DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 is just eight days away, and we already know that the ROH World Championship will be on the line between Mark Briscoe and Roderick Strong, the ROH Women's World Title will be at stake between “The Forever Champion” Athena and Queen Aminata, and that Billie Starkz will defend her Women's World TV Championship against Red Velvet. We know Lee Moriarty is owed a ROH Pure Championship match after lasting the time limit on the Proving Ground with 3-Time champ Wheeler Yuta, and that ROH World Tag Champions Matt Taven and Mike Bennett are angling for a night off, but we shall see what else is on tap for ROH's Summer tent pole event!
The night begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for all ROH programming, from the weekly episodes to pay-per-view events like next week's DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, as well as more than twenty years of wrestling history featuring combatants such as Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, Adam Cole, Allison Danger, The Briscoes, Daizee Haze, Matt Sydal, and more!
LIGHTS OUT MATCH...
“Legit” Leyla Hirsch vs. Diamante
Lights Out; that means there are no rules, this doesn't count towards anyone's records, and has no bearing on championship or contention. This is a first for Ring of Honor, having a Lights Out stipulation that reflects this utter lack of rules, any other matches called as such were more akin to a Last Man Standing where the competitor who couldn't answer the ten count lost. Look through the archives of ROH's twenty-two year history and the closest to this iteration of the Lights Out stipulation would be the seven Unsanctioned matches held since 2002.
It's been more than three years since this type of match took place in Ring of Honor, a fight between Vincent and Matt Taven at the 19TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW to be exact, but none of these matches have ever taken place in the Women's Division, that is until tonight on Honor Club! After everything Leyla Hirsch and Diamante have been through in ROH, three singles matches, a Four Corner Survival, as well as multiple tags and trios, the two women are finally aiming to settle their issues in this Lights Out Match! With the rules tossed out the window, with only their pride on the line, who will be able to walk about of this fight under their own power? Hirsch has been the victor in their three previous one-on-one wrestling matches, but this isn't a hold-for-hold wrestling bout, this is a playground where tables and chairs and weapons of any kind are perfectly legal to use at all times! It's going to be a violent night on Honor Club as we head towards DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 next Friday night; will either of these women be in any shape to partake in that PPV extravaganza?
TRIOS MATCH...
Dalton Castle & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs. Lance Archer & The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent)
Fans saw The Outrunners show their support for Dalton Castle last Saturday night on COLLISION when he faced Roderick Strong with the DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024 World Championship match on the line, primarily to serve as a balance for Matt Taven and Mike Bennett, but theirs is a bond that just seems to fit. So while Castle may now be on the outside of the ROH World Title fight between Strong and Mark Briscoe on July 26th, he's still got eyes on finding a way to be part of DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024, so that means getting right back into competition with this Trios match against the rather terrifying force of The Righteous and Lance Archer!
Dutch, Vincent, and “The Murderhawk Monster” are 6-2 in Trios competition here in Ring of Honor, one of the loses coming as part of a Four Corner Survival Trios bout and the other in a ROH World Six-Man Title fight with The Mogul Embassy back in January. Suffice to say they are a much more experienced group than Dalton, Truth Magnum, and Turbo Floyd, and it's going to be an uphill battle for the former ROH World Champion to lead The Outrunners to victory! Still, Castle has shown a knack for Trios competition over the years, a true skill at honing competitors into a well-oiled Trio, and perhaps he can do that with The Outrunners starting tonight on Honor Club!!!
THE M.I.T. SPEAKETH!
ROH Women's World Champion Athena and ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz both have title defenses on tap next week in Arlington, TX, the former against Queen Aminata and the latter against Red Velvet, and lets just say that neither is happy about Athena's situation. She claims injury but cameras have captured footage that claims otherwise, and Athena even stepped into a Prestige Wrestling week just six days ago for her first match since May, though she did so wearing that boot on her foot (an accessory she actually used to win the match). Regardless of if Athena's injury has legitimacy, and ROH medical would not clear there if they felt it did, she's got a title match in just eight days, Billie Starkz has one in eight days, so tonight on Honor Club we will hear from both women as they prepare for the championship contests!
ALSO FEATURING:
-Women's World Championship #1 Contender Queen Aminata in action!
-Women's World TV Title #1 Contender Red Velvet in action!!
-Cage of Agony (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun, & Toa Liona) in Trios competition!!!
-And more!