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ROH Death Before Dishonor: Full Card, How to Watch, Live Results
Death Before Dishonor, the second PPV of the Tony Khan era of Ring of Honor, airs tonight, Saturday, July 23rd. Death Before Dishonor will kick off with a Zero Hour pre-show at 7PM Eastern, and the main show will begin at 8PM. Death Before Dishonor is taking place at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA. There are still some tickets left (as of Saturday afternoon) if you want to see it in person.
How to Watch
ROH Death Before Dishonor will stream on Bleacher Report for U.S. Residents who enjoy streaming services that never work correctly, and on Fite TV for international audiences and people who like to actually be able to watch the show they paid for without a ton of technical problems. It will also be available on traditional PPV providers. The show costs $39.99 in the United States but as low as $19.99 elsewhere. Hey, it's just like prescription medication!
Death Before Dishonor: Zero Hour Pre-Show will feature four matches. Brian Cage and Gates of Agony will take on Tony Deppen, Alex Zayne, and Black Christian. Allysin Kay will face Willow Nightingale. Shinobi Shadow Squad will take on Trustbusters. And Colt Cabana will face Anthony Henry.
The Death Before Dishonor main card will feature seven matches, six of them for a title. The main event will see Jonathan Gresham defend the ROH World Championship against Claudio Castagnoli. FTR will defend the ROH World Tag Team Championships against The Briscoes. Samoa Joe defends the ROH World TV Championship against Jay Lethal. Wheeler Yuta defends the ROH Pure Championship against Daniel Garcia. Mercedes Martinez defends the ROH Women's World Championship against Serena Deeb. The Righteous will defend the ROH Six Man Tag Championships against Dalton Castle and The Boys. And Rush will face Dragon Lee in a Battle of Brothers match.
We'll be watching the show live tonight (it's the best way to get out of having to do Comic-Con coverage) and we'll update this article with the winners of each match, so check back tonight to see who won. If anything really important happens, we'll be sure to break that out into a separate clickbait article.
Death Before Dishonor: Zero Hour Pre-Show Results
Colt Cabana picked up the win in the first match of the Death Before Dishonor pre-show.
Trustbusters defeated Shinobi Shadow Squad in the second match of the pre-show.
In the third match of the pre-show, Brian Cage and Gates of Agony defeated Tony Deppen, Alex Zayne, and Black Christian.
In the final match of the pre-show, Willow Nightingale got the win over Allysin Kay.
Death Before Dishonor Results
In a surprising move, ROH booked the world title match to go on first. They said it was a coin toss between this and the tag match, but it's a great way to show that tag wrestling matters in the Tonyverse.
In a relatively short opening match of Death Before Dishonor, Claudio Castagnoli defeated Jonathan Gresham to win the Ring of Honor World Championship for the first time. He got the pin with a powerbomb about sixteen minutes into the PPV.
Castagnoli celebrated with William Regal to chants of "Claudio" after the match. Now that's how you open a PPV.
It looks like Death Before Dishonor is having a big impact on the state of Ring of Honor. Dalton Castle and the Boys defeated The Righteous to become the new ROH Six Man Tag Champions. Two title changes in two matches so far tonight. This is The Boys' first championship reign, though Castle once held the ROH Championship on his own.
Phew! Finally a match without a title change. Meaning we didn't have to scamble to write a breakout clickbait article about it from our phone (the same phone we're watching the PPV on) while picking up Taco Bell. Wheeler Yuta successfully defended his Pure Championship against Daniel Garcia.
Rush won the battle of brothers, defeating Dragon Lee.
The patented Tony Khan one women's match of the night went on sixth. You're not gonna sign Sasha Banks like that, bro! Of course, this was a great match. Mercedes Martinez defeated Serena Deeb by submission to retain the ROH Women's World Championship.
Despite Jay Lethal and his crew trying every trick under the sun to cheat, Samoa Joe still made him tap in the end, retaining the ROH Television Championship.
Jay Briscoe pinned Dax Harwood after a Doomsday Device to score the first pin in the two out of three falls match. Harwood pinned Jay Briscoe after a Big Rig to win the second fall. And Harwood also got the third pin fall after an avalanche piledriver(!!!). Incredible match. It's obvious why the world title match went on first. There's no way it could have followed this. Mark Briscoe took a suples off the top rope through a table on the floor and appeared to go neck first through the table, but he was on his feet after the match.
FTR invited the Briscoes in the ring for the Code of Honor handshake and FTR cut a promo about their love of wrestling. William Regal, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta came out to the top of the ramp to pose as the show went off the air.
Death Before Dishonor was a good PPV. It was worth the money for the main event alone, but the rest wasn't too shabby either.
Are you watching ROH Death Before Dishonor tonight? Assuming you're not watching it on Bleacher Report so you'll actually be able to see it, let us know what you think about the show in the comments.