Kenny King is done with ROH

[Miracle Violence]

So what happened to Kenny in singles when Rhett was hurt? Nothing? Yup.

How do you know they had anything? Nothing written, nothing existed. You gotta turn your blinders off.

It would be pointless to give a singles push to a tag guy whose partner will be back in a couple months.

As for their handshake agreement, I would say the chances of that being made up are slim to none. You can say a verbal contract means nothing, but you're probably just an untrustworthy person.

 

[The Great One]

It would be pointless to give a singles push to a tag guy whose partner will be back in a couple months.

As for their handshake agreement, I would say the chances of that being made up are slim to none. You can say a verbal contract means nothing, but you're probably just an untrustworthy person.

Yeah your totally right give the pushes to such awesome talent like Michael Elgin WHO COMPLETELY fukkING SUCKS AND HAS BEEN THERE A MUCH SHORTER TIME. Makes sense.

And you say?!?!?! Who cares what you say? You can't just say you don't believe something if its not what you want it to be.

Pray for his soul

 

[Miracle Violence]

Yeah your totally right give the pushes to such awesome talent like Michael Elgin WHO COMPLETELY fukkING SUCKS AND HAS BEEN THERE A MUCH SHORTER TIME. Makes sense.

Michael Elgin was in the best match of 2012. He put in a universally acclaimed performance.

People have been waiting years for Kenny King to have a breakout match on that level, and it's never happened. Who knows if it ever will.

 

[ecks12]

Michael Elgin was in the best match of 2012. He put in a universally acclaimed performance.

People have been waiting years for Kenny King to have a breakout match on that level, and it's never happened. Who knows if it ever will.

Universally? How many people saw that match?

 

[Miracle Violence]

Universally? How many people saw that match?

By universal acclaim, I simply meant everyone who actually did see the match praised Elgin's performance, not that it was necessarily seen by a ton of people.

Moving on though, here's some more info on the Kenny King story:

For those of you wondering about how the ROH roster feels about Kenny King bolting to TNA, it's pretty much a negative outlook because he had a handshake deal to remain with the company. There are a lot of people in the industry (including some top WWE names I heard from yesterday) that felt that King breaching the handshake was worse than ditching his contract offer. The biggest complaint I heard was that by leaving in the manner he did, King hurt Rhett Titus the most. There were a few wrestlers who were also upset that King, despite knowing he was leaving, openly pushed for a finish at Best in the World where he and Titus would win the ROH Tag Titles strongly, as opposed to the planned finish (which took place) where King and Titus had a big come from behind miracle win.

Mike Mondo of the ROH roster was pretty outspoken about what King did, although he didn't mention him by name on his Twitter account.

From speaking to people close to King, the side of the story there is that the company wasn't offering him a raise and that he felt that the extension he would sign would prevent him from negotiating elsewhere. Sources close to King also denied that he had agreed to sign anything. ROH sources noted that would not have been the case. A number of other ROH talent signed extensions at the Best in the World iPPV a few weeks back, with King being the only one who verbally agreed and asked to have his attorneys look at the paperwork. The feeling within ROH is that King knew he was leaving and purposely avoided signing anything. The belief is that Dave Lagana helped King get into TNA, although King had worked there in the past prior to his ROH run.

The reality is that while the departure made ROH look bad in terms of having their pants down, it's not like he was one half of a tag team that was drawing big time money for the company. King being there or not will have no effect on the company's gates or business. ROH right now is basically there to be TV product for Sinclair and if the house shows and iPPVs do great, that's awesome because it helps that arm of Sinclair become self-sustaining but at the end of the day, it's priority is to be a TV product for Sinclair affiliates.

RING OF HONOR NEWS AND NOTES ON TAG TITLE SITUATION, THE KING DEPARTURE AND MORE | PWInsider.com

 

[AKM-95]

ROH is one of my favorite promotions but for them to put their tag belt on a unsigned wrestler is flat out stupid. To make matters worse Corrnette was in WWE When this happened to them with Luger and Double J. Bottom line is unless its down in ink the agreement doesn't mean any thing. Which is something ROH should know by now.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

I think mostly i feel bad for Rhett. Dude has grown on me a bit since his comeback and he is the first ROH school guy to do anything significant in the company. I dont blame Kenny though, i think he just wanted to move on and will now be blacklisted like Low-Ki. If this dont work though im sure he would do ok in japan. Question is, where does ROH go from here?

 

[Black Thunder]

you know i know alot of nikkas is stupid enough to compare kenny king to mike awesome

well dumb nikkas

1.mike awesome was leaving ecw to a guaranteed $1 million contract, kenny king aint guaranteed no contract or no real money, and even then mike still dropped the fukking title

2.kenny king is basically doing what aries told him, and unless aries was able to secure this man a contract,whether or not he wins that silly little x belt, he's a fukking idiot if he still ends up with one of those pay per show deals, making like 200 dollars a shot and having done business that way, not to mention he kinda fukked rhett titus who isnt joining him in tna

on the other hand roh is stupid for not signing somebody they're about to strap up to a contract for atleast short term purposes

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

The following video features former Ring of Honor Tag Team Champion Kenny King speaking out on his issues with the company.

As we noted earlier this week, ROH released a statement announcing that the company has no plans to work with King again in future.

"Just plead the fif, nikka!"

 

[SAJ!!]

I don't feel sorry for ROH at all.

If they were dumb enough to put a major title on someone knowing that their contract is up, then they deserve what they get. Kenny is trying to take advantage of that and I don't blame him.

 

[Miracle Violence]

My people's,

First and foremost to all of my friends, Family and everyone riding with me on this one thank you. The love and support has been unreal. It doesn't matter if your'e a new Kenny King fan or you've been with your boy since tough enough. My passion for this sport reflects yours, and I will continue to bust my ass to give back the love you have shown me.

Second I would like to thank @ringofhonor for the opportunity To master my craft against some of the best wrestlers in the world. The last 4 years have been invaluable to my career. I have nothing but love and respect for the company that allowed me to find myself and grow as a wrestler.

Next, since the content of my character has been called into question, just ask about me. My integrity and HONOR has always been above reproach. But since they wanna talk bad about your boy, consider this...

(spoiler alert)

I was offered a contract extension, I had reservations about the parameters of the extension and effective my "free agent" option would be.

I gave a handshake agreement that I wouldn't do anything "screwy" with the belts. A la medusa.

I gave ROH information about every move that I made regarding working for @impactwrestling. Realistically they could have just found out when they saw my black ass walking down to the ring.

I was given a physical contact extension by ROH, which I respectfully declined to sign due to the reasons I stated above.

If I declined to sign an actual contract extension, how could anyone think there was a verbal agreement?

I took the biggest gamble of my career this weekend. So going into destination X tomorrow night I am prepared to put it all on the line. I am especially grateful to @tnadixie and @impactwrestling for giving me the opportunity to showcase my skills on a bigger stage. I was given an amazing opening and I took it. Ask Eminem how many chances you get to blow up. The world will watch tomorrow, and I got a bag full of fireworks. Tomorrow is coronation day.

Thank you.
Kenny King

 

[Miracle Violence]

Question is, where does ROH go from here?

Putting the titles on Jacobs & Corino is probably their best option. Going with Edwards & Cole might not be a bad idea either, since they're teaming part time now, and having Cole as a double champion could do a lot for his push.

Beyond that, their choices are pretty limited. Nobody wants to see another Briscoes or WGTT reign right now. The Bucks might make good champs, but I don't believe they're under contract. The Bravados and Coleman/Alexander are too low on the card to be believable. I guess Strong & Elgin could be a decent short term option.

 

[The Great One]

It will teach ROH to wait to put over homegrown talent instead of throwing the belts on oldass/useless Sleton/Haas

Oh and Wolf, I guess there was no handshake agreement, just like I said, where you at stan

 

[SAJ!!]

It will teach ROH to wait to put over homegrown talent instead of throwing the belts on oldass/useless Sleton/Haas

Oh and Wolf, I guess there was no handshake agreement, just like I said, where you at stan

Co-sign!!

 

[Miracle Violence]

According to him there wasn't. Based on the PWI report, his peers in the industry seem to think otherwise. Like I said in my first post in this thread, there are two sides to a story, and we'll probably never know the full truth.

I'm right here though. Where are you? Doing a liquor run for Shaggy 2 Dope, or something equally demeaning?