We've got plenty of action coming your way tonight during an all-new edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! Exclusively available at WatchROH.com, tonight's episode focuses on Lucha action with competitors from CMLL including two tremendous trios battles, La Catalina versus Lady Frost, Blake Christian taking on Fuego Del Sol, Gravity returning to ROH to face Dark Panther, as well as The Beast Mortos in singles action, and The Infantry representing Shane Taylor Promotions in tag team action!
Ring of Honor is ready to rock with the best in professional wrestling starting at 7pm ET/6pm CT tonight exclusively on Honor Club! On top of a new episode of action dropping every Thursday night, Honor Club is also the home for 23 years of Ring of Honor history featuring the world's greatest who have shaped professional wrestling this century! Not only are there television archives dating back to 2011, hundreds of live events beginning with 2/23/02's THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS, and the “Best Of...” collection continues to expand every week! We've got collections featuring Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, The Briscoes, and more, plus we continue the celebration of ROH's 23rd anniversary with the addition of ROH:YEAR FIVE including the historic Dragon Gate Six-Man, the World Title/Pure Title Unification bout, Cage of Death, Danielson/KENTA, and the ascension of The Kings of Wrestling!
LUCHA DE TRIOS...
Rocky Romero, Gran Guerrero, & Euforia vs. Atlantis. Esfinge, & Fuego
Atlantis Jr., Templario, Mascara Dorada vs. Magnus, Soberano Jr., & Volador Jr.
Tonight during HONOR CLUB, we present two tremendous trios bouts featuring the amazing athletes from CMLL! We got a taste of it last week when Barbaro Cavernario, Hechicero, and Soberano Jr. defeated Dark Panther, Fuego, & ROH World Tag Champion Sammy Guevara, but this week it's double the fun with two such contests! In one we will see former multi-time ROH World Tag Champion Rocky Romero reunite with Gran Guerrero and Euforia (though in their first outing as a trio) to take on Atlantis, Esfinge, and Fuego, also fighting in their first-ever bout as a trio. For Fuego it's a chance to redeem last week's loss, but for Esfinge it's a first time in ROH since competing on the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2017 events, though not as part of the tournament, while Atlantis hasn't been here since STATE OF THE ART 2018. Rocky's ROH history is well-documented, but for Gran Guerrero and Euforia this will be their ROH debut. What makes that quite a fascinating thing is that it was only nine days ago that Gran Guerrero and Euforia battled one another for the CMLL World Heavyweight Title!
In the other bout pitting Atlantis Jr., Templario, Mascara Dorada against Magnus, Soberano Jr., & Volador Jr., we've got men with their own ROH experiences. Obviously we've got a former ROH World Television Champion in Atlantis Jr, while one of his partners, Templario, has ROH history as part of the SUMMER SUPERCARD event in August 2019 though for Mascara Dorada this is his broadcast ROH debut after competing in a non-televised bout back on November 27th. As for the other side of the fight, in addition to being part of the winning team from last week's trios match Soberano Jr. made several appearances in 2018 and 2019, as did Volador Jr, while this will be Magnus' ROH debut. There's such an intriguing mix of history between these six men as they've faced off over the years, and there's no doubt these two lucha contests will be tremendous showcases of just what CMLL brings to the table!
ONE-ON-ONE...
La Catalina vs. Lady Frost
Tonight, making her Ring of Honor debut, and competing in the States for the first time since August 2023, La Catalina arrives for a fight with ROH stalwart Lady Frost! Catalina has been competing regularly in CMLL for about two years now, and in that time she's fought for the CMLL World Women's Title, the NJPW STRONG Women's Title, won the CMLL Universal De Amazones 2023 Tournament, and competed in the Occidente Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, the CMLL World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, and the Universal De Amazones 2024 Tournament. Now she brings her 11 years of experience to Ring of Honor for the first time in hopes of making her way to an ROH championship fight!
ROH Women's World Champion Athena is recently off her World Tour in Stardom and looking to show her dominance over the entirety of the wrestling landscape. ROH Women's World TV Champion Red Velvet is wondering where her next challenger will come from. Either one of them could end up in the ring with La Catalina if she makes a strong impact in her ROH debut, but that being said, it could just as well be Lady Frost if she can upset the highly-touted CMLL competitor tonight during HONOR CLUB!
ONE-ON-ONE...
Blake Christian vs. Fuego Del Sol
What a ride Blake Christian has been on these last two months since FINAL BATTLE 2024! Though he lost that night in the World Television Title Six-Way Elimination Match, Blake made a huge impact in his elimination of Mark Davis as well as in the fight he gave Komander en route to the latter's championship victory. Just six days later, during HONOR CLUB #96, Blake defeated AR Fox in singles competition and kicked off his current five-match winning streak. Blake has scored victories over Fox, Parker Li, Evil Uno, Adam Priest, as well as Serpentico, and tonight takes on the challenge of Fuego Del Sol!
Last week Fuego suffered a loss to Wheeler Yuta in his first ROH bout since HONOR CLUB #78, but unfortunately for Fuego that victory wasn't enough for the AEW World Trios Champion. It wasn't enough to just assault Fuego either after the match, Yuta had to bring a steel chain into the ring and wrap it around Fuego's throat until the masked warrior coughed up blood.
After that, what kind of condition will Fuego Del Sol be in for this fight against Blake Christian tonight during HONOR CLUB? Can he rebound from that beating and break up Christian's winning streak, or will Blake continue to roll through the competition?
SINGLES MATCH...
Dark Panther vs. Gravity
It's been over a year since we last saw Gravity compete inside an ROH ring, but during his time here from June 2023 to February 2024 the man made quite an impact. Not only did he make it to the finals of the 2023 ROH World TV Title Eliminator Tournament before losing to Shane Taylor, he also stepped onto the Proving Ground against the ROH World Six-Man and ROH World Tag Champions, and battled Kyle Fletcher in a Qualifying match for the Survival of the Fittest at FINAL BATTLE 2023. In the year since he was last in ROH, Gravity has been competing all around Mexico for numerous promotions, but now he's back to remind the ROH faithful why he left such an impression over the course of his previous run.
However Gravity has his work cut out for him tonight when he steps into the ring with Dark Panther! Panther first made an impression on ROH audiences way back at SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2016 when he made it to the Six-Way Elimination Finals of the tournament, and then once more in his return to honor during last week's trios battle. As part of Los Divinos Laguneros since 2014 with Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., and Hijo De Blue Panther, Dark Panther has been active since 2011 and competed against the best CMLL has to offer. He's a former CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Champion, and has competed in numerous tournaments over the course of his CMLL tenure. Now he steps into the ring for his first ROH singles match looking to rebound from last week's trios loss, facing a man in Gravity who wants to get back on the track he started in his previous ROH tenure!
ALSO FEATURING:
-STP's The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) in action!
-The Beast Mortos in singles competition!
-And More!