November 14, 2024
Providence, RI – Amica Mutual Pavilion and Bridgeport, CT – Total Mortgage Arena
Commentary – Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman
Results via Jeff Moss of F4WOnline.com
Quick Match Results
- Four-way Tag Team match – Undisputed Kingdom defeated Gates of Agony, The Dark Order, and Grizzled Young Veterans via Hail Mary (pinfall)
- The Sons of Texas defeated Shot Through The Heart via GTH (pinfall)
- Griff Garrison defeated Waves And Curls via Discus Lariat (pinfall)
- Katsuyori Shibata defeated Aaron Solo via Octopus Stretch (submission)
- Komander defeated Josh Woods via Ropewalk Shooting Star Press (pinfall)
- Abadon defeated Viva Van via The Black Dahlia (pinfall)
- ROH TV 2/26/2021 – ROH Women’s World Championship Proving Ground match – Athena (c) defeated Hyan via Crossface (submission)
- The Righteous defeated Sammy Diaz & Matt Raymond via Assisted Green Bay Plunge (pinfall)
- ROH Women’s World Television Championship Street Fight match – Red Velvet (c) defeated Diamante via Straight Outta Your Mama’s Kitchen (pinfall)
Four-Way Tag Team Match
Gates of Agony (Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun) vs. The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven)
So, there was a lot of people in this match. A lot. Lets bring you up to speed:
The Undisputed Kingdom wanted to prove they’ve still got it after losing the titles back in September. Gates of Agony really wanted to hurt people. Grizzled Young Veterans appeared to be making their ROH on Honorclub debut, and The Dark Order, well, they just usually want to pose and cause as much chaos as possible. One thing that every team wanted though was to move up a notch to get into contention for the ROH Tag Team Titles.
Taven and Kaun kicked things off which was pretty fun. They are both big guys who can move really well. Eventually, Silver and Gibson locked up and it’s always fun to see Silver in the ring because even though he’s a Short King, he has the strength and agility of a much bigger man. The Veterans really shone here too, keeping everyone on their toes.
The Gates were the first to start the double teaming, but were dragged to the outside by the Kingdom and Veterans respectively. That left Silver in the ring to face Taven who dodged a big splash that set up Bennett to grab Silver for a spiked piledriver. As one can imagine, that got them the pin and the victory.
Winner: Undisputed Kingdom via Pinfall.
After the match, Taven and Bennett approached Gates of Agony and shared a tentative but respectful handshake. Odd behaviour between heels, but an interesting match up for a later day.
The Sons of Texas (Sammy Guevara & Dustin Rhodes) vs. Shot Through The Heart (Love Doug & TJ Crawford)
.@NoNamexVincent & @DEATHxWALKS The Righteous BLINDSIDED the @dustinrhodes & @sammyguevara post-match!
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 15, 2024
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Now going by “The Sons of Texas”, The ROH Tag champions have been holding firmly onto those belts the last few weeks while the Righteous stalk them from every corner. Rhodes and Guevara got one up on Vincent and Dutch last week, jumping them on the ramp before their alleged match took place. Doug and Crawford have been teaming on the indies since 2021 with questionable team names like “Love In The City” and their current name “Shot Through The Heart.” No matter what they call themselves, this would be their ROH debut.
As imagined, Doug was in way over his head when he started the match opposite Rhodes. I mean that literally, he was a good foot shorter than Rhodes. What he did have was speed though and that caught Rhodes unawares. Crawford tagged in just in time to take a big splash from Guevara. Doug wanted a piece of that action, and jumped in to take a Sammy Superkick for his troubles.
Crawford was a better matchup against the champions, but Rhodes and Guevara have been firing on all cylinders and landed dual GTH’s on both of their opponents to get the win.
Winner: The Sons of Texas via Pinfall.
Immediately, The Righteous arrived and blindsided Rhodes to give a double team to Guevara. Dutch hit a side slam on Rhodes, and Vincent held him while Dutch smashed a large cowbell into his face. The RIghteous snapped their way out of the ring, leaving the champs lying.
Video: Chris Jericho, The Learning Tree
ROH World Champion Chris Jericho and The Learning Tree cut a promo in the back. Big Bill said that they are up to any challenge. Jericho talked about how he’s known Tomohiro Ishii for thirty years, when he was a “Young Boy” in Japan. Jericho accepted Ishii’s challenge to defend the ROH title against him in two weeks, in Chicago. Thanks guys!!
Griff Garrison & Preston Vance vs. Waves And Curls (Jaylen Brandyn & Traevon Jordan)
The tremendously named Waves and Curls have been together on the indies since 2020. They’ve done some grunt work in AEW, but as far as I can tell this was their ROH debut and they got a big hometown pop. Vance and Garrison would be teaming together for the first time, while Garrison’s usual partner, Cole Karter recovers from injury. Vance, for his part, is sitting at a 4-5 singles record in 2024, including a loss to Sammy Guevara last week, so maybe tag teaming is a better fit.
Garrison and Vance (who I am calling Team Purple Pants) seemed pretty cohesive for two guys who;ve never teamed together. Vance started things off against Jordan who made a mistake by dancing mid-move. That gave Vance an opening to crush him with a lariat.
Brandyn tagged in a looked like a literal child against Vance. Vance threw him around for a while and then tagged in Garrison. Garrison attempted to mock his opponent by, yep, dancing. It worked out ok for him though since Brandyn weighed about 75lbs and was easy to slam, even mid-dance.
Vance tagged in and hit a stalling (20 second) suplex on Brandyn. Garrison tagged in and Vance ran around to take out Jordan on the outside. Brandyn tried a suicide dive onto Vance on the outside, but Vance caught him with one hand and dragged him back into the ring. Vance and Garrison hit dual rolling elbows and got the pin, 1-2-3.
Winner: Griff Garrison & Preston Vance via Pinfall.
Video: Shane Taylor Promotions
RUMBLE…BADMAN…RUMBLE!
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 15, 2024
Watch #ROH TV on #HonorClub at https://t.co/8dcdtxr3sN@CarlieBravo | @ShawnDean773 | @TrishAdora202 | @shane216taylor | @theleemoriarty pic.twitter.com/EaGmAgLeXf
A video aired recapping The Infantry recently joining Shane Taylor’s Shane Taylor Promotions stable.
Aaron Solo vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Solo is a wrestler, but Shibata is THE Wrestler. Shibata has not lost a singles match in ROH in 2024, and holds wins over Brandon Cutler, The Butcher and 2/3rds of the Premier Athletes in just the last few months. Solo on the other hand, has not won a singles match in ROH since April. He’s also probably still hearing bells after the beating that Tomohio Ishii laid on him last week.
Solo jumped Shibata as soon as he got in the ring, beating him up and tossing him out of the ring. Solo’s strategy seemed to be to take away the “wrestler” skills from Shibata and force him to brawl on the outside. He threw Shibata into barricades, stairs, chairs, whatever he could find. But he got cocky and Shibata showed him that he knows a thing or two about brawling as well. He beat up Solo and tossed him back into the ring.
Shibata laid some hard chops into Solo in the corner and then stomped him in the center of the ring. Solo hit a surprise exploder suplex to even things out. Shibata came back with a Cobra Twist into a Octopus hold and that was it for Solo. He tapped and Shibata’s win streak continued.
Winner: Katsuyori Shibata via Submission.
Josh Woods vs. Komander
Komander is a fun, high-flying luchador and Woods is a large, technical and brutal brawler. Having defeated Woods’ stablemate Ariya Daivari in October, Komander would love to add Wood’s name to is beaten list. Woods for his part has suffered losses to Tomohiro Ishii, AR Fox (of all people) and then-ROH Champion Mark Briscoe. Despite this, Mark Sterling declared that the Premier Athletes are “winners!”
For some reason here during Komander’s entrance, they showed two people in the crowd cosplaying as Meg and Peter Griffin from Family Guy. No one acknowledged it, but it was weird enough I thought I should mention it.
Woods immediately went to his amateur background, trying to keep Komander on the mat and take away his speed. Komander was able to take advantage of what little space he had though and bring the momentum firmly into his corner.
Woods then realized that he is bigger than Komander, so he picked him up and threw him outside the ring where Sterling delivered a few stomps for good luck. Back in the ring, Woods started feeding elbows to Komander. He made a mistake though and gave Komander some space which the luchadore jumped on, literally and figuratively.
Komander used the ropes for a springboard splash on to Woods. He tried it again, but Woods got his knee up, surprising Komander. Komander tried setting up for a big dive, but Sterling tripped him up. Komander’s Hype Man jumped in and delivered a spear to Sterling. Komander then hit a rope-walk head butt on a prone Woods and got the win.
Winner: Komander via Pinfall.
Abadon vs. Viva Van
Abadon failed to win the ROH Women’s title from Athena a couple of weeks ago in a “Ring of Horror Match” and as such, was in an awesome mood. She screamed, grunted and smashed everything Viva Van-shaped in the ring. Van attempted a few soft flurries of offense, but Abadon, a literal zombie, wasn’t really having any of it.
Van resorted to a hair-lock(?) on Abadon, trying anything she could to put Abadon away. It didn’t work though and Abadon no-sold it with screams and hit a surprise cutter on Van. She followed that up with a Black Dahlia and got the win, squash complete.
Winner: Abadon via Pinfall.
Backstage: Billie Starkz, Athena, Lexy Nair, Leila Grey
🚨 EMERGENCY M.E.M 🚨
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 15, 2024
Did @LexyNair say @BillieStarkz is ready to apologize to the #ROH Women's World Champion @AthenaPalmer_FG?!…@Miss_LeilaGrey might have something to say.
Watch #ROH TV on #HonorClub at https://t.co/8dcdtxqvDf pic.twitter.com/3LlcBl7mRY
Backstage an emergency MeM broke out with Lexy Nair demanding that Billie Starkz apologize to Athena. Athena was unimpressed with Starkz’ outfit and blew her off. Suddenly, Leila Grey appeared to let everyone know that Top Flight was the best. That was literally what she showed up to say. Athena laughed and said she could have a Proving Ground match next week.
ROH TV 2/26/2023
ROH Women’s World Championship Proving Ground Match
Hyan vs. Athena (c)
From the #HonorClub vault, we take a look at the match that was @_thehyan facing the #ROH Women's World Champion @AthenaPalmer_FG in a PROVING GROUND match on March 26th, 2023!
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) November 15, 2024
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The Classic ROH Content this week was Athena’s first Proving Ground match as champion against Hyan, who was all over the indies at the time. It was a decent match (guess who won!) that we all enjoyed and then moved on.
Winner: Athena via Submission.
The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) vs. Sammy Diaz & Matt Raymond
Diaz and Raymond had no chance here. Vincent and Dutch are a team that doesn’t care about pesky things like rules and such. They are into violence and lately, the ROH Tag Team Championships around the waists of Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara. The champs were jumped by the Righteous earlier in the show, so it was easy to see that they were in a good mood, which is even scarier when talking about the Righteous. They were looking to take it out on Diaz and Raymond, who according to my research, are not only making their ROH debut, but possibly having their first match ever. Hell of a way to start.
Vincent started things off against whichever one was in Blue tights (Raymond, as it turns out. Though he had “magnum” on his tights). Vincent toyed with him and then tagged in Dutch for a Side Effect and dual dropkicks. Diaz tagged in and didn’t fare any better, taking an Orange Sunshine and then a big double team similar to what took out Sammy Guevara earlier. Vincent pinned him and it was all over but the shouting.
Winner: The Righteous via Pinfall.
By shouting, I mean the dulcet tones of Vincent as he grabbed a mic for a promo. He said that the Righteous are forcing their way into the tag title picture. He said they should have been champions a long time ago and Sammy and Dustin will not have those belts for long. Dutch agreed and mocked Rhodes with the cowbell he hit him with earlier. It was Rhodes’ childhood cow bell (which is a thing in Texas I presume). Dutch talked about Dusty Rhodes, saying that Dusty wanted him to be his son instead of Dustin. That’s why Dutch got the cow bell.
ROH Women’s World Television Championship Street Fight Match
Diamante vs. Red Velvet (c)
Diamante is at her craziest when there are no rules and Red Velvet has been up to whatever challenge comes across her plate while holding the ROH Women’s TV Title. Velvet has been spending a lot of time in CMLL in the last month or so, which means it’s possible she had a few tricks up her sleeve that Diamante wouldn’t see coming. Diamante survived the Texas Death Match against Leyla Hirsch at Death Before Dishonor, so she knows how to handle herself when the rules are out the window.
Diamante brought a trash can full of weapons to the ring and got the jump on Velvet off the top. She tried to set up a shot with the belt, but Velvet reversed it and followed up with a trash can shot to Diamante. Diamante responded by putting Velvet in the trash can and drop kicking it. She then sent Velvet’s face into a steel chair several times. Next, she tried to choke Velvet with a big ol’ chain.
Velvet managed to get a sneaky stunner on Diamante to turn the tide. She bulldogged Diamante onto that chair and threw her into the garbage can face-first. Velvet pulled a ladder from under the ring and introduced it to Diamante via hip-toss. Propping the ladder against the ropes, Velvet laid out Diamante on top of it. Velvet went for a top rope leg drop, but Diamante rolled off the ladder.
The two brawled around the ladder, with Velvet ending up on it this time. Diamante climbed the ropes and hit a big splash through Velvet and the ladder. Diamante then brought at table into the ring. She set it up in the corner, but Velvet got her with a chair before she could use it. Velvet put Diamante on the table and went to the top rope. Diamante slid off though, knocking Velvet off balance. She gabbed Velvet and superplexed her through the table from the top rope.
Velvet got to her feet and hit a Mama’s Kitchen on Diamante, driving her head into the TV Title belt. That did it and Velvet picked up the win, retaining her title. Super fun match!
Winner: Red Velvet via Pinfall to retain the ROH Women’s World Television Championship.