It is Thursday night and that means Ring of Honor is back in action! Dropping at 7pm ET/6pm CT, this week's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB features ROH World TV Champion Atlantis Jr. in Proving Ground action against “Pretty” Peter Avalon, Lio Rush facing Rocky Romero one-on-one, Queen Aminata battling Harley Cameron, and it seems Billie Starkz has called an Emergency M.E.M! Plus one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions Sammy Guevara will be in action against Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari, and we will see The Outrunners, Preston Vance, Lady Frost, and many others compete inside that ROH ring as well!
The action begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club (www.watchroh.com), the home for Ring of Honor Wrestling's weekly show as well as the home for its 20+ years of wrestling history, including epic clashes between Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness who look to renew their rivalry at DYNAMITE: GRAND SLAM 2024 in less than two weeks!!
PROVING GROUND MATCH...
ROH World Television Champion Atlantis Jr. vs. “Pretty” Peter Avalon
As Atlantis Jr. prepares for a return to CMLL tomorrow to compete on their 91st Anniversary event, he first must square up with a very game “Pretty” Peter Avalon in a Proving Ground match with a future shot at his ROH World Television Championship at stake! It has been 77 days since Atlantis Jr. dethroned Kyle Fletcher at CMLL's June 28th SUPER VIERNES event, and in that time he's successfully defended his title against Serpentico and Robbie Eagles in singles matches, as well as against five simultaneous challengers in DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024's Survival of the Fittest elimination match.
This bout tonight marks the first Proving Ground match of Atlantis Jr.'s reign, as well as Peter's first Ring of Honor bout since HONOR CLUB #45 back in January. That last ROH bout saw Avalon fall to former World Champion Dalton Castle, but he's hoping to bounce back strong here by earning a future World TV Title opportunity against Atlantis Jr. Remember, Peter doesn't have to beat the champion to earn his championship bout, he just has to survive the 10-minute time limit and the match will be his! We witnessed it take place when The Infantry took Undisputed Kingdom to the time limit in a World Tag Title Proving Ground match to earn their SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2024 opportunity, and when Lee Moriarty did it against ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta en route to ending Yute's third title reign at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024. It can be done, but with the ROH World Television Title, it hasn't happened since Rocky Romero won a Three-Way Proving Ground over then-champion Jeff Cobb and Dalton Castle at ROAD TO G1 SUPERCARD: NIGHT 2 on 1/25/19.
Can Avalon be the first to earn a TV Title shot this way in nearly six years, or will he be shut down by Atlantis Jr. just like so many other hopeful challengers since the inception of the Proving Ground concept in November 2011?
SINGLES MATCH...
Lio Rush vs. Rocky Romero
It's been three and a half years since the last time Lio Rush locked horns with Rocky Romero in singles competition, a qualifying bout in the New Japan Cup USA back on March 5, 2021 won by Lio. Aside from that one outing, all of the engagement between the two men has been as allies fighting together on NJPW STRONG, and then later on New Japan's CAPITAL COLLISON 2023 event while both were members of the CHAOS faction. The two have also teamed in All Elite Wrestling, first on the 1st anniversary edition of COLLISION back in June, and then during the ALL IN: LONDON 2024 ZERO HOUR, so suffice to say they know one another quite well.
Will that knowledge prove beneficial to either man tonight in their HONOR CLUB fracas?
ONE-ON-ONE...
ROH World Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara vs. Premier Athletes' Ariya Daivari
Five days ago during the ALL OUT 2024: ZERO HOUR, ROH World Tag Champions Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara united with the red-hot Hologram to defeat Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods, and Tony Nese in Trios actions. The Premiere Athletes and “Smart” Mark Sterling are not ones to let anything go, and that is why tonight during HONOR CLUB Ariya Daivari will go head-to-head with “The Spanish God” Sammy Guevara! If Daivari scores the victory here, will it get him and his compatriots closer to a future World Tag Title bout?
AN EMERGENCY M.E.M!
With just four days to go until ROH Women's World Champion Athena breaks Samoa Joe's 20-year old record as the longest reigning champion in Ring of Honor history, former ROH Women's World TV Champion Billie Starkz has called an emergency Minion Empowerment Meeting! What is this in regards to? Is it about Abadon and her clear interest in the title around The Fallen Goddess' waist? Is it about what Starkz has experienced since losing the TV Title to Red Velvet at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2024? Tune into HONOR CLUB tonight starting at 7pm ET to find out just what this emergency may be!
SINGLES MATCH...
Harley Cameron vs. Queen Aminata
Coming off her Eliminator loss to AEW Women's World Champion Mariah May last night on DYNAMITE, Queen Aminata is back in action for the first time since HONOR CLUB #76 one month ago and looking to bounce back from that loss. Aminata has won eight of her last ten singles matches in Ring of Honor, with the two losses both coming in title fights while Harley Cameron comes into this 2-0 in ROH competition. Will tonight be the night of The Outcast or The Queen?
FEATURING:
-Preston Vance vs. KM
-Willie Mack vs. Exodus Prime
-Robyn Renegade vs. Angelica Risk
ALSO IN ACTION:
-AR Fox & Komander!
-Lady Frost!
-The Outrunners!
-The Righteous!
-Top Flight & Action Andretti!