Tony Khan says the Ring of Honor relaunch under his ownership has been a very successful one.
In March of this year, Tony Khan purchased Ring of Honor from Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Prior to then, the status of ROH was up in the air as the company went on hiatus following Final Battle 2021. Since the purchase, Tony Khan has produced two Ring of Honor pay-per-views and those pay-per-views have done record-breaking business for the ROH brand.
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Now, Tony is addressing his decision to keep a lot of the ROH content, outside of Chris Jericho’s involvement, off of AEW Dynamite and provides insight on just how successful this relaunch has been.
“One thing I’ve tried to do — we only have 3 hours of AEW TV per week, so I tried to limit the Ring of Honor focus on Dynamite to mostly the ‘Ring of Jericho’ and Chris Jericho, the Ring of Honor World Champion, said Khan to Tim Battle during his recent appearance on the Battleground Podcast. “We’ve seen a lot of the other Ring of Honor titles more so recently on Rampage.
“I saw somebody saying they thought there was too much Ring of Honor on Dynamite. I thought that was amusing because there’s been almost no Ring of Honor on Dynamite,” Tony added. “Other than Chris Jericho and frankly, Chris Jericho should be on any wrestling show in the world he wants to be on. So on Rampage, we have had a variety of them and these new wrestlers and I think that’s going to be good for our business because these pay-per-view shows that Ring of Honor has done it been really successful for us. We’ve made good money and the grosses of those shows frankly have been in line with what I paid for the entire business. I would say it’s been a very successful relaunch and now I think we’ll have potentially some of our best pay-per-view numbers yet with Final Battle.”
One question that is still up in the air regarding Ring of Honor’s future is when they will return to their own exclusive programming outside of AEW TV. In the past, Tony Khan has said that he’s had promising conversations with Warner Bros. Discovery about the future of Ring of Honor. Tony has also said he believes the brand is bigger than a weekly YouTube show.
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