Thursday night is upon us once again, and that means ROH ON HONOR CLUB is back! Tonight we've got a loaded event with the ROH World Television Championship taking center stage. Not only are AR Fox and Kevin Knight set to clash with a future title bout at stake, but ROH World TV Champion Komander is set to defend his title against CMLL's Dark Panther! In addition to those two tremendous match-ups, we will see the Lucha de Trios action return tonight when Mistico, Neon, & Fuego take on Hechicero, Rugido, & Volador Jr.! Plus, Top Flight is in tag team action once again as they face Aaron Solo and QT Marshall, while Satnam Singh, LFI, and La Catalina are all in action of their own!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB drops exclusively on Honor Club at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT, but that's not all the site has to offer! Honor Club is the destination for ROH's 23 years of history featuring the men and women who've defined pro wrestling across the 21st century! In addition to the weekly episodes every Thursday night, we have ROH live events dating back 2002 with THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS, ROH television archives dating back to June 2011, as well as a growing “Best Of...” collection featuring the YEAR ONE – YEAR SIX collections, Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, and more!
ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP...
Komander(c) vs. Dark Panther
Last week, in his victory over Aaron Solo, Dark Panther spent a great deal of time during the match paying attention to World TV Champion Komander who was observing at ringside. It was a distraction that could've cost Panther a crucial victory right before this championship bout, but the luchador was able to keep his focus on Solo just enough to bring home the win. However, once the match ended, Dark Panther turned his full focus to Komander and got right in the champion's face, provoking him to jump the guard rail.
Komander probably would've taken the fight on right then and there if not for referee Aubrey Edwards calming the hostilities as best she good. Thankfully there's no need to calm them this week because Dark Panther will get the championship opportunity he's been pursuing since he first set foot in the ROH ring! On the heels of his tag team battle last night on DYNAMITE, Komander is right back in the ring to put his championship on the line against Dark Panther! It's been 90 days since Komander captured the championship at FINAL BATTLE 2024, and in that he's successfully defended it four times against Johnny TV, QT Marshall, Nick Wayne, and Lee Johnson. Will Dark Panther bring that run to an end tonight during Honor Club or will Komander live to fight another day as champion against the victor of the contender's match also taking place tonight?
ROH WORLD TV TITLE MATCH AT STAKE!
Kevin Knight vs. AR Fox
The ROH World Television Championship has been a prize coveted by many individuals ever since Komander captured it at FINAL BATTLE 2024, so much so that Dark Panther has made it his target since coming to Ring of Honor from CMLL, and tonight he could leave as the 35th championship. Meanwhile, two other individuals will battle it out to see who gets the next opportunity to vie for the title!
Kevin Knight made his first appearance on ROH programming back on HONOR CLUB #91 in a strong victory over Serpentico, but he's also clocked AEW ring time with several bouts on DARK in May 2022 and a bout on the FORBIDDEN DOOR 2022: BUY-IN. Though he looked impressive in those contests where he's made the biggest impression was his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling, including two reigns as IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champion with KUSHIDA and impressive runs in both the Super Junior Tag League as well as the Best of the Super Juniors 31 Tournaments last year. Tonight he looks to take those experiences, as well as all he's picked up traveling the wrestling landscape around the world, to earn a future World Television Championship match.
As for AR Fox, he's been fighting in Ring of Honor since FINAL BATTLE 2022's upset victory over LFI's Dralistico and RUSH and contended for several championships over the last two-plus years. He battled Claudio Castagnoli for the World Title during the very first episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, challenged for the Six-Man Titles at both HONOR CLUB #16 and SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, went one-on-one with Brian Cage for the TV Title at, coincidentally, HONOR CLUB #91, and participated in the World Television Championship Six-Way Elimination at FINAL BATTLE 2024 where Komander won the title. Fox is a well-traveled veteran of the mat wars, but has yet to claim his first ROH championship. Tonight he hopes to take one step closer to another stab at immortality, and a match with the winner of Komander/Dark Panther!
Will it be Kevin Knight or AR Fox? Will it be Komander or Dark Panther? Tonight the focus of ROH ON HONOR CLUB falls on the World Television Championship as we learn the answer to both those questions!
LUCHA DE TRIOS...
Mistico, Neon, & Fuego vs. Hechicero, Rugido, & Volador Jr.
Ring of Honor has been spoiled with the athletes of CMLL gracing the ring for the last several weeks, and that continues tonight with the latest Lucha de Trios combination! Mistico is back in action, this time uniting with the returning Fuego, and the debuting Neon! Neon is a former CMLL World Trios Champion alongside Star Jr. and Mascara Dorada, as well as a former RevPro Undisputed British Cruiserweight Champion, so he's clearly bringing a championship pedigree to this fight!
On the other side of the ring, ROH welcomes Hechicero and Volador Jr. back to competition, and also introduces Rugido to the Ring of Honor stage! Rugido is part of Los Depredadores with Volador Jr., one-half of the current Mexican National Tag Team Champions with Magnus, and himself quite adept at trios competition. This combination of Hechicero, Volador Jr., and Rugido is going to be quite a dangerous combination for this Ring of Honor fight and sure to be a treat for the fans watching on Honor Club!
TAG TEAM COMPETITION...
Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs. Aaron Solo & QT Marshall
Over the course of their ROH career, Top Flight have amassed a 5-1 record in tag team competition and were victorious in their last four consecutive bouts. Above and beyond that, when looking at the whole of their ROH competition, Dante and Darius Martin have won their last 17 straight bouts and are 18-2 overall. Suffice to say they've been exceptional every time they've stepped into an ROH ring, and may have even won the ROH World Tag Titles at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 if not for the horrific injury Dante suffered during the Reach for the Sky Ladder Match. Tonight, after a wild eight-man tag victory last week, Top Flight returns to traditional tag team competition facing the combination of Aaron Solo and QT Marshall for the very first time!
They've tangled with Solo in tag team battles before in 2022, albeit with a different partner, but this is a first time tangling with QT Marshall in any form. Can the Martin brothers continue their successful run in Ring of Honor tonight?
ALSO FEATURING:
-CMLL's La Catalina in action!
-LFI's Dralistico & The Beast Mortos in tag team competition!!
-Satnam Singh steps into the ROH ring!!!
-And More!