ROH Supercard of Honor notes: Paul Walter Hauser, champions retain, Taurus

Along with a new World Champion and the inaugural Women’s TV Champion being crowned in controversial fashion, Friday’s ROH Supercard of Honor also had some additional news with some debuts, returns, and the like.

After defeating Sami Callihan in a street fight at Friday’s WrestleCon Supershow, Paul Walter Hauser made a surprise appearance as one of Dalton Castle’s Boys, helping him during his Fight Without Honor over Johnny TV.

Hauser was involved in an AEW angle in January 2023 where Jeff Jarrett and his crew took Hauser’s Golden Globe award — one that was never resolved.

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The show saw the aforementioned new men’s World Champion and inaugural Women’s TV Champion crowned, but all of the other titles did stay in place with their respective titleholders.

ROH Women’s World Champion Athena extended her successful title defense streak to 20 with her victory over former AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida.

Kyle Fletcher successfully defended the ROH Men’s TV title in a victory over Lee Johnson while ROH Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) kept their titles with a victory over The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean).

ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns) successfully retained their titles over Monster Sauce (Alex Zayne & Lance Archer) and surprise partner Minoru Suzuki.

It was Suzuki’s first ROH appearance since 2022’s Supercard of Honor and Zayne’s second ROH match since the summer of 2002.

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Black Taurus made his return to ROH but under his new name of The Beast Mortos, picking up a win over Blake Christian on the Zero Hour portion of the show. 

In January, it was reported that Mortos had signed a deal with AEW and ROH but couldn’t take his longtime name with him. This was his first match for either company since December.

Here’s our full coverage from tonight’s show from Philadelphia.