Official Non-WWE Discussion Thread (ROH, NJPW, LU)

Apparently ROH is now going to be a developmental territory/promotion for AEW along with giving AEW talent who aren't used on Dynamite or Rampage much TV time.

Interesting to see how this will affect the working relationship between ROH & Impact as Deonna Purrazzo is ROH Women's Champion, Jonathan Gresham has been on Impact & The honor no more invasion of Impact

^^AEW and impact have no working relationship now so there is now way that someone under contract to Impact can hold one of Tony's new belts,
non of the ex ROH staff working on impact are under contract to ROH so i guess they can keep working in Impact but i would think they will have to stop saying ROH on air,
it will be interesting to see how many of the ex ROH talent get a AEW contract i cant see it being that many,

info i can find on the ROH deal
TK payed 30-40 million for it.
All of ROH’s talent was either released when the promotion went on hiatus last year, or their contracts will expire on the 31 March, so he only has a few weeks to resign anyone he wants,
Talents who are booked for April 1’s Supercard of Honor event in Dallas were frustrated management hadn’t told them about ROH’s plans beyond that date,
Acquiring the ROH tape library means Khan now owns the footage from ALL IN the show that gave birth to AEW, hes in talks to start a streaming service so 20 years of ROH helps,
talk of rebranding Dark and Dark Elevation with the Ring of Honor name to shop them for a separate TV deal.
AEW plan to turn ROH into there version of NXT with Main Roster AEW Talent will be dipping into the ROH brand on occasion,

(03-03-2022 15:06 )winsaw Wrote:  ^^AEW and impact have no working relationship now so there is now way that someone under contract to Impact can hold one of Tony's new belts,
non of the ex ROH staff working on impact are under contract to ROH so i guess they can keep working in Impact but i would think they will have to stop saying ROH on air,
it will be interesting to see how many of the ex ROH talent get a AEW contract i cant see it being that many,

Jonathan Gresham was apparently backstage at dynamite last week, but I think he'll sign with Impact as his wife Jordynne Grace is at impact and told me he's really enjoyed working on same promotion as his wife when I met him last month in Manchester at progress

WOW Jon Moxley vs Will Osprey on Apr 16th

https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/15...9229591552

Dem Boys vs FTR is finally happening at Supercard of Honor in 2 weeks' time.

Jonathan Gresham is the new Progress Wrestling champion. He won it yesterday in London. So he's now the ROH Champion & Progress Champion

The card for the first roh show since Tony look over, looks like he's going to use roh to give some of the wrestlers who work on dark more air time, it's a real shame TBS will not let dem boys on there TV channel, interesting that he's not asked impact for the woman's belt back maybe he really is trying to sign Deana

Haven't seen anything about Tony Khan signing Deonna myself. Deonna isn't available for this ROH show as Impact have a show this Friday too called Multiverse Of Matches & Deonna is in action with another Champ Champ challenge so that's why this match has been booked between Mercedes Martinez & Willow Nightingale as Deonna isn't available

Think the winner of this will then take on Deonna at the Impact Rebellion ppv on April 23rd and Deonna will drop the ROH Women's Championship.

Willow was apparently at the last Impact taping in Philadelphia the other week

updated ROH card Tony has thrown in a few surprises

ROH World Championship unification: Jonathan Gresham vs. Bandido

ROH World Tag Team Championship: Briscoes © vs. FTR

ROH Pure Championship: Josh Woods © vs. Wheeler Yuta

ROH World TV Championship: Rhett Titus © vs. Minoru Suzuki

Interim ROH World Women’s Championship: Mercedes Martinez vs. Willow Nightingale

Swerve Strickland vs. Alex Zayne

Jay Lethal vs. Lee Moriarty (with Matt Sydal)

Ninja Mack vs. Tully Blanchard’s client