Thursday, March 30, 2023

Honor Roll - Ring of Honor recap for March 30, 2023

Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) beat The Varsity Athletes ("The Premier Athlete" Tony Nese and Ari Daivari) after double superkicking "Smart" Mark Sterling at ringside.

Miyu Yamashita beats Shazza McKenzie.

The Embassy ("The Machine" Brian Cage, Joseph Kaun, Toa Liona) beats JD Griffey, Dark Draper and Arjun Singh in a trios match.

Metalik and AR Fox beat The Infantry ("The Captain" Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo).

Athena retains the ROH Women's World Championship against Emi Sakura with a sleeper. After the match, Athena attacks Emi Sakura again, targeting the right leg and trapping it in the ring steps. Suddenly, Mei Suruga gets on top of Athena, then Yuka Sakazaki runs out and beats Athena up until referees and security break up the brawl. This soon leads to Athena laying out security guards and Sakazaki leaping off the top rope to the outside where she takes out Athena and multiple members of security.

La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush and Dralistico) and The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) beat Top Flight (Darius and Dante Martin) and The Lucha Brothers (Penta el Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) in an eight-man tag match.

Mark Briscoe heads to the ring. Mark says he comes tonight representing the best tag team in the history of time and space, The Briscoes (Jay and Mark Briscoe), but tomorrow night, it is not about tag team action, but the biggest singles match of his career when he faces Samoa Joe for the ROH World Television Championship. He says this match is different a little bit personal, but he will win it not just for himself, but for his family, Jay's family, everyone in Delaware and the fans. Mark says the match is bigger than anyone ever knows, then briefly mentions the history between and Joe before proclaiming that he will win the Television Championship because it is his destiny. Joe shows up on the video screen and tells Mark not to worry about his destiny, but reality and survival, as he has forgotten the man that he is.

Backstage, Dasha Fuentes interviews Jay Lethal, who is on his own backstage. Mark Briscoe shows up, and Lethal wishes Mark luck at winning the ROH World Television Championship from Samoa Joe tomorrow night, telling him this has more to do with their personal history and not with anyone that he rolls with in All Elite Wrestling.

Wheeler Yuta retains the ROH Pure Championship against Leon Ruffin in a Pure Rules Match with a crossface. After the match, Yuta applauds Ruffin's efforts before saying they were not enough just like previous contenders' efforts were not enough, and states that Katsuyori Shibata's efforts will not be enough at Supercard of Honor. Suddenly Shibata shows up, and Yuta tells Shibata that he used to be one of the most lethal strikers in wrestlers before ripping the microphone out of Yuta's hands and staring him down.

El Hijo del Vikingo beats "All Heart" Blake Christian. Both men shake hands after the match, with Blake Christian raising Vikingo's hand.

Backstages, Dasha Fuentes interviews "All Heart" Blake Christian. Prince Nana shows up and tells Blake Christian to take the night off because The Embassy ("The Machine" Brian Cage, Joseph Kaun, Toa Liona) will be a devastating team to face and beat, but Blake Christian says he does not back down from challenges. Prince Nana then sics The Embassy on him, and they retreat after AR Fox and Metalik run in to make the save.

Eddie Kingston beats "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. After the match, Daniels raises Kingston's hand, then Claudio Castagnoli shows up carrying a redesigned ROH World Championship belt. Claudio gets in the ring and has a staredown with Kingston, telling him that the ROH World Championship is his. Kingston wants to fight Claudio after this, and Claudio takes off both his jacket and shirt as if to tease an early match as Kingston demands the bell be rung, then gets out of the ring. Kingston tells Claudio he will wait until Friday and tells the fans that if they do not buy the Supercard of Honor, they will feel like shit, because he needs to be a world champion and fulfill the destiny of what he said he would be when he was nine years old, even going so far as to withhold from giving his mother a grandchild until he does it. He then calls out Claudio for leaving to become "an entertainer" and looked like a clown while he stayed and became a fighter. After telling Claudio to "go back to the circus" and daring him to get into the ring, Claudio leaves, then Kingston says that he stands on the shoulders of his mentors and ROH World Champions past and that he will become a world champion.

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