Kanellis’ proposal for a direction for the ROH brand.
Present-day, Maria Kanellis is part of the Ring of Honor brand. In addition to the work she previously did with Mike Bennett and Matt Taven, she formed an alliance with Cole Karter and Griff Garrison. Carter is currently sidelined after undergoing surgery for a broken arm. Maria has been interacting with MxM Collection (Mason Madden & Mansoor) on ROH TV.
While guest appearing on Gabby AF, Maria expressed that she hopes ROH can find its footing following AEW All In. She feels the marketing of the brand can continue to be worked on.
Kanellis views the brand as a place where young talents could go to find themselves; adding that it could the place to go before going to AEW.
There’s a lot of wrestling out there right now and I think with where it’s positioned and how it’s positioned, it makes it really tough. I’m hopeful that after Wembley, Ring of Honor’s able to get a little bit of a footing again. Maybe we can continue working on how to market it and how to reconnect with our audience and where does Ring of Honor fit in this world of wrestling right now, and I think that’s the biggest thing is where is its niche. Ideally, for me, and you know, throw this in the atmosphere, it really doesn’t matter but, for me, I feel like Ring of Honor should be the place where young talent comes and they grow and I think that it should be its own thing, it should be a place where it’s almost a camp of, what do ya got? And see it, you know? And those combines, kind of in that same vein of make it that, to where you’re gonna challenge ‘em the whole weekend. Are you good enough? And then spend some time there and if you’re good enough, you get to go to AEW. But, again, I don’t write the checks, I don’t make the rules.
Circling back to the pairing of Carter and Garrison, Kanellis thinks it was brilliant for Tony Khan to put them together. She added that she’ll be pushing to manage MxM Collection.
It was Tony (Khan’s idea to pair me with Griff Garrison & Cole Karter). For sure, and then of course, you start putting your own spin on it and I think for Tony, it was brilliant of him because it’s a way for me to give along my experience and my knowledge without having to be in the ring. So it’s like, it’s brilliant as far as Tony putting me with younger people because then I can constantly be there and when we’re doing promos or being in the ring or whatever, I’m there to assist and to help. But yeah, we definitely kind of ran with it a little bit and more to come now that MxM (Collection) is around. They definitely need a manager so, I’m sure I’m gonna keep pushing for that.
Elsewhere in the interview, Kanellis shared that ‘things are coming up’ in November. She dove into why she currently feels unfulfilled career-wise and to read more, click here.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Gabby AF with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
