It was only about a month between Supercard of Honor and Global Wars Cincinnati, but AR Fox’s accept all challengers approach to the TV title made for quite a prolific period of title defenses.

ROH World Television Championship
AR Fox vs. Shane Taylor
ROH on HonorClub #167 – Salisbury, MD – 5.21.2026

AR Fox has been champion since 5.14.2026 and this is his second defense. Anthony Ogogo and Trish Adora are in Taylor’s corner. This is also a threematch, with Fox having defeated Taylor at “Death Before Dishonor 2023”, and Taylor defeating Fox this past September at DEAN~!!! 3. Taylor is also a former TV champion himself. Taylor’s heavy hands kept the champion in check. Multiple haymakers, the Double Barrel clothesline, and several chops left Fox in bad shape. While Taylor was able to land a legdrop on the apron, he missed a second one inside the ring, enabling Fox to gain his bearings and score some offense on the challenger. Fox was desperately hoping Air Fox would keep Taylor down, but to no avail. Taylor chokeslammed and splashed onto Fox for a two count after evading a 450 Splash, and then advised Fox to stay down after clobbering him with a forearm splash. The champion didn’t listen, so Taylor took him back down with Welcome To The Land, but only for another two count. Fox managed to escape the Marcus Garvey Driver and hit an Ace Crusher out of desperation. As Fox landed a dropkick through the middle rope, he also wiped out Ogogo. Fox successfully landed the 450 splash to get the pin at 9:05. Fox overcoming an obstacle from his past was a good way to continue his title reign. The story was sound, with Fox withstanding a significant amount of damage and the pay off of him fighting all match long to land the 450 splash. Good stuff. ***

ROH World Championship
Bandido vs. Volador Jr.
CMLL Super Viernes – Mexico City, Mexico – 5.22.2026
ROH on HonorClub #168 – 5.28.2026

Bandido has been champion since 4.6.2025 and this is his tenth defense. His left hand and thumb are bandaged. Volador challenged Bandido to this title bout after defeating him in a non-title singles bout five days prior. Fun fact, he uses “Personal Jesus” by Marilyn Manson, which Austin Aries used during his initial ROH World Title reign in 2005. Commentary does a really good job explaining that Volador had a similar career path to Bandido, and how Bandido patterned some of his offense off of him. It framed the match as Bandido being the younger wrestler, but Volador the more deliberate and ruthless competitor. We saw that play out as Volador attempted to go dive for dive with Bandido but fell behind. He would use counters and more aggressive offense to keep the champion down, and traded in dives for headscissors to the floor. Volador also scored big by countering Bandido’s Frankensteiner off of the barricades by beating him to the punch and pulling it off himself. Even by following up with a frog splash in the ring, it was still not enough for Volador to keep the champion down. The big offense kept coming, with the nearfalls getting closer each time, including a spike reverse Frankensteiner from Volador. Volador had previously evaded the 21 Plex, but after the X-knee, Bandido pulled it off for yet another close nearfall. Even with a tight cover, Volador’s Mexican Destroyer couldn’t do the trick. After fighting on the top turnbuckle, Bandido brought down Volador with an inverted moonsault driver, and pulled off a second 21 Plex to score the pin and enter double digit successful defenses at 21:15. Another hot, action packed title defense for Bandido in Arena Mexico. I didn’t see the first match he had with Volador Jr., so I can’t compare the two, but I think when compared to his last Arena Mexico defense, which was against Hechicero, this was just as good. The story being told by commentary helped me appreciate the “why” of each competitor’s offense more. While Volador is still a tremendous competitor, Bandido went the extra mile to retain his title. ****

ROH World Television Championship
AR Fox vs. Dezmond Xavier
ROH on HonorClub #168 – Jacksonville, FL – 5.28.2026

AR Fox has been champion since 5.14.2026 and this is his third defense. Seeing the competitors in this match, I was surprised by how much actual wrestling we got to start. Fox looked to pick up the momentum once Xavier bested him in an exchange, and it led to Xavier suicide diving onto Fox and Fox’s back taking significant damage. Xavier wore out Fox’s chest with kicks on the ground, even giving an apology on the last one, before taking him back into the ring and landing a slingshot senton. He continued to attack Fox’s back and mid-section until Fox cut him off with an enzuigiri. Xavier withstood a barrage of elbows in the corner and an Ace Crusher and was able to cut off the Fox Catcher. He attacked Fox’s neck and had him set up for a running Meteora. Fox evaded and DDT’d twice before delivering a twisting neckbreaker. Xavier lost his balance when he went to the top turnbuckle, and it put himself in perfect position for Lo Mein Rain. After hitting it, the Fox Catcher and 450 splash earned Fox the pin at 12:28. This was a well wrestled match marred by a wonky ending. Nobody went full bore, which I think is fine for a “TV” title match, but you just know these two are capable of producing something much better. ***

ROH Women’s World Pure Championship
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Viva Van
ROH on YouTube Special #8 – Huntsville, AL – 6.9.2026

Deonna Purrazzo has been champion since 12.5.2025 and this is her fourth defense. The Pure Rules can be found here. Chris Hero, Jerry Lynn, and Dean Malenko are the judges for this bout. Deonna has defeated Van twice in Pure Rules matches en route to winning the tournament to crown the first champion, which she won. Despite this, defeating Rachel Ellering in a Pure Rules match a couple of weeks prior was enough to get Van a title shot. After using her first rope break to escape a Fujiwara armbar, Van knocked down Purrazzo with a spinwheel kick and targeted her attack on Purrazzo’s left knee. The pain becomes so much that Purrazzo has to use a rope break to escape a Stretch Muffler. After a double pump kick reset the match, Purrazzo once again went after Van’s left arm. Purrazzo fought out of a Japanese Ocean Cyclone suplex and powerbombed Van into the Venus de Milo submission, resulting in Van submitting at 8:42. It’s nice that Purrazzo gave Van enough to look like she had progressed from their previous bouts, including a rare instance of the champion utilizing a rope break. It was a solid match where the result was never in doubt, as a lot of these title matches are. As a quick aside, I’ve begun watching ROH in its entirety again, and since doing so, I have noticed that the spot where the wrestlers hit stereo double pump kicks to reset the match is utilized a lot. Whatever agent or agent loves that, it’s time to switch it up. **½

ROH World Television Championship
AR Fox vs. Ace Austin vs. Angelico vs. Sammy Guevara
ROH on YouTube Special #8 – Huntsville, AL – 6.9.2026

AR Fox has been champion since 5.14.2026 and this is his fourth defense. This is Austin’s first shot at the title, Angelico’s first shot since January 2024, and Guevara’s first shot in nearly a year (which was also in a four way with AR Fox.) Guevara is of course also one-half of the ROH tag champions. Fox set the tone with a crossbody onto everybody to start the bout. The crowd dislikes Guevara attacking Austin and Angelico on the floor, but really liked it when Fox took him out. Guevara once again ruled the roost inside of the ring, and gloated to the crowd whilst doing so. Austin had an impressive showing of strength, taking down Guevara and Angelico at the same time with a double Samoan Drop, and squatting them both in the process. When Dralistico interfered on Guevara’s behalf, taking out Austin with a superkick, Lio Rush made his presence felt by taking him out and chasing Guevara out of the match through the crowd. This left Fox and Angelico, and as they exchanged holds, Fox cradled Angelico for the pin at 10:21, with Austin just a moment too late to break up the pin. This was mostly Guevara being a prick with dudes flying around him. People were most excited when Lio Rush showed up. Inoffensive but unimportant. **¾

ROH Women’s World Television Championship
Red Velvet vs. Hyena Hera
ROH on YouTube Special #9 – Huntsville, AL – 6.16.2026

Red Velvet has been champion since 12.5.2025 and this is her fifth defense. Hera only has one other ROH match, a loss to Diamante in March, so how she earned a title match is beyond me. She was dominant in this match yet unconvincing. The crowd was deadly silent when she was on offense, outside of a Gory Special into the turnbuckles. Velvet countered a regular Gory Special into a small package and then pinned her with Stir It Up at 5:14. An ugly watch. *

ROH World Television Championship
AR Fox vs. Tony Nese
ROH on YouTube Special #9 – Portland, ME – 6.16.2026 7:59

AR Fox has been champion since 5.14.2026 and this is his fifth defense. “Smart” Mark Sterling is in Nese’s corner. The last time Nese challenged for this title, he lost to Samoa Joe in under 90 seconds. These two met twice in singles action in EVOLVE (EVOLVE 18 and EVOLVE 23), and roughly three years ago in ROH. Fox won all three of those bouts. Nese halted Fox’s onslaught by rolling to the floor to avoid an Ace Crusher. While that was successful, Fox got the better of Nese on the floor with a somersault senton off of the barricades. A distraction from Sterling however, gave Nese extra time to recover and come back with a gutbuster. Fox would quickly take back over by catching Nese in the ropes with a DDT. An Ace Crusher and Air Fox only get him a two count on the Premier Athlete. Although Fox evaded an inside out moonsault, Nese cut him off with the Big Fat Kill for another two count. Fox used the ropes to stop the pin from that, and then dug deep to get his shoulder up after taking a reverse piledriver. Sterling’s attempt to interfere backfires, as Fox wiped him out with a spicy dropkick before rolling Nese into a twisting brainbuster. A 450 Splash gets Fox the pin at 7:59. A hot crowd and fast paced action made for a very good time. They even gave us a little story with Nese wearing down Fox’s mid-section, but that did not make his 450 Splash any less effective. A fun match to end this YouTube special. ***

Action Andretti attacks Fox after the match and holds the TV title in his hand. Lio Rush’s music plays and he sneaks out from under the ring. He looks at his “Cru” shirt, which was his and Andretti’s team, before startling Andretti by creepily uttering “it’s fine.” Rush ducks Andretti’s attack and Andretti bails before Rush can retaliate. Rush again utters “it’s fine” and “no no no” as Andretti looks on from the entrance way and Fox looks at Rush from the corner, ending the episode. I don’t know if anyone subscribed to Honor Club to see their title match after this segment, but Lio’s character has definitely got him over.

I very much appreciate Fox packing a ton of defenses in such a short period of time, but truthfully, I think the Bandido title defense is the only match I’d give a strong recommendation from this period. If you do want to watch a Fox title defense, make it either the one against Shane Taylor or Tony Nese.