ROH on Honor Club Episode 109 Preview

Thursday nights mean ROH ON HONOR CLUB is back only at WatchROH.com and we've got a tremendous collection of bouts lined up for the ROH faithful tonight! Not only will fans see Lucha de Trios action with Barbaro Cavernario, Rugido, and Volador Jr. versus Atlantis Jr., Fuego, and Titan, but also Dark Order taking on Premier Athletes in tag team action! In addition, we've got Dark Panther facing Okumura, ROH Women's World Champion Athena and her new minion Diamante in tag team action, Queen Aminata taking on Viva Van, and ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara uniting with Willie Mack to take on MxM Collection and Johnny TV in trios competition!

ROH ON HONOR CLUB comes to you exclusively on Honor Club (www.watchroh.com) beginning at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT with some of the best pro wrestling action around, and that's only part of what Honor Club has to offer! In addition to the weekly programming every Thursday, Honor Club is your destination for ROH's 23 years of history featuring the competitors who've shaped pro wrestling over the last 25 years! We have live events dating back ROH's debut event THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS from 2/23/02, as well as ROH television archives dating back to June 2011, and an ever-growing “Best Of...” collection that includes SAMOA JOE: A CHAMPIONSHIP LEGACY, THE WOMEN OF HONOR, RODERICK STRONG: MESSIAH OF THE BACKBREAKER, and more!

LUCHA DE TRIOS...

Barbaro Cavernario, Rugido, & Volador Jr.

vs.

Atlantis Jr., Fuego, & CMLL World Welterweight Champion Titan

Between Lucha de Trios battles and the occasional singles bouts, the athletes of Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre continue to impress every week on Honor Club! Last week it was Mistico, Neon, & Fuego defeating Hechicero, Rugido, & Volador Jr. and Dark Panther pushing ROH World Television Champion Komander to his limit in a title fight. This week we will see Dark Panther taking on Okumura in singles competition, and this Lucha de Trios contest pitting Atlantis Jr., Fuego & Titan against Barbaro Cavernario, Rugido & Volador Jr.! There's a good deal of history wrapped up in these teams, especially with Atlantis Jr. and CMLL World Welterweight Champion Titan as these two competitors have shared the ring on at least 71 occasions, primarily as allies, though occasionally as opponents. Titan and Fuego have shared the ring many times as well, on 42 occasions at least, and even traveled to New Japan together for the FANTASTICA MANIA events in 2014 and 2016, as well as ROAD TO POWER STRUGGLE and POWER STRUGGLE events of 2016. As for Atlantis Jr. and Fuego, well they don't have remotely near the storied connection as there's only one previous match on record where they competed as partners, and that took place way back in August of 2018.

On the other side of the ring with Barbaro Cavernario, Rugido, & Volador Jr., there's definitely history binding the men together, but a good deal of it is as opposition. Barbaro Cavernario and Rugido have only united for two matches in their careers, both on the same night, as they were part of the Torneo Gran Alternativa 2021 tournament. Beyond that, Rugido, along with Los Depredadores allies such as  Volador Jr., has stood on the opposite side of the ring from Rugido three times just in 2024 and achieved victory in all three meetings. Speaking of Volador Jr., as it pertains to Barbaro, they've been in the ring with one another more than 240 times dating back to 2014 and very little of it has been fighting on the same side. They fought over the CMLL World Trios Titles twice when Barbaro was one-third of the champions, and they've battled over the CMLL World Historic Welterweight Championship during Volador Jr.'s 1,337-day second reign and during his 1,631-day third reign. So given all that history, can they exist on the same page tonight during Honor Club? We know Volador Jr. and Rugido won't have such concerns, but will Barbaro Cavernario? And if so, will that be the key to victory for CMLL World Welterweight Champion Titan, Atlantis Jr., and Fuego?

TAG TEAM BATTLE...

Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno)

vs.

Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari & Tony Nese)

The Dark Order has been going through it for the last several...well...months to be frank. They haven't competed on Honor Club in almost two months, none of them have been on the winning end of a match since HONOR CLUB #88, and at the moment it is just Alex Reynolds and Evil Uno left standing to represent one of All Elite Wrestling's original units. Preston Vance may be a jerk, but he's not wholly in the wrong about the current state of Dark Order.

As for their foes tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, Premier Athletes have not been the most successful as of late either. It's been since HONOR CLUB #80 that they've garnered a victory, and they've been down Josh Woods since the end of 2024. Suffice to say this tag team contest here tonight is a battle of groups needing to get themselves back on track in Ring of Honor, and though Premier Athletes and Dark Order have shared the ring on many occasions in both ROH and AEW, this is a first-time traditional tag match-up with these particular combinations. 

Which team will break out of the funk they've been in these last few months? Tune into Honor Club tonight to find out!

TRIOS BOUT...

ROH World Tag Team Champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) and Willie Mack

vs.

Johnny TV & MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)

The animosity between The Sons of Texas and MxM Collection hasn't abated despite Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara successfully defending the ROH World Tag Team Titles against them at GLOBAL WARS: AUSTRALIA. Mason Madden and Mansoor are intent on taking the titles from the champions, be it legitimately or just by absconding with the belts if possible, and that mission continues tonight in the form of trios action! MxM look to their catwalk confidant Johnny TV for help in this bout while The Sons of Texas tag in unlikely ally Willie Mack to round out their unit! Mack brings some hard-hitting power to this fight as a counter to Johnny TV's amazing athletic abilities, but will it be enough to top this trendy trio? What will it take for Rhodes and Guevara to finally rid themselves of MxM Collection forever?

ONE-ON-ONE...

Dark Panther vs. Okumura

Last week Dark Panther may have come up short in his bid to claim the ROH World Television Championship from Komander, but he is getting right back in the saddle tonight with a man who recently celebrated his 30th anniversary in wrestling: Okumura! It's been five and a half years since Okumura last stepped into an ROH ring, and he's doing so with his first-ever ROH singles match against a man with whom he's got quite the extensive history. Okumura and Dark Panther have been entwined in each other's careers for over a decade now, battling all across Mexico for CMLL, and even in Japan for the FANTASICA MANIA events co-promoted with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Yet with more than 100 matches against each other on record, the two competitors have faced off just seven times in one-on-one bouts, with the 4-3 nod going to Okumura, and all four of those wins coming in their last four battles! Can Okumura continue that roll of success against Dark Panther when they bring their rivalry to Ring of Honor, or will Dark Panther bounce back from his loss last week with renewed vigor?

ALSO FEATURING:

-Queen Aminata vs. Viva Van!

-ROH Women's World Champion Athena & Diamante in tag action!