Death Before Dishonor (2025)
Ring of Honor professional wrestling event
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The 2025 Death Before Dishonor was a professional wrestling live streaming event produced by the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It was the 22nd Death Before Dishonor event and took place on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event also featured wrestlers from ROH's sister promotion, All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was scheduled to stream exclusively on Honor Club; however, due to technical issues with that platform, most of the event was simulcast for free on YouTube.[2]
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||
| Date | August 29, 2025 | ||
| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
| Venue | 2300 Arena | ||
| Attendance | 916[1] | ||
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Twelve matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show. In the event's final match, which was promoted as part of a double main event, Athena defeated Mina Shirakawa to retain the ROH Women's World Championship. The other main event, which was the penultimate match, saw Bandido defeat Hechicero in a critically acclaimed match to retain the ROH World Championship. In other prominent matches, Sammy Guevara and Rush defeated The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum) to win the vacant ROH World Tag Team Championship, and Q.T. Marshall defeated Paul Walter Hauser in a Fight Without Honor.
Production
Background
Death Before Dishonor is a professional wrestling event, held annually by American promotion Ring of Honor.[3][4][5] The first event was held in 2003, and is traditionally one of ROH's biggest signature events in the calendar year. In March 2025, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would take place on July 11, 2025, at Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas.[6] However, on April 22, the event was rescheduled to September 5.[7] The location was also changed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the 2300 Arena.[8] On July 19, it was announced that the event would once again be rescheduled, this time to August 29, 2025.[9]
Storylines
The event will feature 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.
After Supercard of Honor, Hechicero of the Don Callis Family had been targeting the ROH World Championship held by Bandido. Five days later, on the July 16 episode of Dynamite, the two met on opposite sides of an eight-man tag team match, with Hechicero pinning Bandido to earn his team the win.[10] Three weeks later on August 4, ROH President Tony Khan announced that Hechicero would officially challenge Bandido for the ROH World Championship at Death Before Dishonor.[11]
At All In: Texas, ROH Women's World Champion Athena and interim ROH Women's World Television Champion Mina Shirakawa competed in the Casino Gauntlet match for an opportunity at the AEW Women's World Championship. Athena would win the match after pinning Shirakawa off the O-Face, which ended up breaking Shirakawa's hand and putting her out of action for weeks.[12] Over a month later on August 14, Tony Khan announced on social media that Shirakawa would challenge Athena for her title at Death Before Dishonor.[13]
On the August 14 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty faced CMLL wrestler Xelhua in a Proving Ground match that ended in a time limit draw. Due to the nature of Proving Ground matches, this earned Xelhua an opportunity at Moriarty's title, which was announced to take place at Death Before Dishonor.[14]