Ring of Honor Wrestling is red-hot after GLOBAL WARS 2025 and the amazing championship matches that went down in front of the Brisbane, Australia faithful! Now that rolls into tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB featuring more of the greatest professional wrestling on the planet today! ROH World Television Champion Komander puts his title on the line against Lee Johnson after “Big Shotty” survived Proving Ground competition, plus the stars of CMLL return to ROH for a massive trios battle that also includes ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara! 3-Time Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta returns to ROH for singles competition against another returning athlete in Fuego Del Sol, Abadon returns to face Rachael Ellering one-on-one, and we've got a huge 12-Man tag team battle on tap as well! In addition, Gates of Agony will be in tag team competition and Billie Starkz will also compete during this edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB!
Ring of Honor is loaded up this week with some of the best in professional wrestling kicking off at 7pm ET/6pm CT tonight exclusively on Honor Club! In addition to a new episode releasing every Thursday night, Honor Club is also the home for almost 23 years of ROH history featuring the world's finest wrestlers that help shaped the last two decades of professional wrestling! We have television archives dating back to 2011, hundreds of live events beginning with 2/23/02's THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS, and the “Best Of...” collection continues to expand every week! We've got collections featuring Kenny Omega, Claudio Castagnoli, Jay Lethal, and more, plus we are celebrating ROH's 23rd anniversary on February 23rd with the addition of ROH:YEAR FOUR that features the first Steel Cage Warfare, Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, one wild Summer, and the beginning of Bryan Danielson's reign atop ROH!
LUCHA LIBRE ACTION!
ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara, Dark Panther, & Fuego vs. Barbaro Cavernario, Hechicero & Soberano Jr.
It's going to be an action-packed night of action tonight on Honor Club, and a huge part of that can be credited to this trios bout featuring ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara and the athletes of CMLL! Now Guevara is freshly off a successful defense of the ROH World Tag Titles against MxM Collection during GLOBAL WARS 2024, but sadly he is still without his physical title belt as Mansoor and Mason Madden absconded with it once again following the match. Their reckoning will come soon enough. For now “The Spanish God” has to focus on this lucha libre trios spectacular featuring four men making their ROH returns after five-plus years, and one man making his first honorable excursion!
First Guevara's partners: for Fuego this is his first visit to Ring of Honor though ROH and CMLL have a bond dating back nearly a decade. With more than 20 years of experience inside the CMLL ring, as well as excursions with New Japan where he entered into the 2014 and 2016 Super Junior Tag Tournaments, Fuego is a formidable ally for Sammy in this trios contest. The same can be said for Dark Panther and his decade-plus fighting for CMLL, but unlike Fuego, Dark Panther has a little Ring of Honor experience on his resume. Back in 2016 Panther was a participant in the Survival of the Fittest Tournament, advancing in his Four-Way Qualifier, but ultimately was the first man eliminated in the Six-Way Finals. He's been a CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Champion (as was Fuego), competed on the joint-NJPW FANTASTICA MANIA in 2024, and now comes back to ROH for the first time in nearly nine years to unite with Guevara and Fuego for this trios bout!
As for the other side of the match, all three members of the team took part in the SUMMER SUPERCARD event in August 2019 with El Barbaro Cavernario and Hechicero on one side of a trios match against a team that included El Soberano Jr., albeit the losing side. In addition, both Barbaro and Hechicero were part of the GLOBAL WARS ESPECTACULAR 2019 tour, Hechicero was part of the original ROH World Six-Man Championship Tournament in 2016, and Soberano Jr took part in MANHATTAN MAYHEM 2019, STEEL CITY EXCELLENCE, and MASTER OF THE CRAFT 2019. So suffice to say, this trio is well-versed in Ring of Honor competition, and are ready to bring their particular style of wrestling action back to the 21st century's most influential wrestling promotion!
ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Komander(c) vs. Lee Johnson
Back on HONOR CLUB #101, by the grace of EJ Nduka, “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson survived the Proving Ground's 10-Minute time limit to earn a shot at Komander's ROH World Television Championship. Across the 13+ year history of the stipulation, only a few individuals have succeeded in earning a championship opportunity via Proving Ground, and very few champions have ever lost more than one. Yet Komander, in the span of four weeks, has slipped up in two of them. The first time it was QT Marshall who earned his World TV Title fight on the Proving Ground, and though he was unable to parlay that into a championship victory, he demonstrated to any other hopeful prospects that it is possible. Lee Johnson and EJ Nduka must have been paying attention because they were also able to take advantage of the situations presented and eke out a time limit draw.
That means tonight, in his fourth title defense and third in five weeks, Komander will lay it all on the line against “Big Shotty”! We know Komander is capable of putting in some serious time inside the ring, he's a man who went 25+ minutes in the Survival of the Fittest bouts at FINAL BATTLE 2023 and 2024, the latter ending with him claiming the TV Title in the first place. Perhaps there's something about the pressure of the 10-minute time limit that gets in his head, because it's not as if all Komander's matches go 10+. For example, he beat Claudio Castagnoli in the 2024 Continental Classic in under eight minutes and shut down QT's title shot in under 10, so it seems the Proving Ground aspect of it may be what has done him in these last two outings.
That being said, now that he's taken the measure of Lee Johnson and knows how willing EJ Nduka is to lend a hand to his tag team partner, Komander will be better prepared for this championship defense. That seemed to be the case with QT Marshall, so we shall see if it plays out here against “Big Shotty” as well!
RETURN TO HONOR...
The Death Riders' Wheeler Yuta vs. Fuego Del Sol
In the history of ROH's Pure Championship there have been 15 title reigns, but only one man has held that title on multiple occasions, three to be exact: The Death Riders' Wheeler Yuta! Though he now reigns as one-third of the AEW World Trios Champions alongside Claudio Castagnoli and “The Bastard” PAC, Yuta's ROH roots date back to September 2020 when he participated in the tournament to crown a new Pure Champion. Though he was knocked out of competition in the first round of that tourney, Yuta continued to compete on ROH events through the Spring of 2021. However it wasn't until SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022, where he claimed his first Pure Title from “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods, that his name was etched in the ROH history books. His initial 159-day reign was briefly interrupted by Daniel Garcia, but Yuta would reclaim the belt from Garcia 94 days, holding the belt during this second run for 111-days before Katsuyori Shibata claimed it for himself. For 239 days “The Wrestler” reigned as Pure Champion, but Yuta would bring an end to that thrilling ride in November 2023 when he claimed the Pure Title for a third time. Yuta eventually fell to Lee Moriarty at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 after 244 days, bringing his combined tenure as ROH Pure Champion to a total of 514 days with 10 defenses.
Following his loss to Moriarty at DBD '24 Yuta defeated Anthony Henry during HONOR CLUB #75, but he has not set foot inside an ROH ring in the six months since that night in Texas. That changes this evening when he steps in there with another man who hasn't been in ROH since that Arlington residency: Fuego Del Sol! He hasn't been in the house since HONOR CLUB #81, but tonight he also makes his return to competition, and hopefully a triumphant one against this Death Rider!
ONE-ON-ONE...
Abadon vs. Rachael Ellering
We haven't seen Abadon in ROH since HONOR CLUB #90 when they defeated Viva Van, bouncing back from their ROH Women's World Championship loss to Athena in their Ring of Horror match during HONOR CLUB #88. Tonight they return to the fold for a fight against the double-tough Rachael Ellering who's looking for her first win of 2025! Will it be Abadon's night in their return to Honor Club, or Ellering who picks up the victory?
12-MAN TAG TEAM BOUT...
The Frat House (Griff Garrison, Jacked Jameson, & Preston Vance) and Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari, “Smart” Mark Sterling, & Tony Nese)
vs.
Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin), The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd), and The Von Erichs (Marshall & Ross)
We've got ourselves a huge match right here between five different units! The newly united Frat House of Griff Garrison, Jacked Jameson, and Preston Vance will combine forces with Premier Athletes of Ariya Daivari, Tony Nese, and...(checks notes) “Smart” Mark Sterling for a battle with Top Flight, The Outrunners, and two-thirds of the ROH World Six-Man Champions, the returning Von Erichs! Marshall and Ross have been out of action since HONOR CLUB #84 when they and Dustin Rhodes defeated this very Premier Athletes trio in a Proving Ground match, but they are back to carry on the legacy of their family name alongside two of the best tag teams in wrestling today! Which of these massive teams will score victory tonight during HONOR CLUB?
ALSO FEATURING:
-Gates of Agony in action!
-Bille Starkz in singles competition!!
-And More!