Death Before Dishonor XVIII


Death Before Dishonor XVIII was a professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by Ring of Honor. It was the eighteenth event in the Death Before Dishonor chronology. It took place on September 12, 2021. The show was originally supposed to emanate from the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, Florida, but due to a surge of COVID-19 in Florida at the time, the location was changed to the 2300 Arena at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It marked the last time Death Before Dishonor had Roman numerals in its name.

Production

Background

At Best in the World, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would return to pay-per-view in the month of September, with the ROH website confirming the date as September 12.

Storylines

The event featured professional wrestling matches, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
A key feature of the event was the finals of the ROH Women's World Championship tournament. The tournament was announced by ROH Board of Directors member Maria Kanellis-Bennett at the ROH 19th Anniversary Show, while the brackets and title belt were revealed at Best in the World, where former ROH ring announcer Lenny Leonard was revealed as the special commentator for the tournament in the coming weeks. The tournament began on the July 31 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling. On the September 4 episode, Miranda Alize and Rok-C defeated Trish Adora and Angelina Love, respectively, to move onto the finals at Death Before Dishonor.
On the August 10 episode of ROH Week By Week, it was announced that top ROH Pure Championship contender Josh Woods would challenge for the title at Death Before Dishonor. At Glory By Honor, Pure Champion Jonathan Gresham defeated fellow Foundation teammate Rhett Titus, and will now face Woods at Death Before Dishonor.
At Glory By Honor Night 1, Demonic Flamita won a Six Man Mayhem match featuring P. J. Black, Danhausen, Mike Bennett, Eli Isom, and Dak Draper to earn a spot on the ROH World Championship rankings. Later on, his old tag team partner Bandido made his first successful defense of the ROH World Championship against Flip Gordon. After the match, top contenders Flamita, Brody King and EC3 would confront Bandido, before the four got into a brawl. On Night 2, Quinn McKay announced that Bandido will defend the world title at Death Before Dishonor in a Four-Way Elimination match against King, EC3, and Flamita.
Also on Glory By Honor Night 2, McKay announced that two mystery free agents will be in singles competition against each other at Death Before Dishonor. On September 3, it was revealed that former WWE wrestlers Jake Atlas and Taylor Rust were the aforementioned competitors.
Homicide, Chris Dickinson, and Tony Deppen of Violence Unlimited challenged any pure wrestlers past, present, and future to a six-man tag team match at the event. On the August 31 edition of Week By Week, former ROH Pure Champion John Walters, ROH top prospect LSG, and independent wrestler Lee Moriarty answered the challenge.
For weeks, Dalton Castle has been attempting to improve the showmanship of Ring of Honor Wrestling, and started by attempting to recruit young wrestlers Dak Draper and Eli Isom as his proteges. After sitting ringside for their matches with each other, and a failed bid at the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship at Best in the World, the three men had a three-way match on July 24. There, Draper pinned Isom after Castle threw a chair into Isom's head. On the August 31 Week By Week, it was announced that Isom and Castle will face off at Death Before Dishonor.

Results

Honor Rumble entrants

DrawEntrantOrderEliminated byTimeEliminations
Brian Johnson13Flip Gordon28:473
Brian Milonas2Caprice Coleman7:040
Beer City Bruiser1Caprice Coleman6:290
Danhausen5Brian Johnson18:020
Caprice Coleman3Brian Johnson7:142
Sledge4Dak Draper15:180
PCO6Himself28:471
P. J. Black15Alex Zayne32:070
Dak Draper10Alex Zayne25:213
Silas Young7Flip Gordon19:560
Rey Horus12Brian Johnson28:471
Dante Caballero8Dak Draper23:320
Flip Gordon14Alex Zayne28:472
Joe Keys9Dak Draper23:500
World Famous CB11Rey Horus26:150
'Alex Zayne'32:073