ROH on Honor Club Episode 111 Preview

A new day has dawned in Ring of Honor and at its helm is “The Most Wanted” Bandido! This past Sunday night at DYNASTY 2025, in the city of Philadelphia where Ring of Honor was born, Bandido defeated “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho to claim the ROH World Championship for the second time! A new day has dawned in Ring of Honor and at its helm is “The Most Wanted” Bandido! This past Sunday night at DYNASTY 2025, in the city of Philadelphia where Ring of Honor was born, Bandido defeated “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho to claim the ROH World Championship for the second time!

That bring us to tonight for the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB dropping exclusively on Honor Club and beginning at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT! Tonight we will see the brand-new World Champion Bandido face 2-Time World Champion Jay Lethal in their very first singles match, and on the Proving Ground no less! Plus, The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii faces Frat House's Preston Vance, MxM Collection is in Trios action with Johnny TV, Death Riders' Marina Shafir returns to ROH competition, and World Six-Man Champions Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs will also be in trios action!

It's only on Honor Club, but the weekly Thursday night program isn't all it has to offer! Honor Club is the only home for ROH's 23-year history and it showcases the best from the men and women who've shaped the face of professional wrestling for the last two decades! We have a live event archive dating back to 2002's THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS, as well as television archives beginning with June 2011, plus an ever-expanding “Best Of...” collection that includes Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, the Women of Honor, The Kings of Wrestling, and in honor of their return to AEW at DYNASTY 2025, we've added SUPERKICK PARTY VOL. 1: THE BEST OF THE YOUNG BUCKS! This set showcases Matt and Nick Jackson from their 2009 debut with ROH through 2014, and features bouts with The Briscoes, Kings of Wrestling, Dark City Fight Club, Forever Hooligans, All Night Express, and more!

PROVING GROUND...

ROH World Champion Bandido vs. “The Franchise of ROH” Jay Lethal

As the phrase goes, out of the frying pan into the fire! Just days after defeating “The Learning Tree” Chris Jericho to become a 2-Time ROH World Champion, “The Most Wanted” Bandido is stepping onto the Proving Ground to face “The Franchise of ROH” Jay Lethal! Though the two men are quite familiar with one another from previous matches in ROH (including a World Tag Title Proving Ground, match during Lethal's title reign) as well as in Mexico, they've surprisingly never faced each other one-on-one. Well that changes in the main event of tonight's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB!

The last time Bandido and Lethal shared the ring in ROH was four years ago, almost to the day, when ROH WRESTLING 499 aired on April 9, 2021. That evening Jay and his partner were victorious in tag team action over Bandido and his, just as they were a few months prior in the aforementioned World Tag Title Proving Ground match. In fact across the five times they've previously faced each other in ROH, it was Lethal side of the bout that proved victorious in three instances. However, extrapolate that across their career bouts with one another, and we see a 3-3-1 record with that 1 stemming from a Five-Way battle in Mexico neither Lethal nor Bandido won.

Delving a little further into the fight mathematics of the bout, Lethal has been in 19 previous Proving Ground matches and was the reigning champion in 17 of those. In the two where he was the prospective challenger, Lethal split the difference at 1-1. However it should be noted that in the one where he lost (ROH WAR), Jay was just one of three other potential challengers to the World TV Title then held by Matt Taven. In his only one-on-one Proving Ground challenge at ROAD TO GREATNESS: NIGHT 2, he defeated Taven to earn a championship bout. In addition, Lethal was in one of the first-ever singles Proving Ground matches when he, as reigning World TV Champion, defeated Mark Briscoe at GATEWAY TO HONOR 2011. 

Conversely, ROH World Champion Bandido has only fought in one Proving Ground match before, the previously mentioned World Tag Title contest at GATEWAY TO HONOR 2020, and his team fell in its attempt to earn a title fight. One final statistical note about the World Title and Proving Ground bouts: in 21 previous such contests no one has ever defeated the World Champion to earn a title bout, and only one man ever went the time limit to earn a championship fight. Coincidentally it was Jay Lethal who was the reigning World Champion at that time...

So can “The Franchise” earn his way to his first ROH World Title fight since the FULL GEAR 2023 bout with Eddie Kingston, or will Bandido survive his first experience on the Proving Ground as ROH World Champion?

ONE-ON-ONE...

The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii vs. Frat House's Preston Vance

The Frat House members seem far more interested in partying than they do winning their bouts, which is unfortunate considering they are a supremely talented collection of athletes who've shown flashes of their potential over the course of their assorted career in AEW and ROH. Perhaps the top of the list when it comes to that conversation is Preston Vance. Whether it was as a member of The Dark Order or standing alongside La Faccion Ingobernables, Vance has gone one-on-one with Jon Moxley, challenged Orange Cassidy for the International Title, competed against Lee Moriarty for the Pure Title, and yet every bit of that potential seems wasted as he, in his own words, said “win or lose, we booze”.

On the other hand, you've got “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii who is purely focused on the fight in front of him and the potential to add championships to his trophy case. In fact tomorrow night in Chicago, at NJPW's WINDY CITY RIOT 2025, he could add the NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship to that as he challenges Gabe Kidd in a 30-Minute Iron Man Match. So as much as tonight's match is about beating Preston Vance, it's also about getting prepared for the fight with Kidd in 24 hours. If Vance hopes to defeat “The Stone Pitbull” he's either going to have to set all the distractions of The Frat House aside, or use his frat bros as leverage against the 6-Time NEVER Openweight Champion!

ALSO FEATURING:

-MxM Collection & Johnny TV in Trios action!

-Death Riders' Marina Shafir competes!

-ROH World Six-Man Champions Dustin Rhodes & The Von Erichs in action!

-And More!!!