Professional wrestling legend and former WWE star Matt Hardy who currently works in AEW professional wrestling promotion recently gave his opinion on Tony Khan purchasing Ring of Honor. He believes that the promotion will become a development territory for AEW.
The Ring of Honor had been one of the major professional wrestling promotions for nearly 20 years. It had been famous for creating big stars for every generation. Most of today’s big stars are all created by the mentioned promotion, wrestlers like Bryan Danielson, Kevin Owens, Samoa Joe, Sami Zayn, Seth Rollins are all originally products of ROH.
Matt Hardy Gives Opinion On Tony Khan Buying ROH
There are examples of WWE purchasing other professional wrestling promotion in the past as well. But unfortunately they could not run any of the shows parallel to their main shows. Even though they gave their best but they failed. The ideas were definitely good but the executions were absolutely awful
After WWE purchased WCW, they tried to run it as a parallel show, but it failed. In late 2001 WWE decided to stop WCW. In 2006, WWE started to run ECW as a parallel brand as well. Everybody had high expectations from it, but unfortunately it failed as well. In 2010, ECW was stopped forever.
Matt Hardy who currently works in AEW professional wrestling promotion recently spoke o where he gave his opinion on Tony Khan purchasing Ring of Honor. He believes that the promotion will become a development territory for AEW. He said;
“I mean, almost nothing shocks me in this day and age, but I thought it was it was pretty epic that Tony Khan bought this and you know, the first thing I heard about it, he said, ‘I got all your footage from ROH,’ which is a total Tony Khan line, but it’s cool. Once again, I think it will ensure that like the Ring of Honor footage, which they did a lot of trailblazing stuff themselves is gonna stay alive, and be circulated, and it will live on forever.
“I would almost guess Ring of Honor will almost be like a developmental for AEW. I feel like ROH would be like our NXT in their old system. I think they’ll have guys that can go work there exclusively and they’ll pull guys up. Also just having two brands like that, if you do it the right way, you can have someone on one brand for a long time, then once they are kind of getting once their programs are played out, you can switch them to the other brands. So it keeps helps keep acts fresh, too.
“I mean, definitely, I think I’m gonna do that in the future without a doubt. I mean, that way I can still be involved and it feels like you still kind of have an active part in pro wrestling even if you physically can’t wrestle that much anymore.”
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