ROH and TNA legend Homicide to have retirement match this month

Homicide — an independent wrestling legend best known for his time with Ring of Honor and TNA — is wrapping up his in-ring career in just a couple of weeks.

Indie promotion Outlaw Wrestling announced today that Homicide will wrestle his final match on Thursday, March 20. The show is titled “End of an Era” and is taking place in Brooklyn at Arlo Williamsburg. Outlaw Wrestling said they will honor Homicide’s legacy that night in addition to presenting his final match.

An opponent for him has not been named yet.

Homicide was one of the faces of ROH in the early years of the promotion, winning the ROH World Championship from Bryan Danielson at Final Battle 2006. He held the title for 56 days before dropping it to Takeshi Morishima.

In TNA, Homicide was part of the Latin American Exchange and held tag team gold with Hernandez.

The 47-year-old Homicide told Counted Out last month that he would be retiring from the ring soon. Looking back on his career, he said he accomplished more than he ever dreamed was possible.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be wrestling for so long — I traveled all over the world — until Eddie Kingston told me, ‘Do you know you’ve been wrestling for 30 years? Do you know you did this? You teamed up with Kenta Kobashi. You wrestled Minoru Suzuki. You [faced] Jun Akiyama’ — because I’m a big Japanese mark, whatever you call it.” Homicide said. “But I also wrestled Jerry Lynn. I wrestled The Dudley Boyz. I wrestled Kurt Angle. Like, I did things that people wish they were in my shoes. I never thought about it. Then I realized — I was like ‘Oh my God.’ But I realized that in the end. Then I was like, ‘Listen, I think I’m kind of done.'”

GCW and Orange Crush Magazine inducted Homicide into their Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2022. He made an appearance for AEW at Grand Slam 2021 and showed up back in ROH in December 2024.