Angular 1.5.x Component Router Resolve

Question

I have been looking at the Angular 1.5.x ComponentRouter and am trying to find a way to mimic the uiRouter resolve functionality. I have tried $routerOnActivate but it does not block the route from changing. Does anyone have the answer or a good reference to this functionality. In the docs it says "By returning a promise for the list of heroes from $routerOnActivate() we can delay the activation of the Route until the heroes have arrived successfully. This is similar to how a resolve works in ngRoute." but it does not seem to be blocking until the promise returns.