Now that news about ROH - Ring of Honor Wrestling announcing that as of Final Battle in December will be their final show as they have plans to reboot during the first months of 2022. And ROH TV plans on airing retro and best of shows until April the latest. What will the Sinclair - owned stations do either air the ROH TV post Final Battle or cancel them and air alternative programming such as paid programming or reruns in their time slot(s)?
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i think this thread needs to be renamed, moved to Sports on TV (since it related to ROH Wrestling).
Now on the topic itself, ROH Wrestling has been dead promotion walking for about almost 3 years now, the collapse and downfall of ROH has been ongoing since late 2018, when after the success of the Young Bucks & Cody Rhodes co-produce Supershow PPV led to them joining forces with Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan and his son Tony to launch a new wrestling promotion called All Elite Wrestling, which The Elite (who were shared between ROH & New Japan Pro Wrestling) left to join that promotion after New Japan's biggest event of the year "Wrestle Kingdom aka The January 4th Tokyo Dome Show" except for Kenny Omega who deal expired in the Spring of 2019, once Omega's deal ended he joined his Elite friends in AEW too. then after that ROH did a terrible job with the booking of their biggest show to date at Madison Square Garden (the venue dubbed WWE's home arena due to his wrestling history being associated with WWE and the fact that WrestleManias 1, 10 and 20 were held there) called G1 Supercard (a event co-produce with New Japan, and lesser extend Japanese women's wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, which was a independently owned company at the time of the event that got bought out by New Japan's parent company Bushiroad later that year) which they did so bad, it may had alienated their relationships with both New Japan and Stardom, then later losing their partnership with Mexican wrestling promotion CMLL.
then in late 2019, they fired there women's champion Kelly Klein for pointing out that they made her work with a concussion which resulted in her suffering Post-Concussion Syndrome and she revealed that there was wasn't being given off time to heal up from it and didn't make living wages due to it and it lead to the end of their women's division for the while, (they just revived it with a new belt earlier this Summer) and it was not a good luck for that promotion.
then in 2020 alone, you had the covid19 pandemic killing the business in a touring sense, which hit ROH the hardest, cause ROH went to full repeat and recap/profile shows during the early part of the pandemic while Impact, AEW and WWE were able to stay in the game and do shows from venues with no fans (AEW had Daily's Place in Jacksonville and AEW wrestler/trainer QT Marshall's Wrestling School "The Nightmare Factory" in Georgia to tape AEW Dynamite, Dark & later Dark Elevation act until July of this year, WWE Had the WWE Performance Center aka Capital Wrestling Center in Orlando, FL, Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL until their deal with them ended, Amway Center in Orlando, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL and later the Yuengling Center aka the USF Sundome in Tampa Bay, FL for it's temporary venues and Impact Wrestling up until this past weekend taped their shows at Skyview Studios since April's Rebellion event, which went from PPV to 2 night special episodes of Impact Wrestling due to the pandemic starting) quickly while ROH didn't return to a venue until September of last year at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena which they used until recently where they did some shows with fans in July until they shut it down again in September and went back to fanless shows.
then Speaking Out movement happened and ROH lost Marty Scrull who had booking at the time of the scandal which was Wrestling's #MeToo Movement as he was outted for a sexual fling with a 17 year old girl in his home country of England which he was accused of having getting her drunk and engage in sexual acts and on top of that, one of their top stars Jay Lethal was named as a serial sexual harasser by 2 former women's talents in ROH, which were Taler Henderix and Kelly Klein (again fired in late 2019 after getting concussed).
this was pretty much the death blow to ROH, they won't survive and Sinclair's recent bad investment in the Bally Sports RSNs and the Ramsonware attack may have been the final nail in ROH's coffin as a promotion. and this at a time where AEW is riding off the high of getting CM Punk to return to pro wrestling after his 2014 abrupt WWE Departure and retirement, Bryan Danielson FKA Daniel Bryan's WWE to AEW defection as well as AEW's Forbidden Door working alliance with Impact and New Japan and other promotions across the world that aren't WWE connected.
as for the future of ROH, they are releasing all of their talents from their deals, which means one thing, ROH is about to get liquidated and put out of business, it's a matter of time before WWE buys it out and finishes the job. let's hope Sinclair sells ROH to someone who wants to keep ROH alive and puts it on a better platform (ViacomCBS, i'm looking at you) and can rehire most of the talents that WWE, Impact, NWA, MLW, NJPW/Stardom and AEW don't hire in early 2022.
Now on the topic itself, ROH Wrestling has been dead promotion walking for about almost 3 years now, the collapse and downfall of ROH has been ongoing since late 2018, when after the success of the Young Bucks & Cody Rhodes co-produce Supershow PPV led to them joining forces with Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan and his son Tony to launch a new wrestling promotion called All Elite Wrestling, which The Elite (who were shared between ROH & New Japan Pro Wrestling) left to join that promotion after New Japan's biggest event of the year "Wrestle Kingdom aka The January 4th Tokyo Dome Show" except for Kenny Omega who deal expired in the Spring of 2019, once Omega's deal ended he joined his Elite friends in AEW too. then after that ROH did a terrible job with the booking of their biggest show to date at Madison Square Garden (the venue dubbed WWE's home arena due to his wrestling history being associated with WWE and the fact that WrestleManias 1, 10 and 20 were held there) called G1 Supercard (a event co-produce with New Japan, and lesser extend Japanese women's wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, which was a independently owned company at the time of the event that got bought out by New Japan's parent company Bushiroad later that year) which they did so bad, it may had alienated their relationships with both New Japan and Stardom, then later losing their partnership with Mexican wrestling promotion CMLL.
then in late 2019, they fired there women's champion Kelly Klein for pointing out that they made her work with a concussion which resulted in her suffering Post-Concussion Syndrome and she revealed that there was wasn't being given off time to heal up from it and didn't make living wages due to it and it lead to the end of their women's division for the while, (they just revived it with a new belt earlier this Summer) and it was not a good luck for that promotion.
then in 2020 alone, you had the covid19 pandemic killing the business in a touring sense, which hit ROH the hardest, cause ROH went to full repeat and recap/profile shows during the early part of the pandemic while Impact, AEW and WWE were able to stay in the game and do shows from venues with no fans (AEW had Daily's Place in Jacksonville and AEW wrestler/trainer QT Marshall's Wrestling School "The Nightmare Factory" in Georgia to tape AEW Dynamite, Dark & later Dark Elevation act until July of this year, WWE Had the WWE Performance Center aka Capital Wrestling Center in Orlando, FL, Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL until their deal with them ended, Amway Center in Orlando, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL and later the Yuengling Center aka the USF Sundome in Tampa Bay, FL for it's temporary venues and Impact Wrestling up until this past weekend taped their shows at Skyview Studios since April's Rebellion event, which went from PPV to 2 night special episodes of Impact Wrestling due to the pandemic starting) quickly while ROH didn't return to a venue until September of last year at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena which they used until recently where they did some shows with fans in July until they shut it down again in September and went back to fanless shows.
then Speaking Out movement happened and ROH lost Marty Scrull who had booking at the time of the scandal which was Wrestling's #MeToo Movement as he was outted for a sexual fling with a 17 year old girl in his home country of England which he was accused of having getting her drunk and engage in sexual acts and on top of that, one of their top stars Jay Lethal was named as a serial sexual harasser by 2 former women's talents in ROH, which were Taler Henderix and Kelly Klein (again fired in late 2019 after getting concussed).
this was pretty much the death blow to ROH, they won't survive and Sinclair's recent bad investment in the Bally Sports RSNs and the Ramsonware attack may have been the final nail in ROH's coffin as a promotion. and this at a time where AEW is riding off the high of getting CM Punk to return to pro wrestling after his 2014 abrupt WWE Departure and retirement, Bryan Danielson FKA Daniel Bryan's WWE to AEW defection as well as AEW's Forbidden Door working alliance with Impact and New Japan and other promotions across the world that aren't WWE connected.
as for the future of ROH, they are releasing all of their talents from their deals, which means one thing, ROH is about to get liquidated and put out of business, it's a matter of time before WWE buys it out and finishes the job. let's hope Sinclair sells ROH to someone who wants to keep ROH alive and puts it on a better platform (ViacomCBS, i'm looking at you) and can rehire most of the talents that WWE, Impact, NWA, MLW, NJPW/Stardom and AEW don't hire in early 2022.
In hindsight maybe ROH shouldn't go to MSG and used that Arena in Newark, NJ, signed both Enzo and Big Cass and/or try to get mainstream names to their roster, freshen up their presentation to grow their fan base and during the COVID era tape TV like WWE, NXT, AEW and Impact Wrestling did to keep their fans interested.
agree, plus The Elite leaving them to go launch their own promotion did pretty much hurt them and the fact they made NJPW mad (and Stardom with the poor booking of one of their stars during the G1 Supercard event.
according the the wrestling news sites, today, the plan now is ROH to reboot back to a indy fed where they have no one under contract and it's pay per appearance deals instead, pretty much this is a budget cut decision and Fightful.com did had picked up on the rumor that Sinclair was looking to sell the tape library to the highest bidder.
Well if that's true then ROH will end up sold to WWE if by mid February they don't have things set up for their relaunch in April 2022.
Sinclair was cheap when it came to ROH I was surprised that ROH wasn't repeated a lot on Bally Sports RSN other than late Friday night at 12AM they could've aired older ROH EP's in the off hours just my opinion. I was never ROH fan hardly ever watched it on CW7 & WWMT. I thought that ROH would've been paired with WOW in the fall of 2022 but I was wrong about that.
Agreed!
Also the midnight airing also was susceptible to joined in progress due to sports running longer than normal (pushing everything back). Shocking that they didnt JIP poker or something since ROH is a Sinclair owned entity.
I know in Minneapolis it use to be Saturday nights at 11 and Late Sunday at 1am on WUCW CW but the Saturday night broadcast seems to be gone now (Mankato gets it's own CW but its the CW Plus)
At one point here in the Providence, RI area ROH aired at 4am on Sunday mornings on WLWC 28 for a few months
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