WWE Corridor of Famer Bully Ray is only one of many wrestlers who graced a Ring of Honor ring through the firm’s unique run that wrapped up in 2021. The corporate was then acquired by AEW President Tony Khan in 2022 and has continued as its personal model underneath the AEW umbrella. Within the wake of the passing of former ROH COO Joe Koff, Ray took a while out of a current episode of “Busted Open Radio” to evaluate the corporate’s affect on the enterprise, with Ray believing that ROH is accountable for lots greater than some folks may think.
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“Ring of Honor, of all the businesses on the market, together with ECW, is accountable for extra stars of as we speak than some other firm ever was,” Ray mentioned. “There’s solely a handful of fellows, a small, small handful of fellows that got here out of ECW and really made it. No different smaller firms on the market that anyone actually got here from, and the blokes who came to visit from WCW, they simply came to visit within the acquisition.”
Ray went on to checklist a protracted checklist of present stars who should not solely a few of the greatest names within the business as we speak, however they’re individuals who bought their huge breaks in ROH through the 2000s. This led to Ray coming to the conclusion of, extra as a lot credit score an organization like ECW will get for being a recreation altering promotion, Ring of Honor ought to get as a lot, if no more credit score, for creating as we speak’s important occasion scene. “These particular person stars are in all probability held in greater regard, or remembered greater than ECW was for revolutionizing professional wrestling. So Ring of Honor doesn’t get almost sufficient credit score.”
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