ROH Death Before Dishonor Defines Ring Of Honor's Resurrected Identity (ep.708)

ROH Death Before Dishonor sees Claudio Castagnoli with his first ROH singles title. FTR and The Briscoes close out the show with a two-out-of-three falls barnburner. KOP runs down the card.

Pre-Show
Colt Cabana defeated Anthony Henry (with JD Drake)
The Trust Busters (Ari Daivari and Slim J) defeated The Shinobi Shadow Squad (Cheeseburger and Eli Isom)
The Embassy (Brian Cage and The Gates of Agony (Jasper Kaun and Toa Liona) (with Prince Nana) defeated Alex Zayne, Blake Christian, and Tony Deppen
Willow Nightingale defeated Allysin Kay

1-Claudio Castagnoli (with William Regal) defeated Jonathan Gresham (c) (with Prince Nana) for the ROH World Championship- Great to see Prine Nana back buying out Tully Blanchard Enterprises to bring back the Embassy. Claudio winning I think defintely got this crowd on fire for the rest of the night and made the PPV trend #1 worldwide.
2-Dalton Castle and The Boys (Brandon Tate and Brent Tate) defeated The Righteous (Vincent, Bateman, and Dutch) (c) (with Vita VonStarr) for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship-Dalton is a featured attraction that i dont see going back after the world title is this era of ROH but its great that he is being used the right way.
3-Wheeler Yuta (c) (with William Regal) defeated Daniel Garcia in a Pure Wrestling Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship-Wheeler Yuta is a thoroughbred. Great match here and Yuta fits this belt so well. Interesting to see Josh Woods handling one of the scorecards if need be.
4-Rush (with José The Assistant) defeated Dragon Lee- The built in chemistry made this match that we've seen before continue to look good.
5-Mercedes Martinez (c) defeated Serena Deeb for the ROH Women's World Championship- A worker's match. Women's division in ROH is very technical and is carving a niche among the other well-run women division in other promotions. This division has been corrected.
6-Samoa Joe (c) defeated Jay Lethal for the ROH World Television Championship-crowd was so hot for this match. Intense and paid off the buildup of this feud that did start after Supercard of Honor kind of off.
7-FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (c) vs. The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) in a Two-out-of-three-falls match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship-crowd really hot for the main event. Quite a statement this match was the main event. Drag out barn burner. What a match!


Max Dupri was not fully on board with ideas for Maximum Male Models storyline, Vince McMahon told him not to sound like LA Knight https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/max-dupri-was-not-fully-on-board-with-ideas-for-maximum-male-models-storyline-vince-mcmahon-told-him-not-to-sound-like-la-knight

Some AEW wrestlers looking at WWE as an option when their contracts expire https://wrestlingnews.co/aew-news/some-aew-wrestlers-looking-at-wwe-as-an-option-when-their-contracts-expire

Brock Lesnar walking out of WWE SmackDown described as "overblown" https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/brock-lesnar-walking-out-of-wwe-smackdown-described-as-overblown

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