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| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | July 26, 2024 | ||
| City | Arlington, Texas | ||
| Venue | Esports Stadium Arlington | ||
| Attendance | 1,157[1] | ||
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The 2024Death Before Dishonor was aprofessional wrestlinglive streamingevent produced by the American promotionRing of Honor (ROH). It is the 21stDeath Before Dishonor event and took place on July 26, 2024, at theEsports Stadium Arlington inArlington, Texas, and aired exclusively onHonor Club.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show. In the main event,Mark Briscoe defeatedRoderick Strong to retain theROH World Championship. In other prominent matches,Athena defeatedQueen Aminata to retain theROH Women’s World Championship,Red Velvet defeatedBillie Starkz to win theROH Women's World Television Champion,Leyla Hirsch defeatedDiamanté in aTexas Deathmatch,The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven andMike Bennett) defeated The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly andTomohiro Ishii) to retain theROH World Tag Team Championship, andAtlantis Jr. retained theROH World Television Championship in aSurvival of the Fittest match againstBrian Cage,Johnny TV,Lee Johnson,Lio Rush, andShane Taylor.
Death Before Dishonor is a professional wrestling event, held annually by American promotionRing of Honor.[2][3][4] The first event was held in 2003, and is traditionally one of ROH's biggest signature events in the calendar year. On the May 16, 2024, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would take place on July 26, 2024, at theEsports Stadium Arlington inArlington, Texas, and would air onpay-per-view.[5]
The event will featureprofessional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds andstorylines. Wrestlers portrayvillains,heroes, orless distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[6] Storylines were produced on ROH's weekly seriesROH Honor Club TV on theirHonor Club service, as well as the programming of sister promotionAll Elite Wrestling (AEW); including weekly television seriesDynamite,Rampage andCollision, and via promotional videos on both the ROH and AEWYouTube channels and social media platforms.
Queen Aminata andRed Velvet had been feuding withROH Women's World ChampionAthenaandROH Women's World Television ChampionBillie Starkz for the past several months, starting when Starkz defeated Aminata atSupercard of Honor in March to become the inaugural women's TV champion. In the end of their tournament final match, Starkz faked a neck injury that allowed her to win the title. The following week, Athena and Red Velvet had a match for the ROH Women's World Championship atAEW Battle of the Belts X, where Athena was victorious thanks to interference by Starkz. After the match, Athena and Starkz jumped Velvet before Aminata came down for the save.[7][8] For the next few months, Aminata and Velvet continued to prevent Athena and Starkz from doing more damage to their opponents after their matches, as the latter pair did all they can to avoid defending their titles against the two. Athena even claimed to have an ankle injury that would take her out of action for several months.[9][10] However, on the July 4 episode ofROH Honor Club TV, Aminata and Velvet confronted Athena and Starkz to announce that they will respectively challenge them for the world and television titles at Death Before Dishonor.[11][12][13]
On the July 13 episode ofAEW Collision,Roderick Strong defeatedDalton Castle to become the number one contender for theROH World Championship, earning a match against championMark Briscoe at Death Before Dishonor.[14][15]
Diamanté andLeyla Hirsch had been involved in a heated rivalry over the past month, starting when the latter beat the former in a singles match on the June 20 episode ofROH Honor Club TV.[16] After some back and forth promos between the two, they had a rematch on July 18, this time in aLights Out match, where Diamanté would defeat Hirsch.[17] With both now at one win over apiece, ROH announced a rubber match between Diamanté and Hirsch at Death Before Dishonor in aTexas Deathmatch.[18]
On the July 11 episode ofROH Honor Club TV,ROH Pure ChampionWheeler Yuta had aProving Ground match againstLee Moriarty that ended in a time limit draw. Per the stipulation of a Proving Ground match, this granted Moriarty a title match.[19] On July 23, ROH presidentTony Khan announced onX that Yuta would defend his ROH Pure Championship against Moriarty at Death Before Dishonor.[20][21]
On July 25, Tony Khan announced a six-manSurvival of the Fittest match at Death Before Dishonor for theROH World Television Championship involving championAtlantis Jr.,Lio Rush,Johnny TV,Shane Taylor,Lee Johnson andBrian Cage.[22][23] Days prior onROH Honor Club TV, Atlantis Jr. and Rush lost a tag team match to Johnny TV and Taylor. Therefore, there was already history between them going into the event.[24] Johnson and Cage also had a history with each other years before the match.[25][26]
AtAEW Revolution, whileUndisputed Kingdom member Roderick Strong celebrated with his stablemates,ROH World Tag Team ChampionsMatt Taven andMike Bennett, after capturing theAEW International Championship fromOrange Cassidy;Kyle O'Reilly, making his return to the company after a year away due to a neck injury, appeared behind them. While O'Reilly initially seemed friendly with his old friends, he refuted their offer to join the Undisputed Kingdom.[27] Since then, Strong, Taven, and Bennett have repeatedly tried to coerce O'Reilly into joining them, even if it meant hurting him. This led to a match atAEW Dynasty the following month, Strong successfully defended the AEW International Championship against O'Reilly.[28] As the Undisputed Kingdom's attempts at recruiting O'Reilly continued, the latter formed a new stable with ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, andTomohiro Ishii called "The Conglomeration." As the two stables feuded for the next several weeks, Taven and Bennett called out Tony Khan on the July 11ROH Honor Club TV to give them the night off at Death Before Dishonor.[29] However, two weeks later, newly appointed ROH Board of Directors memberPaul Wight informed the pair that they would instead defend the ROH World Tag Team Championship against O'Reilly and Ishii at the event.[30]
On the July 13 episode ofAEW Collision, AEW Interim Executive Vice PresidentChristopher Daniels strippedThe Bang Bang Gang (Jay White andThe Gunns (Austin Gunn andColten Gunn)) of the Unified Trios Championship (consisting of theAEW World Trios Championship and theROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship) after White suffered an injury and refused their invocation of theFreebird Rule by havingJuice Robinson defend the titles in White's place.[14] The AEW World Trios Championship would be decided on the followingCollision where The Patriarchy (Christian Cage,Killswitch, andNick Wayne) defeated The Bang Bang Gang (Robinson and The Gunns).[31] On the July 25 episode ofROH Honor Club TV,The Von Erichs (Marshall Von Erich and Ross Von Erich) defeatedThe Dark Order (John Silver andAlex Reynolds) in a tag team match. This later escalated into a post-match brawl between the teams alongsideDustin Rhodes andEvil Uno, respectively, with the former group standing tall.[32] Later, ROH announced that the two trios would face at Death Before Dishonor in an ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Eliminator match, with the winners going on to face The Undisputed Kingdom for the vacant titles atAEW Battle of the Belts XI.[33]
On the July 4 episode ofROH Honor Club TV, formerWWE tag teamMxM Collection (Mansoor andMason Madden) appeared via vignette teasing their arrival in ROH.[34] After a few more video packages, ROH announced the debut of MxM Collection for the Death Before Dishonor Zero Hour pre-show.[35]
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method of elimination | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shane Taylor | Lio Rush | Pinned afterThe Final Hour | 9:56 |
| 2 | Lio Rush | Lee Johnson | Pinned after theBig Shot Drop | 11:32 |
| 3 | Lee Johnson | Brian Cage and Johnny TV | Double pinned after apowerslam /springboard kick combo | 15:05 |
| 4 | Johnny TV | Brian Cage | Pinned after theDrill Claw | 18:39 |
| 5 | Brian Cage | Atlantis Jr. | Pinned with avictory roll | 19:12 |
| Winner | Atlantis Jr. (c) | N/a | ||