Nigel McGuinness: I Would Go Quietly Into The Night If I Can’t Defeat Lee Moriarty For ROH Pure Championship

Nigel McGuinness wants to raise the stakes as high as possible when it comes to his potentially last matches in the world of professional wrestling.

It was last December in 2025 where Lee Moriarty had to prepare for the legendary Nigel McGuinness in an Iron Man, which would be won with Moriarty picking up one of the biggest wins of his career to continue his dominant reign as champion in a big rematch.

Coming up on May 15, McGuinness has the opportunity to battle Josh Woods at ROH Supercard Of Honor, another former opponent of Moriarty and the chance to fight the champion is on the other side of a huge win, one that McGuiness spoke with Justin Dhillon of The Wrestling Classic about and how it could lead to a Title vs. Career against Moriarty in a last chance situation.

“He (Josh Woods) was going on a run. He’s put a lot of big names down. He’s faced Lee Moriarty a couple of times, and I just felt like I was probably the missing piece to his puzzle. If he’s gonna challenge Lee for that Pure Title again, then he probably needs to beat me to be able to do it because if he can’t beat me, I don’t think he’s got a chance against Lee for that matter and then if he can’t beat Lee, as I said in the interview, I would (be) more than willing to take one more, one last shot at Lee for the Pure Title and if I don’t win it this time, I will go quietly into the night.”

McGuiness last match he competed in was last December on an episode of ROH on HonorClub when he defeated Wheeler Yuta of the Death Riders.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.