ROH News Regarding Cancellation of Shows due to TV Tapings

[Troy]

ROH issued the following on their website:


It’s an exciting time to be involved with Ring of Honor as the debut of our new television show on the Sinclair Broadcasting Group stations is just 3 months away, and with that more people than ever before are going to be able to see ROH action and find out why it has gotten the reputation of “Best In The Worldâ€￾. In 2012, in addition to bringing bigger and better action to all the traditional ROH strongholds like New York, Chicago and more, we will also be debuting live events in many new markets and returning to some others that have not seen ROH in some time.

That being said, as we begin adding in the TV taping dates for the rest of the year, and examining the schedule for travel routing, building availability and etc., we are unfortunately going to need to change some of the existing schedule that has been advertised.

ROH was scheduled to return to Dayton, Ohio on August 12–now, many of the stars will need to travel to Chicago early for the first TV taping, so we have rescheduled Dayton for November 18th. That gives our new TV viewers in Dayton that will begin seeing the show on September 24th an opportunity to be a part of the action as well. We know we have inconvenienced our loyal fans in Dayton, and on November 18th we will have a special fan meet & greet with many of the top stars on the card, as a way to thank them for their patience.

Also Plymouth, MA, which was scheduled for September 16th, has had to be canceled due to routing issues with a potential September 17th date. We apologize to those fans as well and hope to see them again in 2012. The rest of the ROH schedule for 2011 is being finalized and will be posted on ROHWrestling.com very soon.
Ticketholders for Plymouth can email rohhelp@aol.com for refund information, and we thank you again for your understanding during what we hope to be a spectacular period of growth. With Ring of Honor, our fans are uppermost in our minds.

Sounds promising. They begin to tape in three months time and look to have things well organised. I like that they reassured fans that they will still be running shows in New York, Chicago etc. Very bold words near the end "during what we hope to be a spectacular period of growth". Exciting times ahead for ROH.

 

[Keith]

The main thing is they have secured their future which did seem to be in some doubt when they lost their other deal and having lost some major talent in recent years also.

Who knows what this new investment could do for them, we will just have to wait and see. But yeah a classy statement again from the company, once again they have respected their fans, and at the same time created buzz about the product, nicely done!

 

[Troy]

I agree it is good that the next few years are secure for ROH and that they now have more money behind them allowing them to expand throughout the country and internationally. They have always been good at replacing the talent they have lost and as long as they continue to book great wrestlers on the show they will be fine. The product quality needs to remain high and I can't see them bringing in too many big outside names unless those wrestlers can actually wrestle a good 25 minute match.