Honor Roll - Ring of Honor recap for August 8, 2024

"The Natural" Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara beat The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver).

Backstage, Athena has a private meeting with Billie Starkz. Athena says she is tired of being angry and used to her disappointment, and that she has revoked her MIT diploma and is back to being a minion-in-training once again. Red Velvet and Queen Aminata show up and confront Athena for costing Aminata the World Women's Championship, and Aminata has announced that she and Velvet have gotten a tag team match against Athena and Billie. Athena blames Billie for the tag team match even happening.

Taya Valkyrie beats Hyan.

Backstage, Mellisa Santos interviews Maria Kanellis-Bennett and Griff Garrison regarding Cole Karter when Spanish Announce Project shows up, with Serpentico wanting his mask back and Angelico wanting one more match for the mask. Griff and Maria accept on the provision that Angelico is banned from ringside and that Serpentico must unmask for the rest of his "sad" career if he loses. Griff and Maria leave, and Serpentico accepts the stipulation.

Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) retains the ROH World Tag Team Championships against The Infantry ("The Captain" Shawn Dean and "Bad News and Tattoos" Carlie Bravo) following a low blow by Bennett to Shawn Dean as Taven has the referee distracted.

Rachael Ellering beats Brooke Havok.

We hear from Shane Taylor and "Taiga Style" Lee Moriarty. Morairty says that what is going on between Shane Taylor Promotions (Taylor, Moriarty, Anthony Ogogo) and the team of Top Flight (Darius and Dante Martin) and Action Andretti has been going on too long for his liking, to which Shane Taylor agrees. Moriarty then decides to raise the stakes and make his next match against Action Andretti for the ROH Pure Championship. Taylor says they come from a culture that Top Flight and Andretti cannot even fathom, saying that Andretti has beaten "The Learning Tree" Chris Jericho but has done nothing sense and that Top Flight has so much talent but act like they do not want to be the best. He says that they are doing this to survive and feed their family while Top Flight and Action Andretti are out there playing, and they should want to be the best. He then says that Action Andretti will have to bring his best against Moriarty for the Pure title, and that is time to watch your step and protect your neck.

The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd) beat Stephen Wolf and Barrett Brown.

Robbie Eagles beats Darian Bengston.

Before the next match, "Smart" Mark Sterling calls The Conglomeration (Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy) recently "cheating and stealing victory" from The Premier Athletes (Tony Nese, Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods) "a travesty," then says he is working to have the Texas Athletic Commission to keep The Premier Athletes undefeated in 2024, he has worked hard to keep The Conglomeration barred from ringside for this match while Tony Nese faces "their worst offender" with no shenanigans, and that the fans will see what it looks like when a premier athlete goes to work.

Tomohiro Ishii beats Tony Nese after "Smart" Mark Sterling and Ariya Daivari's interference attempts backfire.

Backstage, Melissa Santos interviews Rachael Ellering. Rachael says it hard to be sitting at home injured, and that she has sat back and reflected, and it seems to have worked as of late. She then says she is not just here to survive, but to thrive, then Harley Cameron shows up, introduces herself and tells Rachael to lose the whole tomboy gimmick before leaving.

Johnny TV beats Fuego del Sol after countering the Tornado DDT.

Athena and Billie Starkz beat Queen Aminata and Red Velvet. During the match, Lexy Nair gives Athena a microphone to use as a weapon, but Athena and Aminata fight over it. This allows Billie to grab a championship belt and use it as a weapon against Red Velvet as the ref is distracted, and this gets Athena and Billie the win.

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