Kyle Fletcher will defend his ROH TV Title next week.
The former Aussie Open member will face Dalton Castle in a title defense on next week’s Ring of Honor on Honor Club. Castle has been attempting to regain the belt since losing it in 2021, after dropping the belt to Rhett Titus.
Fletcher has held the ROH TV Title since December last year, following Samoa Joe vacating the belt. He is currently a member of the Don Callis Family, and appears regularly on both AEW and ROH TV shows.
The match was announced of Twitter, and is the first bout announced for this week’s episode of Ring of Honor.
The ROH Twitter account wrote:
“NEXT WEEK on #ROH TV, the #ROH World TV Title will be on the line as the challenger & former champion @theDALTONcastle takes on the champ @kylefletcherpro!”
Ian Riccaboni: ROH Are Looking For More Established Talent
Ian Riccaboni thinks there is a major difference between ROH and NXT.
The commentator spoke with Lehigh Valley News recently. He was asked how ROH compares to NXT, in their relationship with AEW. He noted that the two companies were different, as Ring of Honor were looking for more established wrestlers for their promotion.
“With due respect to NXT, I think we’re looking for different athletes. We are looking for more experienced athletes. They in the recent past have started to start from scratch, where in the past NXT would take at the time he was Kevin Steen in Ring of Honor, he was the world champ. And then they took him and he’s Kevin Owens. Sort of in previous schools of thought they would take some of the top ROH talent and put them through NXT get them ready, and then have them on Raw or Smackdown. I think right now the folks on ROH are intentionally a little bit more well-developed, more experienced.”
Ian Riccaboni mentions Willow Nightingale as one of the success stories of ROH, before adding:
“And so I think ROH serves a lot of great purposes. I think we’re looking for folks that are a little bit more established. I think we’re looking for folks that don’t need to be molded that are more experienced professional wrestlers. So I think it’s more maybe what NXT used to be. I think right now, they’re looking for just athletes. It’s just two different approaches.”
