Hart was involved in the show-closing angle of AEW Big Business this Wednesday. After Willow Nightingale defeated Riho in the main event, Hart and Skye Blue launched an attack on Nightingale. Mercedes Mone, who had made her AEW debut at the start of Big Business, then ran out to save Nightingale from Hart and Blue’s beatdown. Mone left Hart and Blue both laying.
Hart has been TBS Champion since November 2023. During her reign, she’s made successful title defenses against Lady Frost, Emi Sakura, Abadon, Anna Jay, and Robyn Renegade.
Adora is coming off a loss to Mariah May on Collision last week.
Collision is taking place live from Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada this Saturday. Here’s what’s been announced for the episode:
AEW Collision (Saturday, March 16) —
Kyle O’Reilly vs. Bryan Keith
Open House match: TBS Champion Julia Hart defends against Trish Adora
Ring of Honor has announced eight matches for Thursday’s show on HonorClub.
The ROH Six-Man Tag Team Championships will be on the line as the Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) will square off against the Iron Savages (Bronson & Boulder) and Jacked Jameson after Jameson challenged the trio on social media.
The Mogul Embassy is coming off a successful title defense against Leon Ruffin, Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi at last Friday’s Death Before Dishonor.
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) July 27, 2023
In other six-man tag action on tonight’s show, former champions Dalton Castle & The Boys will face The Trustbusters (Sonny Kiss, Jeeves Kay & Slim J). Castle is coming off a loss to Samoa Joe for the ROH TV Championship at last Friday’s Death Before Dishonor.
The last time Castle teamed with The Boys on ROH TV, they came up short against Stu Grayson and The Righteous on the June 4th episode.
Also in action will be Josh Woods and Eli Isom as they square off in a Pure rules match. Woods recently defeated Tracy Williams in a Pure rules match on the July 21st episode while Isom was most previously seen on ROH TV in a losing effort tagging with Marcus Kross and Cheeseburger. They lost to The Mogul Embassy on June 4th.
In addition, both ROH Women’s Champion Athena, who was victorious in her ROH Women’s title defense against Willow Nightingale in the main event of Death Before Dishonor, and Trish Adora, who lost to Leyla Hirsch on the Zero Hour pre-show, will be in action.
Big Bill and Lee Moriarty will wrestle on this week’s episode as well.
Here’s the current lineup:
ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) defend against The Iron Savages (Bronson & Boulder) and Jacked Jameson
Dalton Castle & The Boys vs. The Trustbusters (Sonny Kiss, Jeeves Kay & Slim J)
Josh Woods vs. Eli Isom in a Pure rules match
ROH Women’s Champion Athena in action
Trish Adora in action
Big Bill & Lee Moriarty in action
Leyla Hirsch in action
The Kingdom (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) vs. Tracy Williams & Rhett Titus
Two title matches will headline this Thursday’s Ring of Honor on HonorClub.
In one, ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe defends against Matt Sydal after Sydal called out Joe on last week’s show. Joe has been champion for more than 400 days and is looking for his 11th title defense.
In the other, ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Embassy (Brian Cage, Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) will defend against AR Fox, Darius Martin & Action Andretti in hopes of getting their third defense.
In a Proving Ground match, ROH Women’s Champion Athena will face Trish Adora and look to continue her long winning streak that dates back to late last year.
Stu Grayson will continue his run with The Righteous’ Dutch and Vincent as they face former Six-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle and The Boys (Brandon & Brent Tate).
Here’s the full lineup taped recently in Orlando, Florida:
ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe defends against Matt Sydal
ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Embassy (Brian Cage, Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) defends against AR Fox, Darius Martin & Action Andretti
ROH Women’s Champion Athena vs. Trish Adora in a non-title match
The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) and Stu Grayson vs. Dalton Castle & The Boys (Brandon & Brent Tate)
Iron Savages (Bronson & Bear) vs. Tracy Williams & Rhett Titus
After initially stating that Willow Nightingale would no longer be appearing, Beyond Wrestling has announced that Nightingale will still be in action at Perfection or Vanity.
CORRECTION: Willow Nightingale will still be competing at #PerfectionOrVanity on Sunday, 2/26 at White Eagle in Worcester streaming LIVE on @indiewrestling at 7pm ET!
Due to an apparent conflict with ROH television tapings, three wrestlers have been pulled from an upcoming Beyond Wrestling event.
Beyond Wrestling announced today that Wheeler Yuta, Tracy Williams, and Trish Adora will no longer be appearing at their Perfection or Vanity show in Worcester, Massachusetts on Sunday, February 26. Voices of Wrestling and Fightful have reported that ROH is scheduled to hold TV tapings that weekend.
“Wheeler YUTA, Tracy Williams, and Trish Adora will no longer be appearing or competing at ‘Perfection Or Vanity’ on Sunday, 2/26 at White Eagle in Worcester,” Beyond Wrestling tweeted. “Email [email protected] if you’d like a refund.”
Yuta is signed to AEW and is part of the Blackpool Combat Club with Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, and Claudio Castagnoli. Williams and Adora, who were both part of the ROH roster prior to the promotion being purchased by Tony Khan, have made appearances for AEW as well.
Adora was also in action at ROH Final Battle this past December, losing to Nightingale on the pre-show.
Yuta currently holds the ROH Pure Championship. He regained the title by defeating Daniel Garcia at Final Battle.
It was announced in December that a weekly ROH TV series would be coming to HonorClub, though no start date was given. These tapings at the end of February would be the first for the weekly series.
ROH’s next pay-per-view is Supercard of Honor 2023, which is taking place in Los Angeles on Friday, March 31.
In her debut for the promotion, Trish Adora is getting a shot at the MLW Women’s Featherweight Championship.
MLW has announced that Adora will challenge Taya Valkyrie for the Women’s Featherweight Championship at this Sunday’s Fightland tapings in Philadelphia. The tapings are being held at the 2300 Arena.
Adora is a United States Army veteran. She was one of the standout performers in the ROH women’s division before ROH went on hiatus at the end of 2021.
Adora has made several appearances on AEW Dark, including unsuccessfully challenging Mercedes Martinez for the ROH Women’s Championship earlier this year. Adora was also part of a six-woman tag match on AEW Rampage this April
Valkyrie was crowned the inaugural MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion this May.
Matches from the Fightland tapings will air on future episodes of MLW Fusion. The updated lineup for the tapings is listed below:
MLW Fightland (Sunday, October 30) —
Last Man Standing match: MLW World Heavyweight Champion Alex Hammerstone defends against EJ Nduka
MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion Taya Valkyrie defends against Trish Adora
MLW Middleweight Champion Shun Skywalker defends against Lince Dorado
Jacob Fatu vs. Lio Rush
Willie Mack vs. Calvin Tankman
Real 1 (nZo) vs. Mance Warner
Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Billington Bulldogs vs. Bomaye Fight Club
It’s Monday and you know what that means: an eight-match AEW Dark: Elevation taped last Wednesday at Norfolk, Virginia’s Chartway Arena.
TayJay (Anna Jay & Tay Conti) defeated Erica Leigh and Willow Nightingale
Jay started the match with several quick kicks on Leigh followed by Conti hitting a great combination of a superkick and german suplex on Nightingale. Conti won this short match after hitting the DDTay on Nightingale while Jay had Leigh in the Queen Slayer submission.
Tony Nese defeated Logan LaRoux
This match was the AEW debut for LaRoux and the debut for Nese on Elevation. Nese, working as a heel, had a great combo of a kip-up and several kicks on LaRoux. LaRoux’s highlight in the match was a top rope dropkick. Nese (2-0) won after hitting a running knee.
Team Taz (w/ Hook) defeated Lucas Chase and Irvin Legend
Powerhouse Hobbs threw around Lucas who could do nothing about it. Chase tried to kick Ricky Starks, but ended up eating a reverse neckbreaker. Team Taz won after a Starks Roshambo in an easy win for Team Taz.
Kris Statlander, Leyla Hirsch and Ryo Mizunami defeated Emi Sakura, Penelope Ford and The Bunny (w/ Mei Suruga)
Ruby Soho joined Excalibur and Paul Wight on commentary to scout her TBS title tournament quarterfinal opponent in Statlander.
Mizunami started with her always fun machine gun chops on Ford. The team of Sakura/Bunny/Ford seem to have some internal tension throughout the match. Suruga intervened on their behalf in several key moments of the match. The heels isolated Hirsch for a good portion of the match with Sakura applying the Romero Special on Hirsch in a highlight. Mizunami came back with a great spot of her own with a double spear on Bunny and Ford. Statlander picked up the win for her team with the Big Bang Theory on Bunny.
Frankie Kazarian defeated Joe Keys
Kazarian dominated the early going, but Keys was slowly able to make a comeback. Keys tried to go for a roll-up, but Kazarian (32-7 overall) countered with the chicken wing crossface for the submission win.
Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds & Ten) defeated Baron Black, Ganon Jones and Duke Davis
Silver got one of the biggest pops of the night when he was tagged in. Davis and Silver had a great showdown with Silver failing to tackle him. 10 took care of business with a hot tag and cleaned out the ring. Dark Order, with a combination of suplexes and a full nelson from Ten, were able to win the match.
Riho defeated Trish Adora
This was the AEW debut for Adora who was seen in Ring of Honor lately. Riho tried to roll her up, but Adora countered with a suplex and Riho countered with a crossbody with a great sell from Adora. Riho (10-2) won after a top rope stomp.
Wheeler Yuta (w/ Kris Statlander & Chuck Taylor) defeated Serpentico
The match started with some quick action from both men. Serpentico worked Yuta’s midsection for a good portions of the match, later trying to get support from Statlander and Taylor which marked the beginning of the end. Serpentico tried to go for a flying headbutt, but Yuta (5-11) moved out of the way and won with a roll-up. and use a roll-up to win the match.
Final Thoughts:
This was a fine episode of Elevation with the six-woman tag team match as the best of the night. Riho vs. Adora was too short, but it showed potential to be a great match if done longer. Hopefully, this won’t be Adora’s last AEW outing.
Another member of the ROH women’s division has officially signed with the company.
It was announced tonight that Trish Adora has signed a contract with ROH. The announcement was made by Maria Kanellis-Bennett after Adora defeated Sumie Sakai on this week’s edition of Women’s Division Wednesday.
Adora made her ROH debut on Women’s Division Wednesday this May. She was an entrant in ROH’s Women’s World Championship tournament, making it to the semifinals before losing to Miranda Alize.
Adora is a United States Army veteran who holds the Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Championship.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Rok-C, Alize, and Max The Impaler have signed with ROH. Rok-C became ROH Women’s World Champion by defeating Alize in the tournament finals at Death Before Dishonor.
Ring of Honor is pleased to announce that ‘The Afro-Punk’ Trish Adora has signed with the company.
The announcement was made by ROH Board of Directors member Maria Kanellis-Bennett during this week’s episode of Women’s Division Wednesday following Adora’s victory over former Women of Honor World Champion Sumie Sakai.
Adora, the reigning Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling Champion, made it to the semifinals of the ROH Women’s World Title Tournament, scoring wins over Marti Belle and Allysin Kay before losing to Miranda Alize.
An Army veteran, Adora made her pro wrestling debut in 2016 and has trained at the Team 3D Academy and also with Jonathan Gresham and The World Famous CB.
– Quinn McKay returned to the broadcast center and welcomed us to the show. McKay announced that the two semifinal matchups in the ROH Women’s Championship tournament would take place on tonight’s episode, as well as an eight-man tag match between Shane Taylor Promotions and La Faccion Ingobernable.
ROH Women’s title tournament semifinal match: Miranda Alize defeated Trish Adora (12:16)
Chelsea Green joined commentary for this bout.
Trish Adora’s overwhelming size advantage had Alize reeling on the outside very early on. Adora attempted a Cattle Mutilation, but Alize locked her fingers, not allowing the submission to be completed. Alize got ahead of herself quickly, which led to a few mistimed moves into a commercial break.
Alize focused on her striking abilities to try and wear down Adora, but Adora was able to match anything Alize had for her. Both women made their way to ringside and started an intense brawl heading into another commercial break.
As we returned from break, Adora was nailing Alize with some very stiff strikes. Adora still had a massive size advantage, allowing her to just pull Alize out of thin air into a rear naked choke. Alize was close to submitting, but she eventually escaped the hold.
Alize gained some momentum with a few strong running kicks. That eventually opened the door for her Drive By knee strike, followed by her Miranda Rights crossface hold. Adora hesitated to tap for about 20 seconds before she eventually submitted.
Alize is headed to the finals of the ROH Women’s Championship tournament this Sunday, September 12 at Death Before Dishonor.
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ROH Women’s title tournament semifinal match: Rok-C defeated Angelina Love (6:44)
Rok-C tried to shake Angelina Love’s hand before the match, but Love refused.
Rok-C didn’t hesitate to go after the injured shoulder of Love, to which Love had a major issue with. Love didn’t taunt much and just focused on multiple body parts of Rok-C heading into a commercial break.
Love attempted her signature pump kick as we returned from the break, but Rok-C ducked. Love would try to follow up with a flurry of moves, but Rok-C had a counter for almost everything.
The final moments of the match saw Love and Rok-C exchange a few pinning combinations before Rok-C locked in an armbar, making Love submit quickly.
Rok-C will face Alize in the tournament finals.
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La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush, Dragon Lee, Kenny King & Bestia del Ring) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Moses, Kaun & O’Shay Edwards) (7:28)
STP met LFI at the ramp and began brawling. Commentary called for a quick commercial break as order was restored.
Back from the break, Moses and Kenny King were the legal men. Chaos ensued almost immediately and the match broke down, but Dragon Lee and O’Shay Edwards were legal after order was restored.
Every time that LFI tried to pull one of their underhand tactics, STP had a rebuttal and showed that they weren’t going to fall for the tricks of the villainous stable.
The match was building up to an eventual clash between Shane Taylor and Rush. Taylor clocked Rush with a few strikes, but Rush returned them easily and got the upper hand. These two have great chemistry and should wrestle more matches against each other.
The finish saw Taylor in the ring with former friend Kenny King. When the referees were distracted with Bestia del Ring, King low blowed Taylor and pinned him for a three count.
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Final Thoughts —
Headed into this weekend’s Death Before Dishonor PPV, ROH put on an average episode of television. Although I enjoyed Alize vs. Adora, the other two matches were rather short and never really developed a rhythm or a consistent pace.
In recent weeks I’ve introduced a scale in order to let you know if the current week of ROH TV is worth your while. The scale is as follows:
Must-Watch TV
Go Out Of Your Way
Recommended Viewing
Watch YouTube Clips
Avoid At All Costs
This week’s episode of ROH TV is: Watch YouTube Clips
Ian Riccaboni welcomed us to the ROH studio and immediately gave a shout out to Quinn McKay and her dedication to the Women’s Championship tournament. Although McKay has been officially eliminated, Riccaboni gave her a warm message about this just being the beginning.
Riccaboni also ran down the card for tonight’s episode. Dragon Lee will defend his ROH World Television Championship against Eli Isom, while two more quarterfinal matchups will take place in the Women’s Championship tournament.
Angelina Love defeated Max The Impaler (with Amy Rose) via disqualification (5:53)
Love tried to punch Max in the back, but it had no effect on them. Love had a terrified look on her face and slid out of the ring, where she started talking trash to Amy Rose outside of the ring.
Max followed Love to the outside and began beating her down. Max was toying with Love at this point with a slow, methodical pace before she rolled her back in the ring.
Love tried to escape out of Max’s grasp to the apron, but Max caught her in a chokehold on the ropes and wouldn’t let go. Max repeatedly was warned by referee Joe Mandak to let go of the hold, but they refused. As a result, Mandak disqualified Max.
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Trish Adora defeated Allysin Kay (13:50)
Kay applied a standing headlock to Adora and eventually took it down to the mat, which resulted in Adora reversing it into a head scissor lock.
Both women hit a stalemate eventually and rose to their feet. Kay focused on Adora’s arm to try and prevent a lariat and had her reeling heading into a commercial break.
Kay was in full control when the match returned. Kay nailed Adora with constant kicks to the chest and was taunting her afterwards. At this point in the match, Kay would start talking trash and shoving Adora’s face into the mat.
Adora eventually developed a second gear and began unloading a number of strikes onto Kay. Kay would try to lock in an octopus stretch, to which Adora rolled out of, bounced off the ropes and hit a Lariat Tubman for the win.
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Dragon Lee defeated Eli Isom to retain his ROH Television Championship (12:25)
Dalton Castle joined commentary for this bout.
Lee offered Isom a handshake, to which Isom accepted but also gave Lee a kick to the gut. Lee immediately made Isom pay for it by dumping him to the outside and diving onto him on the floor.
Lee stuck his foot on Isom’s skull and applied a single leg crab whenever he got back in the ring. Isom was only motivated more by this, and got up in a fury of rage.
Isom and Lee traded strikes before trading back-to-back-to-back german suplexes. Lee followed it up by spiking Isom with a poison rana, but Isom popped right up and hit a lariat which resulted in a very good near fall.
The final minutes of this match were insane, with both guys just trading move after move. Lee nailed Isom with multiple knee strikes to where he was practically knocked out, to which Lee followed up with a falcon’s arrow for a great near fall. Lee would eventually put away Isom with his signature incinerator knee strike, allowing him to score the pinfall victory.
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Final Thoughts: This edition of ROH TV started off with what I think was one of the most questionable booking choices that the company has made since their return from their pandemic hiatus. Max The Imapler was made to look really dumb with that finish and for what we’ve seen from them so far, they obviously aren’t dumb and they know how to win matches and get the job done. Max was undefeated in the company up to this point and I think this was a terrible way to beat her.
Besides that, I thoroughly enjoyed both Adora/Kay and Lee/Isom.
In recent weeks I’ve introduced a scale in order to let you know if the current week of TV is worth your while. The scale is as followed:
Must Watch TV
Go Out Of Your Way
Recommend Viewing
Watch YouTube Clips
Avoid At All Costs
This week’s episode of ROH TV is: Go Out Of Your Way
Three upcoming competitors in the ROH Women’s World Championship tournament got a chance to shine in a tag team bout, while another Ticket to Gold was given to another deserving wrestler.
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Miranda Alize & Sumie Sakai defeated Trish Adora & Mazzerati
Sakai and Adora started off this tag bout. Sakai tried a test of strength, but Adora had about a foot in height on her. Sakai stomped on Adora’s foot and both women tagged out.
Mazzerati and Alize came in. Alize did a few arm drags and followed with a great headscissors/pinning combination, but it wasn’t enough to put away Mazzerati. Alize and Sakai did a couple of good double-team maneuvers. They have pretty good chemistry despite never teaming together.
Mazzerati was able to get some offense in after Sakai missed a top rope crossbody, eventually leading to a tag out to a fresh Adora. Adora hit a great standing suplex and followed it up with the Cattle Mutilation submission. You almost never see those anymore, and Adora was really good on the bridge.
Adora hit a German suplex, but Sakai kipped up immediately and retaliated with the same move. Both women were down with their partners reaching for tags. The hot tags were made, and Alize came in and sent both Adora and Mazzerati to the corner. She then hit a nasty running dropkick on both women.
The pace picked up in a big way at this point, with competitors flying all over the place. Sakai hit another German suplex and Alize flew over her head to attempt a stack-up pin. Mazzerati tried to pin Alize after a DDT a few moments later, but Sakai hit a rolling neckbreaker on Mazzerati to break it up.
In the final moments of the match, Alize and Mazzerati were trading moves on the inside of the ring while Adora and Sakai were fighting on the outside. Alize was eventually able to cinch in her Miranda Rights crossface submission, to which Mazzerati submitted to.
After the match, Max The Impaler jumped all four women from behind. Max then attacked the timekeeper and hit The Impaler on her.
Amy Rose came out after and clapped her way down to the ring. She invited Max to go with her backstage.
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Ticket to Gold: Vita VonStarr
Vita VonStarr and Bateman approached Maria Kanellis-Bennett backstage. Bateman vouched for VonStarr to get an opportunity in the ROH Women’s World Championship tournament, since Kanellis-Bennett is all about giving opportunities.
Kanellis-Bennett hesitated for a moment but then agreed to Bateman’s proposal. Kanellis-Bennett had one stipulation though: if VonStarr interferes in any men’s matches before the tournament, she loses her spot. Kanellis-Bennett said she only wanted to give opportunities to women who are focused on being in the women’s division.
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Final Thoughts —
As we inch closer to the Women’s World Championship tournament, Women’s Division Wednesday provided another great match. The two standouts to me were Alize and Mazzerati, although all of the women involved did really well.
I don’t really think I’m a fan of the Amy Rose/Max The Impaler partnership. I’ll save judgement, but that’s just my first feeling. Rose has never come off to me as a good manager, and Max isn’t the type of competitor to need a manager. Let their brutality and dominance do the talking for them.
Vita VonStarr is just another fantastic choice for the tournament. Her match with Sumie Sakai on Women’s Division Wednesday last month was really good, and I’m glad to see her getting an opportunity.
Two new entrants have been confirmed for ROH’s Women’s World Championship tournament.
ROH has announced that Miranda Alize and Trish Adora will both be entrants in this summer’s Women’s World Championship tournament. They got their spots in the tournament by being awarded “Tickets to Gold” by Maria Kanellis-Bennett at the end of this week’s ROH Women’s Division Wednesday episode.
Alize defeated Adora in their match on this week’s Women’s Division Wednesday.
ROH’s Women’s World Championship [tournament was originally supposed to take place in 2020 but was pushed back following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alize had also been announced as one of the original entrants for the tournament when it was supposed to take place last year.
Alize goes by the nickname “The Lucha Baddie.” She’s made several appearances for AEW and was an entrant in WWE’s inaugural Mae Young Classic in 2017. She went by the name Miranda Salinas in the Mae Young Classic.
Adora is a United States Army veteran who holds the Pan Afrikan World Diaspora Championship. Adora has been wrestling for five years. She trained at The Dudley Boyz’s Team 3D Academy and has also been trained by ROH’s Jonathan Gresham and Cheeseburger.
Alize, Adora, Rok-C, and Angelina Love are the first four entrants that have been announced for the ROH Women’s World Championship tournament. The ROH Women’s World Championship is a new title that’s replacing the former Women of Honor World Championship.
As a stipulation of Love defeating Quinn McKay on the latest episode of ROH TV, Love will get a first-round bye in the tournament.
