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Red Velvet defeats Mercedes Mone for Women’s Television title at ROH Final Battle

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Mercdes Mone is down to just 12 titles.

Red Velvet regained the ROH Women’s Television Championship at Final Battle on Friday, defeating Mercedes Mone in a surprise. The finish had Mone locking in a crossface, but Velvet used the ropes to kick herself over and pinned Mone to win the Television title for a second time. After the match, Velvet retreated up the entranceway in celebration as a stunned Mone tried to get herself back together.

The loss on Friday continues Mone’s string of bad luck since Full Gear, when she failed to defeat Kris Statlander in a match for the AEW Women’s Championship, the one title she has been unable to capture.

Mone defeated Mina Shirakawa on an episode of Dynamite on October 18 to win the interim version of the Women’s TV title. In the days leading to Full Gear, Red Velvet made her return from injury and looked to unify the ROH Women’s Television Championship on the November 19 edition of Collision. Mone won that match, becoming the undisputed champion.

Title unification match set for three-hour AEW Dynamite

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A title unification match is now set for the final AEW Dynamite before Full Gear.

It was announced in the closing moments of Collision that Red Velvet will finally get her chance to unify the ROH Women’s Television Championship, squaring off against interim champion Mercedes Mone. This happens just days before Mone faces Kris Statlander for the AEW Women’s Championship at Full Gear.

Velvet has been out since June, suffering an injury that required AEW to crown an interim Women’s Television Champion. Mina Shirakawa originally won the title at Supercard of Honor, but lost it in a winner-takes-all match against Mone at AEW WrestleDream.

Two AEW Women’s Tag Team tournament quarterfinal matches will also take place. Toni Storm and Shirkawa will team to take on Riho and Alex Windsor, the latter of whom picked up a victory on Saturday. Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir will team together to face TayJay. Shafir attacked Tay Melo on Saturday, causing Melo cut a promo afterwards calling Shafir out.

Current AEW Dynamite lineup | Wednesday, November 19 | Boston, MA

  • Hangman Page vs. Katsuyori Shibata
  • ROH Women’s Television title unification match: Mercedes Mone vs. Red Velvet
  • AEW Women’s Tag Team title tournament quarterfinal: Toni Storm & Mina Shirakawa vs. Riho and Alex Windsor
  • AEW Women’s Tag Team title tournament quarterfinal: TayJay vs. Megan Bayne & Marina Shafir
  • Kenny Omega appearance

Mina Shirakawa wins interim Women’s TV title at ROH Supercard of Honor

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An interim ROH Women’s Television Champion has been crowned.

Mina Shirakawa is the new interim champion after submitting Miyu Yamashita with a figure-four leglock to become champion in a four-way match also featuring Persephone and Yuka Sakazaki. She will meet current champion Red Velvet in a match at a later date to determine the undisputed champion.

The interim title match was announced this week after Tony Khan confirmed that Red Velvet would be out of action due to injury. The Worldwide Wild Card International four-way match was announced shortly before Friday’s event in Arlington, Texas.

Prior to the match, Red Velvet in a backstage interview said that nobody’s more frustrated about the situation than her and the countdown to the new champion losing the title back to her has begun. She said that she would be at ringside to watch the match. After Shirakawa won the title, the two confronted one another on the entranceway, setting up their future bout.

Velvet’s last match took place at CMLL’s Fantastica Mania event last month where she defeated Kira.

ROH Women’s TV title tournament semifinals set

Posted on by Ethan Renner

The semifinals are set for the ROH Women’s TV title tournament. 

Billie Starkz & Mercedes Martinez won quarterfinals bouts on Thursday’s Ring of Honor TV episode to advance to the semifinals, joining Red Velvet & Queen Aminata in the tournament’s final four. 

Starkz defeated Diamante on Thursday’s episode in the opener to advance, while Martinez defeated Abadon with an assist from Diamante in Thursday’s other quarterfinals bout to move on. 

Starkz vs. Martinez, plus Velvet vs. Aminata are the matches set for the semifinals round. 

The tournament winner will be crowned the inaugural ROH Women’s World Television Champion, with the finals likely to take place at Supercard of Honor on April 5 in Philadelphia. 

Two title matches are already official for Supercard of Honor, with both of those matches being announced on Thursday’s show. It will be Eddie Kingston vs. Mark Briscoe for the ROH World title, plus Athena vs. Hikaru Shida for the ROH Women’s World title in Philadelphia.

The semifinals bouts for the ROH Women’s TV title tournament are: 

  • Billie Starkz vs. Mercedes Martinez
  • Red Velvet vs. Queen Aminata

Queen Aminata advances to ROH Women’s TV title tournament semifinals

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Queen Aminata has advanced to the semifinals of the ROH Women’s World TV title tournament. 

Aminata defeated Taya Valkyrie on Thursday’s Ring of Honor TV episode in a quarterfinals bout to advance to the semifinals. 

Following up her victory on Thursday’s episode with a promo, Aminata promised to be one of the last women standing in the tournament to crown the inaugural ROH Women’s World TV Champion. 

Aminata now awaits the winner of Red Velvet vs. Leyla Hirsch in the other quarterfinals bout on her side of the bracket. On the other side, Mercedes Martinez vs. Abadon, plus Billie Starkz vs. Diamante are the quarterfinals matches. 

The ROH Women’s World TV title tournament will continue on next Thursday’s Ring of Honor TV with another quarterfinals matchup. 

With Aminata advancing to the semifinals, here are the remaining quarterfinals bouts: 

  • Mercedes Martinez vs. Abadon
  • Billie Starkz vs. Diamante
  • Red Velvet vs. Leyla Hirsch

Our full report from this week’s Ring of Honor TV episode is here.

Tony Khan introduces ROH Women’s Television title on Ring of Honor TV

Posted on by Ethan Renner

A new championship has been unveiled in Ring of Honor. 

In a segment on Thursday’s Ring of Honor TV show, company owner Tony Khan introduced the Ring of Honor Women’s World Television Championship, displaying the new belt. 

In an accompanying social media post, ROH heralded the new title as the start of a new chapter: 

A new chapter begins in #ROH as the #ROH Owner & CEO @TonyKhan has introduced a new title..the #ROH Women’s World TV Championship.

No announcements were made as to when a first Women’s TV Champion will be crowned, or how the first title holder will be decided. 

The Women’s TV Championship will be the seventh title recognized by ROH, joining the ROH World Championship, ROH Pure Championship, ROH World Television Championship, ROH World Tag Team Championship, ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, and the ROH Women’s World Championship. 

The Women’s TV title will be the second women’s division championship recognized by ROH. Athena currently holds the ROH Women’s World Championship in a reign that has stretched over a full year after she defeated Mercedes Martinez at Final Battle 2022 to win the belt. Athena’s most recent defense came against Billie Starkz in the main event of Final Battle 2023 last Friday.