Welcome to Thursday night and the premiere of the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! Last week we saw “The Fallen Goddess” Athena continue to make history with her 28th Women's World Championship defense over La Catalina and 64th consecutive singles victory. In addition to Athena's march into the history books, the ROH faithful also witnessed Bandido and Gravity score a win over The Infantry, Thunder Rosa return to ROH with a victory, The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) in action, and a wild trios match featuring the athletes of CMLL!
This week Honor Club continues the excitement with another stacked edition of our Thursday night delight! We will see another action-packed trios battle featuring CMLL's finest when Atlantis, Esfinge & Mistico fight Euforia, Rocky Romero & Valiente in the main event. Plus, Katsuyori Shibata is in action against “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson, and Frat House members Cole Karter and Preston Vance unite with Premier Athletes' Tony Nese and Ariya Daviari to face the wild quartet of Top Flight and Gates of Agony!
All that and more comes your way at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for 23 years of ROH history featuring the competitors who've helped shape professional wrestling throughout the 21st century! We have live events dating back to THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS from February 23, 2002, television archives dating back to 2011, and an ever-growing “Best Of...” collection featuring Nigel McGuinness, The Briscoes, Samoa Joe, and just added this week, BEST OF EPISODES 1-100 including Roderick Strong vs. Adam Cole, Survival of the Fittest 2012, Briscoes vs. WGTT, Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly, The Young Bucks, Jay Lethal, and more!
TRIOS BOUT...
Atlantis, Esfinge & Mistico vs. Euforia, Rocky Romero & Valiente
The CMLL contingent that has spent the last several weeks competing for Ring of Honor have made for some of the most exciting action-packed bouts in the entire 106-episode history of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! We saw it last week when the Panthers beat Euforia, Gran Guerrero, and Valiente, and this week the ROH faithful get to experience it again with a different combination of the world's best luchadores!
Euforia and Valiente are back in action, but this time they're bringing Rocky Romero in for the fight, and standing across the ring will be the legendary Mistico, Esfinge, and Atlantis! Mistico has not competed in ROH since September 2019's GLOBAL WARS ESPECTACTULAR events while Atlantis and Esfinge were victorious over the Euforia-Gran Guerrero-Rocky Romero combination two weeks ago. How will the additions of Mistico and Valiente change how this contest unfolds? Tune into ROH ON HONOR CLUB tonight exclusively on WatchROH.com to catch all the lucha libre action!
ONE-ON-ONE...
The Opps' Katsuyori Shibata vs. “Big Shotty” Lee Johnson
Lee Johnson made a good showing for himself during the REVOLUTION 2025: ZERO HOUR when he united with Blake Christian to face Hologram and ROH World TV Champion Komander, Lee's second clash with the champion in just a matter of weeks. Neither the tag nor the championship singles match went in Big Shotty's favor, but tonight he's looking to get back on track towards a rematch down the line.
Unfortunately for Lee that goal of getting back into title contention starts tonight on Honor Club with former ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata! Few men have been as dominant in ROH competition as “The Wrestler”. He's 21-2 since SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 when he bested Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure Championship, with the only losses coming to Eddie Kingston at WRESTLEDREAM 2023 and Yuta in their championship rematch on the 11/25/23 RAMPAGE. Shibata is on an 11-match win streak at this moment, and looks to make Lee Johnson number 12! Can “Big Shotty” pull off the upset tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, and if he can, how will it affect Shibata as he prepares to face Ricochet in the DYNASTY 2025 International Championship Eliminator Tournament on COLLISION?
EIGHT-MAN TAG BATTLE...
Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) vs. Frat House (Cole Karter & Preston Vance) & Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)
These eight-man tags have become a staple of ROH ON HONOR CLUB over the last 106 weeks, creating some wild combinations of competitors, and chaotic action from bell-to-bell! It looks like tonight's edition of ROH's weekly program will be no different as the wildly unlikely pairing of Top Flight and Gates of Agony will unite to face Frat House's Cole Karter and Preston Vance as they team up with Premier Athletes' Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari! Gates of Agony have been on the hunt for titles for quite some time, and they've bulldozed pretty much every team they've been in the ring with since debuting at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022: ZERO HOUR. Though their ROH action has been sparse, Top Flight has amassed a 6-1 record in Ring of Honor to date and it's wild to think these two disparate teams will come together as one even if just for one night! Together they are power and speed, strength and flight, agility and intensity; as talented as Premier Athletes and this Frat House pair may be, they may be outmatched by what the Gates/Top Flight combination creates.
Add in the fact that this is essentially a home game for Toa Liona, that he'll unquestionably have the Oakland crowd behind him and his allies, and this could very well be a massacre!
IN PURSUIT OF A CHAMPIONSHIP...
Dark Panther vs. Aaron Solo
Coming off a win last week in trios competition, and one in the singles ranks two week ago over Gravity, Dark Panther is on the hunt for for the World Television Championship around the waist of Komander. With that Gravity victory, Komander had a ringside seat to watch what Dark Panther could do inside the squared circle and begin to formulate a game plan should that title match come to pass down the line. Perhaps tonight, when Dark Panther steps into the ring with Aaron Solo, the World TV Champion will be on-hand once again to see Dark Panther in action.
If the CMLL athlete wants to get his hands on Komander's championship, he's going to need wins under his belt, but it's not going to be easy when facing Aaron Solo. Solo is a man who's been grinding it out in ROH for the last several months, taking on every fight presented to him, and searching for that big victory that gets him into title conversations. He's stepped into Pure Rules bouts, fought Katsuyori Shibata, Tomohiro Ishii, and Rocky Romero, even went into a tag team fight alongside QT Marshall during HONOR CLUB # 96: BOXING DAY BRAWL against ROH Legend “The Notorious 187 Homicide” and Romero!
If Solo can disrupt Dark Panther's championship aspirations tonight on Honor Club, perhaps he can begin to build momentum towards a title match of his own, but if it's the CMLL star who scores the win, then perhaps it will be time for Komander to put his observations into action!
ALSO FEATURING:
-Lady Frost vs. Leila Grey!
-The return of Spanish Announce Project!!
-Blake Christian in action!!!
-And More!!!