ROH World Championship
At that show, Joe turned the title into the ROH World Championship when he defended it against The Zebra Kid.Since then the title has been defended in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico, Japan, Ireland, Italy, and Spain.[4] The match was contested under pure wrestling rules, with the stipulation that both championships could be lost by disqualification or count out.[5] On July 3, 2013, the ROH World Championship has declared vacant for the first time since its inception, when ROH Match Maker Nigel McGuinness stripped then-champion Jay Briscoe of the title after he was sidelined with a storyline injury and would be unable to compete for the foreseeable future.[12][13][14] On January 20, 2022, it was announced that Bandido and Gresham would face each other in a championship unification match at Supercard of Honor XV, the first ROH event after the hiatus.The side plates are circular with the Ring of Honor logo on the top and an engraved figure of a wrestler performing the "Jay Driller" finisher, paying tribute to former ROH World Champion and Hall of Famer, Jay Briscoe, who died in a car accident in January 2023.He defeated Mark Briscoe in a Ladder War on October 23, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah on AEW Dynamite.