ROH Glory By Honor XVIII

Glory By Honor XVIII was a two night professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on August 20 and 21, 2021 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and aired exclusively on Honor Club. The event was the first ROH show to be held outside the state of Maryland (where ROH has been producing shows since their September return) since Gateway to Honor in St. Louis on February 20, 2020.
==Production==
===Storylines===
The event featured professional wrestling matches, which involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on ROH's television programs. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Night 1
At ROH Free Enterprise the previous February, Flip Gordon - disguised as Dragon Lee - won a 20-man battle royal to win a future ROH World Championship match. On June 16, it was announced that Gordon will get his match for the title, currently held by Bandido, on night one of Glory By Honor.
Three factions within ROH - La Faccion Ingobernable (LFI), Violence Unlimited (VU), and The Foundation - have been battling with each other since the beginning of 2021 to for supremacy and power within the promotion. During Night 1 of Glory By Honor, LFI and VU will face off in an eight-man tag team match.
Two members of The Foundation - the faction that wants to return ROH to its roots focusing on technical/"pure" wrestling - will wrestle each other on Night 1 for the ROH Pure Championship, with champion Jonathan Gresham defending against teammate Rhett Titus.
Night 2
At ROH's 19th Anniversary Show, Matt Taven and Vincent fought in an unsanctioned match at the Police Athletic League Hall of Fame, which ended in a no contest after Dutch - the newest member of Vincent's Righteous faction - blindsided both men while they sat on the second story guardrail, causing them to crash through tables. After the crash, Dutch carried Vincent out of the venue, to which Vincent would leave on a "spiritual journey" and not be seen in quite some time. On the May 22 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, where Taven and OGK partner Mike Bennett challenged The Foundation's Rhett Titus and Tracy Williams for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, Taven was attacked backstage beforehand and had his ankle injured. The OGK would lose the match as a result. After the match, the titantron displayed The Righteous and a returning Vincent, naming him as Taven's assailant. After many more weeks of torment, Taven looked to settle things once and for all on a live edition of his talk show, "Trending with Taven", on the Best in the World Hour One pre-show, where The Righteous were his guests. There, Taven presented Vincent with a contract for one last match, where Taven was willing to leave ROH no matter the result just to get away from Vincent. However, Vincent swayed Taven away from that stipulation, saying while he doesn't want to end Taven's ROH career, he would like his rematch clause for the ROH World Championship. He even added on the stipulation of a steel cage match. Figuring it was the only way, Taven agreed, and the match was set for night two of Glory By Honor.
Also at Night 2, The Foundation - which has been part of the three-way faction war with LFI and VU throughout all of 2021 - will wrestle VU in an eight-man tag team match.
==Results==
===Friday August 20th===
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*Dark Match: Rok-C and Miranda Alize defeated Chelsea Green and Sumie Sakai 
*Silas Young defeated Rey Horus (7:54)
*Demonic Flamita defeated Eli Isom, Dak Draper, Danhausen, Mike Bennett and PJ Black in a Six-Man Mayhem match for a spot in the ROH World Championship rankings (11:47)
*Vita VonStarr and Max The Impaler defeated The Allure (Angelina Love and Mandy Leon) (6:39)
*EC3 defeated Brian Johnson (12:48)
*Mark Briscoe defeated Bateman (w/ Dutch) (6:19)
*Jonathan Gresham (c) defeated Rhett Titus in a Pure Rules match for the ROH Pure Championship (14:43)
*Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson) vs. La Faccion Ingobernable (Dragon Lee, Kenny King, La Bestia del Ring, and Rush) ended in a no contest (1:48)
*Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson) defeated La Faccion Ingobernable (Dragon Lee, Kenny King, La Bestia del Ring, and Rush) in a Philadelphia Street Fight (15:35)
*Bandido (c) defeated Flip Gordon to retain the ROH World Championship (17:18)
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===Sunday August 21st===
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*Dark Match: Trish Adora defeated Sumie Sakai
*Dalton Castle defeated Danhausen (8:08)
*LSG defeated World Famous CB in a Pure Rules match (7:21)
*Miranda Alize and Rok-C defeated Chelsea Green and Willow (7:45)
*Shane Taylor Promotions (Jasper Kaun, Moses Maddox, and Shane Taylor) (w/ O'Shay Edwards and Ron Hunt) (c) defeated Incoherence (Delirious, Frightmare, and Hallowicked) (w/ UltraMantis Black) to retain the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (13:18)
*Mark Briscoe and Brian Johnson defeated Flip Gordon and Demonic Flamita (11:23)
*The Foundation (Jay Lethal, Jonathan Gresham, Rhett Titus, and Tracy Williams (w/ Jeff Cobb)) defeated Violence Unlimited (Brody King, Tony Deppen, Homicide and Chris Dickinson) (16:05)
*La Faccion Ingobernable (Dragon Lee and Rush) defeated MexiSquad (Bandido and Rey Horus) (13:02)
*Vincent defeated Matt Taven in a Steel cage match for Taven's future ROH World Championship oppurtunity (19:37)
==External links==
* Night 1 Results
* Night 2 Results
Category:2021 events
Category:Ring of Honor events
Category:Glory by Honor