Ring of Honor TV results: Bandido vs. Adam Priest World title match

Ring of Honor World Champion Bandido will put his title on the line against indie standout Adam Priest on tonight’s ROH on HonorClub from Chicago.

The champion will be looking for his fourth successful title defense while Priest has just one all-time career ROH victory.

The Conglomeration’s Tomohiro Ishii & Hologram will take on MxM Collection.

In a pair of men’s Pure Rules bouts, Blake Christian faces the returning Jimmy Jacobs in his first ROH bout since May 2024 while Virus faces Xelhua in a meeting of CMLL talent.

The show is rounded out by Gringo Loco vs. Jon Cruz.

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-Ian and Caprice start the show by running down what’s on the show, including Bandido vs Adam Priest for the ROH Title, which is your main event. Ian and Caprice are wearing their invisibility cloaks at ringside for this show.

The Conglomeration (NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Tomohiro Ishii & Hologram) vs. MxM Collection (w/ Johnny TV)

This was a very good opener. I would say all four men are criminally underused, but I couldn’t tell you who they should take off Dynamite and Collision every week to put them on. 

We got a picture-in-picture with a MxM, Johnny and Taya commercial selling something called MxM Seed. It looked funny, but Ian and Caprice talked over it.

Ishii and Hologram ran wild on Mansoor early and did a double drop toehold to Mason when he tried to get involved and dropped Mason on top of his partner. MxM got the heat on Ishii when they bullied him into the corner and then TV yanked Hologram off the apron. Hologram got the hot tag and ran wild on MxM. The crowd got into Hologram’s comeback, including backflipping out of the ring and giving TV a headscissors takeover and a Suicide Dive out the other side of the ring to Mason. The expected 4-way broke out and Ishii gave Mason an assisted Brainbuster. Hologram pinned Mansoor with a 450 Splash.

Match Result: The Conglomeration defeated MxM Collection

-We got a video package recapping Athena vs Alex Windsor from Collision last week. 

Gringo Loco vs. Jon Cruz

This was a match won by Gringo Loco. There’s nothing else to say about the actual wrestling.

Seeing Cruz coming out makes me want to see Nyla Rose give Serpentico through a table for some reason.

Cruz was upset that the fans cheered for Gringo and not him. It evolved into them standing on the ropes on opposite sides of the ring and trying to cheerlead the crowd. I mean if nothing else, the crowd got into it. There was nothing wrong with their actual wrestling, but it was a lot less newsworthy than them spending several minutes cheerleading the crowd. Loco won with a Split Legged Moonsault.

Of all the matches I’ve ever seen, this was the most recent one.

Match Result: Gringo Loco defeated Jon Cruz

Blake Christian (w/ Lee Johnson) vs. Jimmy Jacobs

This was a good match and the type of match they should be having on ROH where they bring in veterans who can still go, like Jacobs and work with these young guys. Not sure why Jacobs isn’t signed, I imagine he wouldn’t break the bank to do more than come in once a year, like he currently is.

Jacobs was one of the longest lasting ROH wrestlers, with him leaving ROH after Supercard of Honor IX in 2015, but has since come back to do one match a year the last few years. The last time he had an ROH match he had an insane pyro display. Remember that insane WCW Kevin Nash pyro display? This was the AEW version of that. Anyway, when Jacobs came out here, he looked for his pyro and, sadly, he had none.

Jacobs is the kind of guy TK should sign to be the ROH veteran to work with young talent. He still wrestles pretty frequently, even if we only see him once a year. Christian has the talent to be one of those “next generation” guys and hopefully he gets the chance to do so. Jacobs went for Sliced Bread, but Christian got out of it, hit a pair of superkicks and a rolling Spiccoli Driver for a near fall. Christian tapped him with Vanilla Choke Zero. After the match, Christian looked into the camera and challenged Bandido.

Match Result: Blake Christian submitted Jimmy Jacobs

-Paul Walter Hauser was on something called the No Contest Wrestling Podcast and was upset because at the Revolution Zero Hour show in March, QT Marshall threw something alcoholic on him. Paul was mad because he’s been sober for three years and now he wants a match with QT. Not sure why it took Paul 5 months to get upset about this, but here we are.

Xelhua vs. Virus in a Pure Rules match

I don’t watch a lot of ROH on Honor Club, but this was easily the best “modern day” pure match I’d ever seen. This was an excellent grappling match. Nothing you have to go out of your way to see, just a match I’d love to see a rematch of. 

Virus began his pro wrestling career two weeks after WrestleMania 2 in 1986. I would like to imagine one had nothing to do with the other, however I cannot prove that. Meanwhile Xelhua is at the other extreme, as he is two years into his career. Xelhua used a double underhook submission that he turned into a pinning attempt. Virus used a reverse Figure Four and Xelhua grabbed the ropes five minutes into the match for his first rope break. Xelhua broke out a Cloverleaf Stretch, which was quite impressive, but Virus got the ropes. Virus used the Vertebreaker and Xelhua half kicked out/half got his foot on the rope, so it counted as a rope break. Virus submitted to the Shoelace submission.

Match Result: Xelhua submitted Virus

-They plugged Dustin Rhodes vs Kyle Fletcher for the TNT Title on Collision, which is happening as I type this. I won’t spoil it for you, mostly because I don’t know what happened. So go check out Jeff Moss’ Collision report. 

ROH World Champion Bandido defends against Adam Priest

This was a really good World Title match to cap off a really good episode of Ring of Honor. 

Priest came out with The Workhorsemen, but sent them to the back before the match began. Bandido has double duty tonight, as he teams with Brody King to take on GOA in the Tag Team Title Eliminator Tournament on Collision. I actually know who won that match, but you should still go read Jeff Moss’ Collision report for more.

The Code of Honor was sort of adhered to, as Priest hit a forearm to Bandido to get the match started after the handshake. Bandido held Priest up for a delayed vertical suplex and even though he is tri-lingual (English, Spanish and Japanese), he let the crowd chant in whatever language they preferred. Priest hit a well timed dropkick to Bandido’s back as he came off the middle rope with a springboard move. The crowd chanted loudly for Bandido, proving that if you give these fans good stuff on ROH, they will react even if they’re there for Dynamite or Collision. Bandido rolled through on a Frog Splash attempt and took a backbreaker from Priest. Bandido had done the Eddie Guerrero shimmy, so Priest went for the Three Amigos, but Bandido reversed the third suplex and hit one of his own. Priest clipped the knee and slapped on a Half Crab, but Bandido got the ropes and then the champ retained with a Frog Splash.

Match Result: ROH World Champion Bandido defeated Adam Priest to retain the championship

Final Thoughts: I don’t watch a lot of ROH on HonorClub. I may have seen six or seven total episodes, including shows I saw live, but this was easily the best HonorClub show I’ve seen. There was nothing to go out of your way to see, but this was an easy hour to watch, it didn’t outstay its welcome and unlike a lot of modern-day wrestling, I was left wanting to see more.