Background
Supercard of Honor is a pay-per-view professional wrestling event annually presented by Ring of Honor (ROH), and primarily takes place during the weekend of WrestleMania - the flagship event of WWE, and considered to be the biggest wrestling event of the year. It has been a yearly tradition since 2006. The shows are sometimes two-day events, traditionally taking place on Friday nights and/or Saturday afternoons, and are held either in or nearby the same city as that year's WrestleMania.
In March 2025, it was announced that Supercard of Honor would take place on May 2 on the Adrian Phillips Theater at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which means that for the first time since 2011, Supercard of Honor will not take place during the weekend of WrestleMania. [2] On April 22, 2025, the event was rescheduled for July 11 at Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas, during the week of ROH's sister promotion, All Elite Wrestling's All In event, AEW's biggest event of the year. [3] [4]
Storylines
The event featured 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 .
Athena had been feuding with Thunder Rosa weekly leading up to the pay-per-view, as on the June 6 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, Rosa came to the aid of Rachel Armstrong after Athena continued the attack following Armstrong's defeat in a match. Afterwards, while Athena retreated, Rosa held up her ROH Women's World Championship, indicating she was after the title. [5] The following week, Athena cut a promo backstage where she disregarded Rosa as "irrelevant". [6] [7] Both women would then face off in a tag team match at Global Wars Mexico, where Athena team with ROH Women's World Television Champion Red Velvet against Rosa and Persephone; the latter team ended up successful. Following the event, ROH announced that Rosa would challenge Athena for the ROH Women's World Championship at Supercard of Honor. [8] [9]
At Global Wars Mexico, Blue Panther defeated ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty in a non-title match, automatically putting him in contention for Lee's title. [8] As such, a championship rematch between the two was announced for Supercard of Honor. [10]
Konosuke Takeshita put a challenge out for Bandido's ROH World Championship during a backstage segment at Global Wars Mexico, where it was later announced that a title match between the two was scheduled for Supercard of Honor. [11]
On the July 3 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, The Infantry (Capt. Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo) defeated Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin) in a ROH World Tag Team Championship number one contender's match. [12] The following day, ROH announced that they would face champions The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) for the titles at Supercard of Honor. [13]
At Global Wars Mexico, ROH World Television Champion Nick Wayne faced Titán in a Proving Ground match that ended in a time limit draw. [8] Due to the nature of Proving Ground matches, however, this would earn Titán a future title match. On July 7, it was announced that the two would have a rematch for the title at Supercard of Honor. [14]
On July 7, it was announced that ROH Women's World Television Champion Red Velvet had been injured and would not be competing at Supercard of Honor; therefore, a match to determine an interim champion was scheduled for the event. [15] Hours before the event, it was announced that the match would be a "Worldwide Women's Wild Card" four-way match, with the participants later confirmed to be Mina Shirakawa, Miyu Yamashita, Persephone, and Yuka Sakazaki, and the winner would face Velvet at a later date to crown the undisputed champion. [16]
