Homicide made a surprising return.
The former ROH World Champion came back with his partner Rocky Romero for a tag team match against QT Marshall and Aaron Solo. It was a nice homecoming for Homicide as he got the win for his team thanks to a big lariat that was followed up with a three count.
Romero and Homicide were a part of the group known as The Rottweilers in the early days of Ring of Honor. The faction also had Low Ki, Ricky Reyes, and Julius Smokes. The group ran roughshod of the promotion from 2003 to 2007, though the last few years their appearances together were sparse.
They never won any titles together, though Homicide and Low Ki did make a pretty cool tag team. Homicide did manage to win the ROH World Championship during this run, but he only kept for 54 days.
This is the first time Homicide has been back in ROH since 2022. The 47-year-old has made an AEW appearance in the past, helping Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston during a Lights Out match against Minoru Suzuki and Lance Archer. The return seems more like a cameo, though Homicide was clearly honored to wrestling in his hometown again.
Outside of AEW, Homicide still wrestles in various promotions. Since his final stint in Impact in 2018, he’s mainly been hopping around different companies, but the former ROH World Champion has stated recently that this is his last run as Homicide has been in the business for over 30 years.
“Well, at first (I started having thoughts about retirement). But, let’s start at like 10 years ago. 10 years ago, my 20-hour thing and I’ve been telling my friends, ‘I’m done man’ but I was really burned out.” Homicide told Piers Austin. “Now, this is my last run. I don’t think when it’s my last match. I just go with the flow. But I feel like this is my last run. My body cannot take it because of all the years I’m wrestling. Like I said, I got a bad neck, my elbow, broken toe, my knee is dislocated. I might have a bruise on my brain that affects my speech so I hate doing promos and I never liked doing promos. I like to be like Dean Malenko, but I really hate doing promos.
I’m going through a stage right now that I think it’s time bro. You’ve been doing so much. I think it’s really that time and mind you, 30 years, no breaks, on a high level. A lot of people say, ‘Well, 30 years, you might take breaks.’ Bro, I’ve been doing every weekend, high levels. If it’s not NWA, it could be New Japan Pro-Wrestling, it could be the travels but the travels really kick you in the butt. I went to PROGRESS in the United Kingdom like a couple of weeks ago and that travel was a pain in the butt. I’m very tired and everything. Come back home, then I do New Japan. I’m lucky they were in Chicago (for Windy City Riot) but, New York City to New Japan is like five hours so maybe less, four or three. But I’m still tired.
Then you want me to do a match, like a Hardcore match and I’m very picky. It’s gotta be somebody who’s smart, who knows what they’re doing. If I get somebody who’s a rookie, who’s got a bad attitude or ego, then things are gonna happen bad. But I’m very cautious where I’m at right now but yeah man, I think it’s that time. I just don’t know when. It could be next week or it could be November. I don’t know but, I think it’s about that time.”
Homicide has stated in the past that he hopes to move into the producer role in the future. It should be fun to see just how long the Brooklyn native wrestles in ROH as there is another taping in Hammerstein Ballroom next week.