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00:00And fans, last week we saw the Women's World Television Champion Red Velvet successful in the Proving Ground against Ashley Vox.
00:08But her opponent for this week, La Catalina from CMLL, made no bones about it.
00:15Making sure that the Ring of Honor Women's World Television Champion knew that Catalina would be challenging for that Women's ROH World Television title this week here on Honor Club.
00:27And fans, this championship bout is coming up next.
00:32What?
00:34You heard me right.
00:36And we have the voice of Ring of Honor, Bobby Cruz, here tonight for our Women's World Television title bout.
00:43This match is set for one fall with a 30-minute time limit, and it is for the Ring of Honor Women's World Television Championship.
00:53Approaching the ring is the challenger.
00:55Wrestling out of Santiago, Chile, La Catalina.
01:02A little bit of an interesting moment here, Caprice.
01:04La Catalina, who normally is adorned with the mask, has a little bit more frills.
01:11Almost a level of championship seriousness as she walks to the ring here tonight.
01:16That's about to stir it up, Riccoboni.
01:18Her opponent, wrestling from straight out of your mother's kitchen.
01:22She is the Ring of Honor Women's World Television Champion, Red Velvet.
01:30I know what time it is.
01:33Time to stir it up.
01:35The Women's World Television Champion, Red Velvet, who earned that title nearly one year ago.
01:41Rapidly approaching one year as champion.
01:44And has a biggest test to date, in my opinion, standing in front of her.
01:51One of the top stars in CMLL, La Catalina.
01:53I have to agree with you.
01:54And like you said, alluded to earlier, Riccoboni, with the change of appearance in the entrance.
01:59A lot of times with luchadors, when they take matches seriously, they change up something.
02:03They either wear white, or they wear something different to change up the aura of their feeling when they come in championship opportunities.
02:12Aubrey Edwards displaying the title.
02:15Sometimes they go to black.
02:16Yep.
02:18To get a more serious vibe, to help them focus, to lock in.
02:22We've heard that as well.
02:23That's exactly what Catalina seems to see.
02:25She's wearing more black than anything else.
02:29Oh, jeez.
02:30Bells going twice.
02:33Well, there you go.
02:35And the CMLL, it's amazing.
02:36It's amazing how our stars from CMLL in New Japan sometimes, that hear more of the CMLL than some of our more rule-breaking friends.
02:43And speaking of CMLL, AEW heads to CMLL's home, Arena Mexico in Mexico City, for AEW Grand Slam Mexico.
02:49Coming your way.
02:50Live Wednesday, June 18th, it is AEW's first trip to Mexico.
02:57Carnival time, and it was a long time before Christopher Daniels eventually adhered to the CMLL.
03:01The Code of Honor, but it was a gigantic deal as a wrist lock now.
03:06Former World Television champion on the back side, former Grand Slam champion.
03:09Look at that.
03:10Beautiful.
03:10And that's the thing about Catalina.
03:13She's got to have a little bit of fun, too.
03:15She's got to let that spirit come out.
03:17That's important.
03:17Even though she's focused, she's got to let that high energy run because that's part of her game plan.
03:23Absolutely.
03:24And that throws champion off, too.
03:26Red Velvet normally used to having the mind games in play, but Catalina playing with him as well.
03:30Now you see Red Velvet breaking it down, keeping it close, wearing that headlock down.
03:35Right back to the base.
03:36Catalina tried to roll out of it.
03:37Oh, one, two.
03:41Good series of moves there.
03:42Sweeping the leg.
03:43It's Catalina.
03:43Look at that.
03:44Clawing at the leg, so to speak.
03:46Some good wrestling here.
03:47Yes, indeed.
03:48One, two.
03:49Good cradle.
03:52Backslide.
03:53Yes, indeed.
03:54Whoa, two.
03:55A lot of changes from that move right there, Rick Albani.
03:57Great feeling out process here.
04:01Both women, high energy, high octane right now.
04:04Woo!
04:05Oh!
04:07The confidence of Catalina.
04:09Oh, she's got Red Velvet stirring.
04:13The high seat, Rick Albani.
04:15Red Velvet knows it.
04:16The further out it gets in the ropes, the more dangerous it is.
04:19Red Velvet has to do something fast.
04:21Electric chair position.
04:23Aubrey Edwards saying Red Velvet's got to let it go.
04:25Red Velvet, oh, right to the eyes.
04:28To the eyes.
04:28Out of the view of Edwards.
04:30Right out of the weight of the referee's eyes.
04:32Aubrey didn't see a thing.
04:35Oh.
04:38Yes, Red Velvet backing off.
04:39Single leg, ankle pick there.
04:41Off the ropes.
04:42Nice drop down.
04:43These two women have been.
04:44Whoa!
04:45Missed on Rick and called.
04:47Drop kick.
04:50And these two women have been on the opposite side of the largest women's match.
04:54The highest profile women's match CMLL has every year.
04:57CMLL's International Women's Grand Prix.
04:59Torneo Cibernetico.
05:02But they have not met one-on-one.
05:03This is a bit of a dream match here.
05:06Not able to do it.
05:07Catalina on the outside.
05:09Taking a high-risk already.
05:10Pay it off, Wail.
05:14And my apologies.
05:15They were teammates in that bout.
05:17Representing the international team.
05:20Oh, goodness.
05:22Whoa!
05:24Whoa.
05:24Wow!
05:27I didn't know she had with the body.
05:30Normally we see that more whimsical side.
05:36That more collected side.
05:38This is a fire out of La Catalina.
05:41Oh!
05:41Oh!
05:42Oh!
05:44You're not cheering now, are you?
05:45Oh, you heard that.
05:46You're not cheering now, are you?
05:48Red Bell with that instinct.
05:49Bringing it right back in control.
05:51Staying on the outside of the ring.
05:53To be able to inflict more damage.
05:54Maybe on the legs here.
05:55As it right at the ring post.
05:57This is all steel with the body.
05:59All steel!
06:00Oh!
06:01You're such a vanity!
06:03And into that meniscus.
06:06That side of the knee.
06:09Oh, and Aubrey Edwards.
06:10Oh, goodness.
06:11And this is...
06:12I mean, Red Velvet, as long as she's giving the five-second break.
06:16She can do that almost as much as she wants.
06:18Absolutely.
06:19She's definitely within the rules.
06:20And that right there, working that leg, isolating it.
06:24Will slow Catalina down, to say the least.
06:27Oh, look at that ankle.
06:28Look at the way that ankle's moving.
06:30See the way it's bent over the top rope?
06:32Oh!
06:34I not only saw it, I felt that.
06:37That was...
06:39The steel cables in those ropes, Riccobini.
06:41Just like telephone wire.
06:43Oh!
06:44Catalina dropping down into the corner.
06:48From the impact.
06:49As Red Velvet, Irish whip.
06:52Catalina now.
06:53Charging back in.
06:54Gets the knee out of desperation.
06:56Giving up her own knee.
06:57To strike the champion.
07:00Straight desperation.
07:01Hoping it paid off.
07:02Trying to wake that knee back up.
07:05Was it worth the risk for La Diva?
07:09Oh, again, maybe not.
07:11Red Velvet, the first back to her feet.
07:14Red Velvet closing the gap before she went to her feet.
07:17Which says she's definitely trying to stay centered.
07:19In the center of the ring.
07:21With control of Catalina.
07:22Giving it a hard time.
07:23You can see she couldn't quite plant as well as she wanted to.
07:27Leaping on that clothesline.
07:29And when you can't plant as much, recombine is not as much power delivered.
07:32I tell you, all that hip power was straight on.
07:37And gravity with the most powerful force there.
07:40As Catalina.
07:41Beautiful Fisherwoman.
07:42Fingers are locked.
07:43That was two and three fourths.
07:46And I think if that knee was at full strength, the bridge would have been all the way Capri.
07:50So we would have had a new champion.
07:52Without a doubt.
07:53Catalina's not finished.
07:54Attack again.
07:55Oh, but every time she jumps, she gives up that knee.
07:59And she's giving more and more damage to that knee.
08:02Well, that's the risk you take.
08:03Rick Abani.
08:04Oh!
08:05Face buster.
08:08Cover.
08:09Two.
08:12Tell you what, man.
08:13The time she took to nurse that knee.
08:16The time she took not hooking the leg.
08:18I think cost that win there.
08:20And I don't think Red Velvet's going to let any more of that happen.
08:22And if I'm Red Velvet, I'm trying to find a way to end this thing as fast as possible.
08:26Catalina's pulling out all the stops.
08:29And looking for that hip again.
08:30No.
08:31Beautiful drop to hold.
08:32Yes, she's trying for the same thing three times.
08:35Knock of the word, Red Velvet.
08:39Meteora to the defenseless back of La Diva, La Catalina.
08:43And...
08:44Oh!
08:44That's got to be enough.
08:46Stirring it up.
08:47Cover to...
08:48Whoa!
08:51Two count only.
08:52We saw so many people fall to that, Rick Abani.
08:56Certainly had.
08:57The road to the world television title was filled, was strewn with athletes that succumbed to that kick.
09:06Oh!
09:08And this is a high risk for both wrestlers here.
09:11Red Velvet probably looking for a superplex.
09:13But Catalina has a little bit of time.
09:15If she could stay low, center of gravity, before she could fight back, she's doing that.
09:20Yep.
09:21And she had that ankle hooked in that second rope.
09:23Now able to balance herself all the way up top.
09:25Uh-oh.
09:28Whoa!
09:29Shotgun drop kick!
09:30Plants the champion!
09:32But Red Velvet, out of good fortune, landed close to the ropes.
09:36Yeah, Red Velvet staying far away.
09:38Shotgun drop kick, a cross body.
09:40It was what Catalina does.
09:42That cross body probably would have put a lot on the knees.
09:44Shoes that shotgun drop kick.
09:47Electric chair again.
09:48And the crowd feeling it.
09:50That chance for La Catalina.
09:51Electric chair drop!
09:53Can Catalina find the champion?
09:55Second!
09:55Tried it the first time.
09:58Couldn't get it.
09:59Successful this time.
10:00She may be going for that splash up top.
10:02Rick Abani, if she hits this, we get a new champion.
10:06We will have a new Women's World Television champion.
10:09If she can land that signature splash, Red Velvet knows it.
10:12Red Velvet fighting her way back up to her own feet.
10:15Red Velvet bringing the legs back to the inside.
10:19That left knee was so damaged.
10:21Got a staggered stance with Catalina.
10:26She's fighting balance and Red Velvet at the same time.
10:28Yeah, you have to have both inside or both outside.
10:31You can't have one or the other.
10:32Oh, oh, and that knee.
10:35Shut up.
10:40Oh, and Red Velvet has Catalina right where Velvet wants her.
10:45Champion plants the challenger on the superplex.
10:48Oh, my goodness.
10:50Standing dragon screw.
10:52No, she's got it.
10:53Back to that leg.
10:55Right back to it.
10:56Oh, we've seen this before.
10:57Half crab.
10:58Half crab locked in.
11:01Red Velvet going left to right with that knee.
11:04Also, Catalina trying to get to the ropes.
11:07Does indeed get there.
11:10This is the war, Rick Abani.
11:12Catalina giving all she's got to stay in this match.
11:15Red Velvet has put a lot of investment on that leg,
11:18though, going right back to that half crab.
11:20Opposite direction this time.
11:22Going high angle.
11:23Almost live in.
11:24That's it.
11:25That's it.
11:30The winner of this match by submission,
11:32and still,
11:34ring of all the women's world television champion,
11:37Red Velvet.
11:39And Caprice,
11:41I don't know if Red Velvet
11:42needed that rope there,
11:46that rope she grabbed the hold of.
11:48What now?
11:48And that high angle.
11:55She got that great high angle,
11:56putting extra pressure on different parts of the knee.
11:59Clearly.
12:01Focused on defeating Catalina all night.
12:03The game plan was there,
12:05but did she need that assist?
12:09Jeez.
12:10And maybe that's why deep down,
12:12she didn't want to adhere to the code of honor.
12:15Red Velvet retains
12:16her women's world television championship.
12:18And from the tele...
12:20And from the tele...