Honor VIII, with the winner receiving an IWGP Heavyweight Championship match against champion Kazuchika Okada at the ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds supershow in May. At an ROH Wrestling TV taping, a match between The Briscoe Brothers against Adam Cole and Michael Bennett took place. During the match, Bennett speared Mark Briscoe through a table, resulting in a No Disqualification match between Mark and Bennett being announced for the show. reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to The Young Bucks at Raising the Bar Night 2, now they will face the team of Hanson & Raymond Rowe and The Forever Hooligans in a 3-Way Tag Team match at Supercard of Honor VIII for a title match against The Young Bucks at War of the Worlds. Tommaso Ciampa and Jay Lethal had been feuding on-and-off since 2012, beginning in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match, where Lethal successfully defended his ROH World Television Championship against Ciampa, during which Ciampa sustained a knee injury which took him out of wrestling for a year. Lethal subsequently lost his championship, and at Final Battle, Ciampa had won the title from Matt Taven. Lethal would then challenge Ciampa in a pair of title matches but both times Lethal seemingly had Ciampa pinned, but the referee was distracted, and did not see it. Ciampa and Lethal will now face off in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match for the title at Supercard of Honor VIII. Under the management of Truth Martini, Matt Taven became the longest reigning ROH World Television Champion in history, engaging in a lifestyle of women and partying accompanied by two women named Scarlett and Seleziya (named the Hoopla Hotties). But at Final Battle, Taven lost to Tommaso Ciampa, who was able to capture his championship, Taven then began appearing without The House of Truth, and at Wrestling's Finest in a three-way match between Ciampa, Taven, and Jay Lethal the House of Truth appeared and Martini declared their "Hoopla" lifestyle dead, and that they needed to get serious and fired the Hotties. But Taven then told Martini that he had outgrew him, and during the match Martini pulled the leg of Taven causing him to lose the match. At several other matches of Taven, Martini interfered until Taven choked him, causing the referees to break it up, thus at Supercard of Honor VIII, Matt Taven will face a mystery wrestler