ROH Glory by Honor Night 1

• Singles (Silas Young vs. Rey Horus): 4/7. I don't understand the point of having these regular, one-on-one, no special rules matches for no stakes on big shows like this. Just do it on the weekly TV show.
• Six-Man Mayhem (Demonic Flamita vs. Eli Isom vs. Dak Draper vs. PJ Black vs. Mike Bennett vs. Danhausen): 4/7. I really wish they'd explained the rules of this match because I didn't know what was going on. Two people are legal at a time, but there's no teams and no tags, you can just come in any time there aren't two competitors in the ring, and whoever gets in first becomes legal. That much I figured out fairly quickly, but I didn't know if it was first-fall or elimination. And that's pretty important to establishing stakes. As it went on I figured out it was first-fall, but why not just say that at the start? This is not a common match type. Anyway, the rules are weird and I don't think this match type works well at all. But Dalton Castle was very good on commentary, and Danhausen is very fun.
• Tag Team (The Allüre vs. Vita Vonstarr & Max the Impaler): 4/7. Max the Impaler is very cool but this was just another regular match for no stakes.
• Singles (Brian Johnson vs. EC3): 4/7. If they didn't have enough interesting matches for a two-night event, maybe they should have just done one night.
• Singles (Bateman vs. Mark Briscoe): 4/7. This was supposed to be a tag team match, which would have been a little more interesting since the Briscoes are a good team, but Jay Briscoe got covid so it was another disappointing match. Actually, I'm pretty frequently disappointed by Bateman; I keep waiting for him to be as cool as he looks like he should be and he's just not.
• Pure Championship (Rhett Titus vs. Jonathan Gresham): 5/7. Finally something interesting. These two are both members of The Foundation, so that automatically changes the dynamic, and Pure Rules is a neat twist on a standard match. Not as cool as Heritage Rules from NXT UK, but still neat. And the championship on the line, so there are actual stakes! Still, not a particularly great match.
• 8-Person Tag (VLNCE UNLTD vs. La Faccion Ingobernable): 4/7. A lot of faffing about and time-wasting at the start of this one, and too many people in the match. Even the commentators seemed genuinely confused about what was happening at times.
• World Championship (Flip Gordon vs. Bandido): 5/7. I expected this to be a lot faster and more spectacular, tbh. It was ok, but not really main-event worthy, you know?

Overall rating: 4/7. An extremely long and unremarkable show. Nothing terrible, but nothing great either. And there's still another night to go.