Ring of Honor Review - April 18, 2025

By Graham "GSM" Matthews

ROH World Champion Bandido and Komander def. The Infantry

Komander just lost the ROH World Television Championship on last night's edition of Collision. This was taped before that, so that might be why his and Bandido's entrances were cut as he probably had the belt with him. Nonetheless, this was a fun opener as Bandido and Komander have quality chemistry as partners. That said, I'd like to see Bandido get more shine on his own as ROH World Champion unless this is building to Bandido vs. Komander eventually.

ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Von Erichs and ROH World Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes def. Johnny TV and MxM Collection

This has been in the works for a while, so it honestly would've made more sense as the main event for this show over what we got (a meaningless six-man tag team match). I wouldn't have minded a title change since Rhodes and The Von Erichs have barely defended the belts since winning them, but otherwise, this was a good match with the two trios working well together.

ROH World Tag Team Champion Sammy Guevara def. Lee Johnson

I'm sure I've said this before, but it's astounding how much an afterthought Guevara feels like these days after being looked at as a "pillar" of AEW at one point. His matches are fine and this was a perfectly acceptable outing, but it was difficult to care. Blake Christian helped Johnson jump Guevara afterward before Rhodes made the save, and then they were laid out by MxM Collection. I don't understand the point of keeping that feud alive, especially since MxM Collection already failed to beat them for the ROH World Tag Team Championship a few months ago. Why not feature other teams in the division?

The Dark Order (Evil Uno and Alex Reynolds) def. Jon Cruz and Rosario Grillo

It's 2025 and Dark Order are still getting squash matches. That's a problem. I guess John Silver got injured at some point because now we're down to just Uno and Reynolds. This was a waste of time and only existed to give Dark Order a victory. The Frat House came out afterward to taunt them, leading to a match with them taking on their own "frat boys."

The Frat House (Preston Vance, Cole Karter and Griff Garrison) def. Love, Doug, TJ Crawford and Charles Mason

Needless to say, this was as much of a waste of time as Dark Order's match was. Frat House is Tony Khan's latest attempt to throw a bunch of directionless jobbers together and expect fans to find it entertaining, when in reality it's just channel-changing material. This only happened to give Frat House a victory before they face Dark Order in a match I can't imagine many people want to see.

Atlantis, Esfinge and Fuego​ def. Zandokan Jr., Euphoria and Barbaro Cavernario

Ah, a CMLL main event. How fresh! Yes, I'm completely kidding. It felt like ROH TV had moved away from these multi-man matches with the CMLL guys in recent weeks, but apparently it isn't over. As I've always said, these matches aren't bad by any means, but they blend together and ultimately serve no purpose. The crowds enjoy the action, but there's never anything out of the ordinary about them.

Overall Show

I have no idea why there was an episode of ROH TV yesterday and another one today. They should've just combined the two for one episode on either day, but on the bright side, at least his one featured an ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship match that made it somewhat notable. I liked the tag team opener, but everything else was par for the course and not worth seeking out.

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