Official Ring Of Honor Discussion Thread

[DoubleJ13]

There is a huge mess associated with Kelly Klein, ROH Women of Honor Champion. She was informed Tuesday that her deal would expire without renewal, as she's dealing with a concussion.

Fightful has spent the evening speaking with several in Ring of Honor talent, who seem to unanimously (at least based on who we spoke to) sympathize with Klein's position. Klein had been making $20,000 per year, and was rejected a raise to $24,000 initially. There were also several on the roster who mentioned the talent summit, implying they would speak out there, though no one specifically said they would.

The two sides had been in negotiations that would have resulted in some back pay to the summer and a possible three-year deal higher than the raise she sought out, but there were snags along the way involving hotel room reimbursement and the like that we're told neither side would budge on. One ROH talent told us that Klein should have had a raise well before this, and knew of other talents who used the same negotiating tactics as her and prevailed, whereas she didn't initially.

A lot of the women's deals have been constructed similarly in the past, to where they either make $500 per date or $20,000 per year. Initially a lot of the women's deals were for $12,000 per year before being bumped up. There were frustrations expressed among some talent that ROH officials actually put in writing that all the women on the roster made the same amount of money, with no wiggle room, and it was significantly less than their male counterparts.

While negotiations had been ongoing, we're told ROH backed out of things. After the tweets earlier this month from Klein, BJ Whitmer and Joey Mercury emerged criticizing the company, the decision was made to not renew the deal. ROH was obviously unhappy about how all of the tweets unfolded and information was disclosed publicly.

We're told that as of now, Klein remains Women of Honor Champion and no word has been sent to her from ROH about the status of that.

Only making $20,000 & got rejected on a bump to $24,000

at ROH putting it in writing that they ain't paying the women shyt & there ain't no wiggle room

 

[WHolla09]

Only making $20,000 & got rejected on a bump to $24,000



at ROH putting it in writing that they ain't paying the women shyt & there ain't no wiggle room

1. At a national company paying barely minimum wages to their talent. They are lucky that Sinclair owns them otherwise they would need some of Impact’s luck to stay alive. They’ll be fine, all Sinclair cares about is having programming on their channels

 

[MenacingMonk]

Damn, they're making less than retail workers.

And they can't even work elsewhere.

Wonder what dudes like Scurll and King are making.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Its crazy how things have things changed

About a yea ago a certain stan base would clown shyt like this.... HEAVY.

But now they attentions on an brand new Fed

 

[OVER]

We eased each other's boredom for quite a while

Spoiler

 

[dh86]

I think the Kelly Klein shyt is the death nail in ROH. They PUT IT WRITING that the female pay scale was because they’re female. Yikes

 

[Legal]

I think the Kelly Klein shyt is the death nail in ROH. They PUT IT WRITING that the female pay scale was because they’re female. Yikes

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

But then again, they're owned by Sinclair, a.company that forced all of their local affiliates to film a statement going in on Fake News like some hostages. They legit might not give a fukk.

 

[DoubleJ13]

I do think it's a hilarious sign of the people in charge that they fired Kelly through email for sharing emails & shyt with Mercury like she wouldn't just leak that shyt to

 

[stro]

Well really, the company was originally started off by a pedo so it shouldn't be too surprising in the end that management is still terrible.

 

[TBdaGhost]

AXISTNT

People think AEW wonens division is trash already. Kelly Klein is worse. She's Britt Baker status in the ring. Minus any of what makes Britt interesting.

 

[TBdaGhost]

How much is Kelly Klein supposed to make?

No one's paying to see her and she wrestles what 10 or 15 matches a year?

 

[Bryan Danielson]

People think AEW wonens division is trash already. Kelly Klein is worse. She's Britt Baker status in the ring. Minus any of what makes Britt interesting.

Well again.... no need for her to go get exposed in the superior Impact roster and sully them.... like I said.

AEW seems right for her

 

[The Rainmaker]

Wrestling often gets mainstream attention for negative stuff. This wasn't the exception. A Newsweek article.

Ring of Honor wrestler Kelly Klein spoke out about wrestlers' safety—then she lost her job

 

[dh86]

As we know, he’s not fukking around

 

[Bryan Danielson]

No he is NOT!!!