An Honorable Mention W/ Shane & Jeff

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 got started, there was plenty to discuss about the impending departure of Eddie Edwards, the nothing that was going on for Roderick Strong, the whole Outlaw Inc tenure, and just how good ACH versus Kevin Steen turned out to be!It’s CHARM CITY CHALLENGE on this week’s AN HONORABLE MENTION, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com/in

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 future Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness as he and current ROH Pure Champ John Walters threw down an absolute classic. CM Punk, Austin Aries, and of course the other stars of the era were prevalent. Was Mick Foley going to join the Embassy in his ROH Debut? Does anyone have the endurance to survive ULTIMATE ENDURANCE? Find out, only on Glory By Honor III from Elizabeth, New Jersey on Episode 187 of An Honorable Mention with Jeff Schwartz (MrJeffSchwartz0) & co-pilot Shane Hagadorn (HagadornShane)!Matches:Jimmy

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 defend their Ring of Honor Tag Titles against the "contenders" Nigel McGuinness & Chad Collyer. This is a show that goes down in the history books as even Abyss makes a cameo representing the Embassy in Six Man Tag Action where high stakes exist for Matt Sydal where if his team with Aries and Strong win, he's into Generation Next. The historical Montgomery County Fairgrounds Coliseum hosts Redemption on this week's show with Jeff Schwartz (MrJeffSchwartz0) & his co-pilot Shane Hagadorn (HagadornShane)!Dark M

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 into wrestling.The boys discuss giving back to wrestling because wrestling has given them so much. In addition to CM Punk, there is talk of Adam Cole's Bullet Club reveal and fun interactions with Mick Foley and the Midwest gang. This is Zach Johnson's Honorable Journey on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https:

Presented by Draft Kings! Promo Code: HonorableRing 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 of Honor III in Orlando. Joining @mrjeffschwartz0 this week, Jon talks about his UK crew, how he was able to network a trip to the states for the first time with other ROH diehards and continue that tradition up for a decade. A staple of Wrestlemania weekend, Jon Sahir has seen it all in ROH. We discuss how the product changed year to year and how each city became the destination to see friends of all types. We also dive into international shipping, ROH venturing to the UK over the years, and why someone like N

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 Dragon Bryan Danielson.We'll talk the wrestling, the horrible building, the heat, and how the show ending was a wonderful story for the fans of old ROH. We also talk about what happens when you don't have your head in the match directly from that man's head, our own Shane Hagadorn. We resume a little sense of normal show for this week on An Honorable Mention!This is Fueling the Fire on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!0-0-0-0

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 JourneyJacob discusses how different things were growing up in Toronto when it came to ordering DVD's, attending shows, and how ROH help him grow his social circle, along with growing his professional wrestling love. We also talk about some of Jacob's favorite shows in ROH, his travels to Japan and Mexico, P DUB G, and of course our dear late friend Mark Hitchcock, whose legacy lives on forever through Highspots Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show at WrestleCon every year since 2018 (Covid aside, GET YOUR VACCINE!). THE KING of Wrestle Twitter, Mr. Jacob Cohen (@MRJacobCohen) joins An Honorable Men

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 shows, shared drinks, stories, and very similar "Jewish Guilt Stories." This week, Tree joins Jeff as Hagadorn is still out on official business, for an emotional roller coaster of a show. There's talk of shocking deaths for beloved friends like the late Paul Kurtzman and the fallout from his passing as well as a shared bond Tree and Larry Sweeney shared. We'll hear about how the Necro Butcher saved our lives as far as we can remember and how Texas tow truck drivers don't enjoy being chased.Stories of Jack Evans f

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 about their 17 year friendship, why ROH unified so many in a divided world, how he managed to have four kids, a wife, and a job but still travel to shows, and find time to be happy & healthy. Tom shares stories of travel that was also within his own family with his late father and brother Andy alongside the legendary Evander Beatty. Tom Bobo also dishes out some advice on how to interact with the wrestlers themselves, while sharing stories of Paul London, The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels, Prince Nana, & The

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, wonderful friends, and what it used to be like as an ROH fan in the early years, listeners will hear what life was like before social media, the height of message boards, and just how he became part of the Ring of Honor family dating all the way back to the Murphy Rec. There is no better person to take in a show with than our friend Matty B. This is Matty B's Honorable Journey on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts! For infor

You voted, and by a margin unseen since our last poll a decisive winner was chosen. This winner hails from North of the Border, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010's Death Before Dishonor 8 from June 19, 2010! As Ring of Honor sits in the summer of 2010, their tentpole Summer event Death Before Dishonor is stacked with the ROH World Title on top with controversial champion Tyler Black facing challenger and fan favorite, for now Davey Richards in an all time classic. The ROH World Title is not the only belt on the line as ROH delivers a match Jeff refers to as the best tag team match in Ring of Honor history with Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli managed by Shane Hagadorn, AKA The Kings of Wrestling defending against Jay & Mark Briscoe in a NO DQ Match. Oh. and Kevin Steen and El Generico bring a different type of violence that couldn't wait for its allocated slot on the show. But wait, there's more as Kenny Omega goes to battle with ROH stalwart The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels in yet another brillia

Still in 2007 for ROH’s return to Edison, NJ and night two of our little tournament to be THE TOP!8 wrestlers are left competing for that vague notion of being THE TOP even though, reminder, two of the guys in the tournament already have title matches on the books for shows in August, but everyone remaining has a believable shot at this bad boy. Plus there’s a wild and wacky multi-man tag, and no FIP title to be concerned with this time!It’s RACE TO THE TOP TOURNAMENT NIGHT 2 on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2389364.#12LargeForever-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-Race To The Top Tournament - Night 27/28/07Deer Park, New York, USADeer Park Community CenterDark Four Corners MatchSara Del Rey vs. Daizee Haze vs. Alicia vs. Portia PerezDar

Let’s journey back to 2007 and ROH’s debut in a new Long Island area venue! Sports Plus has closed, off to Deer Park and a small Community Center too small for ROH’s usual set-up, and a tournament for…...a trophy!16 wrestlers are competing for some nebulous idea of being THE TOP, two of the guys in the tournament already have title matches on the books for future shows, and some are clearly no chance in hell entrants. Still, wrestling fans love a tournament so here...we...go!It’s RACE TO THE TOP TOURNAMENT NIGHT 1 on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2389364.#12LargeForever-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-Race To The Top Tournament - Tag 17/27/07Deer Park, New York, USADeer Park Community CenterDark Tag Team MatchAlex Payne & Shane Hag

This week’s event comes to you courtesy of Patreon patron, friend of show, and one-half of THE MARVELISTS podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marvelists/id1334479206) Peter Melnick!We return to 2012 and NYC where Ring of Honor is celebrating its 10th birthday with a terrible subtitle, two championship matches, returns for a couple ROH originals of which one is sadly never seen in ROH again, and a main event that is certainly polarizing.Jeff and Shane discuss going 40 minutes in the main event, how Jeff would’ve changed things up, and how much Hagadorn hates his ideas! There’s talk of Kevin Steen and Davey Richards, Cornette and bananas, somehow there’s Attitude Era convo, and as per usual, very, little love for WGTT.It’s the 10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT on this week’s AHM, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts!For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com

He is a riddle wrapped in an enigma. He is a man who has competed for CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA, EVOLVE, CZW, WXW, FIP, IWA:MS, TNA, HOG, as well as countless other wrestling promotions during his near 20 year career. For our purposes here, he was a member of the ROH roster from 2007-2008 and a member of The Vulture Squad alongside Jack Evans, Ruckus, Julius Smokes, and even Mercedes Martinez!He is Jigsaw, and he is our special guest once more on this week’s edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION! In part two, we discuss BLKOUT and that missed opportunity as well as the ending of Jig’s ROH career in rather quiet fashion. We also discuss how he came to redonning the mask, finding the love for wrestling once more, and just who helped him rediscover that passion.Of course the brief return to ROH alongside Hallowicked had to be talked about, and just what it felt like coming back to the atmosphere four years later. There’s a bit more CHIKARA talk, a great Brodie Lee tale, and plenty more in chapter two of our conversatio

He is a riddle wrapped in an enigma. He is a man who has competed for CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA, EVOLVE, CZW, WXW, FIP, IWA:MS, TNA, HOG, as well as countless other wrestling promotions during his near 20 year career. For our purposes here, he was a member of the ROH roster from 2007-2008 and a member of The Vulture Squad alongside Jack Evans, Ruckus, Julius Smokes, and even Mercedes Martinez!He is Jigsaw, and he is our special guest on this week’s edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION! We talk about Jigsaw's beginnings in pro wrestling, how he ended up in ROH, and the evolution of his relationship with booker Gabe Sapolosky through the years. Jig opens up about losing the mask and how that came to pass, how things never quite worked for The VS, and who on the ROH roster helped him hone the craft.There is some CHIKARA talk, some FIP talk, reflections on Larry Sweeney, and this is just part one of a conversation that will continue next week! It’s a conversation with Jigsaw on this week’s AHM, brought to you by OPTION

An absolute landslide winner in the poll this week, we travel to the first major event under the SBG banner, and an iPPV event no less! It marked the first year of BEST IN THE WORLD as an ROH tentpole event, and was quite a memorable way to launch into this new era!A World Title bout between two friends as hard-hitting as any match in ROH’s history, a truly memorable segment that marked this venue as the HammerSTEEN Ballroom, a 40 minute tag team clash between the four top duos, a musical entrance, the beginning of Jay Lethal’s long road to the top, and more!It’s BEST IN THE WORLD 2011 on this week’s edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION, brought to you by OPTIONSTRADEKING.COM, PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts! Go to OptionsTradeKing.com for a FREE Trial of the #1 Stock & Options Trading Community and tell them AHM and The Creative Control Network sent you!For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit http

8 years ago, ROH made its debut at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus at the height of the SCUM angle. To be frank, the heights were not very high and that is just part of what is discussed on this week’s episode.Shane wasn’t on the road anymore by this point, and just a few months removed from the unemployment line, but still has plenty of thoughts on this one here. It’s got Jay Briscoe and Eddie Edwards, Jeff finding a new love for QT Marshall, Cedric Alexander having what SHOULD have been a game changing match with Davey Richards, and unfortunately, a lot of downsides to the viewing experience. It’s LIVE AND LET DIE on this week’s edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts! For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2389364. #12LargeForever-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-L

It’s the most anticipated show in AHM history: the night Shane Hagadorn won the Top Of The Class Trophy! Actually, it’s not the most anticipated, but it’s close, and it does feature the ROH debut of Davey Richards, the main show debut of Sara Del Rey, and the beginning of SHINGO’s excursion! Pretty historic we think.It’s also another chapter in the Homicide saga of 2006, the further adventures of Bryan Danielson ROH World Champion, and the Briscoes facing off with Generation Next! It’s DESTINY on this week’s edition of AN HONORABLE MENTION, brought to you by PATREON.COM/ANHONORABLEPOD, and presented on the CREATIVE CONTROL NETWORK family of podcasts! For information on how to help support the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, visit https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2389364. #12LargeForever-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-Destiny06.03.2006East Windsor, Connecticut, USADark MatchAllison Danger vs. LaceySingles MatchJimmy Rave (w/Prince Nana) vs. Da

He has no doubt called more pay-per-view events by himself than any announcer in pro wrestling history. He has the distinction of being the only man in WWE history to do the same for an event broadcast under their banner. He was one of the definitive voices of Ring of Honor, alongside Dave Prazak, during crucial years from 2005-2009 and got to experience so much history as a result.He is the one and only Lenny Leonard, and he is our guest this week on AN HONORABLE MENTION! From the most random of Full Impact Pro discussions, to talks of calling Match of The Year candidates from a couch in Florida and the wild process of producing ROH DVD’s while working a full-time job, this conversation covers a wide-range. There’s some talk of Dragon Gate USA, some Bloodsport and GCW Spring Break, calling an event on the WWE Network, Joe vs. Kobashi, the Dragon Gate Six Man, and what made the Prazak/Leonard duo special.And of course, we talk about the ongoing Women Division Wednesday for ROH’s YouTube channel as well as tho