Athena goes above and beyond to retain title at Ring of Honor's Supercard of Honor, eyes legendary reign

Athena has been 1 of the astir ascendant champions crossed pro wrestling and that dominance continued connected Friday nighttime astatine Ring of Honor’s Supercard of Honor.

The Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship was up for grabs successful a Survival of the Fittest six-way match. Athena had to outlast Billie Starkz, Maya World, Trish Adora, Yuka Sakazaki and Zayda Steel. Chairs, ladders and different overseas objects would participate the lucifer done the night.

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Athena enters the ringing during the women's pro-wrestling lawsuit Stardom astatine Korakuen Hall successful Tokyo connected Jan. 13, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

While Athena eliminated Steel early, putting down the remainder of her opponents was not an casual task. Athena recovered herself successful a precarious position. Competitors stacked chairs connected apical of each different and Adora made usage of them. She chokeslammed Athena done them during the match.

Sakazaki adjacent tried her champion to support Athena down.

Athena was laid retired connected a table. Instead of going to the apical turnbuckle to deed a splash, Sakazaki springboarded herself disconnected the apical enactment successful the mediate of the ringing and deed the Magical Girl Splash onto Athena and done the table.

Still, Athena was undeterred.

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Athena needed to spell astir 10-feet up onto a ladder. She flipped disconnected it and deed World with the O-Face. She past pinned World, completing the last elimination.

Athena has present eclipsed 1,253 days arsenic the Ring of Honor women’s satellite champion.

She told Fightful earlier successful the week that her extremity was to surpass Bruno Sammartino’s reign arsenic champion. The legendary pro wrestler held the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship for 2,803 days astatine the tallness of his career.

"Hey man, erstwhile we get to Supercard of Honor this week and I bushed the epic Roman Reigns’ past title run, I conscionable privation you to cognize that I’m gonna beryllium truthful petty," she said. "I privation everyone to cognize that we are gonna person the pettiest solemnisation ever. We’re gonna person kittens, greenish pome skittles, whiskey, tequila, you sanction it. … But we are conscionable gonna person a large smorgasbord of a party. We’re gonna person a cookout. It’s gonna beryllium amazing.

"But similar I said before, my extremity is Bruno Sammartino. Seven years, baby, 7 years. But you cognize what, erstwhile you’re ‘forever champion,’ what’s years? What’s years? A batch of radical deliberation that mightiness beryllium getting up of myself. But astatine the extremity of the day, I’ve been champion for over—what is it 1,250 days oregon thing similar that? I don’t spot this anytime soon.

Athena enters the ringing during the women's pro-wrestling lawsuit Stardom astatine Korakuen Hall successful Tokyo connected Jan. 13, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

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"Hell, each these girls that are successful this lucifer deliberation that they’ve learned thing by experiencing Athena, but I’m  ever changing, ever evolving. That’s conscionable the mode I’ve ever been and there’s not gonna beryllium a harder idiosyncratic than me. As I’ve said earlier and I’ll accidental it again, nary antheral tin interaction my reign, nary pistillate tin unrecorded up to my legacy. I americium the everlastingly Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion. It’s astir clip y’all get implicit it."

It’s wide that the "Forever Champion" is focused connected being conscionable that.

Supercard of Honor results

Bandido and Ryusuke Taguchi vie successful a bout during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling 'Best of Super Jr.' astatine Korakuen Hall successful Tokyo connected May 24, 2019. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

• Sammy Guevara def. Action Andretti.
• Rush def. LSG.
• Mina Shirakawa and Queen Aminata def. Janai Kai and Lacey Lane.
• Dezmond Xaver and Myron Reed def. Ariya Daivari and Tony Nese.
• Nigel McGuiness def. Josh Woods.
• Red Velvet def. Viva Van to clasp the Ring of Honor Women’s World TV Championship.
• AR Fox def. Lio Rush to clasp the Ring of Honor World TV Championship.
• Deonna Purrazzo def. Diamante to clasp the Ring of Honor Women’s Pure Championship.
• Lee Moriarty def. Ace Austin to clasp the Ring of Honor Pure Championship.
• Dalton Castle, Truth Magnum, Turbo Floyd def. Carlie Bravo, Shane Taylor and Shawn Dean to triumph the Ring of Honor Six Man Tag Team Championship.
• Mark Davis def. Xelhua to clasp the AEW National Championship.
• Bandido def. Blake Christian to clasp the Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Championship.