Thursday night is upon us one again, that means an all-new episode of ROH ON HONORCLUB is coming your way! ROH was strongly represented at ALL IN: LONDON 2024 with Dustin Rhodes, Sammy Guevara, The Von Erichs, and ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe all in action, but now its back to the grindstone after that epic pay-per-view presentation and it starts tonight with the ROH Pure Championship on the line! Angelico, after getting a win in his first-ever Pure Rules bout, has already challenged Lee Moriarty to a title match and the champion has readily accepted! Plus ROH Women's World Champion Athena will be in action on the Proving Ground, Mina Shirakawa returns to take on Rachael Ellering, Johnny TV welcomes Sidney Akeem to ROH, Ariya Daivari faces Tomohiro Ishii, and so much more!!!
Tonight's episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB is ready to showcase some of the best athletes in professional wrestling today, and it gets underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! In addition to ROH's weekly episodes that drop every Thursday evening, Honor Club is also the home for 20+ years of rich wrestling history featuring competitors such as new AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson, new AEW International Champion Will Ospreay, new AEW World Trios Champions PAC and Claudio Castagnoli, as well as appearances from men like Shinjiro Otani, Jushin Liger, Great Muta, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, and more!!
ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH...
Shane Taylor Promotions' Lee Moriarty(c) vs. The SAP's Angelico
Last week on Honor Club, Angelico and Aaron Solo competed in each man's first-ever Pure Rules match. It's not always the easiest rule structure to grasp the first-time around, but each handled themselves well, though it was ultimately Angelico and his llave style that won the day.
Clearly this has given the Negro Navarro trained Angelico a boost of confidence because he and Serpentico feel Angelico is prepared to step up to title contender based off that one Pure victory. That's fine by ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, he's not going to back down from any challenge now that he's finally acquired the prize he's been chasing for as long as he's been in Ring of Honor. Inspired by former Pure Champions like Nigel McGuinness, Jay Lethal, and yes even Wheeler Yuta, Moriarty made it a point to hone his mat skills to a killer edge until he finally claimed the Pure Championship for his own.
Moriarty turned away the Proving Ground challenge of Action Andretti two weeks ago, but in this dance with Angelico the championship will be on the line! Can TaigaStyle be successful in his first title defense, or will Angelico put his llave stylings to work to claim his first ROH title?
ONE-ON-ONE...
Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari vs. The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii
Ariya Daivari and the Premier Athletes have been a thorn in the side of The Conglomeration for weeks now; be it in Trios competition several weeks ago on COLLISION when Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, and Tomohiro Ishii defeated the lot of them, or just a few weeks ago when Tony Nese fell to Ishii in singles competition, “Smart” Mark Sterling's unit will just not fade away.
Tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB another of those men will step up to the plate to try and knock down “The Stone Pitbull”, the ultra-athletic Ariya Daivari! It's been a rough go for Daivari as of late here in ROH, after scoring a tag victory with Tony Nese during HONOR CLUB 75, he had his head kicked off by Katsuyori Shibata two weeks later, and now two weeks after that he's going after Big Tom! Throw in his AEW antics, taking on Hologram and Mistico in tag action, the fight with Jeff Jarrett, and that wild 16-Man during the ALL IN: LONDON 2024 ZERO HOUR and he's been quite the busy man.
Then again, Ishii has been as well, getting his own ZERO HOUR work in with that Mixed Tag against Stokely Hathaway and Kris Statlander, then throwing down bombs with Hangman Page just last night on DYNAMITE in their singles match. “The Stone Pitbull” has got to feeling it after that fight with the former AEW World Champion, but he's ready to go again tonight in Ring of Honor action! Can this Conglomeration member finally put an end to Premier Athlete involvement in their lives?
PROVING GROUND MATCH...
ROH Women's World Champion Athena vs. Aleah James
On the August 10th COLLISION, Aleah James made her first impression on the AEW audience when she faced Hikaru Shida one-on-one. Tonight during HONOR CLUB #79, she gets into an ROH ring for the very first time with another World Champion as her foe, none other than “The Fallen Goddess”, your forever champion, the ROH Women's World Champion Athena! A native of Essex, England, Aleah James has been honing her craft for the last five years primarily in the UK, but recently made her first excursions to the United States for competition, and thus her answering the Proving Ground challenge against Athena!
We know that Abadon has eyes on the “The Fallen Goddess”, and could be lurking around any corner, but will that distract Athena from success in her 31st Proving Ground/Eliminator Match?
SINGLES MATCH...
RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion Mina Shirakawa vs. Rachael Ellering
After watching the Toni Storm/Mariah May dynamic finally explode at ALL IN: LONDON 2024, Mina Shirakawa has to get her head back in the game tonight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB when she faces the double-tough Rachael Ellering one-on-one! Coming into this bout 1-0 in ROH singles competition, we have not seen Mina in action under the ROH banner since that amazing Stardom Trios bout at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 back in April while Ellering, after healing up from some lingering issues, is coming off a victory over Brooke Havok three weeks ago and looking to work into title contention.
A victory over the RevPro Undisputed British Women's Champion would be a huge boon to the career of Ellering, but it's going to be a tough fight to score that victory, ain't no doubt about it!
ONE-ON-ONE...
Johnny TV vs. Sidney Akeem
Johnny TV is always ready for his television time, but tonight during HONOR CLUB #79 he's got quite a tough task on hand when he welcomes Sidney Akeem to Ring of Honor for the very first time! Akeem has been making waves on the independent circuit for the last several months, traveling from Florida to Cleveland to LA to Atlantic City, and wowing audiences wherever he goes, and his background training with Cirque de Soleil is going to make this bout with the parkour-inclined Johnny TV quite the intriguing contest. Will Akeem make an impact on Mr. TV Ready in his ROH debut, or will Johnny squash that dream in its infancy?
ALSO FEATURING:
-Dark Order's Evil Uno vs. Jacoby Watts
-Premier Athletes' Josh Woods in action!
-Top Flight & Action Andretti in trios competition!!
-Leila Grey vs. Promise Braxton!
-Blake Christian vs. Rosario Grillo!!!
-And we will hear from Shane Taylor Promotions!!
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