Honor Roll - Ring of Honor recap for January 20, 2018

After last week's episode went off the air, The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan, Vinny Marseglia) attack Dalton Castle and The Boys, and Matt Taven brags about it backstage before saying that if Ring of Honor won't give him an opportunity, he will take it.

Cheeseburger guests on commentary for the next match.

The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) retain the ROH World Tag Team Championships against The Dawgs (Rhett Titus and Will Ferrara). After the match, The Briscoes (Jay and Mark Briscoe) show up and congratulate the Machine Gun, then tell them to enjoy the titles while they can as they will reclaim their "property" and there is nothing they can do about it.

Backstage, Shane Taylor is met by SoCal Uncensored ("The Almighty" Christopher Daniels, "The Heavy Metal Rebel" Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky). They offer him a business proposition where he acts as a bodyguard against Bullet Club. He tells them that if they provide the check, he'll provide the muscle, and if the check doesn't clear, he will find them.

Kenny King said his mother told him to keep his head on a swivel. He didn't do that, and he lost the ROH World Television Championship at Final Battle and got beaten up two week by Brian Milonis as a result. He says that "The Last Real Man" Silas Young, The Beer City Bruiser and Milonis are crazy if they think he will not get back up after that, and that he will return to his golden throne.

Josh "The Goods" Woods admits that Jonathan Gresham came out on top last time, but this time, he is ready.

Jonathan Gresham beats Josh "The Goods" Woods with the same bridge pin that he used the last time they met in the ring.

It's time for Coleman's Pulpit. This week's guests are Coast 2 Coast (Shaheem Ali and LSG). They confirm that if they lose one more match as a team, they will split up. They do not want to break up, but if they lose, they will have to start from the bottom; however, they will always have each other's back. Shaheem Ali says they cannot figure out what they are doing wrong, and admits the potential split is his idea. Coleman calls Shaheem Ali "the weakest link," but Shaheem Ali says they have put everything on the line, and this time will be no different. Either they win, or they split up. Coleman asks if they want to know who they will be facing next week, and they say yes. The team they will be facing is War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe). However, he has faith that they can pull out a win.

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes shows up. He says he stands before the people no longer ROH Champion, and thought that if he stripped everything down when it came to Dalton Castle, all that would remain was a man. At Final Battle, however, Dalton Castle was not just a man, but the better man. He spent 13 years pining for the ROH World Championship, and tells Dalton to have his fun as he is guaranteed a rematch. Although he does not have the beautiful new ROH World Championship belt, he still has the official Ring of Honor Ring. Suddenly, The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan, Vinny Marseglia) shows up, and Taven asks if he should feel bad for him when he has had everything handed to him on a silver platter due to being a Rhodes. He then says that when Rhodes showed up, he kissed ass and joined Bullet Club, and while they play their little game and have all the ROH officials fooled, he does not have him fooled, as he knows he is being passed over. He then says Cody has done him a favor by exposing himself, as he was given the title and every opportunity to prove himself, and a few months later, he failed. Taven says he will be remembered as nothing more than a "bleach blonde bitch," and is about to walk away when Cody stops him. He says he would love to have the last word, but his bleached blonde hair managed to get a bigger pop than Taven will ever get in his life. The crowd chants "Cody's hair," then Cody says there is one thing left to do: have Taven kiss the ring. Taven kisses the ring, then kicks him in the groin and shoves him to the mat.

We see a video package for Punishment Martinez.

The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) beat Best Friends (Chuckie T and Trent Barretta) and the team of Titan and Dragon Lee in a three-way tag team match. After the match, SoCal Uncensored ("The Almighty" Christopher Daniels, "The Heavy Metal Rebel" Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky) attacks The Young Bucks, then "Hangman" Adam Page chases them out of the ring with a steel chair to end the show.