The 2024 Death Before Dishonor was a professional wrestling live streaming event produced by the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It is the 21st Death Before Dishonor event and took place on July 26, 2024, at the Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas, and aired exclusively on Honor Club.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show. In the main event, Mark Briscoe defeated Roderick Strong to retain the ROH World Championship. In other prominent matches, Athena defeated Queen Aminata to retain the ROH Women’s World Championship, Red Velvet defeated Billie Starkz to win the ROH Women's World Television Champion, Leyla Hirsch defeated Diamanté in a Texas Deathmatch, The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) defeated The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly and Tomohiro Ishii) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship, and Atlantis Jr. retained the ROH World Television Championship in a Survival of the Fittest match against Brian Cage, Johnny TV, Lee Johnson, Lio Rush, and Shane Taylor.
Contents
Production
Background
Death Before Dishonor is a professional wrestling event, held annually by American promotion Ring of Honor. The first event was held in 2003, and is traditionally one of ROH's biggest signature events in the calendar year. On the May 16, 2024, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would take place on July 26, 2024, at the Esports Stadium Arlington in Arlington, Texas, and would air on pay-per-view.
Storylines
The event will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray 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 on their Honor Club service, as well as the programming of sister promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW); including weekly television series Dynamite, Rampage and Collision, and via promotional videos on both the ROH and AEW YouTube channels and social media platforms.
Queen Aminata and Red Velvet had been feuding with ROH Women's World Champion Athena and ROH Women's World Television Champion Billie Starkz for the past several months, starting when Starkz defeated Aminata at Supercard of Honor in March to become the inaugural women's TV champion. In the end of their tournament final match, Starkz faked a neck injury that allowed her to win the title. The following week, Athena and Red Velvet had a match for the ROH Women's World Championship at AEW Battle of the Belts X, where Athena was victorious thanks to interference by Starkz. After the match, Athena and Starkz jumped Velvet before Aminata came down for the save. For the next few months, Aminata and Velvet continued to prevent Athena and Starkz from doing more damage to their opponents after their matches, as the latter pair did all they can to avoid defending their titles against the two. Athena even claimed to have an ankle injury that would take her out of action for several months. However, on the July 4 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, Aminata and Velvet confronted Athena and Starkz to announce that they will respectively challenge them for the world and television titles at Death Before Dishonor.
On the July 13 episode of AEW Collision, Roderick Strong defeated Dalton Castle to become the number one contender for the ROH World Championship, earning a match against champion Mark Briscoe at Death Before Dishonor.
Diamanté and Leyla Hirsch had been involved in a heated rivalry over the past month, starting when the latter beat the former in a singles match on the June 20 episode of ROH Honor Club TV. After some back and forth promos between the two, they had a rematch on July 18, this time in a Lights Out match, where Diamanté would defeat Hirsch. With both now at one win over apiece, ROH announced a rubber match between Diamanté and Hirsch at Death Before Dishonor in a Texas Deathmatch.