Silkin expands on past comments.
Prior to Ring of Honor’s 2024 Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view, the Irish Wrestling Podcast conducted an interview with former Ring of Honor owner and ambassador, Cary Silkin.
He clarified past comments that he made on his Mat Memories podcast about how ROH is being handled under Tony Khan’s ownership. He detailed what he would like to see from the brand and added that he could not name one match on the Death Before Dishonor card.
It’s unbelievable how that quote got picked up. What they left out, if you listen to the show, I do the podcast Mat Memories with John Arezzi. I’ll plug it again at the end. But I also said, ‘Hey, I’m happy everyone’s got a place to work and I’m sure Tony Khan will get Ring of Honor on television. He’s a busy man.’ But me saying, ‘Well, nobody really cares about it.’ How can they!? It’s not in a position — listen, I’ve met Tony Khan. He’s an awesome guy. My friends all work for him. Yes, he gets criticized by all these f*cking podcasts and this and that. Deep down, he’s a good guy and I know damn well his intentions for Ring of Honor will be as best as possible. How can he manage everything? I mean, it’s insanity.
Listen, once again, Tony Khan is a good guy and he’s got a lot of stuff on his plate. But what I would like to see is you got Jay Lethal, you got (Matt) Taven, (Mike) Bennett, Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Dalton Castle… Mark Briscoe of course… Shane Taylor, and a number of other names that I’m leaving off the list. These are guys that were all associated with Ring of Honor and they should — I never was a booker but, these names I see on the card, alright, I get it. Years have gone by but if you have these names of legacy, use ‘em. I would feel better as opposed to Gravity (he laughed). Whoever. It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s a different thing. My friend Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman are still the announcers. Bobby Cruise, who I’ve known for too long, God bless him, he’s still there and he’s doing really well with AEW and yeah, I mean, I couldn’t even tell you one match that’s coming up for this Ring of Honor show but I’ll watch it… But real quick, we left off Samoa Joe, and Bryan Danielson. So if there’s a Ring of Honor pay-per-view, use ‘em. It’s like, it’s so obvious. But, they’re in other programs. But whatever. That’s my selfish thinking.
At the post-Death Before Dishonor media scrum, Tony Khan stated that he does not think it’s sacrilegious to say it would help the Ring of Honor brand if he were to present it as AEW: Ring of Honor.
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