Last week it was announced that ROH is planning on undergoing changes to its business operations, and has planned a pivot for the company with a new mission and strategy. ROH’s year will culminate with their Final Battle PPV in December, and they will then be taking a hiatus for the first quarter of 2022. Not Long After this announcement ROH also announced that it would be releasing all its talents from their contracts.
Former Ring of Honor owner and current company ambassador Cary Silkin sat down with Ringsiders Wrestling following the news and spoke about the situation with talents contracts and also spoke on internal reaction to the news.
They’re [Ring of Honor] not re-signing as far as I know but, anyone who’s got a contract through the end of the year is getting paid and anyone who’s got a contract that rolls over into 2022 is getting paid until April 1st, which is very generous, very admirable.
Silkin talked about some of the internal reactions to the news about Ring of Honor’s hiatus. He spoke to Jay Lethal, Matt Taven, Todd Sinclair, Dalton Castle, and others. Some weren’t surprised but they did not think it would get to this point.
Yeah, I mean I spoke to a lot of my friends yesterday who’ve — Jay Lethal, Matt Taven, Dalton Castle, Todd Sinclair, Bobby Cruise and you know, a lot of them are shell-shocked. Some people are — it wasn’t a huge surprise but they didn’t think it was to this level. But as I told — there’s guys like Lethal and Vinny [Marseglia] and this one and that one. I’m gonna leave names out. This could also be a break for a lot of them to do something else. I was talking to Vinny, how he’s created such a good character and he’s worked hard at it and he’s laid groundwork. I don’t wanna speak for him but I guess I am so would he rather — he would rather have Ring of Honor existing and have that as his home base but at least the work he’s put in the last many years and we could go down the list; Dalton Castle, this one, that one. The ole ‘cream will rise to the top.’ So, I don’t know what else there is to say about it.
Sinclair purchased Ring of Honor in 2011 to provide original programming for its portfolio of local television stations. They will continue to broadcast archived ROH programming for the time being. Plans for a potential relaunch of the ROH weekly TV series are unknown.
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Thanks to Postwrestling for Transcripts.