Death Before Dishonor (2025)

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Death Before Dishonor
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Promotional poster featuring various ROH wrestlers
Promotion Ring of Honor
DateAugust 29, 2025
City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venue 2300 Arena
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The 2025 Death Before Dishonor was a professional wrestling live streaming event produced by the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It was the 22nd Death Before Dishonor event and took place on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event also featured wrestlers from ROH's sister promotion, All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was scheduled to stream exclusively on Honor Club; however, due to technical issues with that platform, most of the event was simulcast for free on YouTube. [1]

Contents

Twelve matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show. In the event's final match, which was promoted as part of a double main event, Athena defeated Mina Shirakawa to retain the ROH Women's World Championship. The other main event, which was the penultimate match, saw Bandido defeat Hechicero in a critically acclaimed match to retain the ROH World Championship. In other prominent matches, Sammy Guevara and Rush defeated The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) to win the vacant ROH World Tag Team Championship, and Q.T. Marshall defeated Paul Walter Hauser in a Fight Without Honor.

Production

Background

Death Before Dishonor is a professional wrestling event, held annually by American promotion Ring 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. In March 2025, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would take place on July 11, 2025, at Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas. [5] However, on April 22, the event was rescheduled to September 5. [6] The location was also changed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 2300 Arena. [7] On July 19, it was announced that the event would once again be rescheduled, this time to August 29, 2025. [8]

Storylines

The event will feature professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Storylines were produced on ROH's weekly series ROH Honor Club TV exclusively on their streaming service Honor Club, on television programs of sister promotion All Elite Wrestling including Dynamite and Collision .

After Supercard of Honor, Hechicero of the Don Callis Family had been targeting the ROH World Championship held by Bandido. Five days later, on the July 16 episode of Dynamite, the two met on opposite sides of an eight-man tag team match, with Hechicero pinning Bandido to earn his team the win. [9] Three weeks later on August 4, ROH President Tony Khan announced that Hechicero would officially challenge Bandido for the ROH World Championship at Death Before Dishonor. [10]

At All In: Texas, ROH Women's World Champion Athena and interim ROH Women's World Television Champion Mina Shirakawa competed in the Casino Gauntlet match for an opportunity at the AEW Women's World Championship. Athena would win the match after pinning Shirakawa off the O-Face , which ended up breaking Shirakawa's hand and putting her out of action for weeks. [11] Over a month later on August 14, Tony Khan announced on social media that Shirakawa would challenge Athena for her title at Death Beofre Dishonor. [12]

On the August 14 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty faced CMLL wrestler Xelhua in a Proving Ground match that ended in a time limit draw. Due to the nature of Proving Ground matches, this earned Xelhua an opportunity at Moriarty's title, which was announced to take place at Death Before Dishonor. [13]

Results

No.Results [14] StipulationsTimes [15]
1P Jay Lethal defeated Jordan Oliver by submission Singles match 6:58
2P MxM Collection (Mansoor and Mason Madden) (with Johnny TV and Taya Valkyrie) defeated The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver) (with Evil Uno) and The Frat House (Cole Karter and Griff Garrison) (with Jacked Jameson) by pinfall Three-way tag team match 7:39
3P Billie Starkz defeated Ashley Vox by pinfall Pure Wrestling Rules match 6:22
4P Dralístico defeated Adam Priest, Angélico (with Serpentico), and AR Fox by pinfall $50,000 Four-way match 8:25
5The Conglomeration (Hologram and Tomohiro Ishii) defeated Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese) (with "Smart" Mark Sterling) by pinfall Tag team match 12:32
6Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Carlie Bravo, and Capt. Shawn Dean) (with Anthony Ogogo and Trish Adora) defeated The Sons of Texas (Marshall Von Erich, Ross Von Erich, and Sammy Guevara) by pinfall Six-man tag team match for the vacant ROH World Six Man Tag Team Championship [16] 13:05
7 Queen Aminata defeated Taya Valkyrie by pinfall Inaugural ROH Women's Pure Championship Tournament Pure Wrestling Rules Quarterfinal [17] 8:24
8Swirl (Lee Johnson and Blake Christian) defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) by pinfall Tag team match 11:23
9 Lee Moriarty (c) defeated Xelhua by submission Pure Wrestling Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship [13] 16:20
10 Q. T. Marshall defeated Paul Walter Hauser by pinfall Fight Without Honor [18] 20:34
11 Sammy Guevara and Rush defeated The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) by pinfall Tag team match for the vacant ROH World Tag Team Championship [16] 13:00
12 Bandido (c) defeated Hechicero (with Don Callis) by pinfall Singles match for the ROH World Championship [10] 37:17
13 Athena (c) (with Billie Starkz) defeated Mina Shirakawa by pinfall Singles match for the ROH Women's World Championship [12] 25:27
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rose, Bryan (August 29, 2025). "ROH Death Before Dishonor airing for free due to technical issues". Wrestling Observer / Figure Four Online . Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Feedback to ROH Death before Dishonor". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online . Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ "CALDWELL DVD REVIEW FLASHBACK - ROH Death Before Dishonor 2005: Origins of C.M. Punk's title hostage program now playing on WWE TV in 2011". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ Gerweck, Steve (August 29, 2011). "WGTT in singles action at Death Before Dishonor". WrestleView. Archived from the original on September 7, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  5. ↑ "ROH Death Before Dishonor". ROHwrestling.com. ROH Staff. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  6. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (April 22, 2025). "ROH Supercard of Honor And ROH Death Before Dishonor Rescheduled". Fightful. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  7. ↑ Staff, Ring of Honor Wrestling. "BREAKING: ROH returns to the legendary @2300Arena in Philly for Death Before Dishonor on Friday, Sept 5 — our first time back since 2021!". Www.Twitter.com. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  8. ↑ Wilen, Jerome. "ROH pay-per-view moved for a second". Www.wrestleview.com. Retrieved July 20, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ Powell, Jason (July 16, 2025). "AEW Dynamite results (7/16): Powell's live review of Hangman Page, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Mark Briscoe vs. Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  10. 1 2 Lambert, Jeremy (August 4, 2025). "Bandido To Defend ROH Title Against Hechicero At ROH Death Before Dishonor". Fightful. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  11. ↑ Powell, Jason (July 12, 2025). "AEW All In Texas results: Powell's live review of Jon Moxley vs. Hangman Page in a Texas Death Match for the AEW World Championship, Toni Storm vs. TBS Champion Mercedes Mone for the AEW Women's Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  12. 1 2 Lambert, Jeremy (August 14, 2025). "Athena To Defend ROH Women's Title Against Mina Shirakawa At ROH Death Before Dishonor". Fightful. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  13. 1 2 Lambert, Jeremy (August 14, 2025). "Lee Moriarty To Defend ROH Pure Title Against Xelhau At ROH Death Before Dishonor". Fightful. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  14. ↑ Moss, Jeff (August 29, 2025). "ROH Death Before Dishonor results: Bandido in action". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online . Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  15. ↑ Vetter, Chris (August 30, 2025). "ROH Death Before Dishonor results: Vetter's review of Athena vs. Mina Shirakawa for the ROH Women's Championship, Bandido vs. Hechicero for the ROH Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  16. 1 2 Lambert, Jeremy (August 28, 2025). "Sammy Guevara To Defend ROH Tag Titles And 6-Man Titles At ROH Death Before Dishonor 2025". Fightful. Retrieved August 28, 2025.
  17. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (August 29, 2025). "ROH Women's Pure Title Tournament Bracket Revealed". Fightful. Retrieved August 29, 2025.
  18. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (August 21, 2025). "Paul Walter Hauser To Face QT Marshall In A Fight Without Honor At ROH Death Before Dishonor". Fightful. Retrieved August 21, 2025.
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