2024 Ring of Honor professional wrestling event
The 2024 Supercard of Honor was the 17th annual Supercard of Honor professional wrestling event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on April 5, 2024, at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event also featured wrestlers from sister promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and AEW's partner promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom (ST★RDOM).
Twelve matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show. In the main event, Mark Briscoe defeated Eddie Kingston to win the ROH World Championship. In other prominent matches, Athena defeated Hikaru Shida to retain the ROH Women’s World Championship. Dalton Castle defeated Johnny TV in a Fight Without Honor, Billie Starkz defeated Queen Aminata to become the inaugural ROH Women's World Television Champion, Mei Seira and Empress Nexus Venus (Maika and Mina Shirakawa) defeated Tam Nakano and Queen's Quest (Saya Kamitani and AZM), and in the opening contest, Kyle Fletcher defeated Lee Johnson to retain the ROH World Television Championship.
Production
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 February, 2024, it was announced that Supercard of Honor would take place on April 5 at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .[1]
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, Rampage and Collision.
On the December 16, 2023, episode of ROH Wrestling, Tony Khan announced the creation of the ROH Women's World Television Championship, with a tournament to later be announced to crown the inaugural champion.[2][3][4] The tournament, which had sixteen participants, began on the February 22, 2024 episode, with the finals eventually set for Supercard of Honor. On the March 21 episode, Billie Starkz and Queen Aminata defeated Mercedes Martinez and Red Velvet, respectively, in the semifinals. Both would now face each other at Supercard of Honor to become the inaugural champion.[5]
At Death Before Dishonor the previous July, Mark Briscoe was set to challenge for the ROH World Championship against then-champion Claudio Castagnoli, but had to undergo knee surgery and was unable to compete.[6][7] Briscoe was urged to challenge Castagnoli by Eddie Kingston, who would eventually beat Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship at Grand Slam.[8] On the March 14, 2024, episode of ROH Wrestling, ROH announced that Briscoe will get his title match when he challenges Kingston at Supercard of Honor.[9]
On the March 14 episode of ROH Wrestling, after ROH Women's World Champion Athena scored a quick victory in a Proving Ground match, she demanded more competition for her record-setting reign, believing those in ROH had grown scared of her.[10] From there, she would be confronted by former AEW Women's World Champion Hikaru Shida, with it later being confirmed she will challenge Athena at Supercard of Honor.[11]
For months, Dalton Castle and Johnny TV had been in a feud, stemming from Castle beating Johnny on the December 7, 2023 ROH Wrestling.[12] Since then, Johnny began interfering in Castle's matches, leading to Castle constantly chasing after Johnny in demand for a rematch. They eventually would have that rematch on February 29, 2024, for custody of Castle's manservants, The Boys (Brandon and Brent). Johnny would win that match due to interference from his wife, Taya Valkyrie.[13] Castle continued on his downward spiral as he tried goading Johnny into one more match. On March 31, 2024, ROH Board of Director member Jerry Lynn announced that Johnny TV will face Dalton Castle at Supercard of Honor in a Fight Without Honor.[14]
On the April 4 episode of ROH Wrestling, ROH World Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) faced The Infantry (Carlie Bravo and Capt. Shawn Dean) in a Proving Ground match, which ended in a time limit draw. Despite The Infantry not beating the champions, Proving Ground matches also grant challengers title opportunities if they go to a draw with the champions. Thus, The Infantry will challenge the Undisputed Kingdom for the ROH World Tag Team Championship at Supercard of Honor.[15] Also Maria Kanellis is The Undisputed Kingdom's valet and Trish Adora is The Infantry's valet, The two ladies feuded when their male tag teams were involved with each other.[16] Maria also had Leyla Hirsch become her ally at once to face Trish Adora where their was a six-mixed person tag team match that took place where The Undisputed Kingdom and Leyla Hirsch were successful.[17]
