Tony Khan Buys ROH

[Your Fight Site]

4 hours ago, Vamp said:

To be fair you don't tend to get a lot of characters with the same name in TV dramas or soaps (at least not at the same time). There weren't two people called in House called House.

We’ve had two Dr. Mark Sloans, though. 

[Infinity Land]

I don't think this much of a sign of the future. However, I did like the first half of the year where many of the ROH champions were the travelling world champion to make defenses. Same with PAC's reign with the All-Atlantic title.

 

[Infinity Land]

Supercard of Honor is happening WrestleMania weekend on Friday 31st March. I didn't see this promo'd during Dynamite. So they're at least trying to keep ROH-AEW somewhat separate. Although i'm sure we'll see some stuff sprinkled in closer to the time.

 

[Guest]

I like the implied "also" at the beginning of their second sentence.

[METAL ON METAL]

Didn’t Khan say he wasn’t going to be doing events during Wrestlemania weekend and that it only occurred last year as it was booked prior to his purchase of the company?

[Bohan]

15 minutes ago, METAL ON METAL said:

Didn’t Khan say he wasn’t going to be doing events during Wrestlemania weekend and that it only occurred last year as it was booked prior to his purchase of the company?

It's a Wrestlemania weekend tradition, and a big part of it for many who attend Mania weekend.  I think it would be very hard for Tony to deviate from the tradition, as it's so engrained within the weekend festivities.

[Infinity Land]

18 minutes ago, METAL ON METAL said:

Didn’t Khan say he wasn’t going to be doing events during Wrestlemania weekend and that it only occurred last year as it was booked prior to his purchase of the company?

Mania events were more about when AEW was starting up. Think they did their one and only house show at this point during the pandemic era as a way to make up for money talent would otherwise be losing out on due to fewer indy bookings/signings.

In the press conference after Supercard last year he was asked about ROH still running shows on Mania weekend since it has been a tradition for a lot of fans. He softened on the idea while dealing with the question. PPV buys, ticket sales, and having run it before i'm guessing he sees the value in continuing it for ROH.

[Guest]

Everyone knows ROH is lesser than to run it on the back of mania. Keeping aew away is good as they are big enough just now that they don’t have to ride on anyone’s coattails for now 

[Infinity Land]

The first set of tapings are this weekend. Saturday and Sunday at Universal with a AEW Dark taping sandwiched in between. Because of that I doubt they'll change up the look people have come to know from the Dark tapings. As well as the lacklustre studio crowd that goes with it.

Show on HonorClub starts airing from Thursday 2nd March. Just confirmed the timeslot will be 7pm EST supposedly to avoid Impact and NFL once that starts. If true they're trying to avoid conflict, that would mean a 1hr run time.

[RIDDUM_N_STYLE]

Guessing by the time the tapings are done, we’ll know how the Supercard of Honor card will look for Wrestlemania weekend

[Infinity Land]

They did spruce it up a bit.

 

All the champions appeared, and there's a mix of some debuts. Match listings without results below. Most of it reads like Dark but at least with this it's going somewhere.

Spoiler

 

 

Edited February 26, 2023 by Infinity Land

[Merzbow]

There's one very interesting name in there, a certain rematch I've wanted to see since 2008 might finally happen.

[WyattSheepMask]

2 hours ago, Merzbow said:

There's one very interesting name in there, a certain rematch I've wanted to see since 2008 might finally happen.

Hopefully he finds his phone in time

[Infinity Land]

Supercard looks to be taking shape. Expected title matches below:

Spoiler

World Title: Claudio v. Eddie Kingston

TV Title: Samoe Joe v. Mark Briscoe

Women's World Title: Athena v. Yuka Sakazaki

Pure Title: Wheeler Yuta v. Shibata

6-Man Titles: The Embassy v. AR Fox, Blake Christian, Gran Metalik

 

[Infinity Land]

I believe they supersized the debut episode to 2+ hours. As its streaming without ad breaks it might as well be RAW. Felt like a mistake as it really began to drag as time went on.

A lot of it felt could have been cut as it was more like Dark filler. An obvious one like Rayne & Skye Blue v. The Renegades. The Embassy could have just ran a video package instead of just another random squash.

Next week is being promoted as 5 matches announced. That'll help cut it down.

Overall a good show. Wrestling is a given. Looked great, tried the occasional different camera moves. Crowd held up quite well. People you usually don't see getting to cut some promos both backstage and in the ring. Certainly an improvement over Dark/Elevation. Which isn't exactly saying much.