![]() ![]() There’s a trove of early ROH footage available, with rare matches from today’s stars before they broke out, and that sounds appealing, sure. I think the spinning ROH tribal logo might even be in the running for top ROH title contender since it’s been known to do a run-in on pretty much every Honor Club live special. The interface is heavy-handed compared to other wrestling streaming services like the WWE Network or, and the regular outages during live specials are tiresome, especially when there’s little effort to edit the footage for later viewing. Why is this happening? And how can it be fixed? Honor Club and televisionĪs an Honor Club subscriber, let me be blunt: It’s not a joy to use. Despite co-promoting one of the biggest non-WWE events of the year at Madison Square Garden with New Japan, they’re hemorrhaging fans from their live events at an alarming rate. Starting with their poor showing at the G1 Supercard in April at Madison Square Garden, moving to their Portland PR disaster in June followed by a whole summer of underwhelming gate numbers, with none of the shows pulling in more than 600 attendees. The product is being fumbled and in public, no less. These questions aren’t necessarily aimed at the wrestling talent within the company, but rather those in management now. Does Ring of Honor have the desire to be a top pro wrestling company in the world? Are they satisfied with what they are now? Is Sinclair (their national broadcaster) aware of how they’re viewed by most of the wrestling community in 2019? Is ROH to be thought of as a top-tier international pro wrestling company, or are is it all just a big, fat package of content to feed Sinclair Broadcasting? When thinking about Ring of Honor, a number of questions come to mind. Now, with so much competition for fans’ eyes, viewership and ticket sales are on the decline. Knipper 3 years ago In the 2000s, Ring of Honor was the most prestigious independent wrestling promotion in the United States.
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