{"id":118175,"date":"2023-03-08T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=118175"},"modified":"2023-03-07T20:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:32:59","slug":"roh-tv-card-3-9-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/03\/08\/roh-tv-card-3-9-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: ROH TV (3\/9\/2023) \u2013 Women\u2019s Championship on the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>\u00a0returns for the second week of television under the new regime. Three titles are on the line this week as\u00a0<strong>Timothy<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Thatcher<\/strong>\u00a0answers the challenge from\u00a0<strong>Wheeler<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Yuta<\/strong>\u00a0for the Pure Championship. The Television Championship will also be on the line as\u00a0<strong>Samoa<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Joe<\/strong>\u00a0defends the title against\u00a0<strong>Tony<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Deppen<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Athena<\/strong>\u00a0will also defend the ROH Women\u2019s Championship against\u00a0<strong>Willow<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Nightingale<\/strong>. The show will air exclusively on Honor Club at 7 pm eastern time on Thursday, March 9th. Let&#8217;s rundown the full ROH TV card for this week.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what happened in the tapings. You can see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/02\/26\/roh-taping-spoilers-2-25\/\" target=\"_self\">night one<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/02\/27\/roh-taping-spoilers-2-26-23\/\" target=\"_self\">night two<\/a>\u00a0spoilers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ROH<\/a> World TV Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tony_Deppen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tony_Deppen<\/a> challenges current <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ROH<\/a> World TV Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamoaJoe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SamoaJoe<\/a> for the title THIS THURSDAY on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ROH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ROH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HonorClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HonorClub<\/a> TV at 7\/6c, streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c45XmmE6bl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/c45XmmE6bl<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4UoYPVGhau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4UoYPVGhau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ROH &#8211; Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringofhonor\/status\/1633196660217225216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ROH TV Card 3\/9\/2023\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Dalton Castle and the Boys vs. Cody Chhun, Guillermo Rosas, and Marcus Kross<\/li>\n<li>RUSH and Dralistico vs. Angelico and Serpentico<\/li>\n<li>Trish Adora vs. Billie Starkz<\/li>\n<li>Ari Daivari and Slim J vs. Jake Crist and Manscout<\/li>\n<li>Aussie Open vs. Tracey Williams and Rhett Titus<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Kingston vs. Ben Dejo<\/li>\n<li>ROH Television Championship Match: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Tony Deppen<\/li>\n<li>ROH Pure Championship Match: Wheeler Yuta (c) vs. Timothy Thatcher<\/li>\n<li>ROH Women\u2019s Championship Match: Athena (c) vs. Willow Nightingale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Television Title on the Line This Week on ROH TV<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samoa Joe has been hailed the \u201cKing of Television\u201d as has held the ROH World Television Championship and the AEW TNT Championship simultaneously. He lost the TNT Championship to Wardlow at the AEW Revolution pay-per-view last Sunday. He still has the ROH Television Championship and is even more motivated to keep it around his waist. Joe\u2019s combinations of dangerous strikes and submissions always make him a threat between the ropes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter Tony Deppen. This match was announced last week during a backstage interview between Deppen and\u00a0<strong>Lexi<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Nair<\/strong>. During the interview he made it clear that he is confident that he can defeat Joe. Deppen went as far as to call out submissions such as the STF and the chicken wing as ways he can defeat Joe this week. All jokes aside, Deppen is not one to take lightly. His time in Ring of Honor as part of\u00a0<strong>VLNCE<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>UNLTD<\/strong>\u00a0showed what he can do in the ring. Those unfamiliar with Deppen can also check out his matches in\u00a0<strong>GCW<\/strong>\u00a0to see examples of his in-ring style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deppen will have to bring it all to get that title off Joe, who will surely be in the mood to fight this week on ROH TV.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pure Title Open Challenge\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This match came together during an in-ring interview with Wheeler Yuta. Ian Riccaboni referenced Yuta as the \u201cjunior member\u201d of the <strong>Blackpool Combat Club<\/strong>\u00a0during the interview. Yuta did not like being called the junior member and laid out how he has gotten to where he is now. He laid out an open challenge to anyone in the back that was answered by none other than Timothy Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thatcher and Yuta stared each other down with Thatcher staying silent. Thatcher may be quiet but his abilities in the ring speak volumes. He is known for his time in <strong>Evolve<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>NXT<\/strong>, and now\u00a0<strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH<\/strong>. His in-ring style aligns very well the rules of the Pure Division in ROH. Yuta may be the champion, but he has a very tough competitor in Thatcher on this week\u2019s ROH TV card.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Willow Calls Her Shot\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week Willlow Nightingale picked up a win over Lady Frost. Following the match, she was interviewed by Ian Riccaboni in the ring where she reminded everyone that in addition to her win over Lady Frost, she has also won her last two pay-per-view matches. With those wins, she feels that she has earned a shot at ROH Women\u2019s Champion Athena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athena then made her way to the entrance ramp where she accepted the challenge for this week\u2019s ROH TV card. This will be a clash of personalities as Willow always has an upbeat and positive attitude. Athena on the other hand has shown a much darker and more aggressive side to her personality and ring style over the past few months. That attitude helped her become the champion and she is not looking to let it go anytime soon. This will be a tough battle for Willow but also a big opportunity on this card this week on ROH TV.<\/p>\n<p><em>Header photo credit \u2013 ROH. For all things ROH check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchroh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HonorClub<\/a>\u00a0and their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ringofhonor\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0channel.\u00a0<\/em><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring of Honor\u00a0returns for the second week of television under the new regime. Three titles are on the line this week as\u00a0Timothy\u00a0Thatcher\u00a0answers the challenge from\u00a0Wheeler\u00a0Yuta\u00a0for the Pure Championship. The Television Championship will also be on the line as\u00a0Samoa\u00a0Joe\u00a0defends the title against\u00a0Tony\u00a0Deppen.\u00a0Athena\u00a0will also defend the ROH Women\u2019s Championship against\u00a0Willow\u00a0Nightingale. The show will air exclusively on Honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":118176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[8320,81,214,1194,3867,2421,3625],"class_list":["post-118175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","category-roh","tag-athena","tag-roh","tag-samoa-joe","tag-timothy-thatcher","tag-tony-deppen","tag-wheeler-yuta","tag-willow-nightingale"],"modified_by":"Dominic Padula","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}