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50 free Ring of Honor trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ring of Honor began in 2002 as a small promotion built to sell tapes, and it grew into the place where a generation of wrestlers learned to headline. For years it was the stage for talent that later carried WWE, TNA, New Japan and AEW, which is why its history reads like a list of future world champions. This quiz covers the whole story: the first shows and the wrestlers who built the company, long title reigns and famous rivalries, the rules that made its matches feel different, tag teams and factions, the women's division, changes of ownership, television deals and partnerships with promotions in Japan and Canada. It is written for fans who followed ROH on DVD, on television or on its streaming service, and for anyone who knows the stars from WWE or AEW and wants to test how much of their early careers they remember. The opening questions suit casual viewers; the later ones reward the faithful.
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Q 01Which Jacksonville Jaguars executive announced on live TV in 2022 that he had bought Ring of Honor?
Tony Khan
Tony Khan broke the news on AEW Dynamite and promised to make the promotion's entire video library available to fans.
Q 02Which WWE world champion won the ROH World Championship in 2010 while wrestling as Tyler Black?
Seth Rollins
Seth Rollins already used his stomp finisher in those days, when it was called the Blackout rather than the Curb Stomp.
Q 03Which WWE star won the ROH World Championship in 2012 while wrestling under his real surname, Steen?
Kevin Owens
Kevin Owens was the first Canadian to hold that title. In 2010 he had been forced out of ROH after losing a match that staked his career against a rival's mask.
Q 04Which Chicago wrestler won the ROH world title in 2005, then vowed to take it with him to WWE?
CM Punk
CM Punk even signed his WWE contract on top of the title belt, in a storyline that ROH called the Summer of Punk.
Q 05Which ROH Founding Father, nicknamed the American Dragon, later led WWE's Yes Movement?
Bryan Danielson
Bryan Danielson came to the ROH ring to a 1986 hit by the band Europe, climbing the top turnbuckle to sing the refrain with the crowd.
Q 06Which New York venue did ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling sell out for a joint show in April 2019?
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden had not hosted a wrestling show from outside the McMahon family's companies since 1960. The last tickets were gone within 16 minutes of going on sale.
Q 07Which later NXT and TNA champion held the ROH world title for a record 21 months from March 2003?
Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe made 29 title defences in the United States and Europe during that reign, which lasted 645 days.
Q 08Which Fozzy frontman and former WWE champion first won the ROH World Championship in 2022?
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho styled himself The Ocho during that reign, because it was the eighth world title of his career.
Q 09In which city did Ring of Honor stage its first show, The Era of Honor Begins, in February 2002?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia hosted ten of the promotion's shows in its first year, more than every other city combined.
Q 10Which gesture does ROH's Code of Honor ask wrestlers to exchange before and after every match?
A handshake
A handshake came first among the code's five original laws, which were meant to give ROH matches the feel of Japanese pro wrestling.
Q 11Which son of the American Dream won the ROH World Championship in 2017, a year after leaving WWE?
Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes had never held a world title before that night, and in ROH he wrestled under his first name alone.
Q 12Which Pennsylvania-born future NXT Champion was first to win the ROH world title three times?
Adam Cole
Adam Cole spent eight years in ROH, where he also helped to found the villainous stable known as The Kingdom.
Q 13Which pair of brothers from Delaware won the ROH World Tag Team Championship a record 13 times?
The Briscoes
The Briscoes spent 20 years with the promotion and were the very first inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame in 2022.
Q 21Which annual December show, first held in 2002, is ROH's flagship event, its answer to WrestleMania?
Final Battle
Final Battle ran in New York City every year from 2006 to 2014, and the 2009 edition was the first ROH show to be broadcast live.
Q 22Which ROH event was long staged in the same weekend and metropolitan area as WWE's WrestleMania?
Supercard of Honor
Supercard of Honor began in 2006 near Chicago, where a six-man tag team match was given a rare five-star rating by the Wrestling Observer.
Q 23Which ROH title, retired in 2006 and revived in 2020, allows each wrestler only three rope breaks?
Pure Championship
Q 14Which future WWE Champion and TNA mainstay won ROH tag gold in 2003 with Amazing Red as his partner?
AJ Styles
AJ Styles vanished from ROH a year later, when TNA abruptly pulled all of its contracted wrestlers from the promotion's shows.
Q 15Which legend became ROH's ambassador in 2009, a year after losing to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania?
Ric Flair
Ric Flair's stay ended in court: ROH sued in 2010, claiming he owed more than $40,000 and had missed appearances he was contracted to make.
Q 16Which former WWE Diva joined ROH in 2011 as the villainous valet of her partner, Mike Bennett?
Maria Kanellis
Maria Kanellis later stood beside The Kingdom, one of ROH's leading villain stables, and married Bennett in 2014.
Q 17Which New Japan faction, famous for its Too Sweet hand gesture, did The Young Bucks bring to ROH?
Bullet Club
Bullet Club recruits needed the approval of New Japan's booker, even when they signed up at an ROH show.
Q 18Which 2018 show near Chicago began as a bet that an ROH-style event could never sell 10,000 tickets?
All In
All In sold out in under 30 minutes. The Young Bucks and a fellow ROH star paid for it themselves, with the promotion's official sanction.
Q 19Which Paul Heyman promotion's 2001 collapse cost RF Video its best-selling tapes and inspired ROH?
ECW
ECW tapes had been RF Video's top seller, so owner Rob Feinstein built a new promotion whose shows he could film and sell exclusively.
Q 20Which owner of local TV stations across the United States bought ROH from Cary Silkin in 2011?
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group put a weekly ROH show on its own stations from September 2011, mostly in weekend afternoon or late-night slots.
Pure Championship rules also outlaw closed-fist punches to the face: the first earns a warning and the second a disqualification.
Q 24Which wrestler, later WWE's Kaval, won a 60-minute Iron Man match to become the first ROH Champion?
Low Ki
Low Ki outscored three rivals in that four-way match, and eight years later he won the second season of WWE's NXT.
Q 25Which English wrestler won the ROH World Championship in 2007 and kept it for 545 days?
Nigel McGuinness
Nigel McGuinness wrestled in TNA as Desmond Wolfe, then came back to ROH in 2011 as a commentator and on-screen authority figure.
Q 26Which Generation Next member became the first two-time ROH World Champion in June 2009?
Austin Aries
Austin Aries had first won the title in 2004, when he ended a reign that had lasted 21 months.
Q 27Which wrestler won a 2015 winner-takes-all match to hold ROH's World and Television titles at once?
Jay Lethal
Jay Lethal walked in as Television Champion, and his win also made him the first African American to hold ROH's top title.
Q 28Which Brooklyn wrestler vowed to quit ROH unless he won its world title in 2006, then won it?
Homicide
Homicide made good on the vow on December 23, with eight days to spare, while he was also wrestling for TNA in the Latin American Xchange.
Q 29Which country is home to Claudio Castagnoli, half of ROH's Kings of Wrestling and WWE's Cesaro?
Switzerland
Switzerland shaped his early act too: before ROH he played a Swiss banker in a tag team called Swiss Money Holding.
Q 30Which wrestler, escorted by attendants called The Boys, won the ROH World Championship in 2017?
Dalton Castle
Dalton Castle once wagered The Boys on a match and lost them to a rival, though they were back at his side within months.