from another episode of ROH that he was undoubtedly on. He’s teamed with his CMLL pals Euforia who at 50 is not the oldest person in the match and current CMLL World Heavyweight Champion Gran Guerrero (sadly no relation to Eddie). 

Atlantis and Guererro kicked things off with Guererro feigning respect for Atlantis, then sucker punching him. Fuego and Romero then took a turn with Fuego sending his head into the mat with a big headscissor. That brought in Euforia for a moment before Gran found his way back in.

I should mention, this match was being contested under Luchadore Rules, which meant that if a wrestler exited the ring under the bottom rope, one of his teammates could enter just like being tagged.

Back in the match, Romero and Esfinge flew around the ring, with Romero taking the brunt of the punishment. Euforia came in for a double team with Gran, flattening Romero. Fuego jumped in though and the triple team was on. Guererro landed a big package tiger driver on Fuego, bringing Atlantis back into the fray.

The triple team contiuned as Guererro, Euforia and Romeo all took turns wailing on the legend. The ref managed to shoo two of them out, leaving Romero and Atlantis. Romero tried to remove Atlantis’ mask, but Euforia got in before he could. Atlantis went up top and hit a great crossbody. He then spammed tilt-o-whirl backbreakers, a move attributed to Atlantis.

Esfinge ended up in the ring with Romero and Esfinge manged to get him in a bridged pin that led to a three count. Great opener!!

La Catalina defeated Lady Frost

The ladies of CMLL join the fray next as La Catalina faced off against Lady Frost Along with Catalina’s mexican escapades, she also appeared in WWE’s NXT in a Women’s World Title #1 Contender’s Battle Royale in 2020, where she was eliminated by Shayna Baszler. Catalina also has an upcoming shot at Athena’s ROH Women’s World Title. Frost has been splitting her time between AEW and ROH all while holding the WrestlePro Women’s Championship. Her last ROH match was a loss to Taya Valkyrie in January. 

The two wrestlers were fairly evenly matched in terms of size and speed. They locked up off the top and Catalina managed to work Frost into an early pin attempt. Catalina focused on the leg, trying to keep Frost off her feet. Frost met her head on though and a speedy exchange followed.

Catalina controlled the pace of the match, putting Frost on her back, then flipping her into various submission moves. Perhaps it was the vigour of youth or the excitement of the evening, but Catalina tended to put on a submission move, but if Frost didn’t submit right away, Catalina moved on to another one. She might want to give a bit more time in the future.

Frost battled back and caught Catalina with a lariat off the ropes. Frost sent her too the corner, but was spending a little too much time playing to the crowd. She hit a Snowball Fight, but only got a two count. A slugfest broke out as the two traded blows against the ropes until Catalina inserted her knee in Frosts face.

Frost planted Catalina with a spinning backdrop, but it was just another two count. Frost went up top and Catalina caught her midair for a quick pin attempt. It was a two-count though as both women began to show signs of fatigue. Frost charged Catalina in the the corner, but Catalina dodged and nailed her with an electric chair.

Catalina went up top for a big splash and that was the end for Frost. 1,2,3 and Catalina picks up the win and the momentum heading into her match against ROH Women’s Champion Athena.

The Beast Mortos defeated Adam Priest

Mortos hasn’t been on ROH since the landmark 100th episode, when he ate up and spat out the surprisingly impressive Lord Crewe. Tonight though, he takes on a technical specialist in Priest, so this was a definite mixing of styles.

Priest tried to run around Mortos and pepper him with chops. Unfortunately Mortos does not feel pain like a regular human so he was able to turn the momentum with the extremely technical move called “punch him in the face very hard.”

Mortos tried a chokelsam, but Priest wiggled free and took out Mortos’ leg. Priest has scouted Mortos via a match with him on Collision, so he knew taking him off his feet would be key. Mortos, however, is unkillable by conventional means, so he rose up and hit a massive samoan drop on Priest, gaining control.

Mortos grabbed priest and executed a tilt-o-whirl back breaker into a torture rack followed by a piledriver that put Priest down for good, giving The Beast the win.

The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) w/Shane Taylor defeated Jimmy Wild & Rosario Grillo

The last time we saw Bravo and Dean on ROH was back in December in a wild 8-man tag match, teamed with Shane Taylor and Lee Moriarty. Since joining up with Shane Taylor Promotions, the Infantry have looked great, leaning into a more aggressive style. It still hasn’t translated into championship gold though, which I’m sure was on their minds as they checked out the opposition. Wild got beat up by Toa Liona last April in ROH, while Grillo is no stranger, having taken on the Outrunners with Jon Cruz on episode 100.

Dean and Grillo kicked things off, with Dean immediately sending Grillo to the Infantry corner for a double team. Off of that, Wild tagged in and Dean dragged him to the outside and Bravo delivered a huge axehandle onto him on the ring apron (the hardest part of the ring).

Bravo and Wild were up next and history repeated itself as Wild was sent to the corner for Bravo to wrench on behind the refs back. Bravo tagged in and was about the get the pin on Wild, but pulled him up after two for some more punishment instead.

Wild tried for a hit tag, but the Infantry cut him off. Wild actually executed a double DDT on Bravo and Dean, but just couldn’t get that tag as Bravo pulled Grillo off the apron and onto the floor. Bravo and Dean took Wild to Boot Camp and then did a double curb stomp. Dean then pinned Wild’s lifeless body as a matter of protocol.

Blake Christian defeated Fuego Del Sol 

Fuego Del Sol (Not to be confused with his fellow Fuego; Fuego) has been hanging around ROH for the last year or so with mixed results. He’s lost a few singles matches, won a few trios matches and generally been a stalwart workhorse for ROH. Christian, leaning into a grumpy, bully persona, has not lost a match in ROH since Final Battle 2024 back in, well, 2024. That puts him on a 5-match win streak and he’s mad as hell about it.

Christian attacked Del Sol before the bell as Del Sol was soaking up the crowds adulation. Christian worked him over on the outside, stepping on his head against the barricade. Del Sol dodged a flip from Christian and threw him back in the ring. Christian responded with a hige knee to the face and stood on Del Sol’s head again.

Del Sol kept trying to gain the upper hand, but Christian had an answer for him every step of the way. They both matched up on big speed, but Christian was in control through most of the match, including trying to tear of Del Sol’s luchadore mask. Twice.

Christian tapped his wrist like a watch as if to say “time to end this” but Del Sol fought back before Christian could do much damage. He caught Christian with a big back elbow and double stomp to the back of the head. He tried an around the world DDT, but Christian fought back.

Del Sol went up top to end it, but Christian kipped-up and knocked him off the turnbuckle. Christial climbed up and hit a C$ from the top rope before locking in Vanilla Choke Zero. Del Sol was forced to tap out, giving Christian his sixth win.

-Backstage, ROH Women’s Champion Athena cut a promo on La Catalina. Athena is tired of “bi*ches” coming into her show trying to take her title. So when they meet next week, Athena will not be nice to Catalina. Her words, not mine.

Dark Panther defeated Gravity

Last week, Panther teamed up with Fuego and Sammy Guevara in a losing effort in the six-man main event. Now he’s looking to audition for Wicked Part 2 by defying gravity. Wait, hold on, no I was incorrect, Panther is facing off against Gravity, a Bandito-traind Luchadore who’s a double champion, currently holding the Loko Championship and the Lucha Libre Elite Welterweight Championship. The ROH World TV Champion, Komander, watched from the crowd as he and Panther have a match for the title coming up.

Like The Beast Mortos, Panther’s hugeness set him apart from most Luchadores. Gravity tried his best to get him off his feet in the opening exchange, but no dice. Panther went low and put Gravity in an ankle lock. Panther locked Gravity in a standing surfboard, but Gravity wriggled free.

Panther slowed things down with a big lariat, keeping Gravity off his feet. Panther hit a rewind (kind of a double 619) which he shouldn’t have been able to do given his size (physics!). From there, he and Gravity exchanged forearms until Gravity executed a German Suplex.

Gravity tried to throw a lariat, but Panther caught his arm and put on an armlock, forcing Gravity to scramble to the ropes. Panther sent him to the outside and dove through the ropes, twice, once without his elbowpad. Panther went to the second rope for an elbow, but Gravity dodged it. Panther slipped by Gravity’s next move and hit a Knockout blow, getting the pin and the win.

Atlantis Jr., Mascara Dorada & Templario defeated Magnus, Soberano Jr. & Volador Jr.

Ok, so stay with me here as I try to get the 3-6 degrees of luchadore info laid out:

  • Former ROH World TV Champion and current CMLL World Historic Light Heavyweight Champion Atlantis Jr (and yes, Atlantis is his father) faces off against one of his former CMLL World Trios Championship teammates Volador Jr. 
  • Volador, held the CMLL World Historic Welterweight Championship three times for a staggering 3167 day collective Reign. 
  • On the other side of the ring from him is the CURRENT World Historic Welterweight Championship, Mascara Dorada. Dorada most recently defeated Soberano Jr as part of a two-out-of-three falls six-man match two weeks ago. 
  • Soberano held the Mexican National Welterweight Championship for 1664 days before vacating the title and the “El” part of his name. 
  • Last year, Soberano teamed with current Mexican National Tag Team Champion Magnus in a series of tag matches in CMLL. 
  • Magnus, amongst other things, has faced off against Templario, the current CMLL World Middleweight Champion, in best-2-out-of-3-falls six-man matches roughly every 4-6  months since 2016. 

Whew.

Kicking things off with Magnus and Templario, this match was on fire from the start. Soberano followed Mangus in after Templario threw him out of the ring. Atlantis, Templario and Dorada hit a triple dive through the ropes to take out the otheer team.

Back in the ring, Magnus and Dorada went back and forth, with Volador jumping in and Dorada taking care of them both. From here, it was almost impossible to know who was legal in the match. a Lucha-Brawl broke out and when the dist settled Magnus and Templario were in the ring. Dorada tagged in, and the triple-team shifted to Dorada taking a beating from Soberano and Co.

Volador and Magnus hit a great double team move and then the Ref decided to make himself known byt forgetting that you can slide under the ropes to initiate a tag. That led to another Lucha-Brawl and Atlantis found himself in the ring alone against the opposing team. Volador tried for a pin, but only a two-count.

The trio kept Atlantis isolated and twisted his wrist and hand so it seemed like he was giving the finger to the crowd. They triple-kicked him and Atlantis rolled out allowing Templario to take his place in the 3-on-1 beating. Dorada found his way in and took his turn getting triple teamed. The ref was ok with all of this.

Actually he tried hard to keep control, but it was a fool’s effort. Atlantis managed to find an in and tookd down all three, ending with big tilt-o-whirl backbreakers on Magnus and Soberano. Volador was the legal man as the ring cleared and Atlantis tried for a pin, only getting a two-count.

Templario tagged in to take on a clearly dazed Volador. Templario tried to hit a powerbomb off the top rope, but Volador reversed it into a headscissor. That brought in Soberano who kicked Templario very, very lowly in the stomach. Templario paid him back with a massive pop-up blue thunder bomb.

Magnus and Atlantis faced off as the “this is awesome” chants rained down in Texas. Quick tags and Dorada (now the legal man) hit Volador with an inside out run. Atlantis hit a huge frog splash on the legal (maybe) man Magnus and managed to get a pin and the victory for his team.

What a fun show! More Luchadores please!

Ring of Honor TV live results: CMLL trios showcase

Posted on by Jeff Moss

Tonight’s Ring of Honor on HonorClub will be headlined by a CMLL trios showcase in addition to a men’s TV title match.

ROH Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara will team with Dark Panther & Fuego against Hechicero, Soberano Jr. and Barbaro Cavernario in that trios bout.

Men’s TV Champion Komander will be in search of his fourth successful title defense as he faces Lee Johnson who recently took the champion to a time limit draw to earn the shot.

Reigning AEW Trios Champion and former ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta will face the returning Fuego Del Sol who makes his first appearance for the promotion since last August.

Abadon returns to ROH for the first time since last November when she faces Rachael Ellering who is on a three-match losing streak.

Former women’s TV Champion Billie Starkz will be in action for the first time in more than a month as will the Gates of Agony.

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With a title match, a 12-man match and so, so many luchadores, ROH on Honorclub episode 104 promised an action-packed night of action packed into an action-packed episode!

Wheeler Yuta defeated Fuego Del Sol

Death Rider Yuta is the only man to be a multiple-time ROH Pure Champion. Yuta lost that title to Lee Moriarty all the way back at Death Before Dishonor 2024 and hasn’t set foot in an ROH ring since. Currently, he’s one-third of the AEW Trios Champions, but it’s doubtful that will impress Del Sol who also has been MIA, last seen on episode #81 of ROH on Honorclub. In spite of Yuta’s questionable beard, this was obviously going to be a banger!

A slap of honor was delivered by Yuta, knocking the luchadore onto his back before the bell even rung. From there, Yuta hit a senton and a whole bunch of high-impact suplexes and slams. Del Sol fought, er, kicked his way back into it though, responding with a big dropkick and headscissor takedown.

Yuta opted for a more brawling style, clearly the Death Rider influence on the former Pure Champion. That threw Del Sol for a loop at first, but as the speed of the match picked up, you could see Del Sol starting to find his groove. Yuta slowed things back down with a bridge submission move, but Del Sol got to the ropes to break it.

Del Sol found an opening and things picked up speed. After a stomp, he went up top, but Yuta turned him inside out with a running knee on is way down. That did it for Del Sol and Yuta picked up the win.

After the match, Yuta grabbed a length of chain from under the mat. Before the ref could stop him, he began choking Del Sol with it. Del Sol actually began coughing up blood while the crowd booed and the ROH locker room emptied.

Nah, it didn’t. No one came to help Del Sol and Yuta just wandered off through the crowd.

Abadon defeated Rachael Ellering

Abadon’s last match in ROH was way back at episode #90 when they defeated Viva Van. Ellering has not had a win in ROH since August of 2024 and counts Diamante, Trish Adora and most recently, Queen Aminata as folks who’ve chalked up wins over her. Abadon is no pushover, so Ellering had her hands full searching for that elusive first win of 2025.

For those not familiar with Abadon, think Finn Balor’s Demon character, but if it was a clown. She’s a monster in the ring and Ellering could not find a way around her off the top. Abadon refused to let go form the code of honor and Ellering tried to turn it into a headlock, only to be bitten by Abadon who did not seem to realize that was against the rules.

A contrast to the previous match, this was a slug fest. Lots of shoulders and big back elbows. Ellering wasn’t able to tap into her technical skills, but pound for pound could keep up with Abadon. She hit a big senton squish, but Abadon responded with a leg drop on the ring apron (the hardest part of the ring!) followed by a knee in the corner.

Ellering decided that the shortest point between two distances was punching Abadon in the face and trying a second Squish. Abadon took some chops with a laugh and a scream before delivering a big spike cutter followed by Black Dahlia. Ellering was o-u-t, out and Abadon got the pin. And the screams. Lots of screams.

12 Man Tag Team Match: The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd), The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross von Erich) & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) (w/Leila Grey) defeated Griff Garrison, Jacked Jameson, Preston Vance (w/Cole Karter) & The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari, Mark Sterling & Tony Nese)

The newly minted and allergic-to-shirts “Frat House” consisting of Griff Garrison, Jacked Jameson, and Preston Vance (With Cole Karter on the outside of course) teamed up with the Premier Athletes’ Ariya Daivari, Tony Nese, and (for some reason) “Smart” Mark Sterling instead of Josh Woods. Their opponents were a trio of duos; Top Flight, The Outrunners, and lo and behold, it’s the returning Marshal and Ross Von Erich, of the apropriately named Von Erichs! They are still two-thirds of the ROH World Six-Man Champions (along with Dustin Rhodes), and have been on the shelf since ROH epsiode #84. Now that they are back, the Trio’s Titles might become an thing again, assuming MxM hasn’t stolen those belts as well.

Magnum and Floyd came down to the ring and I have to mention that Magnum wearing athletic tape in the Outrunner colors was an absolute Chef’s Kiss to their schtick. The crowd was really pumped for the returning Von Erichs as well.

Darious and Nese kicked things off and immediately Nese isolated Darious in the Athlete/Frat corner. They all wailed on Darious, and Garrison tagged in. Duante tagged in and Jameson met him in the middle of the ring, ducking a clothesline.

Vance and Floyd locked up next, with Floyd ending up in the corner previously occupied by Darious. After the sextuple-team, Nese tagged in Sterling who threw a few punches at Floyd before Vance tagged back in and saved him. The Athlete/Frat team set out on a whirlwind of tags, each mand spending about 15 seconds in the ring then tagging in someone else, keeping Magnum isolated.

Magnum went for a hot tag, but before he could get there, all 5 members of Athle-Frat rand around the ring and brawled with the entire other team. In the ring, Vance tried to get a quick pin, but Magnum reversed a sleeper into a back suplex and got the hottest of hot tags to Floyd.

One by one, the Frat-thletes (there it is) ran into the ring and Floyd disposed of them. Sterling tried to hit him from behind and Floyd set him up for a beating, but Jameson made the save. Magnum knocked Jameson out, leaving Sterling alone in the ring to take a Total Recall. The Von Erichs kept the Frat-thletes at bay, and Floyd pinned Sterling.

Also, just to keep you in the loop, prior to the match, Garrison, Karter and Vance made Jameson drink a mystery drink from a solo cup. I mention this, because the announcers kept mentioning the drink, but absolutely nothing came of it, in an otherwise really fun match!

Billie Starkz defeated Hyan

The Ballad of Billie Starkz lumbers on as she comes in fresh off of losses to Harley Cameron and Tony Storm on the High Seas. Now that she’s back on solid ground, she may have a shot to turn things around, but with ROH Women’s Champion Athena accompanying her to the ring to keep Starkz in her MiT place, who can say? Hyan was last seen on Honorclub way back in July of 2024, but has kept pretty busy on the indies since then. 

The Smiling Starkz of the Sea from last week was nowhere to be found as the two locked up in the middle of the ring, exchanging wristlocks. Starkz powered through and hit a sunset flip followed by a big kick. From there, Starkz kept control of things until Hyan dodged her attempt a a cannonball, sending Starkz into the ringpost.

The two battled back and forth with Starkz going up top for a swan dive. Hyan dodged it though and hit a big back suplex for a two-count. Starkz caught a chop from Hyan and delivered a few big forearms, driving Hyan into the corner. Starkz then got Hyan up in what could best be described as a reverse Last Ride, slamming her onto her back and getting the victory.

Athena, who came to the ring with Starkz, did not appear to still be there as she left. Where did she go? Who knows. Life is full of mysteries, as is ROH.

ROH World Television Title Match: Komander (w/Alex Abrahantes) (c) defeated Lee Johnson (w/EJ Nduka)

Johnson is the second man to take Komander to a Proving Ground Draw to earn a shot at the ROH TV title. The first was QT Marshall who failed to take the title from Komander, but Johnson clearly learned a bunch watching that bout. Johnson and his pal EJ Nduka have been making waves in ROH the last couple of months, so we’ll see if the big man is a factor here as well. Komander is entering his 4th title defense and 3rd in just the last five weeks. 

There was an extended feeling out process between the two but once they got into it, it was a fast-paced affair. Johnson and Komander nodded in respect after a particularly crowd-pleasing exchange. Then Johnson punched him in the face. So Komander did what one does and hit him back.

Komander literally bounced off the ropes about six times to deliver a high chop to Johnson, sending him out of the ring. Nduka lurked, but did not interfere as Komander threw Johnson back in and executed a sunset bomb. That brought Nduka up onto the apron (the hardest part of Nduka!) to cause a distraction while Johnson got a hit from behind on Komander.

Johnson whipped Komander into the corner, where he punched him in the face repeatedly. Then he sent him to the outside, where the Ref caught Nduka creepin’ and threatened to eject him. Johnson brought Komander back into the ring for a prolonged headlock, slowing down the pace.

Komander battled back but he collided with Johnson on the ring apron (the most collision prone part of the ring!). Komander hit a hurricanrana driver through the ropes (yeah, read that again) and planted Johnson in the ring. The two exchanged chops with Komander hitting a springboard slam to wrap it up.

Komander countered a buckle-bomb into a hurricanrana, but Johnso hit him with a huge dropkick, spinning Komander around in the air. Komander reveresed another powerbomb into a poison-rana this time, but still only a two-count. Johnson landed a brainbuster on the outside, leaving both men struggling to meet the 20 count.

Komander hurriedly unlaced his boot to avoid a sprained ankle and delivered a hige kick to Johnson’s head. Johnson recovered and worked Komander’s ankle once the boot was off. Johnson went up for a frog splash, landing it perfectly, but only getting a two count. He followed that up with a fisherman’s brainbuster for another two.

It came down to who was going to be able to hit their signature move first, with neither man giving the other the opportunity. A One-shoed Komander went up top for his Celindo finisher and manged to get it, bum ankle and all. 1-2-3 and the title stayed with the luchadore in a killer match!

Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) defeated Fly Def (Warren J & Zack Zilla)

Gates of Agony have been tearing through the ROH Competition, geting wins over Vance & Garrison, LEEJ and the deadly Terry Yaki and Jay Lucas. They face a similar level of competition here against Fly Def (aka Top Team). It’s kind of amazing really that Zilla and J would be a team with not one, but two horrible names. Either way, it probably won’t help much against the terrifying Liona and Kaun.

Gates didn’t even wait until the bell had rung to decimate J and Zilla. Once it did ring, they just took turns hitting extremely hard moves on Zilla and J, finishing by using their opponents as weapons and crushing them for a very light pin.

Dark Panther, Fuego & ROH World Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara defeated Barbaro Cavernario, Hechicero & Soberano Jr.

Contested under “Luchadore Rules”, this CMLL spotlight match had everyone stoked! Guevara has had his Championhip Belt stolen by the MxM Collection twice now, once on ROH and once at AEW/ROH Global Wars. Hopefully he’ll still have the focus in this match featuring some of CMLL’s top talent. Fuego was making his Ring of Honor debut, but Dark Panther has a little ROH experience to his credit, participating in the 2016 Survival of the Fittest Tournament. As for their opponents, Cavernario, Hechicero and Soberano all took part in the ROH SUMMER SUPERCARD event in August 2019.

So now you know all that.

MxM Collection perched at the top of the ring to tease Guevara about his belt in their posession. This must have been very confusing the other five men in the match. Fuego started things off, running quickly through his three opponents. That brought in Panther and Guevara and all hell broke loose. At this point, it was virtually impossible to tell who was legal and who wasn’t.

Cavernario(a literal cave man) dragged Guevara into the oppposite corner. There he was triple teamed while MxM laughed at the top of the ring. Here, I also noticed that MxM had pasted pictures of themselves on the tag title belt. Classic.

Back in the ring, Fuego was legal and also alone in the ring against Soberano, Hechicero and Cavernario. Dark Panther made the save, but found himself in a similar triple team situation. A triple face buster and triple surboard left him wrecked, but there was no one to tag in his corner. The ref did not seem to care that it had been 3-on-1 for almost the whole match.

Panther landed a series of backbreakers and Guevara and Hechicero faced off in the ring. Guevara reminded everyone just how good his is, hanging with the luchadores at every step. The MxM Collection creeped closer to the ring as Sammy hit a big flip. Cavernario splatted a huge flapjack onto Gueveara who slid under the ropes, allowing Fuego to be able to slip in as legal (luchadore rules, look it up).

Fuego and Hechicero had a wild exchange full of sentons and flips that the crowd ate up. Soberano found himself on the top rope and hit a huge splash on Panther. he tried it again, but Panther dodged it, ending up outside where Cavernario hit a frog spash from the ringpost.

Guevara and Hechicero were left alone in the ring to exchange knees and slams. Guevara got him up for a GTH, but Mansoor hit Guevara in the back with his own belt. Fuego jumped in to take over, landing himself in Hechicero’s trap submission move, kind of a rolling head-leg-lock. Fuego used it to roll the reversal and get the pin.

After the match, MxM tried to take out Guevara, but Fuego and Panther came to his rescue and Guevara hit a GTH on Mansoor while Madden ran away, in hilarious fashion.

(Get it? Fashion? Ok, I’ll go now…)