Official Ring Of Honor Discussion Thread

[DoubleJ13]

By PWTorch Staff (Sean Radican & James Caldwell)

Ring of Honor’s roster will be very interesting after the “Final Battle” PPV in December. PWTorch has learned that several ROH contracts are due at the end of December, making them free agents in January.

It will be interesting to see which wrestlers re-sign with the company. The list of wrestlers whose contracts expire at the end of December include: ROH World champion Jay Lethal, Adam Cole, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Kyle O’Reilly, & Bobby Fish.

PWTorch has also learned that rising star Donovan Dijak’s contract is due in September. It remains to be seen if he re-signs. Wrestlers who left ROH in recent weeks include Moose, Roderick Strong, and Cedric Alexander to TNA, WWNLive, and WWE’s Cruiserweight tournament, respectively.

Generally-speaking, the ROH locker room has become frustrated with the booking approach spearheaded by Delirious in recent months. Christopher Daniels was placed in a prominent agent-type role earlier this year to try to balance things out and be more of a liaison to the locker room.

An example is the Young Bucks and Daniels re-writing segments that were originally written for the tag team at last weekend’s ROH TV tapings in Philadelphia. In the office setting, lead ROH announcer Kevin Kelly has taken a similar role as Daniels trying to take some of the pressure off Delirious.

ROH is in such a fukked up state right now

 

[Jello Biafra]

60 year old Kevin Sullivan getting screen time in 2016

He seems so out of place in that feud. Nothing about either guy screamed Kevin Sullivan. It is probably the oddest thig I have seen in a while because it makes no sense and every segment they spend trying to explain why Sullivan got involved doesn't help.

Sullivan being brought into WWE as Grandpa Wyatt or TNA as the spritual leader of Decay would make sense. This is just

 

[Jello Biafra]

Ring of Honor’s roster will be very interesting after the “Final Battle” PPV in December. PWTorch has learned that several ROH contracts are due at the end of December, making them free agents in January.

It will be interesting to see which wrestlers re-sign with the company. The list of wrestlers whose contracts expire at the end of December include: ROH World champion Jay Lethal, Adam Cole, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Kyle O’Reilly, & Bobby Fish.

PWTorch has also learned that rising star Donovan Dijak’s contract is due in September. It remains to be seen if he re-signs.

ROH is in such a fukked up state right now

So I can see Lethal and Dijack going to WWE;
Think TNA would show interest in Cole
And WWE and TNA would both make serious offers to ReDragon

The Bucks will probably re-up whatever deal they currently have that allows them to split their time between ROH and Japan.

 

[DoubleJ13]

So I can see Lethal and Dijack going to WWE;
Think TNA would show interest in Cole
And WWE and TNA would both make serious offers to ReDragon

The Bucks will probably re-up whatever deal they currently have that allows them to split their time between ROH and Japan.

WWE should be all over all of them. Lethal could go anywhere & be alright with half decent booking. I could see reDRagon going to TNA though or sticking around to keep doing NJPW. It's just a matter of time before Cole & the Bucks end up in WWE. Dijak is better than he's ever had a chance to show in ROH & he's big enough for them to take notice, his biggest problem is he doesn't have the extra exposure of working somewhere else like PWG & ROH hasn't really done fukk all with him since signing him.

ROH is going to be in the same spot with guys like ACH & Castle when their deals are up that they were in with guys like Cedric Alexander & probably Dijak. Those guys are going to be more than willing to look elsewhere if they think they will get used better or get better opportunities. ROH keeps signing people & then not really doing anything with them because they suck at building people & spend half their time worried about the NJPW guys.

 

[AKM-95]

ROH is in such a fukked up state right now

So that's probably the real reason why Kevin sullivian there all of sudden. It wouldn't surprise me if management gives him chance based off his experience. It might be for the best anyway cause I think delirious is burnt out

 

[mr heyzel]

roh resigning jay and redragon are a must I wouldn't really mind for cole and the bucks to go it's time for them to trim the down the roster and really to build guys like ach matt tavern and castle and let bobby fish run as a top heel and build a long feud with and Kyle would be dope and put guys like lio rush and jason kincaid in good programs

 

[Silkk]

roh resigning jay and redragon are a must I wouldn't really mind for cole and the bucks to go it's time for them to trim the down the roster and really to to build guy like ach matt tavern and castle and let bobby fish run as a top heel and build a long feud with and Kyle would be dope and put guys like lio rush and jason kincaid in good programs

Bucks are their biggest draws, can't just let them walk

 

[Silkk]

@TBdaGhost I heard meltzer mention a fatal 4 way title match including Tanahashi and somebody else too. You saw that?

 

[AKM-95]

He seems so out of place in that feud. Nothing about either guy screamed Kevin Sullivan. It is probably the oddest thig I have seen in a while because it makes no sense and every segment they spend trying to explain why Sullivan got involved doesn't help.

Sullivan being brought into WWE as Grandpa Wyatt or TNA as the spritual leader of Decay would make sense. This is just

I'm with you but I think there're trying to tell the story that Sullivan was one of Corinos wrestling idols but it turns out Sullivan sees more in BJ.

The problem is only probably 5% of the audience know about Corinos views on Sullivian and most people don't care. This story could have been told better. All they had do is bring Sullivan in as his coach before the ppv and that story would of been conveyed better to the actual audience.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I'm with you but I think there're trying to tell the story that Sullivan was one of Corinos wrestling idols but it turns out Sullivan sees more in BJ.

The problem is only probably 5% of the audience know about Corinos views on Sullivian and most people don't care. This story could have been told better. All they had do is bring Sullivan in as his coach before the ppv and that story would of been conveyed better to the actual audience.

Yeah if they had laid the groundwork of Corino's idol worship of Sullivan by having Kev helping with Corino's training and coming out to the ring with him it would have been better.
Nothing can fix the fact that BJ is not demonic in the least though.

 

[TBdaGhost]

@TBdaGhost I heard meltzer mention a fatal 4 way title match including Tanahashi and somebody else too. You saw that?

I think I saw it on Twitter. It's Cole Lethal Tanahashi and I think Naito

Is pretty awesome. They got to sell tickets for the baseball stadium haha

 

[TBdaGhost]

Bucks are their biggest draws, can't just let them walk

I get the feeling the Bucks want to go to wwe. Just the way they've been talking about it. And talking about AJ.

New Japan and ROH will try hard to keep them though I'm sure

 

[TBdaGhost]

Having the Young Bucks be "heels" is the dumbest shyt in the world to me.

They get the biggest face reactions every show and refuse to actually do heel shyt to fans because it would fukk up their t shirt sales.

They actualy got booed pretty heavy this week with the Lethal shyt. It was pretty awesome lol

 

[Silkk]

They actualy got booed pretty heavy this week with the Lethal shyt. It was pretty awesome lol

I got no idea when i'll actually get to see it

 

[Silkk]

I get the feeling the Bucks want to go to wwe. Just the way they've been talking about it. And talking about AJ.

New Japan and ROH will try hard to keep them though I'm sure

Yeah, i see them & cole leaving sooner than later