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This Thursday night, Ring of Honor returns to the Fort Lauderdale area for the first time since November 11, 2017's THE ELITE event that is now available on Honor Club! This Florida event hosts another Proving Ground match with ROH Women's World Champions Athena facing Angelica Risk, Rocky Romero faces Lee Moriarty in a Pure Rules rematch, Claudio Castagnoli puts his ROH World Championship on the line against TMDK's Robbie Eagles, and one of the biggest rivalries in modern wrestling reignites when Christopher Daniels challenges Samoa Joe for the ROH World Television Championship! The bouts get underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for more than twenty years of Ring of Honor history, as well as new episodes of the most influential wrestling company of this century dropping every single Thursday night! There's no better bang for your buck in wrestling than an Honor Club subscription! ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Samoa Joe(c) vs. Christopher Daniels It has been eight years since the last time Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels stepped into a ring as foes, June 20th of 2015 to be exact, and that night it was a tag team affair with Joe and AJ Styles defeating Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. As for their last singles collision, rewind time another two months to April 9th of that year, and an event in Halifax, Nova Scotia where “The Fallen Angel” scored a victory over Samoa Joe. But that victory was just a drop in the bucket of their larger story; 19 one-on-one matches dating back to 2001, Joe with a commanding lead of 14-4-1, and that's just their head-to-head collisions. Look at the whole of their careers, and they've shared the ring in at least 69 different scenarios, with 14 of them taking place under the auspices of Ring of Honor. Thus it is quite appropriate that their first battle in nearly a decade takes place in ROH considering it was Christopher Daniels who first brought Samoa Joe into the fold back at GLORY BY HONOR on 10/5/02 as The Prophecy's Hired Assassin. Over the course of their ROH careers, Daniels would challenge Joe unsuccessfully for the ROH World Title at GLORY BY HONOR II, he would unsuccessfully challenge Joe for the ROH Pure Championship at NIGHT OF THE GRUDGES II, and it would only be in their final singles ROH collision at DRAGON GATE CHALLENGE that Daniels would actually defeat Joe. So the history within ROH leans heavily in the favor of the defending World Television Champion, their history away from ROH also tilts tremendously in the favor of Joe, but Daniels knows this, he said as much in his interview embedded above. He knows Joe has spilled his blood on plenty of occasions, at one point years ago Joe even wore a towel to the ring that was soaked with The Fallen Angel's dried blood, but that has never stopped Daniels from fighting before, and it won't stop him now. In this new era of honor, there are few men who know Samoa Joe as well as Christopher Daniels, much less one like CD who know him from the days before Joe earned the moniker of ROH Legend, or etched his name in the history books as the longest-reigning ROH World Champion of all-time. Will that familiarity be the necessary ingredient to ending Samoa Joe's chokehold on the ROH World Television Champion? Or will Daniels suffer the same fate he did the two previous times he challenged Samoa Joe for a ROH championship title? PURE RULES... Rocky “Azucar” Romero vs. The Firm's Lee Moriarty Big Bill absolutely swayed the outcome of the clash between Rocky Romero and Lee Moriarty last week in Pittsburgh, but this week things will have to be a little different for The Firm as “TaigaStyle” will meet “Sneaky Style” in a Pure Rules bout! While neither man has ever stood as challenger for the Pure Championship, both have competed in Pure Rules matches before, albeit not in Ring of Honor in the case of Moriarty. Still, the fact he brought those rules to another wrestling company on the independent scene is testament to the style of professional wrestling that Moriarty loves, or at least did before Stokely Hathaway and The Firm sunk their teeth into his neck. As for Rocky, he was part of the 2020 tournament that saw the ROH Pure Championship reborn, although he was ousted in the first round by David Finlay, but that didn't stop him from competing in other Pure Rules matches in ROH during 2021, even without a championship on the line. Romero hit the nail on the head when he said Lee Moriarty was an example of the kind of talent Ring of Honor was built on, and the style of wrestling the Pure Division offers is at the heart of what ROH represents, so if the master of TaigaStyle can step up his game against the former multi-time ROH World Tag Champ this Thursday, well then ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata better start paying attention to Moriarty as well! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PROVING GROUND MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Angelica Risk Twenty-one consecutive victories in Ring of Honor competition, and it does not look like “The Fallen Goddess” Athena is going to be stopped anytime soon! She's topped Miyu Yamashita twice in championship fights, as well as women such as Yuka Sakazaki, Emi Sakura, and Marina Shafir when the title's been on the line, and that says nothing of her Proving Ground dominance over hopeful challengers like Lady Frost, Brooke Havok, Ashley D'Amboise, and a plethora of others. This week on Honor Club, the increasingly confident, increasingly arrogant Athena will open up the Proving Ground once again, this time to young Nightmare Factory graduate Angelica Risk. Now Risk has had numerous opportunities on DARK and DARK: ELEVATION, and even got a shot on RAMPAGE once when facing Serena Deeb's Rookie Challenge, but it is her experiences beyond the AEW realm that could serve her well against Athena. Angelica may “only” have 50 matches under her belt, but she's gotten world class training, and been in there with world class athletes, and she's going to have to tap into every bit of knowledge she's picked up in order to survive the onslaught of Athena for ten minutes. That's all she has to do to earn a future championship match, not even beat “The Fallen Goddess”, just survive her for 600 seconds... ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. TMDK's Robbie Eagles Those were the words Claudio Castagnoli shared with the world following his last championship defense against Metalik several weeks ago, and no one within Ring of Honor has stepped up to challenge “The Swiss Superman” since the message was delivered. But clearly others were listening, others outside the auspices of ROH, because this Thursday night one of New Japan Pro Wrestling's top Junior Heavyweights is returning to the fold for the first time since 2019 to take on Double C in singles competition with the ROH World Championship at stake! Robbie Eagles, now a member of the TMDK faction alongside Zack Sabre Jr, Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste, and others, is coming into this fray having recently challenged Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship. The native Australian is also freshly off a return to his home for a pair of NJPW TAMASHII events before coming back to the States for the first time since August 2022 for this fight with the reigning ROH World Champion! Will Robbie Eagles be the man to answer Claudio's plea for someone to step up to his challenge? ALSO FEATURING: -Action Andretti, Top Flight's Darius Martin, The Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta), & Dark Order's Stu Grayson vs. The Varsity Athletes (Ari Daivari, Josh Woods, & Tony Nese) and The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) & Tony Nese -LFI's Preston Vance vs. Rich Adonis -Skye Blue vs. Robyn Renegade -ROH World Six-Man Champion Brian Cage vs. Brock Anderson -Willow Nightingale vs. Steph De Lander -Komander vs. The Spanish Announce Project's Angelico ROH ON HONOR CLUB premieres every Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT and this week features two championship matches, a Proving Ground contest, a wild ten man tag, and plenty more for your $9.99/month! The weekly episodes are exclusively available with an HONOR CLUB subscription, one that not only includes the latest episode every Thursday night, but also classic content from ROH's rich history including 2005's MANHATTAN MAYHEM, CREATING EXCELLENCE: KEVIN STEEN, 10 QUESTIONS WITH STEVE CORINO, and more!

This Thursday, Ring of Honor is back in Pittsburgh for the first time since November 2, 2019 and THE EXPERIENCE 2019 event available with your Honor Club subscription! With this return to the Steel City comes a tremendous collection of matches featuring ROH Women's World Champions Athena welcoming Lady Frost onto The Proving Ground, The Infantry trying their hand against LFI one more time, The Best Friends making their ROH ON HONOR CLUB debut, Rocky Romero in action against Lee Moriarty, Blake Christian versus Gringo Loco, and so much more! The bouts get underway at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for more than twenty years of Ring of Honor history, as well as new episodes of the most influential wrestling company of this century dropping every single Thursday night! There's no better bang for your buck in wrestling than an Honor Club subscription! ROH WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PROVING GROUND MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Lady Frost Lady Frost and Athena may be strangers as far as in-ring opponents, but Frost is no stranger to Ring of Honor competition. Back in 2019, at STEEL CITY EXCELLENCE, a very inexperienced Lady Frost made her first appearance inside a ROH ring, and would go on to compete on several FUTURE OF HONOR events that year. As her level of experience grew, Frost would actually earn an opportunity to challenge for the ROH Women's World Champions last year, on 3/17/22 to be exact, during the reign of Deonna Purrazzo and on an episode of IMPACT WRESTLING television oddly enough. Frost made her return to ROH competition last month, losing to Willow Nightingale on the very first Honor Club episode, and would also fall to Skye Blue a few weeks later on the fourth episode. This week, Frost returns to ROH competition in her highest profile bout to date, a Proving Ground match against Athena with a potential shot at the ROH Women's World Championship at stake! Now the rules of the Proving Ground are simple; either defeat the champion in this non-title affair or last the time limit, and earn a future championship match. Simple on paper, not so much in execution, especially when the champion is a “Fallen Goddess” running on a 20-0 record in ROH competition, who has successfully defended her title on eight occasions, and is drawing comparisons to Samoa Joe's record-setting ROH World Championship reign, not so much in length as Athena still has a long way to go to reach that, but rather in the complete dominance she's exhibited. Be it on the Proving Ground or in a championship match, it hasn't yet felt like Athena's been in jeopardy, and that's not sleight against the level of competition she's faced, but rather a credit to just how strong a champion she has been since besting Mercedes Martinez at FINAL BATTLE 2022. Will Lady Frost be the one to hand Athena her first “L” in this new era of honor, or will she simply become another piece of porcelain smashed at Athena's feet? A RETURN TO HONOR! Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) vs. Mookie Summers & Joe Ocasio It has been over four years since the last time the Best Friends set foot inside a ROH ring together, ironically enough considering the circumstances of today, against the tandem of Juice Robinson and David Finlay. But this Thursday night on Honor Club, Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta will return to those familiar stomping grounds for tag team competition! In their first go-round with Ring of Honor, Chuckie T and Trent challenged for both the ROH World Tag Titles as well as the World Six Man belts, but never managed to achieve championship success. Perhaps this new era of honor will be their ticket to finally claiming gold in ROH, and if that is indeed their intent, it begins this Thursday night on Honor Club! REMATCH, WITH A TWIST... LFI (Preston Vance & Rush) vs. The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) Three weeks ago, in the aftermath of SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, The Infantry attempted to survive the onslaught of La Faccion Ingobernable, that night in the form of Rush and Dralistico, but Capt. Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo were smashed down in their valiant efforts. This week on Honor Club, The Infantry will try to topple LFI once more, this time in the form of former 2-Time ROH World Champion Rush and the debuting “Perro Peligroso” Preston Vance! It might be Vance's first time competing inside the ROH squared circle, but Ring of Honor was one of many things that inspired him to enter into the wrestling world in the first place several years ago. This opportunity to finally compete in the ring that helped inspire him to action is going to push Vance to make a statement this Thursday night. La Faccion Ingobernable aims to remind everyone how they ran roughshod over ROH not that long ago. ALSO FEATURING: The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) vs. The Trustbusters(Jeeves Kay & Sonny Kiss) Skye Blue vs. Diamante The Firm's Lee Moriarty vs. CHAOS' Rocky Romero Gringo Loco vs. Blake Christian ROH ON HONOR CLUB comes to you Thursday nights at 7pm ET/6pm CT and this week features ROH Women's World Champion Athena opening the Proving Ground to Lady Frost, The Best Friends returning to ROH competition for the first time in four years, LFI battling The Infantry, Skye Blue in action, The Dark Order battling The Trustbusters, and more! The event is available exclusively with an HONOR CLUB subscription, a steal at $9.99/month, and that includes a new episode every Thursday night, plus classic events from ROH's 20-plus year history, like FINAL BATTLE 2010, CM PUNK: THE SECOND CITY SAINT, and more!

This week, the best pound-for-pound pro wrestling on the planet is back in Milwaukee for the first time since September 2019's GLOBAL WARS event, and in the main event will be ROH World Television Champion Samoa Joe putting his championship on the line against former 2-Time ROH Tag Team Champion Colt Cabana! Plus the makeshift team of Darius Martin and Action Andretti collide with the The Kingdom, one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions will be in action, Konosuke Takeshita battles Lee Moriarty, and ROH Women's World Champion Athena steps back onto the Proving Ground to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime! The matches get started at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, your home for over twenty years of Ring of Honor history, plus new episodes of the most influential wrestling company of this century dropping every single Thursday night! ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Samoa Joe(c) vs. Colt Cabana It has been a bit over 17 years since the last time Samoa Joe and Colt Cabana collided inside the squared circle, March 11th of 2006 to be exact, and while it wasn't the exact bout planned for that evening, it resulted in Joe taking Colt down in two minutes, forty-five seconds. That wasn't the only clash between the two men, back in June 2004, at the first SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, Colt pinned Joe in the elimination match and earned himself a shot at the ROH World Title Joe had been holding for 16 months at that point. Joe topped Colt in that DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR II, NIGHT 2 fight, but it wasn't the end of their collisions. They would duel in a unique Double Stakes Match at STALEMATE in which shots at both the ROH World & ROH Pure Championship were at stake, and they would eventually clash over the Pure Title at the landmark DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR III event, but as with their World Title clash, it would be Joe who emerged victorious from that fight. Three one-on-one matches, two ROH championship bouts, and all three victories have tilted into Samoa Joe's favor. But it's been a long time since that last fight and both men have been through so much in their lives since the night Joe came straight from the airport, hit the ring still in his street clothes, and toppled Colt Cabana inside The Arena. That's not the only history wrapped up in this ROH World Television Championship bout though; Colt was involved in the tournament to crown the first champion, losing to eventual winner Eddie Edwards in the first round, and he was also the very first man to challenge Edwards in a title fight, as well as one of the last prior to Christopher Daniels ending Eddie's reign on 12/10/10. So while Samoa Joe may stand as a ROH Triple Crown winner, holding every singles championship that the company has ever offered, Colt has never held a championship of his own. He took a stab at Jericho during The Ocho's ROH World Championship reign, and before that it was July 2016's match with Jay Lethal when Cabana last had a ROH singles title shot. The opportunity to be a singles champ has come several times, but to this day Colt has not been able to (frequently for outside reasons) been able become the champion. Can he finally achieve that destiny against a man he's never beaten in a one-on-one scenario, or will Colt's heart be broken once again? Sign up to HONOR CLUB and find out this Thursday night! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD C'SHIP PROVING GROUND MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Heather Reckless Porcelain...trash bag...hussies; that is how ROH Women's World Champion Athena refers to the potential challengers that have been put into the ring with her, and based on how she treated Ashley D'Amboise last week AFTER the match had already taken place, it's safe to say Athena has very little honor in her personal Ring of Honor. But after going 19-0 in Ring of Honor competition, and successfully defending her championship eight times against foes like Willow Nightingale, Yuka Sakazai, Emi Sakura, and Miyu Yamashita twice, one has to question just who can survive “The Fallen Goddess”? Well Heather Reckless, a product of the Black & Brave Academy, will be the next woman who takes a stab at being the one to survive Athena's onslaught. Reckless is no stranger to this level of competition, on AEW programming she's battled Thunder Rosa, Anna Jay, as well as Penelope Ford, and away from the AEW/ROH banner, she's gone to battle with Skye Blue, Billie Starkz, and the aforementioned D'Amboise. Reckless has a good amount of experience under her belt, and she comes from a top shelf training academy, but will it be enough for her to earn a future ROH Women's World Championship match? She doesn't even have to beat Athena to gain that opportunity, by the rules of the Proving Ground, Heather Reckless just has to survive the time limit. Simple, right? TAG TEAM COLLISION... The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett w/ Maria Kanellis-Bennett) vs. Action Andretti & Top Flight's Darius Martin The issues between The Kingdom and Top Flight have been building since FINAL BATTLE 2022 (Now Available On Honor Club), and took a whole new turn in the aftermath of SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 just a few weeks ago. Dante Martin suffered a horrific injury that has put him on the sidelines for the next several months, at the very least, but that hasn't stopped his brother Darius from continuing the fight. Unfortunately, at least initially, for Darius that meant going it alone against Mike Bennett and finding foes who didn't care if they were disqualified, as long as they got to put a hurting on their foe. What Mike Bennett and Matt Taven quickly found out though was that the Martin brothers had some support in the form of Action Andretti! So this week on HONOR CLUB, Action Andretti will get his first official ROH match when he teams with Darius to face the former 2-Time ROH World Tag Team Champions! ALSO FEATURING: AAA Mega Champion El Hijo Del Vikingo vs. Gringo Loco Willow Nightingale vs. Robyn Renegade “The Murderhawk Monster” Lance Archer vs. Jah-C ROH World Six Man Champion Brian Cage vs. Joey Jett The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. Cole Karter & Lee Johnson ROH World Tag Team Champion Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Nick Comoroto Konosuke Takeshita vs. The Firm's Lee Moriarty And The Iron Savages vs. Logan Lynch & Ren Jones! ROH ON HONOR CLUB drops Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT and will feature Samoa Joe defending the ROH World Television Championship against Colt Cabana, ROH Women's World Champion Athena welcoming another onto the Proving Ground, El Hijo Del Vikingo in action, The Kingdom taking on Action Andretti and Darius Martin, and so much more! The events is exclusively available with an HONOR CLUB subscription, a steal at $9.99/month that includes a new episode every Thursday night, plus classic events from the last 20+ years like the original SUPERCARD OF HONOR and it's legendary DRAGON GATE Six Man Tag, as well as a multitude of RING OF HONOR WRESTLING TV episodes from 2011-2021, and plenty of hidden gems!

Last week on Honor Club, the ROH faithful were treated to a pair of championship matches with Christopher Daniels failing to dethrone Katsuyori Shibata as ROH Pure Champion, and Miyu Yamashita falling a bit short against ROH Women's World Champion Athena! Plus, the new ROH World Tag Team Champion Lucha Brothers teamed up with Mark Briscoe for Trios action, Konosuke Takeshita was back in ROH action, The Righteous of Dutch and Vincent made their return to the fold, and so did “The Franchise of ROH” Jay Lethal! This week, the best pound-for-pound pro wrestling on the planet returns to Rhode Island for the first time since 2016's CONQUEST TOUR: NIGHT 3 event (available with an Honor Club subscription), and presents Claudio Castagnoli defending this ROH World Championship against “The King of Rope” Metalik, two former partners colliding in Wheeler Yuta and “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams, Athena welcoming Ashley D'Amboise into her Proving Ground, ROH Pure Champion Shibata and his pupil Alex Coughlin in action, and so much more! The action gets started at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for hundreds of hours of Ring of Honor history, as well as new episodes every single Thursday night! ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. Metalik Coming out of his successful ROH World Championship defense against Eddie Kingston at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, Claudio Castagnoli has essentially stated that anyone worthy can have an opportunity, anyone that is but “The Mad King”. So with that in mind, this Thursday night a very special athlete has stepped up to the challenge, a man nearly became a ROH World Six Man Champion at SoH 2023, the high-flying Metalik! Having trained with the legendary Skayde, Claudio is quite familiar with the Lucha Libre style of professional wrestling, and has even incorporated aspects of it into his own game over the years. In addition, Metalik and Claudio are no strangers to one another, having competed in multiple matches opposite one another during 2020, including one singles match won by Claudio back in September of that year. That being said, the competitive style of Metalik makes him a hard wrestler to prepare for; you never know what direction he's going to be coming from, or from which rope he may come flying at you. This battle is very much one of speed versus power, strength versus agility, and it is certainly going to test the mettle of both champion and challenger! Could the ROH faithful see the crowning of a new ROH World Champion this Thursday night on Honor Club? ONE-ON-ONE... Wheeler Yuta vs. Tracy Williams The early years of Wheeler Yuta and Tracy Williams wrestling careers are inexorably tied together; although Williams has a few years more experience than his opponent for this Thursday, Williams started in late 2009 while Yuta in 2014, the two men have been part of each other's lives since even before their first bout in July 2016. They trained together at The Wrestle Factory in Philadelphia, and then following their first collision, actually formed a successful tag team dubbed Hot Wheelz, facing teams like Ortiz & Santana, Joey Janela & Orange Cassidy, and Alex Reynolds & John Silver, just to name a few. They even returned to competition against one another when Tracy reigned as the IWTV Independent Wrestling Champion in 2018, and revisited it one more time at the end of 2021. In their three singles collisions, Tracy holds two of the victories, but that was before Yuta earned his way into The Blackpool Combat Club and began his tutelage under a collection of the greatest fighters in modern pro wrestling. Yuta, though recently dethroned as Pure Champion by the legendary Katsuyori Shibata, has more than proven himself as an elite competitor over the last year, especially when he made history be becoming the only 2-Time Pure Champion in Ring of Honor history. As for Tracy Williams, he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with Rhett Titus as well as a former ROH World Television Champion, and heads into this bout after matches with Jeff Cobb at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023: ZERO HOUR and against Daniel Garcia on last week's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB. Much like Yuta, pure wrestling is a style that hits Williams' sweet spot, the man was on the losing side of the Pure Tournament finals to crown a new champion back in October 2020, fought in multiple Pure Rules matches that did not involve the championship, and even in ushered those rules over to tag team wrestling alongside Titus. So while this is not a Pure Rules match, given the bond between these two men and the style in which both excel, it may be the style this match takes on...but then again, the violent tendencies of The Blackpool Combat Club come come to the forefront and show Tracy a side of Yuta he's never experienced... PROVING GROUND MATCH... ROH Women's World Champion Athena vs. Ashley D’Amboise After defeating Yuka Sakazaki at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 and Miyu Yamashita just days later during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, ROH Women's World Champion Athena is on a tremendous roll. She's won 18 consecutive matches in Ring of Honor, successfully defended her championship on 8 occasions, and turned away nine different potential challengers in Proving Ground/Eliminator Matches. Athena is well on her way to becoming one of the most dominant champions in Ring of Honor history, across all divisions; she's one win away from tying Rok-C's record of nine defenses, and less than 100 days away from topping Mercedes Martinez's record for longevity as champ, but how she has accomplished her success so far is what marks her as a dominant force above those aforementioned former champs. That doesn't mean it's going to stop other competitors from coming after the crown though, or at least trying to earn their way into a championship fight. The next woman looking to take on that challenge will do so this Thursday night on Honor Club, and that is Ashley D'Amboise! Despite having just under two years experience, Ashley has been inside the ring with some of the best competition AEW has to offer, as well as putting in the work honing her craft around the independent wrestling scene. Now, in her Ring of Honor debut, D'Amboise is looking to take down the top dog and earn herself a future Women's World Championship opportunity! Will the lessons learned Nyla Rose, Thunder Rosa, Kris Statlander, and Emi Sakura manifest into victory against “The Fallen Goddess”? ALSO FEATURING: ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata & Alex Coughlin vs. The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake) Skye Blue vs. Kelly Madan Mark Briscoe vs. The Varsity Athletes' Ari Daivari Willow Nightingale vs. LMK The Dark Order's Stu Grayson vs. The Varsity Athletes' Tony Nese Top Flight's Darius Martin vs. The Kingdom's Mike Bennett ROH ON HONOR CLUB comes at you this Thursday night starting at 7pm ET/6pm CT and will feature MATCHES AND STUFF!!! The fights are available exclusively with an HONOR CLUB subscription, which nets fans each new episode every Thursday night, as well as classic events like FINAL BATTLE 2008 with Bryan Danielson versus Morishima in a Fight Without Honor, as well as Straight Shootin' with Mick Foley, and the Creating Excellence series!

Coming off an epic SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, Ring of Honor gets right back to the action this Thursday night on Honor Club! Last Friday the ROH faithful witnessed the crowning of a new Pure Champion in Katsuyori Shibata, as well as new ROH World Tag Team Champions in The Lucha Brothers, but no one else was able to dethrone the defending champions in Los Angeles. So with Claudio Castagnoli still reigning over the land of honor as ROH World Champion, The Embassy still standing as ROH World Six Man Champions, Samoa Joe dominating as ROH World Television Champion, and Athena running the table as ROH Women's World Champion, the new era of honor rolls on this Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! With the best professional wrestling on the planet, ROH is red hot coming out of SoH 2023 so do not miss out on the next edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB featuring Athena defending her ROH Women's World Championship against Miyu Yamashita and Shibata defending his newly won crown against “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Miyu Yamashita This isn't the first clash between Athena and Miyu Yamashita, that took place on January 21st in Pomona, CA for Prestige Wrestling, and is currently available on IndependentWrestling.TV(https://iwtv.live/promotion/PRESTIGE#oD7d6Jn4E6). But “The Fallen Goddess” may not want fans to go back and watch it, because if they did, they'd see a moment where Yamashita actually dethroned Athena as the ROH Women's World Champion, if only for a few seconds, and not officially. Miyu, she of the most devastating head kicks in professional wrestling, caught Athena with one of those kicks and it was only the fact that the defending champion's foot fell under the bottom rope that saved the title. It took a few moments for referee Scarlette Donovan to communicate the message, long enough for the Prestige Wrestling locker room to actually come out to celebrate with Miyu, and long enough for “The Fallen Goddess” to recover and strike her challenger with the championship belt when Donovan had her back turned. Not the cleanest way to retain the championship, but retain the championship Athena did, and which she would do again this past Friday night at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 when she faced “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki. That victory in LA marked Athena's seventh title defense, just two shy of the record set by Rok-C, a record made more impressive given that Rok-C did it in just 119 days. Now Athena won't be able to match that statistic, but she can still surpass the number of defenses Rok-C netted to become the most successful ROH Women's World Champion to date. Athena just has to make it past Miyu Yamashita once again, this time by her own request, and inside a Ring of Honor ring as well. The defending champion just has to avoid eating a Skull Kick, and suffering the same fate Shazza McKenzie did on the last episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB. If Yamashita connects, the current Pro Wrestling EVE champion will add the ROH Women's World Championship to her trophy case. ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Katsuyori Shibata(c) vs. “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels Last Friday night at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, Katsuyori Shibata ended the second Pure Championship reign of The Blackpool Combat Club's Wheeler Yuta, and then put himself right alongside Eddie Kingston in opposition to The BCC. It was a tremendous return to Ring of Honor for “The Wrestler”, his first ROH match since February 2, 2017, and just his 5th time in the ring since his shocking return during NJPW's G1 CLIMAX on October 21, 2021. Since that return Shibata has looked superb, back in action like he never missed a beat, and Wheeler Yuta learned that the hard way when he called out Shibata for that fight last Friday night. So now that “The Wrestler” is champion, the real work begins in trying to maintain hold of the title as challengers line-up to dethrone him. One of those challengers is rather familiar with the Pure Rules, having challenged for the title in the past against both Samoa Joe and the greatest Pure Champion in history, Nigel McGuinness. The last of those challenges took place at WEEKEND OF CHAMPIONS, NIGHT 1 on April 28, 2006, an event available with your Honor Club subscription, and ended when McGuinness used the rules of the match to get Daniels counted out. Many years have passed since that Pure Championship challenge, and in the intervening years, “The Fallen Angel” has managed to capture every championship he possibly could in Ring of Honor save the Pure Championship. During his time in ROH, the belt was unified with the ROH World Championship when Bryan Danielson defeated Nigel McGuinness at UNIFIED, and did not return to active status until 2020 when Jonathan Gresham won a tournament to crown a new Pure Champion. Thus the window for “The Fallen Angel” to make it a clean sweep of all the ROH championship titles was never open, not until now in this new era of honor! This Thursday night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels will challenge Katsuyori Shibata for the ROH Pure Championship and try to make that goal a reality! There are few men with more experience inside that squared circle than Christopher Daniels, so perhaps that will give him an edge of over the red-hot Shibata. Daniels is certainly in for a hard-hitting war when he steps into the squared circle for this fight, just as Shibata best be prepared for someone who knows all the tricks of the trade! ALSO FEATURING: ROH World Tag Team Champions The Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) & Mark Briscoe vs. The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake) & Shane Taylor Brian Cage vs. Ortiz Jay Lethal vs. Darius Martin LFI(Dralistico & Rush) vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean) Daniel Garcia vs. Tracy Williams Willow Nightingale vs. Notorious Mimi The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) in action! Konosuke Takeshita vs. Tony Nese ROH ON HONOR CLUB comes your way this Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT featuring ROH Women's World Champion Athena defending her title against Miyu Yamashita! Plus, all the fallout from SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 will begin to unfold with new Pure Champion Shibata, new World Tag Team Champions in Penta & Fenix, and so much more! And it's only available on HONOR CLUB, which not only features new episodes every Thursday night, but also events like the 14TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW with Jay Lethal defending the ROH World Championship against Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly, and the KEVIN STEEN: ASCENSION TO THE TOP collection that highlights his rise up the ranks of ROH!

Supercard of Honor 2023 Results **CONTAINS SPOILERS** ROH: SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 was broadcast live on March 31, 2023, from the Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA! The event began with the ROH: Zero Hour preshow kicking things off on the official ROH YouTube Channel and on FITE! Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman were the commentary team for tonight’s event. United Empire’s Jeff Cobb vs. “Hot Sauce” Tracy Williams! Jeff Cobb snapped Tracy Williams across the ring with a suplex. Tracy rolled out of the way of a standing moonsault from Cobb. Jeff Cobb yanked Tracy off the top rope but Tracy countered by grabbing Cobb by the head and spiking him with a DDT. Jeff Cobb got to his feet and hit a lariat on Williams, then finished off “Hot Sauce” with a Tour of the Islands, good for the pin! Nigel McGuinness made his return to Ring of Honor and joined the broadcast booth for the event! Konosuke Takeshita vs. Willie Mack! Mack drove a clothesline across the chest of Takeshita. Konosuke Takeshita rallied back with a dive over the top rope, but then the Mack-Daddy jumped and hit a dive of his own! Willie Mack scored with a standing Shining Wizard. Mack followed up with a big Samoan drop on Takeshita. Mack splashed Takeshita with a standing moonsault. Takeshita answered with a lariat. Willie Mack pounced Takeshita but Takeshita came back with a stunner. Mack nailed Takeshita with a knee strike to the mouth. The fans chanted “This is awesome! This is awesome!” Willie Mack sent Takeshita soaring with a T-bone suplex. Willie Mack attempted a frog splash but Takeshita dodged it. Takeshita planted Mack with a Blue Thunder Bomb. Takeshita scored with a knee strike and then pinned Willie Mack! Willow Nightingale vs. Miranda Alize! Miranda had tremendous ring awareness, using it to her advantage. Willow had enough, though, and began to chop Miranda. Miranda Aliza charged at Willow with a running dropkick in the corner. Willow cartwheeled and connected with a forearm. Willow used a spinebuster on Alize for a near fall. Aliza came back with a beautiful neck breaker on Willow. Alize walloped Willow with a DDT. Willow and Alize traded forearms until Alize connected with a cutter. Willow countered Alize’s drive-by and then pounced her! Willow powerbombed Alize and pinned her for a sensational victory. Dark Order’s Stu Grayson (with Evil Uno) vs. Trustbusters’ Slim J (with “Smart” Mark Sterling and Ari Daivari)! Slim J used a head scissor take down but Stu came back with a hurracanrana. After Sterling distracted the ref, Slim J cracked Stu with a tornillo kick. Slim J rocked Stu with a reverse DDT off the ropes. Grayson connected with a twisting moonsault for a near fall. Slim J locked on a sleeper but Grayson retaliated with a pop-up powerslam. Slim J spiked Grayson with a standing Sliced Bread. Grayson rolled out of the way of a moonsault from Slim J. Grayson used a pump knee and then pinned Slim J after the Knight Fall! After the match, Dutch and Vincent of The Righteous returned! They walked onto the ramp and had a stare down with the Dark Order! The pay-per-view portion of tonight’s event began with... AAA Mega Championship Match! El Hijo Del Vikingo (c.) vs. Komander! The fans chanted “Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!” when the match began! Vikingo grabbed a double leg takedown on Komander. They countered one another’s offense by going after the same moves on one another. Komander dropkicked Vikingo from the ropes. Komander pulled a table out from beneath the ring. Komander splashed Vikingo from the ramp and down onto the arena floor. Vikingo hit a front flip to a rana on Komander. Vikingo attempted a shooting star press but Komander raised his knees as a counter. Vikingo blasted Komander with a Frankensteiner. Vikingo jumped from the post to the ropes and then onto Komander but Komander countered with a powerbomb for a two-count! Vikingo splashed Komander with an inside-out 450 corkscrew for a near fall on Komander! Vikingo was spiked by a Canadian Destroyer on the apron from Komander! Komander connected with a springboard shooting star on Vikingo! Vikingo retaliated with a destroyer off the top rope! Vikingo placed Komander on the table and then splashed him with a 630! Vikingo went for a 630 in the ring this time but Komander rolled out of the way. Komander pulled out the Hidden Ace but the veteran Vikingo broke up the pin by grabbing the bottom rope. Vikingo planted Komander with a swing-out slam from the top rope. Vikingo charged at Komander with diving double knees in the corner. Vikingo pinned Komander after the 630 splash! ROH World Six Man Championship Match! The Embassy—“The Machine” Brian Cage, Kaun, & Toa Liona (with Prince Nana) (c.) vs. AR Fox, Blake Christian, & Metalik! Fox connected with a cutter on Cage. And then a cutter to Kaun. Toa avoided the cutter from Fox, though. AR Fox landed on Cage with a massive swanton for a two-count. Blake Christian tagged in, wiping out the Embassy with his highflying, stick-and-move strategy. Brian Cage took down Christian and Fox with a double clothesline. Kaun dropped Christian across the top turnbuckle. Metalik DDT’ed Toa Liona. Blake Christian dismantled Cage with a destroyer. Brian Cage came back with a Drill Claw on Metalik and pinned him! ROH Women’s World Championship Match! “The Fallen Goddess” Athena (c.) vs. “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki! Yuka jumped with a cannonball dive to the outside onto Athena! Yuka attempted a dropkick off the top rope but Athena batted her out of the way. Athena mounted Yuka Sakazaki with the ground and pound. Athena powerbombed Yuka three times and then covered Yuka for a near fall. Athena hit a sliding dropkick, knocking Yuka out of the ring and down to the arena floor. Athena targeted Yuka’s neck with a wheelbarrow suplex. Yuka Sakazaki scoop slammed Athena on the arena floor. Yuka jumped off the ramp and splashed Athena. Yuka dished out forearms to Athena but Athena answered with a stiff forearm of her own! Athena yanked Yuka off the ropes with the O-Face and pinned her! ROH World Television Championship Match! Samoa Joe (c.) vs. Mark Briscoe! Mark was looking to end things early, climbing to the top rope, but Joe rolled out of the ring. Mark Briscoe charged at Samoa Joe but Joe suplexed Mark onto the arena floor! Samoa Joe shoved Mark into the steel ring post. Samoa Joe headbutted Mark, then wacked him with kicks. Samoa Joe jabbed at Mark Briscoe but Mark fired back with redneck kung fu! Samoa Joe sent Mark Briscoe to the outside and then jumped through the ropes at him. “Perfect timing, perfect poise, perfect impact,” said Nigel. Mark Briscoe drove Samoa Joe through a table with a blockbuster off the apron. Samoa Joe and Mark Briscoe traded knife-edged chops. Samoa Joe powerslammed Mark for a near fall. Samoa Joe planted Mark with a powerbomb and then transitioned to an STF. Mark managed to get to the ropes to force the ref to break the hold. Samoa Joe spun Mark inside-out with a clothesline! Mark had Joe’s muscle buster scouted. Mark dropped the froggy bow from the top for a two-count on Samoa Joe. Samoa Joe threw Mark with a sleeper suplex, locked in a choke, and won via ref stoppage! The Code of Honor was adhered to after the match. Mark Briscoe hugged his family at ringside. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Daniel Garcia! Tanahashi rattled Garcia with a big back elbow. Tanahashi charged at Garcia outside the ring but Garcia countered with a drop toehold. Garcia stomped on the back of Tanahashi’s knees. Daniel Garcia continued to target Tanahashi’s legs. The crowd rallied behind Tanahashi with “Go Ace!” chants. Tanahashi took down Garcia with a dragon screw leg whip. Tanahashi put Garcia in a lion tamer submission but Garcia managed to crawl to the ropes. Garcia caught Tanahashi with a running knee strike to the jaw. Tanahashi turned things around with a neck breaker and a sling blade for a two-count. Tanahashi pinned Garcia after the High-Fly Flow! “Reach For The Sky” ROH World Tag Team Championship Ladder Match! The Lucha Brothers—Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix (with Alex Abrahantes) vs. The Kingdom—Matt Taven & Mike Bennett (with Maria Kanellis Bennett) vs. LFI—Dralistico & Rush (with Jose the Assistant) vs. Top Flight—Dante & Darius Martin vs. Aussie Open—Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis! The Kingdom tried battering Top Flight with a ladder, but Top Flight dropkicked it into the faces of Bennett and Taven. Rush dropkicked the ladder into Top Flight! Aussie Open and LFI slugged it out, going forearm to forearm. Taven splashed Fletcher in the corner. The Lucha Bros nailed Aussie Open with an inverted Code Red as Aussie Open were sandwiched between the ladder and the mat. Taven and Bennett were looking for Jay-Drillers on Aussie Open on the ramp, but Aussie Open countered with piledrivers. Davis grabbed a taller ladder and set it up in the ring. Fletcher climbed up but Rey Fenix and Penta El Zero Miedo jumped in the ring to stop him. Dralistico suplexed Taven onto a ladder! Darius Martin and Dralistico slugged it out atop the ladder. Then Darius planted Dralistico with a DDT. Aussie Open created a ladder bridge in the ring, but Dante dropkicked the ankles of Fletcher, knocking him down. Dante dished out a sunset bomb off the ladder to Bennett! Dralistico demolished Davis with a DDT! Taven jumped off the top turnbuckle and splashed Dralistico through the ladder. Rush and Davis traded forearms on the apron until Rush hurled Davis onto the floor! Dante Martin and Rey Fenix battled on top of the ladder. Dante knocked Rey off the ladder. Penta El Zero Miedo climbed up and cracked Dante with forearms. Penta El Zero Miedo wiped out Dante with a Destroyer off the ladder through four ladders! Rey Fenix climbed to the top and pulled the championship down! Your new champions…The Lucha Brothers! Mark Briscoe and FTR—Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler—came out to hug the Lucha Brothers! ROH Pure Championship Match! Blackpool Combat Club’s Wheeler Yuta (c.) (with Jon Moxley) vs. Katsuyori Shibata! Shibata got a full mount on Yuta. Wheeler Yuta got to his feet and ducked a kick from Shibata. Katsuyori Shibata applied the figure four leg lock in the center of the ring. Yuta went to the ropes for his first ring break. Wheeler Yuta began to work on Shibata’s arm. Shibata got up and rocked Yuta with Bruce Lee-style kicks. Yuta hit a low blow on Shibata, unbeknownst to the ref, and then a closed fist. Yuta was issued a warning for the closed fist. Yuta spat in the eye of Shibata. Shibata, infuriated, blasted Yuta with the PK and pinned him! Your new ROH Pure champion…Katsuyori Shibata! Main Event Time! ROH World Championship Match! Claudio Castagnoli (c.) vs. Eddie Kingston! Kingston brought the fight right to Claudio, chopping away at the champ. Claudio answered with chops of his own, knocking Eddie out of the ring. Eddie Kingston grabbed a chair but the ref pulled it away. Kingston headbutted Claudio. The champ blasted Eddie with a European uppercut. Claudio pulled Eddie from the ring and suplexed him onto the arena floor! Claudio jumped on Kingston with a double stomp. Claudio got a two-count on Kingston after connecting with a diving headbutt. Claudio grabbed Eddie in the big swing but Claudio’s leg gave out. Kingston gouged at Claudio’s eyes. Claudio superplexed Kingston for a near fall. Claudio stomped on Eddie’s face, but Eddie rallied back with an eye gouge and a lariat. Kingston connected with a tope suicida to Claudio. Eddie Kingston hurled Claudio with a T-bone suplex on the arena floor. Kingston drove Claudio’s skull into the mat with a bulldog off the turnbuckles. Claudio blocked a backfist from Eddie. Claudio sent Eddie down with a big lariat. Eddie came back and landed the spinning backfist this time for a near fall. Claudio gut-wrench suplexed Eddie off the apron! Eddie landed on the arena floor awkwardly. “This has become bigger than the championship,” said Ian. “It’s 15 years of built-up frustration,” replied Caprice. Claudio slapped Eddie and said, “You’ll never get my respect!” Kingston heard enough and cracked Claudio with the spinning backfist. Claudio nailed Eddie with the Neutralizer! Eddie escaped a Ricola bomb but then Claudio rolled up Eddie for the pin! After the match, Claudio and Wheeler Yuta backed Eddie into a corner. Until Shibata came to the aid of Kingston! “This feud is far from over,” said Caprice Coleman. Missed out on this historic night of ROH action?! Don’t worry—there’s still time to order the replay of Ring of Honor: Supercard of Honor 2023! It’s available on Bleacher Report, FITE TV, PPV.com, InDemand Cable & Satellite providers!

This Friday Ring of Honor Wrestling returns to pay-per-view for the first time in 2023, and with it comes one of ROH's most hallowed traditions: SUPERCARD OF HONOR! Nearly every year since 2006, Ring of Honor has presented this showcase of the greatest pound-for-pound professional wrestling on the planet, and 2023 will be no different! During one of professional wrestling's most important weekends, ROH is coming to Los Angeles and the Galen Center, home of the USC Trojans, to once again show the world why ROH is the most influential professional wrestling organization of this generation! After watching events unfold over the last five weeks of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, we head into LA with multiple championships at stake, including the crowning of new ROH World Tag Team Champions with the Reach for The Sky Ladder Match being held in honor of Jay Briscoe! Plus, Claudio Castagnoli will put the ROH World Championship on the line against Eddie Kingston while his Blackpool Combat Club ally Wheeler Yuta will risk his Pure Championship against the much-feared Katsuyori Shibata! ROH Women's World Champion Athena will put her title on the line against Yuka Sakazaki, Samoa Joe will renew an old rivalry when Mark Briscoe challenges him for the ROH World Television Champion, the ROH World Six Man Titles will be at stake, and El Hijo del Vikingo puts the AAA Mega Championship on the line against Komander! The action goes down on Friday afternoon, March 31st, starting at 4pm PT/7pm ET, and if you can't be there live, don't you worry, don't you fret, because it will all be available on Bleacher Report and FITE+, with the ZERO HOUR absolutely free on on FITE and at the official ROH YouTube Channel! ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP... Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. Eddie Kingston The story of Claudio Castagnoli and Eddie Kingston dates back nearly two decades, to the earliest days of their wrestling careers, and their first time sharing the ring in front of an audience taking place in Evansville, IN in October 2004. From that point forward, the two men spent time training together, fighting each other, even fighting together, and actually living together for an extended period of time at their “Wrestle House” in Pennsylvania. Their first singles match on record took place in Detroit of all places, back in January 2006, but it would be far from their last. All told, Kingston and Castagnoli went head-to-head on eleven occasions across five different wrestling promotions, with the final clash taking place on March 13, 2011, and the record is heavily in favor of Claudio at 9-2. They fought in a Respect Match where Eddie should have told Claudio he respected him after the loss, but instead told Castagnoli he did not respect him prior to leveling him with a spinning backfist. Eddie's words to the unconscious Claudio as he left the ring that night were “I know you”, and later that night Double C would actually betray the entire promotion they were working for at the time, proving Kingston's words to be true. Their last one-on-one bout actually ended with Claudio defeating Eddie with a chain-assisted European Uppercut, and then proceeding to whip him with a belt. Kingston never had the opportunity to even that score, so when Claudio arrived in All Elite Wrestling as the newest member of The Blackpool Combat Club, and thus immediate ally of Kingston's in the Blood & Guts II Cage Match, it didn't not sit well with “The Mad King”. Reluctantly, as a promise to Mox, Eddie played nice with Claudio throughout this entire scenario, despite his disappointment with the end result of Blood & Guts where Castagnoli got the win for their team rather than Kingston. Still, Eddie kept his word to Mox during their mutual tenure in AEW and left Claudio to his own devices despite his personal disdain for the 2-Time ROH World Champion. But this isn't All Elite Wrestling...this is Ring of Honor, and as such the promise to Jon Moxley no longer means anything. Kingston is free, free of obligation to anyone other than himself and his own desires, and what he desires is the ROH World Championship held by Castagnoli. Now Claudio may feel Kingston is a dishonorable man, or at least not the type of honor Castagnoli recognizes, but it's not the first opportunity Eddie has had to represent ROH as champion. Over a decade ago, when the ROH World Championship was held by Kevin Steen, Kingston faced the champ at BOILING POINT 2012 but came up short after nearly 20 minutes of fight. This Friday, at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, it's as if all the disparate paths Kingston and Castagnoli have walked are converging once again, but now there is a prestigious singles championship at stake for the very first time. All the animosity, all the bitter history, it's all coming to a head in Los Angeles with the ROH World Championship at stake, and after Claudio's comments about Kingston always giving up when the road gets too hard, along with the two decades of personal history, there is a great deal of personal stake as well. “REACH FOR THE SKY” ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP LADDER MATCH... The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. LFI (Dralistico & Rush) vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) vs. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) At FINAL BATTLE 2022, Jay and Mark Briscoe continued to make history as they defeated FTR in an epic Double Dog Collar Match to become 13-Time ROH World Tag Team Champions. Unfortunately, Jay's life was tragically cut short by an automobile accident on January 17, just days before his 39th birthday, and the wrestling world lost, not only one of its most beloved figures, but also one of its most talented competitors. Remarkably, with a strength that comes from his family and faith, Mark Briscoe elected to stay in the game, and has been on a remarkable roll ever since he and Jay Lethal paid tribute to Jamin in an extremely emotional contest on the January 25th edition of AEW DYNAMITE. But that roll has been in solo competition, although Mark has still been recognized as one-half of the World Tag Team Champions, but it wasn't until just recently that Mark himself made a decision about the future of the championship. As seen in the video from AEW RAMPAGE embedded above, effective March 31st Mark Briscoe will vacate the ROH World Tag Team Championship and in a match dubbed the “Reach For The Sky Ladder Match”, a new championship team will be crowned! Mark himself picked The Lucha Brothers as the first time to be entered into the fray, and on the March 23rd edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB we found out who else would fill the field! Former 2-Time ROH World Tag Team Champions The Kingdom will take part in this Ladder affair, but so too will their recently earned enemies in Top Flight! Plus, the LFI duo of Rush and Dralistico will be involved in the fight, attempting to claim their first ROH World Tag Team Championship, as will the unbeaten duo of Aussie Open, who've looked extremely impressive in their ROH victories over Rhett Titus/Tracy Williams and Christopher Daniels/Matt Sydal. Obviously there is plenty of tension between Top Flight and The Kingdom heading into this one, especially after Taven's recent victory over Darius Martin, but they can't just be focused on each other if either team hopes to become the 65th champions. LFI has proven extremely dangerous in their two ROH ON HONOR CLUB bouts, as have Aussie Open, and for the Lucha Bros, well this marks their debut in ROH, and what a way to make that first impression it would be to add the ROH World Tag Team Championship to their trophy case. Penta and Fenix are quite adept at Ladder Matches, just check out their Escalera de la Muerte fight at AEW's ALL OUT 2019 with The Young Bucks to see, and that experience may have swung the advantage in this environment into their corner, but Aussie Open also has their share of Ladder Match experience during Kyle and Mark's time as a team. But as for The Kingdom, Top Flight, and this LFI pair, there's not one Ladder match between the teams; individually there may be a few Ladder match situations, Matt Taven won the ROH World Championship in Madison Square Garden in a Ladder Match for example, but as teams, none of those three have competed in this environment. Will that be the deciding factor in this tribute to Jay Briscoe set to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions? On top of that, Thursday night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, the quartet of The Kingdom and LFI beat The Lucha Bros and Top Flight in an eight-man tag, putting some momentum in their court as this historic match draws near! ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP... Samoa Joe(c) vs. Mark Briscoe It has been 19 years, and a few months, since the very first time that Mark Briscoe went one-on-one with Samoa Joe at FINAL BATTLE 2003, and it has been 16 years and change since their last head-to-head at CHICAGO SPECTACULAR: NIGHT 2 on 12/9/06, and what both of those had in common was Joe defeating Mark. Now there were been plenty of other encounters between the two men in tag and trios situations, and even an instance where they stood on the same side of the ring, but those two singles encounters definitively swung in Joe's favor, especially that ROH World Championship fight in December 2003. But that was a long time ago, in a time when The Briscoes were primarily tag team competitors, but in the years since, Mark, just as his brother Jay did, ventured into the singles division, and for him it was all about pursuit of the ROH World Television Championship. The first time he challenged for the championship was against Eddie Edwards on the 89th episode of ROH ON HDNET back on January 3, 2011, but it would not be the last. He challenged Christopher Daniels, Matt Taven, Jay Lethal twice, Bobby Fish, and Kenny King. 25 different ROH World Television Champions, Mark has challenged six of them, in seven different matches, and that says nothing for the #1 Contender situations in which he has competed. The ROH World Television Championship has been Mark's individual goal since it was first introduced in March 2010, but sadly it has been one that has eluded him all these years. But it seems rather appropriate that Mark's next shot at the championship be fighting the man against whom he had his first-ever singles championship match in Ring of Honor: Samoa Joe. Joe enters into this match as one of ROH's Triple Crown Champions, a man who has held three separate titles in the company, in his case the ROH World Championship, the ROH Pure Championship, and now the ROH World Television Championship. After defeating Minoru Suzuki back on April 13, 2022, making him the 3rd longest reigning champion in the title's history, Joe has successfully smashed his way through seven different opponents including Juice Robinson, Jay Lethal, Trent Beretta, and most recently Cheeseburger, but now has to contend with someone with whom his career is tied back to its early days. These are men who came up together in ROH's earliest days, who helped mold the company into the most influential one of the last 20 years, and now they are helping to shape the new era of honor. Will Mark Briscoe finally achieve his dream of becoming ROH World Television champion, or will Joe make it to the one year mark as champion as he aims to make his TV Title reign resemble his record-setting 645 days ROH World Championship one? ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki After successfully defending the championship against Emi Sakura on Thursday night in quite the hard-hitting affair, “The Fallen Goddess” Athena will officially face “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki this Friday at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023! It's a fight weeks in the making, with hostilities rising to the point Athena actually called Yuka out for a match knowing very well that Sakazaki was in Japan at that moment. Well assumed by many to be a sure-thing for this Friday night, Emi Sakura did her level-best to throw a curveball into the best laid plans and take Athena's championship as her own. Still Athena found a way to survive Sakura's onslaught, and force her to tap out last night in their championship fight during ROH ON HONOR CLUB, but as is par for the course with the ROH Women's World Champ, just winning the match was not enough, and she just had to attack her fallen foe after the bout had concluded. Although Mei Suruga tried her best to stop the attack, she too ended up knocked down and out by Athena, leaving only the arrival of Yuka Sakazaki to stave off the beating. The brawl that erupted from that took an entire crew of referees and staff security to separate, and even after the two competitors were pulled apart, Yuka still tried to come after her SUPERCARD foe. Well this Friday night there won't be any reason to hold Athena and Yuka apart when they collide live on pay-per-view with the ROH Women's World Championship at stake! But if “The Magical Girl” can't stop the tear that “The Fallen Goddess” has been on since becoming champion, is there anyone else who can? ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP... Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and it is reasonable to say that based on his actions over the last several weeks, ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta is straddling that line. His championship victories over Timothy Thatcher and Clark Connors, as well as his standing as the only 2-Time Pure Champion in history, have fueled this arrogance in Yuta, and his alignment with The Blackpool Combat Club has only served to bolster the defending champion's ego. Why else would Wheeler Yuta have the audacity to not only run down New Japan's LA Dojo, but also its head trainer, Katsuyori Shibata! Shibata, even during his medically forced retirement, stood as one of the most feared men in professional wrestling over the last 20 years. His relentless physical assaults, the pleasure he took in inflicting punishment upon his foes, the ruthless nature in which he fought, it all added up to make “The Wrestler” one of New Japan Pro Wrestling's most dangerous competitors. One can't help but speculate the levels of greatness he have achieved already if not for his collapse following an IWGP Heavyweight Championship match with Kazuchika Okada in April 2017 and the subsequent discovery of a subdural hematoma that not only required emergency surgery, but effectively brought an end to his wrestling career. At least that's what everyone thought, everyone except Shibata himself as on October 21, 2021, Shibata stepped into the ring to fight Zack Sabre Jr. in a 5-minute Grappling contest. It wasn't a full-blown pro wrestling match, but it was a start, and three months later, at WRESTLE KINGDOM 16, Shibata would compete against Ren Narita in a full-blown professional wrestling match. It was a triumph for Shibata, just getting back into the ring in the first place, but in this case it was also a victorious return to action for the 3-Time NEVER Openweight Champion. Though it would be 10 months before Shibata returned to the fights, it would be a match that brought him to All Elite Wrestling for a second time. The first came at FORBIDDEN DOOR 2022 when he arrived to assist Orange Cassidy against Will Ospreay, but this time around it resulted in an All-Atlantic Championship bout between Shibata and Orange Cassidy, a championship match actually won by “Freshly Squeezed”, and perhaps there-in lies the purpose in Yuta's brazen call-out. See, just about a month ago, Yuta went to war with his former friend for that All-Atlantic Championship and was found wanting, just as Shibata was several months prior. That loss to OC marked a turning point in the attitude of Wheeler Yuta, one that has tilted him towards this increasingly violent, arrogant place in which he currently resides, a place that emboldened Wheeler to make the challenge. Perhaps his ego needs to accomplish the same thing Orange Cassidy once did, perhaps it's about showing the dominance of The BCC in both ROH and AEW, or perhaps it's just about Wheeler Yuta responding to that notion Ian Riccaboni put out weeks ago when he called Yuta the “junior member” of The Blackpool Combat Club. Yuta needs to prove he's just as worthy of respect as his BCC fellows, needs to prove it by defeating one of the most revered men in the sport, and needs to do it when the eyes of the wrestling world fall on SUPERCARD OF HONOR! That drive to be the best, that need to prove himself the best, it led Yuta to put the title on the line less than 24 hours before this battle, and although he defeated Leon Ruffin, any match takes a toll on the body, and if that tense staredown between Yuta and Shibata after the match is any indication, this one is going to be a very physically taxing one both men involved! ROH WORLD SIX MAN CHAMPIONSHIP... The Embassy (Brian Cage, Kaun, & Toa Liona w/ Prince Nana)(c) vs. AR Fox, Blake Christian, & Metalik AR Fox, Blake Christian, and Metalik united for the very first time on the March 23rd edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, defeating The Trustbusters in trios action, but the victory was rather pyrrhic thanks to Prince Nana's Embassy. See, when the newborn trio first accepted the challenge to face Ari Daivari's crew, they made an off-handed comment about pursuing the ROH World Six Man Championship once they were done with Trustbuster business. Clearly that did not sit well with Brian Cage, Kaun, and Toa Liona as they assault Fox, Christian, and Metalik following their victory on the 23rd. They heard the words spoken by the group, and this display of violence was their response. If they wanted an opportunity to dethrone the champs, then this it what AR Fox, Blake Christian, and Metalik had to look forward to if and when the six men met inside the squared circle. As it turned out, they would not have to wait long as AEW/ROH CEO Tony Khan announced just days later that at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 the ROH World Six Man Championship would be on the line with The Embassy defending against AR Fox, Blake Christian, and Metalik! It's a huge get for the challengers, this being just their second time out as a unit, but The Embassy isn't going to let any challenge go unanswered, whether they're as experienced a trio as Dalton Castle and The Boys, or as new to this style of competition as their challengers this Friday. But the fact that the challengers are so new to competing as a unit could swing things in their behavior because there's not tape to game plan for what they bring to the table, there isn't loads of footage to prep for AR Fox, Blake Christian, and Metalik. They are quite unpredictable, that makes them dangerous, and that danger could bear fruit in the crowning of new ROH World Six Man Champions! AAA MEGA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... El Hijo Del Vikingo(c) vs. Komander Fans worldwide bore witness to what AAA Mega Champion El Hijo del Vikingo is capable of last week on DYNAMITE when he battled Kenny Omega in one of the most spectacular matches AEW has ever offered on Wednesday night. While the bout did not go the way of Vikingo, it earned the man a well-deserved ovation from the AEW faithful in attendance, and drew plenty of eyeballs to the television screen to see just what this man had to offer. Komander, Vikingo's foe this coming Friday, also made his AEW debut quite recently, as part of the Face of the Revolution Ladder Match on March 1st to be exact, and while it was a wild situation in which to make his first AEW appearance, it only gave fans a small glimpse into what this man is capable of doing. That is why this contest taking place at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 is such an intriguing addition to the stacked pay-per-view event! It features to of Lucha Libre's finest athletes, competing against each other for the first time, and for a championship that Vikingo has held for over 480 days! He's defended the Mega Championship on eight instances after defeating four other men to claim it, and those challenges have come from as varied foes as Rey Fenix, John Hennigan, Laredo Kid, and Bandido. It should also be noted that immediately following that bout with Kenny, Vikingo returned to AAA two days later for a Trios contest, and then competed for Warrior Wrestling the very next day in Grand Rapids, MI! He's a busy man who never stops competing, but the same could be said for his upcoming foe. See Komander, since his AEW debut, well he's traveled to Germany for wXw's three night 16 Karat Gold Tournament, then headed to Japan to compete on an All Japan Pro Wrestling event as well as a GLEAT show, all before returning back to Mexico for AAA and an Invasion Indy bout. Suffice to say, Komander has been just as busy as the defending Mega Champion, and though they may be hurting from their experiences, neither man is going to hold back come Friday at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023! ONE-ON-ONE... Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Daniel Garcia The last time Hiroshi Tanahashi competed inside a ROH ring was April 6, 2019 when they, along with New Japan Pro Wrestling, presented the G1 SUPERCARD from Madison Square Garden. That night, “The Ace” challenged Zack Sabre Jr. for the RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship, but unfortunately for him, it would not be a title added to his already impressive trophy case. While that may have been the last time in Ring of Honor for Tanahashi, it was far from the only; the man has challenged for the ROH World Tag Team Titles, he's attempted to claim the ROH World Six Man Championship, he's taking a shot at the ROH World Television Title, and even tried to become the ROH World Champion in 2016 during Adam Cole's reign. And now it is the challenge of a former ROH Pure Champion that brings Hiroshi Tanahashi back to Ring of Honor this Friday night for SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023! Daniel Garcia issued the challenge on Wednesday night, and it was promptly answered by the multi-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion. Coming off a loss to the returning Adam Cole during DYNAMITE, “Red Death” is looking to rebound in the biggest way, and toppling Tanahashi in his match would be the ultimate return to form for Garcia. This is a man who has beaten “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson, Brody King, and Ricky Starks, he's been learning under the tree of Chris Jericho for months now, “The Ocho” being a man who beat Tanahashi back in January 2020 at WRESTLE KINGDOM 14. But will all that experience Garcia has amassed since coming into AEW, particularly since joining The J.A.S., be enough to conquer “The Ace of New Japan”? SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 comes your way on Friday, March 31st, beginning at 4pm PT/7pm ET, and if you can't be there live, don't you worry, don't you fret, because it will all be available on Bleacher Report and FITE+, with the ZERO HOUR absolutely free on on FITE and at the official ROH YouTube Channel!

With SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 just one day away, Ring of Honor returns to Honor Club for the latest edition of the best pound-for-pound wrestling on the planet! We know that Claudio Castagnoli will defend his ROH World Championship against Eddie Kingston on Saturday, that new ROH World Tag Team Champions will be crowned in the Reach For the Sky Ladder match, that the ROH Pure Championship will be at stake between Wheeler Yuta and NJPW's Katsuyori Shibata, and that The Embassy will put their ROH World Six Man Titles on the line as well! We also know Mark Briscoe will attempt to finally achieve his dream of becoming ROH World Television Champion when he faces Samoa Joe in head-to-head combat, but there is still more to be determined in the hours before ROH takes over Los Angeles on March 31st! This Thursday night, when the latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB debuts at 7pm ET, the final pieces of the SoH puzzle will be placed! ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... “The Fallen Goddess” Athena(c) vs. Emi Sakura Although she has never competed inside a ROH ring, Emi Sakura has more than earned her ROH Women's World Title opportunity over a 27-year career filled with championship success. During the course of her career, Sakura has held 16 different championships on 32 occasions, while currently reigning as the DEADLOCK Pro Wrestling Women's Champion in North Carolina, and as for Emi's AEW career, since her debut at DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2019, Sakura has competed in a total of 96 AEW matches while scoring 51 wins along the way. It's a number that puts her in the top ten of all women in AEW history, but unfortunately for Emi, none of those 51 are against the reigning ROH Women's World Champion Athena! Point of fact, in their lone singles encounter on the 9/12/22 edition of DARK: ELEVATION, it was Athena who scored the victory over Emi, just as her trios team did on the 8/9/22 edition of DARK. In the case of both women though, it could be said that that was a long time ago, and both have evolved into something a little bit different than they were before. Athena has transformed into one of the most ruthless, most aggressive competitors in either the Men's or Women's locker room in All Elite Wrestling, and that has parlayed into 15 consecutive victories in Ring of Honor competition, 5 successful title defenses, and turning away nine different women attempting to earn a title opportunity in Proving Ground matches. Factor in a wildly impressive AEW win streak, and Athena has won 27 straight singles matches dating back to October 11th of 2022, and she's secured most of them with wanton disregard for the well-being of her opponent, above and beyond just what it takes to win that particular match, but she may have found a match for that in the Emi Sakura that's risen to the surface since her January 27th RAMPAGE fight with Jamie Hayter. That AEW Women's World Championship Eliminator bout brought out an aggressive, violent side of Emi Sakura that All Elite Wrestling had not experienced over the last several years. It was a mean streak, the kind that has helped Emi amass the championship history she's built to date, and one that may prove absolutely necessary if she wants to become the 5th ROH Women's World Champion, and move on to SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 this Friday night to defend said title! Just days ago, Emi made it clear on DARK: ELEVATION that she's coming for Athena's crown: The one thing for certain about this collision is that both Emi Sakura and Athena are going to beat the tar out of one another as each tries to be the one heading to Los Angeles as ROH Women's World Champion! Don't miss out on what is going to be a truly hard-hitting affair! REACH FOR THE SKY PREVIEW... The Kingdom(Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) and LFI (Dralistico & Rush) vs. Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) and The Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo & Rey Fenix) Ahead of their collision at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 in the Reach For The Sky Ladder Match to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions, four of the five teams involved will collide in a huge 8-Man Tag thus Thursday night on Honor Club! Top Flight has gotten the best of The Kingdom on nearly every instance they've collided, save the night Taven bested Darius, so that is one factor playing into this equation, as is the history between LFI and The Lucha Brothers, a history that saw masks torn and blood shed. Suffice it to say that there is a lot wrapped up in this battle, and that's before Aussie Open is thrown into the mix and the ROH World Tag Team Championship belts are hoisted high above the squared circle! This is a chance for two teams to garner a small advantage before Friday night, a psychological edge perhaps, before Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis are thrown into the mix, and the ladder introduces utter chaos into the equation! ONE-ON-ONE... Eddie Kingston vs. “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels It has been 13 years since the last time Eddie Kingston and Christopher Daniels collided in a singles bout at CHIKARA's KING OF TRIOS 2010 event; they've been in tags in ICW and House of Hardcore, but even the last of those took place nearly nine years ago. A lot has changed since then, both men have experienced a multitude of life-altering events, won and lost championships, lost friends and loved ones, seen the highest of highs, and experienced the lowest of lows. It wasn't all that long ago that Christopher Daniels broke down in tears, unsure of what his wrestling future would be, and it was even more recent that Kingston walked out of All Elite Wrestling, quitting after the dissolution of his relationship with Ortiz pushed him to the breaking point, and showed up in Ring of Honor basically waving his 1099 flag as a free agent able to do whatever he wishes with his wrestling career. So with that in mind, with Kingston looking at a championship fight with Claudio Castagnoli 24 hours after this bout with a former ROH World Champion, and Christopher Daniels wanting to have the impact on this new era of honor that he did on the original, both these men need to make an impact this Thursday! Claudio will no doubt be watching closely, sizing up this opponent he's known for many years but hasn't faced since March 13, 2011, and readying himself for SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023. Can “The Fallen Angel” upset the whole apple cart with a victory over Kingston? What would that do for Daniels' own aspirations to perhaps become a 2-Time ROH World Champion like “The Swiss Superman”? And what would a loss so close to ROH's Los Angeles trip do to Eddie's morale? ROH Pure Championship Match... Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Leon Ruffin Just 24 hours before facing Katsuyori Shibata at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, the ROH Pure Champion will put his title on the line against Leon Ruffin, and while it may be Leon's debut for ROH ON HONOR CLUB, it's not his first dance for the championship. Back on the November 14th edition of DARK: ELEVATION, Leon challenged Daniel Garcia for the title, and though he did not claim victory, it did give Ruffin a taste of what competing in ROH's Pure Division feels like. So it is with that experience that Leon Ruffin hopes to score a major upset and snatch the Pure Championship from Yuta's wicked grip before he even steps into the ring with Shibata. Yuta is taking a risk by taking on a title challenge so close to the biggest fight of his career, but with the rate his ego seems to be expanding, it's likely the defending Pure Champion sees this fight as little more than a cakewalk to keep him warm for the bout with “The Wrestler” coming up at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023. Will that pride be Yuta's downfall, or will Leon Ruffin become little more than a message directed at Katsuyori Shibata? IN ADDITION: - Miyu Yamashita vs. Shazza McKenzie - The Embassy (Brian Cage, Kaun, & Toa Liona) vs. Arjun Singh, Dak Draper, & JD Griffey - Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) vs. Varsity Athletes (Ari Daivari & Tony Nese) - AR Fox & Metalik vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) - El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Blake Christian We are on the cusp of SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 going down in Los Angeles on March 31st! Every ROH championship will be on the line come Friday, but we won't know who will be defending the ROH Women's World Championship until after Emi Sakura and Athena get done with one another! This Thursday night marks the last stop on the road to SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 and it all goes down on latest edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, premiering at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club, the home for ROH ON HONOR CLUB every Thursday night, an archive of classic ROH events dating back to 2002, and even Straight Shootin' with Christian Cage!

SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 is just over a week away, and the matches that will shape it are taking form with each and every moment! We know there will be the first-ever Reach For The Sky Ladder Match designed to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions and that former AEW World Tag Team Champions The Lucha Brothers will be involved! Clearly there are other teams with their eyes on that prize, Daniels and Sydal, Aussie Open, Top Flight, and The Kingdom just to name a few, so who else will join the fray? Plus, we saw ROH Women's World Champion Athena call out “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki for a match on March 31st, a rare instance of the champ making the challenge to a potential foe, but given Athena's 14-match unbeaten streak in Ring of Honor competition, she has a copious amount of confidence. Plus, Eddie Kingston continued to pursue the ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli, the issues between Top Flight and The Kingdom got even more heated, as did those between The Trustbusters and Blake Christian/Metalik! Oh yes, and Mark Briscoe wants a little piece of Tony Nese before heading into his ROH World Television Championship match with Samoa Joe at SUPERCARD '23! SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 is just eight days away, and ROH's first pay-per-view extravaganza of 2023 is going to be a wild ride! And the road to get there is just as crazy as ROH ON HONOR CLUB gives fans the best in-ring action in pro wrestling, and that will again be the case this week when Samoa Joe puts his ROH World Television Championship on the line in an open challenge, Mark Briscoe collides with Tony Nese, Matt Taven and Darius Martin lock horns, and former ROH World Tag Team Champions Matt Sydal & Christopher Daniels lock up with Aussie Open! Plus, another pair of former World Tag Champs, Rhett Titus and Tracy Williams, will go head-to-head with LFI while Billie Starkz is in action, as is Skye Blue! The action takes places this Thursday night starting at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! ONE-ON-ONE... Mark Briscoe vs. Tony Nese (w/ Josh Woods & “Smart” Mark Sterling) Mark Briscoe defeated Josh Woods on AEW DYNAMITE back on February 15th, then he stopped The Trustbusters Slim Jon the debut of ROH ON HONOR CLUB, and then he and The Lucha Brothers toppled Ari Daivari and The Varsity Athletes in trios action during the REVOLUTION 2023: ZERO HOUR, a match where Mark pinned Ari, but this issue isn't buried just yet. Not until the 13-Time ROH World Tag Team Champion finishes one last piece of business with Mark Sterling's clients: facing Tony Nese. Having topped both Daivari and Woods, Nese is all that's left for Mark to handle, and this Thursday night, before he tackles the mountain that is ROH World TV Champion Samoa Joe at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 come March 31st. Mark is definitely on a roll the last couple months, having won six straight matches beginning with he and Jay's Double Dog Collar World Tag Title victory over FTR at FINAL BATTLE 2022, and that's the momentum he needs to keep going if he hopes to finally best Samoa Joe in Los Angeles. Can “The Premier Athlete” be the one to derail the train this Thursday night on Honor Club, and get a little revenge for all the hits that Mark Sterling's clients have taken at Mark Briscoe's hands? Or will this be another “W” for Chicken as he prepares for the biggest fight of his solo career come March 31st? TRIOS GRUDGE MATCH... AR Fox, Blake Christian, & Metalik vs. The Trustbusters (Ari Daivari, Jeeves Kay, & Slim J) In just a matter of weeks, the ROH faithful have seen this rivalry escalate rather rapidly. In the first week of action on Honor Club, Ari Daivari bested Metalik with a little help from his friends, the same week Blake Christian came up short in his NJPW World TV Title bout with Zack Sabre Jr. The following week, after their victory of Jake Crist and The Man Scout, Ari Daivari bragged about his victory over Metalik, which in turn brought out the luchador, who then fell victim to the numbers game of The Trustbusters. It was only the save of Blake Christian that brought a halt to the assault before it got worse, and that led to the tag team bout last Thursday night where Metalik and Christian topped The Trustbusters in tag team competition. The incensed Ari made the challenge, and as can be seen in the interview embedded above, Blake and Metalik have found their third man in the form of AR Fox! Now AEW fans have seen Fox compete alongside Top Flight in several AEW World Trios Championship bouts, and know he's quite adept at this form of competition. Add into that the success, albeit a pyrrhic one, he and Blake Christian had as a tag team back at FINAL BATTLE 2022 with LFI, and Fox is a perfect compliment to what Christian and Metalik bring to the table! This one is going to be a tremendous battle, and there is a very good chance that whoever wins this bout, well they will likely have some designs on the ROH World Six-Man Championship currently in the clutches of The Embassy! Which unit will rise and prove this Thursday night? SINGLES MATCH... The Kingdoms Matt Taven vs. Top Flight's Darius Martin The issues between The Kingdom and Top Flight only escalated last week when, after Mike Bennett was beaten by Dante Martin, Matt Taven attacked, only to be run off by Darius. Clearly the former ROH World Tag Team Champions weren't just going to take the loss with grace, especially not when they've got designs on becoming champions for a third time sooner rather than later, and when compounded with the humiliation they feel from being beaten by the less-experienced team, The Kingdom are not going to lay down easy. That is why this Thursday night, as a result of what happened last week, Matt Taven will go one-on-one with Darius Martin! Given that Top Flight has beaten The Kingdom in tag team competition, and Dante's toppled Bennett in singles action, this may be the last stand for the Taven and Bennett when it comes to the Martin brothers. If Darius takes this one, it's a clean sweep for Top Flight, and The Kingdom really doesn't have a leg to stand on in looking for more. But if Taven can take this one over Darius, then this rivalry is likely not at its end! And there's still a matter of the Reach for The Sky Ladder Match at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, and which teams will join Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix in that fray to determine the new ROH World Tag Team Champions! It's likely both The Kingdom and Top Flight want in on this one, and the results of this could certainly color how that unfolds. ALSO FEATURING: -TAG TEAM CONTEST Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal vs. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) -SINGLES MATCH Lady Frost vs. Skye Blue -TAG TEAM CHALLENGE LFI (Dralistico & Rush w/ Jose The Assistant) vs. Rhett Titus & Tracy Williams -ONE-ON-ONE The Embassy's Brian Cage vs. Tony Deppen -FORMER TV CHAMPIONS COLLIDE Shane Taylor vs. Silas Young -SINGLES MATCH Billie Starks vs. Miranda Alize -ROH World TV Title Open Challenge Samoa Joe vs. Cheeseburger ROH ON HONOR CLUB's fourth edition continues the new era of honor's amazing output of matches as SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 draws near on March 31st! We know who will challenge for the ROH World Television Championship, we know one team in the Reach for the Sky Ladder Match, and we know who wants to fight for the ROH World Championship! But the only way to see how everything else shapes up in advance of ROH's trip to Los Angeles is to sign up for Honor Club where not only can you watch all the action on Thursday nights, but it is also the home for 20+ years of the pound-for-pound best professional wrestling on the planet! Not only is FINAL BATTLE 2022 now available for your viewing pleasure, but so are classic events like the 15TH ANNIVERSARY where Christopher Daniels battled Adam Cole for the ROH World Championship, the AJ STYLES: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME compilation, and other historic ROH events dating all the way back to 2002!

Last week's edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB saw three top-tier championship bouts with Athena topping Willow Nightingale for the Women's World Championship, Wheeler Yuta being pushed to the brink by Timothy Thatcher in their ROH Pure Championship match, and Samoa Joe smashing down the ROH World TV Championship challenge of Tony Deppen! Plus, ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli addressed Eddie Kingston's desire for a championship match, The Kingdom had words for Top Flight, and former ROH Tag Team Champions Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal reunited with designs on recapturing the titles they held many years ago! All roads lead to SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 and everyone is jockeying for their position on ROH's next pay-per-view extravaganza! Every week, ROH ON HONOR CLUB has presented the premiere competition in pro wrestling, and it continues this week with the ROH Pure Championship at stake, as well as both the Men's and Women's World Champions in action in Proving Ground matches! Plus former ROH World Tag Team Champions are in action, as well as Eddie Kingston, The Trustbusters, Top Flight, The Kingdom, and more! It goes down this and every Thursday night beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Clark Connors Last week, though pushed to his limits by Timothy Thatcher, Wheeler Yuta managed to retain the ROH Pure Championship for the second time since reclaiming it from Daniel Garcia at FINAL BATTLE 2022 (now available on Honor Club). As the only 2-Time Pure Champ in ROH's history, and member in good standing of the Blackpool Combat Club, Yuta has every right to be proud of his accomplishments. He's earned it all the hard way, nothing has been handed to him, and he's done it while surrounded by three of the absolute best competitors in modern pro wrestling. But perhaps in response to comments like Ian Riccaboni's “junior member” the other week, Yuta's pride in his accomplishments has slowly become an arrogance. His words after defeating Thatcher are testament to that, as was his unexpected call out of the “track suit boys”, the students of New Japan's LA Dojo, as well as taking a shot at their trainer, the one and only Katsuyori Shibata. Enter: Clark Connors. As a student under that dojo system, one who has since graduated from the track suit, black trunks, black boots life, of course Connors is going to take umbrage to Yuta's words. It was an insult blanketed across all who have come through that L.A. Dojo under Shibata, men like Connors, Kevin Knight, The DKC, and Karl Fredericks, but it was “The Wild Rhino” who was in earshot to step up on behalf of his fellows. Connors recently challenged ZSJ for the New Japan World Television Championship, and though he was unsuccessful in that bid, it only bolstered his need to win the first championship of his wrestling career. Factor in the disparaging words from Yuta, and Connors has plenty of motivation to hand the arrogant Pure Champion a beating. Will Yuta back up his put-downs of the “track suit boys” by defeating Connors, or will “The Wild Rhino” finally win a championship en route to also defending the place that birthed him as a wrestler? ROH WORLD SIX-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... The Embassy (Brian Cage, Kaun, Toa Liona w/ Prince Nana)(c) vs. Dalton Castle & The Boys (Brandon & Brent) At FINAL BATTLE 2022, Prince Nana's Embassy knocked off Dalton Castle and The Boys from their perch as the reigning ROH World Six-Man Champions, one they'd sat upon since DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022, and had successfully defended against challenges from Primal Fear and The Trustbusters. Then they ran into the massive wall of muscle that is The Embassy, and their championship reign came to a screeching halt after 140 days. But now Dalton and the Tates have a chance at redemption this Thursday night when they face The Embassy in a DBD '22 rematch! They've got plenty of fire, plenty of motivation, and are aiming to make a huge impact on this Honor Club landscape as we near SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023! Across the trios landscape, there may not be anyone else as suited to dethroning The Embassy as Dalton Castle & The Boys, no unit that operates as smoothly together and has as much experience in this environment. But if they can't stop Brian Cage, Kaun, and Toa Liona, is there anyone who can? ONE-ON-ONE... Dante Martin (w/ Darius Martin) vs. Mike Bennett (w/ Maria Kanellis-Bennett & Matt Taven) The issues between Top Flight and The Kingdom have been lingering since FINAL BATTLE 2022 where, during the ZERO HOUR, the Martin Brothers ruined The Kingdom's return to Ring of Honor. As former 2-Time ROH World Tag Team Champions, Mike Bennett and Matt Taven, with Maria Kanellis-Bennett at the helm, likely expected a heroes welcome as they came back home, but instead were stifled by Top Flight, who were competing in their first match on a ROH event, and their second ROH-branded bout after having faced FTR for the World Tag Team Championship back in November. So this Thursday night is an opportunity for Mike Bennett to even the score on behalf of The Kingdom, and right the ship of the former 2-Time World Tag Champs, but so too is it Dante Martin's opportunity to continue solidifying Top Flight's position in this new era of honor! And, with the Reach for The Sky Ladder Match coming up at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, one has to imagine both of these teams want to be in the mix as Ring of Honor looks to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions! As ROH heads towards Los Angeles on March 31st, every team around the ROH landscape will be looking for their spot in the Ladder Match, and this match here will certainly have an impact on how Top Flight and The Kingdom factor in! Also featured this week: -ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PROVING GROUND MATCH Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. Willie Mack -ROH WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PROVING GROUND MATCH Athena(c) vs. Hyan -TAG TEAM GRUDGE MATCH The Trustbusters (Ari Daivari & Slim J) vs. Blake Christian & Metalik -ONE-ON-ONE Eddie Kingston vs. Jeeves Kay (w/ Slim J) -SINGLES MATCH Silas Young vs. Marcus Kross -HEAD-TO-HEAD Trish Adora vs. Madison Rayne -FORMER CHAMPIONS REUNITE “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal vs. The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) Two championship matches are on the line this week, with two more individuals getting a chance to earn their shot! ROH ON HONOR CLUB's third episode is absolutely stacked, and will certainly color the face of SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023on March 31st! Who will fight their way to prominence as that date draws near? Be sure to sign up for Honor Club not only to catch all the action from the New Era of Honor, but it also to enjoy 20+ years of rich wrestling history from the most influential professional wrestling promotion of this generation! FINAL BATTLE 2022 is now available for your enjoyment, as is the 2020 Pure Championship Tournament, the KEVIN STEEN: ASCENSION TO THE TOP compilation, and classic ROH events dating back to its inception in 2002!

The premiere edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB ended in shocking fashion when “The Mad King” Eddie Kingston returned to Ring of Honor television for the first time since May 2014 and made a beeline for ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli. There is no love lost between these two men, something Kingston made quite clear when Castagnoli was brought into The Blackpool Combat Club last June and Eddie had to team with him in BLOOD & GUTS II, but it's a hate that dates back nearly two decades to the infancy of each man's wrestling career. Claudio clearly had no interest in accepting Eddie's challenge, walking away from “The Mad King” without a spoken answer, but knowing Kingston, especially now that he's apparently walked away from AEW, there's no chance he's letting this challenge just fade out. And while that moment may have been a shocker, it would be a disservice to not mention the amazing effort AR Fox put forth in trying to claim the ROH World Championship from Claudio, coming close on multiple occasions to pulling the upset of his lengthy career! And Fox wasn't the only one on the verge of an upset; Blake Christian nearly pulled one off as well in his NJPW World Television Title fight with Zack Sabre Jr earlier in the night. Plus we witnessed Mark Briscoe open the new era of honor with a victory over Slim J, Willow Nightingale challenge Athena to a ROH Women's World Championship Match, and Wheeler Yuta see his Pure Championship invitiation answered by the vicious Timothy Thatcher! This week there will be THREE championship matches going down with the Women's, Pure, and Television Titles all at stake, as well as the return of former ROH World Tag Champions Rhett Titus and Tracy Williams as they take on Aussie Open! Plus Eddie Kingston will be in action, LFI is back in ROH taking on The Spanish Announce Project, and former World Six Man Champions Dalton Castle and his Boys are back in the house! The premiere episode of ROH ON HONOR CLUB showcased just why Ring of Honor has endured for more than two decades, and why it was the most influential professional wrestling company of the last twenty years. With this new era of honor, ROH will continue to demonstrate each and every week how it is the home for pure professional wrestling at its finest, and it takes place this and every Thursday night beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club! ROH WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP Samoa Joe(c) vs. Tony Deppen In October 2nd of 2020, Tony Deppen made his debut for Ring of Honor Wrestling, taking part in the tournament to crown a new Pure Champion as the title was reinstated 14 years after its unification with the ROH World Championship. Unfortunately for Deppen, he was knocked out of contention in the first round by PJ Black, but left a lasting enough impression that just two months later, he earned his way into a ROH World TV Championship opportunity at FINAL BATTLE 2020. While Deppen failed to dethrone Dragon Lee that night, it made him hungry for success in Ring of Honor, and actually led him into a faction known as VLNCE ULTD alongside Brody King and ROH Legend, former World Champion, “The Notorious 187” Homicide. That proved to be the key ingredient as just a month after their formation, Deppen defeated The Foundation's Tracy Williams to become the 25th Television Champion, holding the title for 72 days before Dragon Lee reclaimed it. Deppen's tenure in ROH would last until FINAL BATTLE 2021: END OF AN ERA, and he would participate in several memorable bouts, including a World Six Man Championship fight against Shane Taylor Promotions, a wild Street Fight at GLORY BY HONOR 2021, and a tremendous eight-man tag at that aforementioned FINAL BATTLE event. Deppen would appear on the DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022: ZERO HOUR in a Six Man bout against The Embassy, but it was his presence at FINAL BATTLE 2022 that raised some eyebrows. That night Deppen appeared not as a competitor in a match, but rather a spectator whose attention was fixed on the ROH World Television Title match between Samoa Joe and Juice Robinson. Without saying a word, the intent was clear: Tony Deppen had designs on reclaiming the championship he'd lost many months before. Well this Thursday night during ROH ON HONOR CLUB's loaded second episode, Deppen will have his chance when he squares off with ROH Legend, the longest reigning World Champion in company history, and Triple Crown Winner (World/Pure/TV), the incomparable Samoa Joe! What a beginning to ROH ON HONOR CLUB it would be to see Deppen rise up and knock down Joe this early in the programs run, and just weeks before SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 (https://www.rohwrestling.com/live/events/supercard-honor-2023) goes down in Los Angeles! ROH PURE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Wheeler Yuta(c) vs. Timothy Thatcher Wheeler Yuta put out the call last week for a worthy challenger to step up this week and try to end his ROH Pure Championship reign, but it is highly unlikely he expected Timothy Thatcher to be in the zone that night, much less be the man to answer the call! As was witnessed on DYNAMITE when Thatcher brutalized Yuta's BCC mate Bryan Danielson, this is a man who relishes in violence and delights in inflicting pain on his foes, and not just the pain necessary to secure victory, but rather above the call of duty simply to hear an opponent break. Thatcher answering Yuta's call marked the man's debut appearance for Ring of Honor, and thus this Thursday will mark his first-ever match, but it is not the first outing for Yuta and Thatcher as foes. In August 2022, just after Thatcher's first tour of Pro Wrestling NOAH, the two men would meet at the White Eagle for Beyond's AMERICANRANA 2022: BLACKOUT event, and after fifteen minutes of combat, it would be Yuta who defeated the then-GHC Tag Team Champion. Thatcher would return to NOAH following that battle only to lose the GHC Tag Team Titles, as well as unsuccessfully challenge for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. His return to the States led to that collision with Danielson, followed by a brief return to NOAH to participate in the KEIJI MUTO GRAND FINAL PRO-WRESTLING LAST LOVE HOLD OUT event. Now he's back from NOAH, a promotion with whom ROH had a tremendous working relationship with for several years, for this first-ever bout under the Ring of Honor banner, and he's aiming to end this second Pure Championship reign of Wheeler Yuta! As the only two-time Pure Champion in the title's history, Wheeler Yuta is already a part of ROH history, but he wants to go down as the greatest Pure Champ in history as well, he wants to surpass men like Nigel McGuinness and Samoa Joe, arguably the two greatest to ever hold and defend the title, and be the name most associated with said title. In addition, as can be heard in Yuta's response to Ian Riccaboni calling him the “junior member of the Blackpool Combat Club”, there is certainly a level of needing to prove just how wrong that label is, of how he's every bit as world class as the men he associates with, otherwise he would not be standing with the BCC letters emblazoned on his soul. Yuta is in for a tremendous fight in this second defense of his second reign, can he have the same success against Thatcher that his BCC partner did several weeks back? Or will Thatcher take the Pure Championship back to NOAH and defend it as McGuinness and Takeshi Morishima did with the ROH World Championship many years back? ROH WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Athena(c) vs. Willow Nightingale One would be hard-pressed to find a woman on a hotter streak than ROH Women's World Champion Athena. Between AEW, ROH, and a ROH Women's Championship defense against Miyu Yamashita from Prestige Wrestling's VENDETTA show on IWTV, Athena has won more than 25 consecutive matches! With 90 days as champion, four successful defenses under her belt, and numerous victories in Eliminator/Proving Ground matches, it is getting to the point where one has to wonder if there's any women in ROH or AEW capable of putting a stop to this roll? Well, Willow Nightingale is going to step up and try! With victories in Ring of Honor over Allysin Kay and Trish Adora on 2022 pay-per-view events, as well as last week's over Lady Frost, Nightingale feels ready to challenge the women she once called an ally in All Elite Wrestling! Willow will absolutely have the fan support in this one; with that infectious smile, bubbly personality, and most importantly, hard-hitting style in the ring, it's hard not to rally behind Willow even if she's facing another fan favorite combatant. And when it's someone like “The Fallen Goddess” who has earned the ire of the ROH and AEW faithful, there's no question who the people are rooting for on Thursday night! But if Willow can't stop the rampage of Athena, just who can? PLUS: Eddie Kingston in action! Dalton Castle & The Boys in action!! Rhett Titus & Tracy Williams vs. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) Trish Adora vs. Billie Starkz The TrustBusters (Ari Daivari & Slim J) vs. Jake Crist & Man Scout LFI (Dralistico & Rush) vs. Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) With three championship matches, ROH ON HONOR CLUB's second episode is as loaded as it gets! Who will step up and stake their championship claim as ROH looks towards SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023 on March 31st? Will Kingston get the championship shot he's demanding? The only way to watch is to sign up for Honor Club, but it isn't just the home for all-new Ring of Honor, it's also the place to peruse twenty years worth of history from the most influential professional wrestling promotion of this generation, including the new “This Week in ROH History” playlist, the BRYAN DANIELSON: WORLD CHAMPION compilation spotlighting his reign as ROH World Champion, and a rich event archive dating back to THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS!

This is the moment that ROH faithful have been waiting for since March 2, 2022 when it was first announced that AEW CEO Tony Khan had purchased Ring of Honor Wrestling and that it would continue to operate moving forward. Fans witnessed the various Ring of Honor championships defended on All Elite Wrestling programming, saw Chris Jericho become one of the most impressive ROH World Champions in the title's history, Wheeler Yuta become the first 2-time Pure Champion in ROH history, and The Briscoes claim the World Tag Team Titles for the 13th time with their epic Dog Collar Match against FTR at FINAL BATTLE 2022. ROH fans have seen the TV Title carried by ROH Legend Samoa Joe, making Joe a Triple Crown Champion some 17 years since he last held a ROH championship, and watched Athena defeat Mercedes Martinez to become the current ROH Women's World Champion, a position she has relished using to abuse any women coming for her championship. Through a trio of pay-per-view presentations in 2022, Ring of Honor continued to present the wrestling that has shaped the industry over the last two decades, and through it all fans kept speculating when Ring of Honor would return to some form of weekly programming. Tony Khan told the world after FINAL BATTLE 2022 that ROH's Honor Club service would be host to a weekly programming in the new year, and it is finally happening this Thursday night beginning at 7pm ET/6pm CT exclusively on Honor Club With the first edition of Ring of Honor on Honor Club, it only felt right to pay tribute to the origins of ROH while simultaneously looking to the present and future of what's to come in this new era of honor! So while there have been so many exciting ROH events and moments that have taken place over the last year, sadly there has also been tragedy as we lost Jay Briscoe earlier this year following an automobile accident. But his memory lives on through the moments he made, the fans he touched, the wrestlers he influenced, and the family who loved him, and in honor of his contributions to ROH, just as Jay Briscoe was part of the first official match in ROH history back on 2/23/02, so too will Mark Briscoe be part of this first Honor Club match! ONE-ON-ONE ROH World Tag Team Champion Mark Briscoe vs. Slim J At THE ERA OF HONOR BEGINS twenty-one years ago, Jay Briscoe defeating The Amazing Red in the first official match in Ring of Honor history. From that moment forward, and for nearly the entirety of ROH's existence, The Briscoe Brothers were the foundation of the entire promotion. They claimed the ROH World Tag Team Titles on 13 occasions, including three unforgettable 2022 battles with FTR that culminated in the must-see Double Dog Collar Match at FINAL BATTLE 2022. Jay claimed the ROH World Championship on two instances, and although Mark never acquired a singles title of his own during the first 20 years of ROH's existence, he was a consistent contender for the World Television Championship. So with this new era of honor continuing to unfold with the first episode on Honor Club, it only seemed appropriate that ROH pays tribute to Jay by having Mark Briscoe be in the first match fans will see on Thursday night! Twenty-one years ago Mark was relegated to (reluctantly) supporting his brother from ringside for the first ROH match, but with this first match he will be in action against another man whose ROH credentials date back to Year One as well! Once a part of the Special K faction that included Jay Lethal, Slim J made his own ROH memories during those early days, competing in multiple Scramble Matches with the likes of The S.A.T, The Carnage Crew, and even fighting The Briscoes on occasion. His original tenure with Ring of Honor ended in 2004, but at DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 2022, as part of the Zero Hour presentation, Slim J returned to the fold alongside Ari Daivari as part of his TrustBusters unit! This is a moment for Mark Briscoe and Slim J to set the tone, not just for the future of their respective ROH careers, but also for the future of ROH on Honor Club and for what's to come on April 1st at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023! NJPW WORLD TV TITLE MATCH Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Blake Christian At New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual WRESTLE KINGDOM event on January 4th, Zack Sabre Jr. become the first-ever NJPW World Television Champion, defeating Ren Narita in a tremendous 11 minute battle. Immediately following that match, he was offered membership in TMDK (The Mighty Don't Kneel) by Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste, an offer ZSJ readily accepted after bidding farewell to his SUZUKI-GUN stable a few weeks prior. In the two months since claiming the NJPW TV Title and aligning with TMDK, Zack Sabre Jr. has experienced a great deal of success, including retaining his championship on two outings, first against Tomohiro Ishii on February 5th and then opposite Clark Connors on the 18th. Now the submission master returns to ROH for the first time since the G1 SUPERCARD event and brings the nascent championship with him as ZSJ continues to establish the title's value. For Blake Christian, this is a huge opportunity as both his Ring of Honor and New Japan careers are in their relative infancy. Blake's very first ROH match was only at SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2022 as part of the ZERO HOUR presentation, but he was gifted a championship opportunity against Claudio Castagnoli earlier this year. As for his NJPW career, that first began in August 2020, and has been fought primarily under the California-based NJPW STRONG banner. He took part in the 2020 Super J Cup Tournament, attempted to qualify for the New Japan Cup in 2021, and has been in the ring with fighters like Hiromu Takahashi, El Desperado, David Finlay, and Juice Robinson during his time with STRONG. But this championship challenge against ZSJ is the biggest opportunity he's had to date in either ROH or NJPW, and Blake Christian aims to make the most of it on this premiere edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH... Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. AR Fox A 2-Time World Champion during the course of 2022, Claudio Castagnoli is ready to lead Ring of Honor into this new era as the kind of honorable, respectable champion that the promotion deserves, the kind of champion ROH sorely needs after suffering through Chris Jericho's persistent denigration of Ring of Honor throughout his championship reign. Jericho may have been having spectacular defenses during his title run, but he had nothing positive to say about Ring of Honor, even rechristening it “Ring of Jericho” and treating it like a second-class organization. Since FINAL BATTLE 2022, when Claudio reclaimed the championship from “The Ocho”, it has been Double C's mission to represent Ring of Honor as it deserves to be, and that means defending the title whenever possible against top challengers from all corners of professional wrestling. It goes without saying that the very first edition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB needs to feature the ROH World Championship, and the man stepping up to the challenge is well-traveled AR Fox! Now AR Fox and Claudio Castagnoli have never crossed paths in a singles match, but it was the trio of Fox and Top Flight who cost The Blackpool Combat Club $300,000 in that Three Kings Trios Battle Royale on the 12/23 edition of AEW RAMPAGE, a victory that Fox and the Martin Brothers also parlayed into a pair of failed AEW World Trios Championship title bids. Coming out of that, and with Claudio willing to face any man with designs on the ROH World Championship, the main event of this Thursday's premiere presentation will be AR Fox challenging Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Title! Between this fight and the NJPW TV Title match, Ring of Honor is definitely the land of opportunity, and AR Fox would love nothing more than to close out the first Honor Club episode by dethroning The Swiss Superman in his 4th championship defense. Just as Mark Briscoe and Slim J have the opportunity to make that first impression, so too does it fall on either Claudio Castagnoli or AR Fox to lead Ring of Honor as we move forward in this new era of honor! In addition to those featured bouts, fans tuning into the very first addition of ROH ON HONOR CLUB will also see: - ROH World Six Man Champions The Embassy (Brian Cage, Kaun, & Toa Liona) in action! - Metalik vs. Ari Daivari - The Renegades (Charlette & Robyn) vs. Madison Rayne & Skye Blue - The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennet) vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) - “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels vs. Rohit Raju - Konosuke Takeshita vs. “The Technical Beast” Josh Woods - Willow Nightingale vs. Lady Frost This new era of honor began one year ago when it was announced to the world that AEW CEO Tony Khan had purchased Ring of Honor, and now it advances to the next level with the premiere of ROH ON HONOR CLUB! It all begins again this Thursday night at 7pm ET/6pm CT on Honor Club as we head towards SUPERCARD OF HONOR 2023, but Honor Club isn't just the home for this premiere, but also for twenty years worth of history from the most influential professional wrestling promotion of this generation!