Within the hustle and bustle of the recent wrestling news cycle, ROH announced an exciting collaboration with one other wrestling promotion on social media. Early Thursday evening, AEW and ROH CEO Tony Khan and ROH Women’s World Champion Athena appeared on the promotion’s weekly streaming show to announce their collaboration with Metroplex Wrestling: Global Wars.
Per Khan, the ESports Arena in Arlington, Texas, might be home to Global Wars, a pre-taped special event between ROH and Metroplex Wrestling, which is ran by Athena. Global Wars might be filmed on Saturday, January 24, and might be released for streaming on Honor Club the next Thursday, January 29. This event marks ROH’s first-ever collaboration with an outdoor promotion of any sort.
Big news is coming Thursday, Jan twenty ninth as #ROH President @TonyKhan and #ROH Women’s World Champion @AthenaPalmer_FG make it official!
For the primary time ever, #ROH joins forces with @MPXWrestling for ROH x Metroplex Wrestling GLOBAL WARS! pic.twitter.com/no8XZ4IlUb
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) January 16, 2026
“It will be absolutely phenomenal, and [a show] nobody goes to miss. But, when my minions prove that they’re the most effective in the complete world, we’re going to proceed with this, for-ev-er,” Athena promised. “Identical to my championship reign, boss.”
Khan confirmed that Athena might be present at Global Wars, but it surely is unclear whether she is going to take part in the event as an in-ring competitor or if she is going to represent Metroplex Wrestling’s as its boss. As of writing, no matches for Global Wars have been announced.
Metroplex Wrestling is a highly-received independent promotion based in Bedford, Texas. Founded in 2010 by Steven Kirby, Athena and Ernie Pruitt acquired the promotion in 2022, and have been running it since. In line with Cagematch, the promotion appear to run weekly events from the MPX Event Center in Bedford. As of writing, their current world champion is Delynn Cavens. Other titleholders include Tommy Becker, a two-time MPX Addicts Champion, and MPX Women’s Champion, “The Living Dead Girl” Abadon, who was previously featured on AEW programming. The MPX Tag Team Championships are currently held by Dae DeVille and Devon Anello.