The biggest news regarding the Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor show on 9/27 is the lack of interest in the show.
The company is clearly cold, and the show came at a time when WWE was pushing harder than ever and AEW was about to debut on television. ROH doesn’t have anything particularly interesting going on and was very much lost in the shuffle.
The volume of poll responses on the front page speaks volumes. As does the fact that in a 900-seat arena in Las Vegas, Sam’s Town, not only did they have a weak advance, but even with giving away tickets at the end to basically anyone who wanted them, they started the show with maybe 600 in the building and ended up with about 800.
Worse are the PPV numbers. The last ROH show, Best in the World on 6/28 in Baltimore did an estimated 3,500 PPV buys. Death Before Dishonor at press time is estimated at just under 800. The actual decline from the last show was 77.7 percent, and this is not a year-to-year drop but a drop from June to September.
Even more scary is that of those 3,500 buyers of the Best in the World how, only an estimated 115 purchased Death Before Dishonor. Roughly the same number of Death Before Dishonor buyers purchased All Out and roughly 75 purchased Clash of Champions. Now 115 out of 800 is 14.4 percent and 75 of 800 is 9.4 percent, so that is significant to a degree. But the crossover between this show and the last show is notable because even with that big drop, 675 out of 800 purchasers were not fans who bought the previous PPV.
It's over
These idiots propped up the event that basically birthed AEW when the Bucks and Cody had a handful of months left on their ROH contracts. You couldn't make it up
See you on TNT in December, Marty.