Thursday night is here once more and that means more ROH ON HONOR CLUB to satisfy your wrestling needs! After weeks of anticipation, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena will finally face Abadon in an ROH Women's World Championship Match, but not just any match, this one will be a Halloween Ring of Horror Match where Anything Goes and Falls Count Anywhere, not to mention the fact the two women will be chained together at the wrist! Plus former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz will be in action, CMLL's Reyna Isis takes on Lady Frost, and Premier Athletes will compete as Ariya Daivari fights Komander and Josh Woods battles The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii! We will also see Gates of Agony, Johnny TV, Diamante, and more compete while Dark Order meets the Iron Savages in trios competition!!!
ROH ON HONOR CLUB begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for ROH's weekly offering each and every Thursday night, as well as the only place to experience 20+ years of the best in professional wrestling history as encompassed in the “Best of ROH” section! That's your spot to catch compilations featuring Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness, Samoa Joe, Claudio Castagnoli, The Briscoes, and more!!!
ROH WOMEN'S WORLD TITLE HALLOWEEN RING OF HORROR MATCH...
Athena(c) vs. Abadon
Abadon has been lurking around the ROH Women's World Champion for weeks now, putting fear into the heart of “The Fallen Goddess”, causing Athena to jump at her own shadow, to constantly look over her own shoulder to see if “The Living Dead Girl” was lurking, and quite possibly the reason why Athena's championship celebration has been delayed nearly 50 days since she broke Samoa Joe's 20-year record as the longest-reigning title holder in ROH's history.
Tonight there is no more running, no more ducking or dodging the threat that Abadon represents to the ROH Women's World Champion, because tonight they will be chained at the wrist in a Halloween Ring of Horror Match where anything goes, falls count anywhere, and the ROH Women's World Title is on the line! During the course of her reign, Athena has survived a 2-of-3 Falls Tables Match against Nyla Rose and a Chicago Street Fight against Kiera Hogan, but over the course of the last 691 days she has not experienced anything like this Ring of Horror match set to take place tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB! Abadon brings a sense of uneasiness to every fight they are involved in, the feeling that something horrific could happen at any moment, and when the World Title is on the line with absolutely no rules constraining them from unleashing said horror, this may just be the last night Athena calls herself the “Forever Champion”!
That being said, if Athena somehow survives the hell Abadon is set to unleash, who is left to step up and challenge her for the Women's World Title? She's already put down 23 challenges to her title from 19 different women, not to mention turning away 32 potential challenges in Eliminator/Proving Ground bout, so if not Abadon than who? That's a question that may pop up come Friday morning, but for now the one that must be posited is what to do about Abadon? How does one survive a Ring of Horror against a competitor who embodies that word?
PURE RULES...
Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven vs. Aaron Solo
There is only one title in Ring of Honor that Undisputed Kingdom's Matt Taven has never held, a title with rules unlike any other in the promotion, rules that Taven himself has never experienced: the Pure Championship. By the time Matt Taven had his first match in ROH, the Pure Title had been unified with the ROH World Title by Bryan Danielson, seemingly making the possibility of Pure Champion Matt Taven a pipe dream. All that changed in September 2020 when the tournament began to crown the first Pure Champion since August 12, 2006, making it a distinct possibility Taven could become the only man to hold every title in company history, yet he never set foot into the Pure Division, let alone wrestled a single match under Pure Rules.
Tonight on HONOR CLUB that changes as, coming off a tag team victory over ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty and Shane Taylor six days ago on RAMPAGE, Matt Taven takes on his first-ever Pure Rules bout against Aaron Solo! Stylistically the Pure Rules suit Solo, but this will be just his second contest under those guidelines, his first taking place during HONOR CLUB #78 just two months ago, so he's still understanding the intricacies of how the Pure game can be played.
Will this be the night where Solo steps up a level and takes down a ROH Grand Slam Champion, or will it be Matt Taven who secures his first Pure victory and perhaps moves closer to a shot at Lee Moriarty's championship?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari vs. Komander
Coming off his failed ROH World Television Championship challenge against “The Machine” Brian Cage, Komander is right back in action looking to earn another shot! This time around he faces Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari in their first-ever meeting inside the squared circle. Overall Komander is coming into this fight with three wins in his last four ROH matches while Daivari comes in off a loss to Sammy Guevara in his last ROH singles match. Can Komander rebound strongly or will Daivari be able to turn Komander's championship defeat into a victory of his own?
TAG MATCH...
BEEF & JD Drake vs. Peter Avalon & Preston Vance
Last Friday on RAMPAGE we saw JD Drake step up to BEEF's side in lieu of his Workhorsemen partner Anthony Henry's injury, accompanying him to the ring for his fight against The Beast Mortos, and though that singles outing did not go BEEF's way, Drake is standing by BEEF's side for this tag team battle against another impromptu duo: Preston Vance and Peter Avalon!
While BEEF and Drake have nothing in common save Anthony Henry, Vance and Avalon don't even have that, all they've got are a handful of matches as opponents while Vance was still with Dark Order and Avalon rode with JD Drake as The Wingmen. It was a little over two years ago that Vance, under his Ten moniker and alongside Evil Uno, defeated Drake and Avalon in tag team competition, but now the roles are all mixed up and everyone here is looking for their place in the grand scheme of ROH. Will Drake and BEEF gel as well as Henry and JD, or can Avalon and Vance get on the same page to score a victory over these tag team partner-in-laws (or something) by marriage?
TRIOS MATCH...
Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, & John Silver) vs.
Iron Savages (Boulder & Bronson) and Jacked Jameson
Dark Order has been in pursuit of the ROH World Six-Man Championship titles for months on end, facing Dustin Rhodes and The Von Erichs in an Eliminator Match at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 last July where the winners moved on to fight Undisputed Kingdom at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XI to crown new Six-Man Champions. Dustin, Marshall, and Ross were victorious that night, and since then Dark Order have been engaged with “The Natural” in one form or another, be it alongside Sammy Guevara as part of the ROH World Tag Title picture, or with the Von Erich boys.
Yet in their last ROH outing, Alex Reynolds and John Silver were able to take down the duo of Jacked Jameson and Boulder in the latter's first Ring of Honor match as a tag team, but that doesn't mean Iron Savages are down with Dark Order yet. Tonight during HONOR CLUB the whole of the unit, Jameson, Boulder, and Bronson, are gunning for the full Dark Order in trios competition! Can Iron Savages prove the dominant trio when fighting all together, or will it be the experienced edge of Dark Order that wins out tonight in this clash of potential championship contenders?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Premier Athletes' Josh Woods vs. The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii
The last time we saw Tomohiro Ishii in ROH competition, the former ROH World TV Champion was putting down Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese over the course of a few weeks in August. Shortly thereafter Chris Jericho and his Learning Tree took out Ishii, forcing him to return to Japan to recover, but also take part in NJPW's ROAD TO DESTRUCTION 2024 tour in September, the ROAD TO KING OF PRO WRESTLING 2024 tour in October, as well as the ROYAL QUEST IV event at London's Crystal Palace. Through that all, he only took part in one singles match, a RevPro loss to Luke Jacobs with the Undisputed British Heavyweight Title on the line, but now he's ready to get back to competition here in the states as evidenced by this past Wednesday night on DYNAMITE as seen in the above embedded video. It was just about two years ago, during Jericho's first reign with the ROH World Title, that “The Stone Pitbull” wore “The Ocho” out with his heavy hands in their ROH World Championship bout, and it looks like Ishii wants another shot at Jericho now that he's “The Nueve”! That quest begins tonight as Ishii tries to go through Josh Woods during HONOR CLUB while Woods looks to rebound from the Proving Ground loss to Mark Briscoe he suffered in his last ROH singles bout!
Will Ishii make a case for being the first challenger for Jericho's second ROH World Title reign or will it be the former ROH Pure Champion who starts to make his case for a World Title challenge?
ALSO IN ACTION:
-Lady Frost vs. Reyna Isis!
-Billie Starkz!
-Diamante!!
-Gates of Agony!!!
-Johnny TV!!!!
-And More!!!!!!!