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ROH World title rematch signed for next week

Posted on by Josh Nason

Ring of Honor World Champion Bandido will defend his title against CMLL’s Mascara Dorada in the headliner of next week’s ROH on HonorClub.

The match was announced during Thursday’s broadcast after Dorada picked up a victory over Angelico — his first and only in the promotion. It will be a rematch from their first-ever meeting that took place on June 17 as part of CMLL Martes Populares at Arena Mexico, a bout Bandido won.

The two have been on opposite ends of tag team matches three times since then and also competed in a three-way against Mistico on a Mexican indie show. The two did team together alongside JetSpeed on a mid-July edition of Collision.

Bandido just passed the 200-day mark in his second run as ROH World Champion and has six title successful title defenses. He and Brody King are also the reigning AEW World Tag Team Champions.

Dorada is currently both the CMLL World Historic Welterweight Champion and one third of the CMLL World Trios Champions.

Mark Briscoe wins World title at ROH Supercard of Honor

Posted on by Josh Nason

Nearly 22 years after making his Ring of Honor debut, Mark Briscoe can now call himself the promotion’s World Champion.

Briscoe defeated Eddie Kingston in the main event of Friday’s Supercard of Honor to win the title, his first major singles title in any company.

The win comes 11 years to the day after his late brother, Jay, won the ROH World title.

Briscoe, bloodied after getting his head rammed into the announcer’s table, and Kingston had a wild affair as expected. The challenger picked up the win after hitting Kingston with a Jay Driller to get the clean pin.

Briscoe was mobbed in the ring afterward by family and longtime ROH roster members like Christopher Daniels, The Undisputed Kingdom, Dalton Castle, and plenty of others much to the joy of the Philadelphia fans that Briscoe has wrestled in front of so many times in the past.

Briscoe came out to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Back My Bullets,” the long-time entrance song for The Briscoes tag team.

It’s the latest title loss for Kingston who had entered 2024 as the first-ever Continental Crown holder with the ROH World title, NJPW Strong Openweight title and the inaugural AEW Continental Classic title. Kingston has just one of those belts left after losing the Continental title to Kazuchika Okada last month on Dynamite and the ROH title Friday.

Eddie Kingston to defend ROH World title against Jay Lethal

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Jay Lethal will get an ROH title match thanks to Jeff Jarrett’s win on AEW Collision.

Jarrett defeated ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston in a Memphis street fight on Saturday’s show. After Kingston initially kicked out of the stroke, all of Jarrett’s crew (Karen Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Lethal, and Sonjay Dutt) attacked Kingston, with Singh giving Kingston a chokeslam and Lethal hitting the lethal injection. Jarrett then hit another stroke for the win. With the win, Lethal will now get a future ROH title match.

In a later segment on Collision, Kingston cut a promo on Jay Lethal, referring to him under his real name, Jamar. Kingston said that Lethal used to love wrestling but then aligned himself with “that carny son-of-a-b****” Jarrett. He told Lethal not to bring his family to their match as Lethal’s mother would cry over the beating he would give Lethal not because she was sad about her son, but because she knew her son had it coming.

Kingston won the title last month at AEW Dynamite Grand Slam, defeating Claudio Castagnoli. After Lethal continued to make motions towards the ROH title, Kingston agreed to a title match only if Jarrett could defeat him in a Memphis street fight.

ROH World title match set for AEW Dark: Elevation episode 100

Posted on by Ian Carey

AEW has announced the lineup for Dark: Elevation. 

ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli will defend his title against Blake Christian on the show. 

This will be the 100th episode of Dark: Elevation to air. It first debuted on March 15, 2021.  

Other notable matches scheduled for the show include Red Velvet vs. Billie Starkz, Rush vs. Brian Pillman Jr, and Top Flight vs. Ari Daivari & Tony Nese. 

The Kings of the Black Throne, Dark Order, Athena, and the Workhorsemen will all be in action as well. 

This week’s episode was filmed on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, from the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. 

AEW Dark: Elevations airs at 7 p.m. Eastern time on YouTube. The announced lineup for the show is as follows:

  • ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Blake Christian
  • Kings of the Black Throne (Malakai Black & Brody King) w/ Julia Hart vs. Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum
  • Red Velvet vs. Billie Starkz
  • Dark Order’s Alex Reynolds & John Silver vs. The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake)
  • Rush w/ Jose the Assisstant vs. Brian Pillman Jr. 
  • ROH Women’s Champion Athena & Diamante vs. Skye Blue & Yuka Sakazaki
  • Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs. Ari Daivari & Tony Neese w/ Mark Sterling

June 27, 2005 Observer Newsletter: TNA Slammiversary, CM Punk wins ROH World title

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

TNA enters its third year with the same major questions it has entering year one and year two. What it the business plan to make money?

After two years of major money losses, limited visibility, and lots of very good wrestling matches, the company finds itself back to where it started, trying to run PPV shows without any television. While this is not 100%, it does appear the decision has been made to not buy air time on FSN this summer, and wait for Spike TV to be cleared of its WWE commitments in late September. It’s a risky proposition for a number of reasons, the biggest being, in the television business, if you don’t have a signed deal, you don’t have a deal, although the word we get is people are very confident this deal will come through, but we also heard that about the last deal.

There doesn’t appear to be a backup plan, now that WGN is out of the running. Two things regarding the negotiations with Spike TV that have come out are they are looking at the Velocity time slot, which is what we had figured but was not confirmed, Saturday at 11 p.m., and that Spike wants TNA to pay for the time, something we’re told was not the case with WGN.

Subscribers can read this issue here.

Ian Riccaboni to call ROH title match at The Wrld on GCW

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Ian Riccaboni will commentate the ROH World Championship match next month at GCW’s debut in the Hammerstein Ballroom.

GCW announced tonight that Riccaboni will call Jonathan Gresham defending the ROH World Championship against Blake Christian at GCW’s The Wrld on GCW on January 23. Riccaboni has been the lead commentator of Ring of Honor in recent years. Ring of Honor is currently going under hiatus through April of next year after holding Final Battle on December 11. 

The company released a video on Monday that had Christian saying that this was not about the ROH title, it’s about being accepted as one of the best in the world. And when he wins the championship from Gresham, everyone will have no choice but to accept him as among the best in the world.

Riccaboni is also set to be at NJPW New Beginning USA on January 15, where he will call the action as Kevin Kelly will be in Japan.

ROH title match announced for GCW Hammerstein Ballroom show

Posted on by Bryan Rose

The ROH World Championship will be defended at The Wrld on GCW.

In a video released by GCW tonight, it was confirmed that Blake Christian will challenge Jonathan Gresham for the ROH World Championship at GCW’s first event at the Hammerstein Ballroom on January 23rd. It’s the first match to be announced for the show.

The video had Christian saying that this was not about the ROH title, it’s about being accepted as one of the best in the world. And when he wins the championship from Gresham, everyone will have no choice but to accept him as among the best in the world.

Gresham won the championship at ROH’s Final Battle event on December 11. With the company taking a hiatus until at least April, Gresham has defended the championship in independent promotions under ROH Pure title rules. His first title defense was at GCW Blood on the Hills on December 17th, where he successfully retained against AJ Gray.

ROH World title changes hands, 18th Anniversary PPV main event set

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Rush is once again the ROH World Champion.

In the main event of Gateway to Honor on Saturday night, Rush regained the ROH World title by defeating PCO and Mark Haskins in a triple threat match. Nick Aldis, who is facing PCO at Supercard of Honor XIV in April, came out towards the end of the match and hit PCO with the NWA World title belt.

That would eventually lead to the finish, where Rush hit PCO with the dropkick to the corner, pinning him to win the championship. PCO held the title for 78 days, defeating Rush back at Final Battle on December 13.

Rush will now defend his title against Haskins at ROH’s 18th Anniversary pay-per-view at Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, March 13. ROH announced leading up to Gateway to Honor that whoever wasn’t involved in the finish would challenge for the World title at the Anniversary PPV.

Haskins confronted Rush at the end of Gateway to Honor and was attacked by La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush, ROH Television Champion Dragon Lee, and Kenny King).

Here’s the updated card for the Anniversary PPV:

  • ROH World Champion Rush defending against Mark Haskins
  • ROH Television Champion Dragon Lee defending against Bandido
  • ROH Tag Team Champions Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham defending against Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll & Flip Gordon)
  • The Briscoes vs. Dalton Castle & Joe Hendry
  • Dealer’s Choice match: Dan Maff vs. Kenny King vs. Shane Taylor vs. Bateman (winner gets a future title shot of his choosing)
  • Adam Brooks vs. Slex
  • Nicole Savoy vs. Session Moth Martina