The following news items were posted on ROHWrestling.com:
May 5th: The entire wrestling world is buzzing about the announcement of ROH going on pay-per-view this July. The first PPV taping will be on May 12th in Manhattan. There are still a few seats remaining at ROHwrestling.com or by calling 215-781-2500. This is your chance to be part of history. A list of the talent appearing on May 12th is at the end of this ROHwrestling.com Newswire. Starting this July you can catch ROH’s two hour PPV on Dish, iN Demand and TVN. This means that besides DirectTV subscribers, ROH will be available in 99.9% of the homes with cable, including Verizon and AT&T. The word on DirectTV is that “we’re working on it.” This is the most exciting time in ROH history. The best part is that ROH will not have to change the product you’ve seen over the past five years when we go on PPV. The pure ROH product is coming to PPV and you can be at the first tapings on May 12th in Manhattan. Get your tickets before it’s too late!!!
May 5th: Attention fans in Hartford, Connecticut and New England. ROHwrestling.com is now offering $10 tickets for this Friday’s event at the very convenient to get to CT Expo Center in Hartford, CT. This offer at www.ROHwrestling.com is only good until Monday at 10pm. This means you can see Jay & Mark Briscoe defend the ROH World Tag Team Titles against Takeshi Morishima & Nigel McGuinness, KENTA returns to take on Delirious and Matt Sydal vs. Naomichi Marufuji plus several other big matches for only $10. Can you really pass that up? The rest of the Hartford card will be announced by Monday morning if not sooner at ROHwrestling.com.
May 5th: We are sorry to report that Homicide and Austin Aries will no longer be able to appear on ROH events effective immediately. We apologize for the lineup changes. We are very pleased to report that former ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson will now return to ROH one month earlier than planned. Danielson has been added to the May 11th event in Hartford and May 12th PPV taping in Manhattan.
May 5th: ROH World Champion Takeshi Morishima has been added to the June 8th Boston and June 9th Philadelphia events. We’ll have news on his matches soon. You can get tickets to both these events for only $10 until Monday night at ROHwrestling.com. Nothing can beat a ROH ticket for only $10 so take advantage of the sale now!!!
May 5th: In more blockbuster news ROH has now signed a roster of talent to contracts. This means you don’t have to worry about your favorite ROH stars leaving!!! A roster section will be added in the next month or so to ROHwrestling.com. There are currently over 15 talents signed including ROH World Tag Team Champions Jay & Mark Briscoe, Nigel McGuinness, Bryan Danielson and the entire No Remorse Corps. This is a huge step for ROH. We want to thank all of you for your support. It is only with your support that we have been able to move to PPV and sign a roster. We always put your money into making the company better. All your DVD, live event ticket and merchandise purchases have made it possible for us to make the product better for you. ROH has never been stronger thanks to you!!!
May 5th: May 12th is it. Here is the talent you will see on May 12th in Manhattan. Get your tickets now before it is too late:
-ROH World Champion Takeshi Morishima
-ROH World Tag Team Champions Jay & Mark Briscoe
-“American Dragon” Bryan Danielson
-NOAH stars KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji
-No Remorse Corps of Roderick Strong, Davey Richards & Rocky Romero
-Jimmy Rave
-Delirious
-Claudio Castagnoli
-Kevin Steen & El Generico
-Matt Sydal
-Daizee Haze
-Nigel McGuiness
-Adam Pearce
-Brent Albright
-BJ Whitmer
-Resilience member Erick Stevens
-Sara Del Rey
-Larry Sweeney & Tank TolandMay 5th: There will be lots of huge news all this week in the ROHwrestling.com Newswire on the PPV, Hartford, Manhattan and other upcoming shows. Keep checking back every day!!!
Additionally, Pro Wrestling Insider has reported the following:
– Jimmy Rave has been offered a ROH contract.
– ROH is looking at releasing DVDs via national retail outlets.
– TNA was initially “open to allowing their talents to appear in ‘dark’ matches that wouldn’t appear on PPV or DVDs,” but ROH would rather focus on their own performers now.
– Julius Smokes will stay on the roster, but have a new role since Homicide’s gone.
– “A number of former talents” have reached out to ROH about returning.
We’ll have full coverage of all the latest ROH news, as well as previews of next weekend’s CT and NYC shows and reviews of the events over the next week. Also, look for Part 1 of Rob Blatt’s interview with ROH star Nigel McGuinness any day now…
