The 2023 Death Before Dishonor was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).

In the final match of the night, which was promoted as part of a double main event, Athena defeated Willow Nightingale to retain the ROH Women's World Championship.

In the other main event, which was the penultimate match, Claudio Castagnoli defeated Pac to retain the ROH World Championship.

In other prominent matches, The Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds and John Silver) won a Fight Without Honor against Stu Grayson and The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch), Katsuyori Shibata defeated Daniel Garcia in a Pure Wrestling Rules match to retain the ROH Pure Championship, Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) defeated The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fénix and Penta El Zero Miedo), The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) and Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta) in a four-way tag team match to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship, and in the opening contest, Gravity defeated Komander.

On the June 2, 2023, episode of AEW Rampage, it was announced that Death Before Dishonor would take place on July 21, 2023, at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, and would air on pay-per-view.

[7] Storylines were produced on ROH's weekly streaming series on their Honor Club service, as well as the programming of sister promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW); including weekly television series Dynamite, Rampage and Collision, and via promotional videos on both the ROH and AEW YouTube channels and social media platforms.

On July 5, during the second night of NJPW Independence Day, Eddie Kingston defeated Kenta to win the Strong Openweight Championship.

[8] Right after winning the title, Kingston challenged Mark Briscoe to step up and go after the ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli – someone Kingston personally despises – at Death Before Dishonor, believing that the fans need Mark to become the world champion just as his late brother Jay Briscoe had been.

On the July 7 episode of ROH Honor Club TV, the match between Briscoe and Castagnoli for the title at Death Before Dishonor was confirmed.

[9] However, on July 13, Tony Khan announced on Twitter that Briscoe suffered a serious knee injury that will likely require surgery, thus removing him from the event.

[13] On that episode, Dalton Castle and Shane Taylor advanced to the finals after defeating Tony Nese and Shawn Dean, respectively.

[16] On the June 1 episode of Rampage, after Katsuyori Shibata successfully defended the ROH Pure Championship, he was later confronted by former champion Daniel Garcia, who expressed his intentions of regaining the title.

[17] On July 16, ROH officially announced that Shibata will defend the Pure Championship against Garcia at Death Before Dishonor.

On July 20, ROH announced that The Dark Order and The Righteous will face off in a Fight Without Honor in Death Before Dishonor.

In the opener, Josh Woods (with Ari Daivari, Tony Nese, and Mark Sterling) faced Tracy Williams in a Pure Wrestling Rules match.

Woods then delivered a German suplex on the apron and locked in a guillotine choke on the ropes, forcing Williams to submit.

Stokely Hathaway then came down from the commentary table do distract the referee, allowing Joe to perform a low blow and the Coquina Clutch to retain the title.

In the next bout, The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fénix and Penta El Zero Miedo) (with Alex Abrahantes) defended the ROH World Tag Team Championship against Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) (with Maria Kanellis-Bennett), and Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis).

Best Friends then delivered the assisted Strong Zero on Bennett, but The Lucha Brothers pulled the referee out of the ring to stop the pinfall attempt.

Next, Mogul Embassy (Toa Liona, Bishop Kaun, and Brian Cage) (with Prince Nana) defended the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship against Leon Ruffin and Six or Nine (Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato).

The next match was a Fight Without Honor contested between The Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds, and John Silver) and Stu Grayson and The Righteous (Vincent and Dutch).

In the penultimate match and the first of the double main event, Claudio Castagnoli defended the ROH World Championship against Pac.

As Pac was attempting to take off the turnbuckle pad, Wheeler Yuta came down to the ring and stopped him, allowing Claudio to deliver an uppercut and the Ricola Bomb for the win.