Ian Riccaboni announces that someone hasn’t passed COVID-19 protocols, so The Briscoes’ match with The Righteous is now a singles bout.
Bateman (with Dutch) vs. Mark Briscoe
Bateman and Briscoe trade blows, and one strike from the big man knocks the Briscoe brother down. He fires back with two forearms and a clothesline. A stiff kick to the face rocks Bateman, and Briscoe plants him with a suplex. Bateman and Briscoe chop each other, but Bateman takes control when Dutch catches a diving Briscoe and slams him into the barricade. Briscoe fires back with some strikes, but Bateman drives him back into the corner. Briscoe perseveres and slams Bateman off the top rope.
Briscoe hits a rolling Spicolli driver and nails the Froggy Bow for the win.
Winner: Mark Briscoe
Dutch attacks Briscoe after the match and beats him down. Bateman and Dutch keep attacking him, but Mike Bennett makes the save.
ROH Pure Championship: Jonathan Gresham (c) vs. Rhett Titus
The Pure Title is on the line right now! #GloryByHonor @TheJonGresham pic.twitter.com/yIDujMz7I1
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 21, 2021
Gresham and Titus feel each other out with some technical holds. The two men are evenly matched early on. Neither man can gain the upper hand for long. Titus grounds Gresham for a bit by targeting his arm, but Gresham takes control with a leg-lock. Titus reaches the ropes and uses his first rope break in the process. Gresham runs up the turnbuckles and takes Titus down with a headlock. Titus slams Gresham to the mat and quickly gains momentum. Gresham squashes the rally and puts Titus in a head-lock again. Titus fires back with a belly-to-belly suplex, but Gresham uses his first rope break to avoid the pin.
Gresham takes Titus to the mat again. Both men go crashing to the outside with a suplex. The two wrestlers exchange several pin attempts as they roll around the ring. Gresham pins Titus during this exchange to win the match.
Winner and still ROH Pure Champion: Jonathan Gresham
La Faccion Ingobernable (Dragon Lee, Kenny King, La Bestia del Ring, and RUSH) vs. Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson)
Homicide and Dragon Lee start the bout, but Deppen tags in. The two men, who have feuded over the RPH World Television Championship, take the fight to each other. Lee’s lightning quick offense makes it hard for Deppen to take control, and the former champion uses Lee’s jacket as a tissue. The match breaks down into utter chaos, as both teams brawl with each other. The referee throws out the match and rules it a no contest.
Result: No Contest
RUSH demands the match be restarted as a no disqualification bout. Both stables continue to fight, and King tells his teammates to get back in the ring. Brody King says nobody came to see a two-minute match; he notes that they’re in the ECW Arena, so how about they make this a Philadelphia Street Fight? The referee makes it official, so the match restarts as a Philadelphia Street Fight.
Philadelphia Street Fight: La Faccion Ingobernable (Dragon Lee, Kenny King, La Bestia del Ring, and RUSH) vs. Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson)
Deppen and Lee trade blows while the two factions wage war at ringside. Lee drills Deppen with a stiff slap, but they exchange nasty slaps, chops and boots. They give each other snap German suplexes and clotheslines. Lee hits a knee to the head, but Deppen floors him with a clothesline. RUSH throws Deppen to the outside. Homicide and Dickinson gang up on RUSH. Homicide pulls out a fork, but Kenny stops him from using it. Bestia drills Brody with a chair and stomps on him in the corner. Lee sets up two chairs in the ring while Kenny gets a table. Kenny and Bestia suplex Brody onto two chairs. LFI gangs up on Brody and turns its attention to Homicide. Kenny hits him with the lid of a trash can. Lee stops Homicide from using a fork, and RUSH hits the former world champion with a trash can. Bestita and Lee throw Homicide into the barricade.
Violence Unlimited and La Faccion Ingornable collide in a 8-man tag war! #GloryByHonor
It's getting crazier and crazier!! #GloryByHonor pic.twitter.com/x3CHAiILgU
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 21, 2021
Deppen dropkicks a ladder into Lee and Kenny. He dives onto Lee outside the ring. Bestia attacks Homicide, but Deppen evens the odds. Homicide puts the ladder around his head and hits the members of LFI with it. He drops Kenny with a cutter, but shotgun knees send Homicide crashing into the corner. Dickinson kicks Kenny while he has a trash can over his head. LFI regroups and focuses on Dickinson. Kenny hits a corkscrew dive on Dickinson through a table. Left by himself, Deppen is outnumbered by LFI, and the four men beat him down.
Brody powerbombs Bestia through a table. He back-drops Lee to the outside and pins Bestia to win the match.
Winners: Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson)
Tony Deppen grabs a fan’s sign that reads “Sign Tony Deppen” and holds it high. Shane Taylor and his partners in Shane Taylor Promotions brawl with LFI. Violence Unlimited simply watches the warring groups fight, but Shane Taylor Promotions stares them down in a heated confrontation.
EC3 joins the broadcast team ahead of this main event; given his ranking in the top five for the ROH World Championship, he’ll be paying close attention to it.
ROH World Championship: Bandido (C) vs. Flip Gordon
Bandido and Gordon square off and feel each other out. The champion briefly locks in a surfboard stretch. He puts Gordon in a head-lock, and both men quicken the past with some fast offense. The two opponents do handsprings and neither man can gain the upper hand during a fast exchange. Gordon pokes Bandido’s eye and slams him head-first into the turnbuckle. The match spills to the outside, and Gordon maintains control.
“The Mercenary” continues to ground the champion, and he gets a two count. Gordon throws a chair into the ring, but Bandido dives onto him twice outside the ring. Bandido plants Gordon with a crucifix bomb for a two count. The champion escapes the Flip-5, but Gordon drills him with a knee to the face. “The Mercenary” powerbombs Bandido and superkicks him. Bandido and Gordon exchange strikes, and the challenger plants the champion with a springboard tornado DDT for a two count. Bandido escapes the Submit the Flip and kicks out of the Flip-5. The champion hits a moonsault slam for a near fall. Bandido hits the 21-Plex for the win.
Winner and still ROH World Champion: Bandido
AND STILLL!!!@bandidowrestler is your ROH World Champion! ??? pic.twitter.com/VQD0EKY5Kf
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) August 21, 2021
EC3 confronts Bandido after the match and makes it clear that he wants to challenge for the title. Brody King comes down the ramp and says EC3 isn’t next in line; the line starts behind him. EC3 and King brawl, and Demonic Flamita attacks the distracted champion to close the show.
