Patreon.com/AnHonorablePod presents…. Imagine watching EVERYTHING Ring of Honor has produced in 20 plus years. When you’re done, imagine writing detailed reviews and reports on EVERYTHING. That’s exactly what the Honorable Journey for McXal looks like. McXal joins Jeff to talk shop and the legacy of ROH from 2002-2022. We discuss the message board, tape trading, and writing about wrestling of all types in this MEGASODE! The man himself joins @mrjeffschwartz0 for this episode of An Honorable Ment...
Nov 22, 2022•3 hr 9 min
An Honorable Journey can begin anywhere but for @NotDrDeath Steve Williams it began with the thought of being a pro wrestler and continues on with being a twitter superstar. Steve joins @mrjeffschwartz0 for this episode of An Honorable Mention to discuss training at OVW, doing ROH ring crew and tape trading amongst many other topics that will definitely get you laughing, smiling, and heading to your local twitter to follow both Jeff & Steve. There’s some talk of a certain tennis racket wield...
Oct 05, 2022•3 hr 29 min
Imagine being one of possibly 100 people in an entire country to order Ring of Honor’s very first Pay Per View, Respect is Earned in July 2007. That is Scott McConnell’s origin story, in his Honorable Journey to ROH fandom. Scott joined Jeff to discuss his reverse journey in Honor, watching tapes bought from ebay with his friend’s mom’s card. This episode, Jeff is absolutely stunned when he hears about the 3 live events Scott attended and why he stopped. Scott is also the longest running Patron ...
Sep 21, 2022•2 hr 30 min
The most asked question in professional wrestling is how do I get into the business? Brian Bellinger simply just volunteered and found himself in a dream job. Brian joins Jeff because Hagadorn is still on Paternity leave for another discussion on getting a job in the business. Brian is a jack of all trades, from setting up to tearing down, production and visual help as well. Brian was a fan in 2002 and by the time ROH closed its doors under the SBG umbrella he was producing shows from the produc...
Aug 23, 2022•2 hr 32 min
Every story has twists and turns and the story of Chris from IVPVideos.com and Jeff is quite similar. This week, Chris joins the show to discuss riding in an RV to shows with strangers, the infamous ROH Message Board’s positives and negatives, oh and tape trading which in directly helped give birth to our beloved Ring of Honor in 2002! Chris also shares why the main event wasn’t his favorite match on most ROH shows he attended, the Rex Plex, and his favorite live show experiences. Oh and also Bi...
Aug 11, 2022•2 hr 39 min
Episode 203 Best in the World 2012 It’s been awhile since we’ve recorded a pod, been even longer since we put up this poll on Twitter, but we are finally here with Best In The World 2012: Hostage Crisis! We’re a year into the SBG era of ROH, and we are at the HammerSTEEN Ballroom with Davey Richards making one last bid to unseat Kevin Steen as the ROH World Champion! Plus THE GUARDIANS OF TRUTH HAVE ARRIVED! ANX challenge WGTT for the World Tag Titles, Homicide returns to take on Eddie Edwards, ...
Jul 19, 2022•2 hr 46 min
Jeff has been itching to do this one since the podcast was born and here we finally are covering the night Samoa Joe earned his crown as ROH Champion. Not only is the night historic for that, but it also marks the FIRST TIME Jay and Mark Briscoe operated as a team in Ring of Honor, and what a match came as a result! On top of that, Christopher Daniels and Doug Williams have a banger, the CM Punk and Raven feud switches to another level when history is again made with the birth of The Second City...
Jun 29, 2022•2 hr 42 min
One episode removed from Episode 200, Jeff goes solo this week but with a very special guest, Kailah Guffey. Kailah Guffey is Ring of Honor Royalty as she is not only the first female guest on An Honorable Mention, she also happens to be the first second generation guest on the pod! Kailah Guffey is the daughter of Ring of Honor Legend, the late, great Crown Jewel of the Embassy, Jimmy Rave! Kailah Guffey joins @MrJeffSchwartz0 to discuss her father outside of the ring, stories of her dad’s non-...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 35 min
YOU, yes YOU are alive and hopefully well for the historic & legendary 200th Episode of An Honorable Mention as Jeff & Shane board the Honorable Plane of Honor and head to Tokyo for The Tokyo Summit, which was also Ring of Honor’s 200th Show. DDT, NJPW, Kensuke Office, Pro Wrestling NOAH, & Ring of Honor agreed to a Summit, in Tokyo in September of 2008. We talk show origins, The FABULOUS FORUM, Hagadorn getting no trip to Japan for his birthday, and a lineup with a little something ...
May 31, 2022•2 hr 59 min
Why Hopkins? Well, Hagadorn wanted to know why…SPOILER ALERT…there’s a fifteen second World Title match in the main event. That’s the only real reason, a curiosity needed to be sated, and in the process, we got to experience a show that was damn entertaining for most of the show! One of the best TV Title bouts that probably ever took place, a tremendous outing from Adam Page and ACH, The Briscoes and War Machine having a tag team banger, and Roddy doing Roddy things with Silas! It’s Conquest Tou...
May 18, 2022•2 hr 24 min
You voted on the annual Supercard poll, and this week we take a trip to 2008 for the third installment of the premier Ring of Honor event! It’s the last year for the Dragon Gate trios matches, it’s a rematch of one of 2007’s best World Title bouts, and it’s a reading of a police report on the air! It’s Supercard of Honor III on this week’s edition of An Honorable Mention, brought to you by Patreon.com/AnHonorablePod, and presented on The Creative Control Network of podcasts!! Supercard Of Honor ...
May 04, 2022•2 hr 44 min
Part two of our random events picked by Lil Old Shane, ones that took place after he got fired! Now it’s time to revisit the Frontier Fieldhouse right up the street from Mama Rosa’s in good old Chick-ago Ridge, revisit the Ringmaster’s Challenge, and revisit some Briscoe on Homicide Violence!! It’s a master class main event, a top shelf Tag Team Title tussle, a wild tag team match of another kind, the announcers at ringside, the ring announcer back inside the ring, and Truth Martini’s Trust Fall...
Apr 19, 2022•2 hr 22 min
Hagadorn randomly picked an event that took place after he got fired, and the dart landed on two 2014 events just prior to the New Japan Pro Wrestling incursion into ROH! The first of these two shows took ROH to the Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee, and put two championships on the line! Adam Cole and Matt Taven went toe-to-toe over the ROH World Title, while reDRagon was put into an Instant Reward Match with the potential result being one team getting a World Tag Team Title shot! Plus Tyson Du...
Mar 31, 2022•2 hr 16 min
Y’all love 2007 don’t you? You must since the votes were in your hands, the fate of AHM was in your hands, and you picked another 2007 event! This time though, we cross the pond back to the Liverpool Olympia, to bid Samoa Joe a final farewell to cap off the 5th Year Festival! On top of that, BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs take their violent rivalry to the UK, Cabana and Delirious bring the funny that thankfully Prazak and Lenny are there to explain, The Dangerous Angels are there to kick some arse,...
Mar 02, 2022•3 hr 7 min
Patreon.com/AnHonorablePod Presents.... We just keep rolling into 2007 so now it is on to Edison, NJ and the awful Inman Sports Club! It’s another cold one, January in the Northeast after all, and we’ve got chairs to carry from the parking lot into the building, a truck to possibly get stuck in the mud, and plenty of wrestling action! Rockstar Energy Drinks have may have been traded for wrist tape, Julius Smokes may have been schooled by an old lady, and Samoa Joe might have said he was leaving ...
Feb 09, 2022•3 hr
Patreon.com/AnHonorablePod Presents... We are back with our first show of 2022, and we are doing so with the first show of 2007! It was a frigid, bitter, miserable cold night in Braintree and also a sad evening as January 26th of 2007 was also when one of ROH’s founding fathers, and former President of the company, Doug Gentry, passed away at only 34 years of age. It was a sad beginning to the new year, especially given how beloved Gentry was by so many wrestlers in the locker room, but the show...
Jan 25, 2022•2 hr 49 min
It’s that time once again! Time to induct the third class of the annual HONORABLE MENTION HALL OF FAME OF HONOR! A select group of listeners, wrestlers, and assorted wrestling personalities were given the chance to vote and these are the results! The previous inductees are listed below, and this week will induct another 5 members into the illustrious group! CLASS OF 2019: SAMOA JOE CM PUNK THE BRISCOES CARY SILKIN BRYAN DANIELSON CLASS OF 2020: LOW KI CHRISTOPHER DANIELS GABE SAPOLOSKY HOMICIDE ...
Dec 28, 2021•3 hr 24 min
This episode is dedicated to the life, memory, & legacy of Ring of Honor legend, The Crown Jewel Jimmy Rave. Love & Mercy. As per tradition, for our Final Battle episode, you voted and selected one of the most historic editions of the event for this edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION! We travel back to 2006 for the final event of Ring of Honor’s calendar (as an event called Final Battle should be) to witness Homicide try to claim the ROH World Title one last time or walk away if he fails! W...
Dec 15, 2021•3 hr 37 min
Patreon.com/AnHonorable Pod Presents.... Who knew 19 years ago that Ring of Honor would be deemed so important to the wrestling landscape that there would be not one, but two podcasts dedicated to honoring the history of ROH? This week, Hagadorn is off on assignment so @MrJeffSchwartz0 sat down with the other ROH Podcast tag team, the fellas from ThROH The Years, Trevor Dame & Matt Feuerstein! We discuss the history of ROH, the origins of ThROH The Years, and even the state of affairs for th...
Dec 07, 2021•3 hr 22 min
October 2008 marked the end of ROH’s first era when Gabe Sapolsky was terminated from his position as Booker, and November 2008 officially began the next era with Adam Pearce’s first events! It just seems appropriate that Scrap Daddy’s first event would also be the first-time for an ROH event in Montreal, QC, Canada! The most intriguing part of this shifting landscape may be everything that went on between the last of Gabe and the first of Adam, how it would shape the face of ROH moving forward,...
Nov 23, 2021•2 hr 58 min
October 2013, nearly the end of the line for our illustrious co-host Shane Hagadorn after ten years with ROH, and this would be one of the events which he never saw because it was released after the fact! So that is what brings us to Baltimore for CHARM CITY CHALLENGE this week, and a rather interesting look at the state of things just before the last of the OG office was shown the door. To be honest, originally Jeff and Hagadorn didn’t think they’d have a lot to say about the show but once they...
Oct 26, 2021•2 hr 29 min
You voted and the election, like all other important ones was not rigged. This time instead of voting for party, we voted for a party. Glory By Honor III was the choice and what a night it was at the Rex Plex (RIP)! A show on the 3 year anniversary of the horrible tragedies of 9/11/01 near New York City, it was a somber yet patriotic filled night for fans in attendance. Samoa Joe defends his ROH World Title against Anarchist Doug Williams on a quest to reclaim ROH gold. The same can be said for ...
Oct 19, 2021•2 hr 32 min
The Summer of Punk had reached the mountain top, flame in hand CM Punk and the Ring of Honor World Title were on the line in a Four Corner Elimination bout with rightful contenders James Gibson, The Fallen Angel Chistopher Daniels, & the greatest ROH Champion of ALL TIME, Samoa Joe. This was the headliner on a show in which many moments mattered. Colt Cabana one night away from facing CM Punk potentially on the road to an ROH World Title Shot faces Spanky, and BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs d...
Sep 21, 2021•2 hr 49 min
Brought to you this week by Draft Kings and the PROMO CODE HONORABLE for 15% off a $5 entry and new account! As we take another trip down memory lane in our Honorable Journey Series, we are joined by 1/3rd of the trio that brings this show to you every week, Mr. Zach Johnson. Zach and @MrJeffSchwartz0 go back all the way to a message board friendship pre-dating the ROH Message Board. They discuss the impact of CM Punk on Zach's lifestyle, as well as how important it was for Zach to stay tuned in...
Sep 14, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Presented by Draft Kings! Promo Code: Honorable Ring of Honor began in a small gymnasium in Philadelphia, PA but its reach was far and wide. Wide enough to jump across the pond and into the heart of Gentleman Jon Sahir of Manchester, England. Jon Sahir, known for being one of the biggest British diehard ROH fans and most enjoyable folks to take in a show with joins the show this week. Jon Sahir traveled from the United Kingdom for many shows beginning with Dragon Gate Challenge II and Supercard ...
Sep 07, 2021•2 hr 24 min
The flame was lit in Chicago, literally as ROH headed into Manassas, Virginia for this week's show Fueling the Fire featuring the return of Shane Hagadorn to the show! We build on this show with two big tag team matches towards Death Before Dishonor VI(IN THE ARCHIVES). It's AOTF of Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black defending their ROH Tag Titles vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Go Shiozaki and The Motor City Machines Guns on loan from TNA to face the fans named Team Work, Austin Aries & American Drag...
Aug 31, 2021•3 hr 2 min
The term generation to generation is the ultimate compliment when it comes to wrestling. Being able to pass along a tradition as powerful as Ring of Honor to the next generation is an incredible pun intended, Honor. This week, friend of show, twitter influencer, Proud Jewish Wrestling Fan, and one of the most dedicated fans of professional wrestling Mr. Jacob Cohen joins @mrjeffschwartz0 to discuss his Honorable Journey Jacob discusses how different things were growing up in Toronto when it came...
Aug 24, 2021•2 hr 4 min
The early days in Ring of Honor saw a lot of common trends. Great wrestling, new moves, innovative production, both good & bad, and most importantly a unified fan base consisting of friends from around the world. So how does a guy from Texas who lives in New York working in the music business end up as one of Ring of Honor's most important fans? This week Josh "Tree" Neimand joins the show to share his Honorable journey from fan to employee. For 17 years @mrjeffschwartz and Tree attended sho...
Aug 17, 2021•3 hr 54 min
Very few fans of professional wrestling will ever be as committed to one company as Thomas Bobo of Grand Rapids, Michigan was to Ring of Honor. From day 1, at the Era of Honor Begins Tom Bobo and ROH were united on a journey of Honor that would see travel all over the United States. The head of the Midwest Horsemen was part of a social circle in the ROH fanbase that went everywhere for everything in the first few years of Ring of Honor. This week @mrjeffschwartz sits down to talk to Tom Bobo abo...
Aug 10, 2021•2 hr 30 min
When life throws you lemons you begin your journey into the wrestling world with the most positive man in ROH history, Matty B. Shane Hagadorn is out of the office the next few weeks and Jeff reached out to his long time, close, personal friend, and sometimes travel tag team partner to join the show. Matty B AKA Pusher talks about his first ROH show and the transformative effect it had on him during a life changing time period for him. As Matt shares stories of the gluttony of great matches, won...
Aug 03, 2021•2 hr 32 min
