Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor 2026 8/21/2026
We are in Philadelphia, PA. Caprice Coleman and Ian Riccaboni are on commentary.
ROH World Six Man Tag Team Title Match - Dalton Castle & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) (c) vs. The Lethal Twist (Blake Christian, Jay Lethal & Lee Johnson)
Lee side headlocks Truth. Lee slaps Truth and Truth spears him. All 6 men fight. Dalton takes a double superkick then Lee and Blake are lariated over the top. The Runners tease dives but just do double axe handles off the apron. Lee takes a corner splash, a knee lift and a backdrop.
Truth throws Jay and flying headscissors him down. Truth hits elbows on Jay then he backdrops him. Truth takes a faceick and a springboard diving lariat. Blake then does The Runners taunts. Blake stands on Truth's neck in the corner.
Lee chokes Truth then boots him in the corner. Jay stomps Truth. Lee is sent out but pulls down Turbo when he tries to tag in. Blake stomps Truth. Jay back elbows Truth. Lee pounds on Truth. Blake snapmares Truth and low dropkicks him. Blake then pounds on Truth and elbow drops him.
Jay hits elbows on Turbo. Jay struts. Turbo suplexes him. Jay is pushed into the buckles and Dalton tags in. Dalton germans Jay and suplexes Lee and Blake with exploders. Dalton germans Jay for 2. Jay is slammed. Blake takes Turbo's belt from his waist. Turbo is superkicked and takes a 619 to the back in tree of woe. Lee low dropkicks Turbo and Blake 2nd rope moonsaults. Turbo takes a top rope elbow drop, a top rope splash and Blake slips on his dive attempt.
Truth backdrops Blake then Lee neckbreakers Truth. Jay handspring cutters Dalton. Everyone starts coming in to do a move. Turbo rolls up Blake, Blake reverses it and pins him while holding the ropes.
Thoughts: This wasn't super surprising. The Twist have been used by AEW everywhere lately and I thought a title change was possible. Does it matter? Not really. The titles are near worthless and there's never any feuds or programs going on in the trios division in ROH. The match was acceptable but a little long for an opener and it didn't quite get as good as it should have gotten.
The Kingdom, Sammy Guevarra and The Beast Mortos are interviewed. Taven says if they work together, they can get the ROH Tag Titles back. Mike says AI changed their names and now Sammy should be Samuel. He says Beast's name should be Beaut and they say his name should be Franklinford. They ask Mort what he thanks and he makes various sounds. Sammy says he said it's a deal.
ROH Women's Pure Title Match - Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs. Steph De Lander
Steph backs her up in the corner and slaps her. DP side headlocks her then takes her over. DP stomps her arm into the mat. DP grabs her arm. Steph grabs the ropes and uses a rope break. Steph grabs a chair outside.
DP is dropped face first on the apron. Steph then poses on the chair. Steph stomps DP. Steph side slams her for 2. Steph suplexes her. DP boots her out of the corner. Steph blocks a russian legsweep by using the ropes and she uses a rope break. Steph then boots DP in the chest.
Steph chinlocks DP. DP pump kicks her and Steph punches her. Steph is given a warning. DP knee lifts her, russian legsweeps her and armbars her. Steph rope breaks and uses her last rope break. Steph boots her in the gut and DP boots her out of the corner. DP sits up top and is facekicked. Steph suplexesh er from the top rope for 2.
Steph and DP trade forearms. Both girls nearly go into the ref. Steph punches DP in the face while the ref isn't looking and hits doi fives. DP uses her rope break to get out of the pin.
Steph brings a chair in. She misses a chair shot, the chair goes into the ropes and hits her on the rebound. DP forearms her and powerbombs her for 2. DP armbars her. Steph tries to roll her out of it. DP pulls back on both arms and Steph submits.
Thoughts: They did a good job with it and made the best of it. Steph isn't the best wrestler, so they had her break various rules and pull shenanigans. But, they kept it short and it didn't outlive its welcome. It worked and was something different.
DP then hugs a female child in her family.
ROH Women's World Television Title Four Way Match - Red Velvet (c) vs. Marina Shafir vs. Skye Blue vs. Zayda Steel
Mox is on commentary for this.
SB nails Zay at the bell from behind. Red rolls up MS for 2. Zay stunners MS. Red stunners MS over the top rope. MS takes a ocdebreaker then is double dropkicked out.
Zay rolls up Red for 2 twice. Red armdrags Zay then sends her to the apron. Red is kicked over the 2nd rope and is codebreakered over the 2nd rope for 1. They try to dropkick each other at the same time then get pushed into each other. Zay is german'd by MS and Red and SB trade pin attempts.
MS cartwheels and boots Red in the head. Red pushes MS. They box and MS hits shots to the gut. Red then hits a bunhc of shots on her. MS high kicks her down. MS and SB trade shots. MS double underhook suplexes her for 2.
Zay hits forearms on SB and spin kicks her in the gut. Zay's head is banged off the commentary table and she lands on Mox at commentary. MS throws Red down backwards. MS half-crabs Red. Zay then sleepers Red as she does this. SB swinging neckbreakers MS for 2. Zay swinging neckbreakers Red. Zay tornado ddt's MS.
Zay spinning forearms Sky. Zay double codebreakers SB and Red together. Zay topes MS outside. We get a tower of doom spot with MS sending everyone down.
MS hits running corner lariats. The other girls all hit shots on MS. Red jumps off of SB's back and flying double knes MS. MS powerbombs Red onto SB's back. Zay half rabs Red and SB. SB hits MS with a title belt to escape her sleeper. MS blocks a sunset flip and leg locks SB. Red breaks it up with a top rope splash on MS. Red then pins MS.
Thoughts: I don't get why they had Mox on commentary here just for MS to lose. Mox hyped up MS all match long then she just lost. That was dumb. It wasn't that good. These aren't 4 girls who click that well on paper and they didn't do anything too wild and crazy here. Red wins again but like Athena, her title reign isn't going anywhere and isn't helping her get that much more over.
ROH Pure Title Match - Lee Moriarty (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata
The background to this one was terrible. Nigel McGuiness was supposed to get this shot. He had to back out due to an injury scare. He then wrestled on AEW TV. He then said he was essentially skipping this match to wrestle at Wembley instead, which buried the title.
They do some grappling and grab some holds without getting anywhere. KS top wristlocks him. KS figure fours him with a heel hook and Lee uses a rope break to escape. KS side headlocks him. Lee armdrags him, atomic drops him and underhook suplexes him. KS offers a handshake and boots him. KS snapmares Lee into the ropes several times.
KS figure fours Lee. Lee uses his 2nd rope break to get out. Lee hits chops on KS. KS stomps Lee's foot. Lee dropkicks KS. Lee sweeps him and spinning corner lariats him. Lee bulldogs him. Lee belly to belly suplexes him. Lee does a border city stretch on him. KS like suplexes him on the apron. KS figure fours him with an ankle lock. Lee uses his final rope break.
KS chops him in the corner then corner dropkicks him. KS underhook suplexes him and tries pins. KS chops Lee in the back. Lee facekicks him and KS facekicks him back. Lee does Nigel's rebound lariat on KS for 2. Lee does a border city stretch. KS sleepers him. Lee low topes him outside. Lee tries to springboard but slips (possibly intentionally to sell the leg).
Lee 2nd rope dropkicks KS for 2. Lee does a grounded sleeper and KS grounded sleepers him. Lee then does a bridge pin on him with the arms trapped. Lee pins him.
Thoughts: They had Shibata work Lee's leg/ankle here a bit. He could have been a little more focused on it. It was acceptable but not great. Shibata was never supposed to be Lee's opponent here and there was no expectation that he would win.
The Dark Oder are interviewed. Uno and Silver argue. Silver says Vance isn't in the group and Alex/Uno disagree. Vance comes in. He says he messed up and says think of all the stuff they went through. Silver says he doesn't like him and will never trust him. Uno says John will come around.
ROH World Tag Team Title Match - El Sky Team (Mascara Dorada & Mistico) (c) vs. Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) vs. The Kingdom (Matthew Taven & Michael Bennett) vs. La Faccion Ingobernable (Sammy Guevara & The Beast Mortos)
This one is beyond random.
Sammy nails MD at the start then holds his tag title up. 6 of the 8 fight outside. Dante and Darius hit stereo slingshot plancha's outside. Matt shoulders over Lee. Darius shoulders Matt over and euros him. Darius flying lariats Matt then Dante slingshot swantons Matt.
Dante standing moonsaults Matt. Matt 2nd rope dropkicks Dante. Dante flying headscissors Mike. Matt's head is facebustered onto Darius' knee. Matt spinning high kicks Darius. Darius fights out of the corner and hits shots on Sammy. Darius dropkicks Sammy. Mist and Darius go at it. They take each other down. Mist springboard twisting crossbodies him. Mist armdrags Darius and they stand off.
MD and Dante go at it. Dante backrolls into a headscissors on MD. MD and Dante block high kicks at the same time. MD and Dante hit superkicks then The Kingdom get superkicked by Darius and Mist. Mist and MD hit slingshot tornillos outside. Mort double lariats Darius and Dante.
Mort tornillo's through the ropes on MD and Mist. Sammy corkscrew kicks Darius then top rope ssp's outside onto multiple people. Mort misses a corner charge inside then slingblade facebusters Dante on his head. Mort backbreakers Dante and spining lariats him for 2.
Dante takes a protonpack from The Kingdom for 2. Dante is popped up into a forearm for 2. Mike grabs his phone and wants to use AI. Dante is booted by The Kingdom in the corner. Mort gorilla press throws Dante into a Sammy cutter. Dante takes a pop up samoan drop from Mort for 2.
Matt misses an asai moonsault on Dante. Mist gets in and Matt boots him. Mist handspring back elbows Matt. Mist enzugiri's him from the apron then springboard crossbodies him. Mist botched flying headscissors Matt. MD top rope crossbodies Matt. MD walks up the ropes, flips into the buckles and armdrags Mike.
Mist hits kicks on Sammy. Mist walks up the buckles and diving corkscrew armdrags him. Mist flying headscissors Sammy. MD springboards and Mort headbutts him down in mid-air. Mort is up top and he throws MD down from there.
MD flips off of Mort's shoulders then MD spinning headscissors Mort. Mike pulls the ropes out on MD and MD goes out. Matt suicide dives onto multiple people outside. Darius is in the electric chair and Matt PK's him down from the apron.
Mike death valley drivers MD. Matt running knees MD. MD is group stomped. Matt and Sammy get in the ring at the same time. MD springboard double lariats them. All 4 faces hit topes outside. Skyflight and Skyteam fight. Dante springboard crossbodies MD. Darius is up top. Mist enzugiri's him then top rope spanish flies him. Mistico pins him.
Thoughts: This was mostly a 4v4 match with the heels and faces going against each other. It went longer than I thought. We had a lot of dives as expected. It wasn't too wild though. Mist and MD won but they are never on ROH TV and that doesn't really do a lot for anything storyline wise when The Kingdom winning would have maybe worked the best. It was okay here.
Trent Barretta, Brian Cage and Rocky Romero of The Don Callis Family then jump the faces. The other heels in the match join in. Random people from the back then come and chase the heels off.
AEW Continental Challenge Cup Play-In Match - Daniel Garcia vs. Adam Priest
They grapple a bit and AP backs him up on the ropes. DG shoves him. DG shoulders him over. DG piefaces him and AP knee kicks him. AP then dropkicks him. AP chops and euros him.
AP euros him in the knee. DG boots him. AP slides low and knocks him over. AP's leg is dragon screwed over the 2nd rope. DG bangs AP's leg off the post. DG bangs AP's leg off the apron edge. DG pushes AP's legs into the mat off the surfboard and basement dropkicks him for 2.
DG ankle locks AP and AP ropebreaks. DG stands on him in the corner. DG hits mounted corner punches. DG double throat thrusts him. AP suplexes him. AP chops him and ddt's him. They hit each other on the apron. AP dragon screws him over the 2nd rope. AP top rope superplexes him.
AP dragon screws him three times. DG does a grounded sleeper then an armbar. DG stands on AP's neck and twists his ankle. AP ropebreaks. DG hits a chop flurry. They trade forearms. DG hits chops and AP lariats him down.
AP figure fours him. DG turns him over and AP turns him back over. They roll to the apron and AP keeps the move on while they are on the floor. AP then rolls up the aisle with the hold on. They somehow get in before the 10 count.
They kick each other in the legs and feet. DG stomps him. AP short piledrivers him for 2. AP half crabs him. DG drops down and runs into AP's knee. DG then hits downward elbows on AP. DG elbow s the knee. DG sharpshooters him and AP submits.
Thoughts: It was alright and more of a traditional match with them working each other's legs and trading a lot of chops. It made sense, it kind of went as expected and I was fine with this one.
Shane Taylor Promotions do a promo. They say to give it up for the longest reigning ROH Pure champ, Lee Moriarty. Shane says every generation has their great fighter. He says Lee is added to the list of champs like Ali and Tyson. Shane says no one is standing in their way since they hooked up with The Hurt Syndicate. Shane says they are unstoppable and there's nothing but more gold in their future.
ROH World Television Title - Fight Without Honor Match - Lio Rush (c) vs. Action Andretti
Lio has a cart with weapons. He also has barbed wire on his umbrella hat. Lio also has Sabu themed gear on.
AA hits him, Lio tries to evade him and they stare down. AA boots him and chops him. Lio is sent into the rails. They tug of war over a broom and Lio is pulled into the post. AA hits him with the broom. Lio blocks a broom shot then hits him with it in the gut and back.
AA begs off in the ring. AA rolls him up for 2. AA buzzsaw kicks him and ddt's him for 2. AA rusisian legsweeps him with the brook for 2. AA throws a broom with a dust pan in and hits Lio with it on the throw. He then throws another broom in and it lands on him.
Lio handspring kicks him off the apron. Lio then throws the dust pan in his face. Lio open an umbrella and dives on him off the apron. Lio puts a turnbuckle connector in AA's throat.
AA superkicks him outside. A table is laying on the rails and Lio spears AA through it. Lio pulls a shovel and trash can lids out. Lio sticks the shove in AA's throat. Lio throws a trash can lid at his head then throws a chair at his head. AA jumps off a chair and lariats him. AA tries to pumphandle slam on an open chair but misses. AA then hits an AA on Lio through the chair.
AA hits mounted punches and hits him with a trash can lid. Lio has a chair around his neck and AA throws him into the post skull first. AA throws a trash can lid at Lio's face. Lio is busted open. Lio eye rakes him and backdrops him on the apron.
A table is set up outside. Lio stunners him over the 2nd rope. Lio topes him over the table outside. Lio grabs a box and a chain. AA is pulled into the ropes via the chain. Lio legdrops a trash can lid on AA's back.
Lio pours of pieces of black glass. Lio then rips it into AA's face. AA's head is banged off a table. AA lays on a table and Lio chairs him. Lio sits up top and AA throws a chair at his face. AA spinning forearms him, pump kicks him and pumping knees him. Lio throws a trash can lid at his face. Lio cutters him. Lio then does his deep cut submission. The lights go out. Hook appears in the ring (he's been teaming with AA lately).
Hook release exploders Lio. Hook misses a charge and goes into a door in the corner. Lio blue thunders him for 2. Anthoyn Bowens then comes out and fights Lio for a weapon. Hook does red rum on Lio. Bowens puts the black glass shards and Lio on a table. AA springboard 450's Lio through the table. AA is rolled in and kicks out of a pin attempt at 1.
AA is thrown into the door in the corner. AA runs into a barbed wire chair between the buckles. AA burning hammer spinning neckbreakers Lio and pins him.
Thoughts: It was mostly people hitting each other with weapons in the first half of this. The second half was more about Hook and Bowens interfering. AA and Hook have been teaming together and it seems like AA is now affiliated with them. Taking the belt off of Lio when he's one of the more over people on the brand is a questionable move. The match was acceptable but I would have like to see them do more without weapons before going into the weapons. This also was longer and dragged a little.
Lio then grabs a black heart toy out of the the box he had. He then drinks from it. Black goo then comes out of Lio's mouth.
ROH World Title Match - Bandido (c) vs. Nick Wayne
They slap hands before the match.
Nick backs him up in the corner and does his finger gun taunt at him. Nick teases chopping him and does the finger gun taunt again. Nick wristlocks him. Band headflips out and wristlocks him. Nick armdrags him and Band armdrags back. Nick flips off of Band then Band does the finger gun taunt to him.
Band hiptosses him then dropkicks him out. Band then topes him through the ropes in the aisle. Band topes him again. Band goes for another dive but is kicked. Band pop up drops Nick on the rail throat first. Nick sends Band into the rails.
Nick gets a 2 count on him in the ring. Nick then rips at his mask. Band hits corner spears and Nick suplexes him into the buckles. Nick boots Band in the gut. Band boots him out of the corner. Band top rope tornillo's him. Band flying forearms him and superkicks him. Band single arm gorilla press slams him. Band top rope frogsplashes him for 2.
Nick double throat thrusts him. Band reverse gorilla press slams him and shining wizards him for 2. Band dumps Nick over the top rope. Band gets stuck hanging from the top rope outside. Nick top rope swantons him on the apron.
Nick standing shiranui's him for 2. They trade strikes. Both no sell germans. Nick superkicks him, gets popped up and cutters Band. Band poisonrana's him. Nick crucifix drivers him. Both men are down. They trade chops. They then look at each other and fight on the apron near the steps, which are sideways. Band sweeps Nick of the apron and Nick goes head first (and I do mean head first) into the side of the steps. Nick is busted open.
Band top rope ssp's but Nick gets his knees up. Nick cradles him for 2. They lariat each other at the same time. Band lariats him over. Nick code red's him for 2. Band throws him up from his shoulders and koppo kicks him in mid-air. Nick counters a 21plex with a poisonrana. Nick falcon arrows him for 1.
Nick high kicks him and fisherman suplexes him for 2. Band hits a GTS. Band hits a 21plex for 2. Nick low blows Band behind the ref. Nick 2nd rope os cutters him. Nick suplexes him for 2. Band crucifixes him and pins him.
Thoughts: The finish wasn't that good here. They didn't get as crazy as I expected but the selling wasn't good and it was an indy style match. The head bump into the stairs really should have ended this and I didn't like a poisonrana only being worth a 1 count. I didn't think this was good.
Nick cries after.
Moxley does a promo with Shafir and Daniel Garica. He says injuries happen and personal problems happen. He says people drop off left and right. He says he'd have nothing in this way if he wasn't always ready and willing to strike when the opportunity arose. He says he demands nothing less than someone like Garcia taking on Claudio in the Continental Cup. He says he just demands 100%. Shafir says they don't care if DG has a bum ankle. DG says that's what happens when you take no days off. He says he's here and asks where Claudio is at. He says he's joking. He says the past 20 year's were Claudio's and the next 20 years are his. He says wrestling is all he has and it's a love story. He says he wouldn't have it any other way. He says he has to do it as this tournament is what wrestling is. He says he doesn't care if it's Claudio or Mox, he will do it for the love of the game.
ROH Women's World Title Match - Athena (c) vs. Hazuki
There is no reason to suspect that Haz will win here and the question is just how long will it take.
Ath rolls through a sunset flip. They forearm each other. Ath flips out of a takeover. Ath offers a handshake while crossing he r fingers. Haz takes it, ducks Ath's shot and drops her with a forearm. Ath gets mad outside.
They trade side headlocks and Haz takes her over. Ath headscissors her. Ath trips her and twists her ankle. They try to do a test of strength and Haz switches hands her on her. Haz wristlocks her. Ath armdrags her into an armlock.
Haz short arm shoulderblocks her. Haz kicks her in the gut. Haz running back elbows her and basement dropkicks her for 2. Billie Starkz and Diamante come down and bother Haz. Ath blocks a headscissors and drops her face first on the mat.
Ath knees her in the back. Ath foot chokes her and Starkz chokes Haz. Ath holds her in the air while tying up 3 limbs. She then drops her. Haz rolls her up for 2. Haz hits forearms. Ath euros her and Haz back elbows her. Ath germans her. Ath wastelands her. Ath fireman's carries her, backrolls her out of the ring and Haz falls on her in a botched spot. Ath's head is then banged off an open chair.
Ath's buddies help her in the ring. Haz flying headscissors her then tornado ddt's her for 2. Ath powerslams her on the apron over the 2nd rope. Ath yanks her into a powerslam for 2.
Ath gets on the 2nd rope and has her in the electric chair. Haz 2nd rope crucifix drivers her for 2. They trade foreamrs on their knees. Haz hits a bunch of forearms and hurricanrana's her. Ath hits chops. Ath pump kicks her. Haz ddt's her on the apron over the 2nd rope. Haz top rope dropkicks her.
Haz pop up codebreakers her. Haz seats her on the 2nd rope and codebreakers her for 2. Ath hits ataxia for 2. Ath koji clutches her. Ath euros her over. Haz crossfaces her. Haz facekicks her through the ropes. Haz goes for a tope and Ath enzugiri's her as she dives. Ath sends her into the rails.
They fight on the ramp. Haz suplexes her there. Ath is then sent into the rails and post. Haz top rope sentons her for 2. Billie Starkz comes in and throws Ath into the ref. Haz tries a crossbody on Stakrz and Dia and she gets thrown to the apron. Haz is double stomped on the apron. Haz double codebreakers then and double dropkicks them off the apron. Haz then topes them. Ath curbstomps Haz for 2. Ath tombstones her for 2.
Ah throws her out and pulls a table out. Ath pushes Caprice Coleman away. Haz superkicks Ath. Haz bridging ddt's Ath on the floor. Ath is put on the table. Haz top rope splashes her through the table. Haz brainbusters her for 2. Ath cutters her over the top rope. Ath dives off the apron and stunners her on the floor. Ath top rope diving o-face's her and pins her.
Thoughts: Athena won as expected. It gets hard to get into matches sometimes when the outcome is obvious and the outcome was obvious here. It went long and dragged at times. I thought the second half of this pretty much could have been cut out and I thought the match gained nothing once Billie and Diamante got in the ring. It was alright but not a classic.
Haz and Ath bow at each other after.
Overall thoughts: It was a long 4 hour show. The opener was acceptable and I liked De Lander/Deonna. The women's 4-way wasn't that good. Shibata/Lee was acceptable. The men's 4-way tag was fine as was Garcia/Priest. Andretti/Lio was acceptable as was the main. I didn't like Bandido/Wayne. I think if the show was a little shorter, I may have enjoyed this more but length was a bit rough. It was not one of the more wilder ROH shows as I believe a lot of the wrestlers are saving their big stuff for All In. I'd give it a 6 out of 10 overall and the show was alright.
