Ring of Honor TV notes: Sammy Guevara debuts, Leyla Hirsch injury, new Tag Team title match

For the first time since February, Sammy Guevara is back in a Tony Khan-owned wrestling company.

The former AEW TNT Champion made his return on Thursday’s weekly ROH TV on HonorClub to aid Dustin Rhodes from a beatdown by members of the Dark Order. Rhodes was delivering some words about becoming an ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champion to close the show when Evil Uno came out to deride him, leading to the aforementioned attack.

That brought out Guevara to aid his former rival, taking out Uno and sending both Alex Reynolds and John Silver packing. Afterward, Rhodes was skeptical to shake Guevara’s hand based on their past battles in AEW but eventually relinquished and embraced him as the show went off the air.

Guevara’s last match was in a no DQ loss to Powerhouse Hobbs on a late-February edition of AEW Collision. He was then suspended by AEW due to his no DQ match against Jeff Hardy that took place a week prior to the Hobbs bout in which Hardy broke his nose and Guevara subsequently ignored instructions to go to the finish per concussion protocol.

In May, it was learned that his suspension was up and last week, Guevara said he and wife Tay Melo were training for their respective in-ring returns.

Other notes:

  • During the broadcast, Ian Riccaboni noted that Leyla Hirsch suffered a dislocated elbow in her Texas Death Match against Diamante at last Friday’s Death Before Dishonor. It’s unknown if the injury is storyline or not.
  • After disappearing from AEW and ROH for three months, Leila Grey followed up from last week’s return to AEW Rampage with an appearance on Thursday’s ROH show, aligning with Top Flight as their “flight attendant.” Grey has competed in ROH seven times before with just two wins to her name.
  • Afterward, The Infantry (Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo & Trish Adora) were backstage and didn’t appear happy with Grey’s decision:

The team did get some good news as they challenged reigning ROH Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Kingdom to a rematch for the titles that was accepted. A date for the match was not announced. The two teams clashed at April’s Supercard of Honor with Mike Bennett and Matt Taven picking up the successful title defense.