"Throughout the pandemic, our top priority was to keep everyone healthy and safe, and despite not producing any live events over 18 months, we were able to keep everyone fully contracted. We now find ourselves at a time where we need to make changes to our business operations and are planning a pivot for Ring of Honor, with a new mission and strategy. The year will culminate with a Final Battle in December, and we will be taking the first quarter of 2022 to work internally to reimagine ROH. ROH has the most dedicated fans in the industry, and we appreciate their loyalty and patience as we reconceptualize ROH. We anticipate returning to live events in April for the Super Card of Honor with a new fan-focused product and provide a unique experience for wrestling fans."
This was kind of surprising, I mean, I always enjoyed an ROH house show, but their product was often difficult to follow since there was never a set time or date for when their weekly show aired. I'd just randomly stumble upon it at odd hours on random channels and could never tell if the episode was new or old.
There were a few times over the years, most recently when Cody and the Bucks were around, that ROH seemed to be on the cusp of breaking through only to fall short in the end. As much flack as TNA/Impact has taken over the years, they've still have had a weekly product you knew when and where to watch even in the lean times.
I've no idea if ROH will actually come back or in what capacity. It sad to some degree as ROH was NXT before there was an NXT for Vince to mishandle. I looked at the ROH roster, and to be honest, over 50% of the names I'm not even familiar with anymore, but it'll be interesting to see who winds up going where. This is probably great news for Impact, NWA, MLW, as they can really fill in their rosters more. Who might the WWE and AEW be interested in? I don't know. Danhuasen and Brody King have already been linked to AEW and they'd be very cool, very nice, very evil additions, but who else? The Briscoes have been around forever and would be great additions to either tag team division.
