The planned Ring of Honor show on 4/6/2019 in Madison Square Garden is now officially off due to pressure from WWE.
ROH COO Joe Koff, in an interview with Mike Johnson, said, “I’m not going to discuss beyond this statement because I am not going to litigate this in the press. We had a deal with the Garden and they then told us they were backing out after communications from the WWE. We are not able to get any other dates in any kind of discussion. I’m expecting that our lawyers will be contacting all the parties involved and the best we can hope for is that we can find resolution, and we can bring the kind of energy and excitement that ROH and our partner New Japan brings to a bigger audience and to bigger arenas to the fans of New York City.”
When asked about another date, Koff said, “There is no date and the discussion is going to end here on that.”
ROH was planning the biggest show in its history for MSG on the night before WrestleMania, with the traveling crowd already in town and New Japan talent available, and the uniqueness of ROH running MSG, the show would have easily sold 10,000 tickets and perhaps a lot more. WWE usually draws 14,000 to MSG, but runs the arena multiple times per year.
After Chris Ripley, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcasting on 6/12 first publicly announced an ROH show in MSG (the date itself was first reported here), WWE immediately went to work, although one source said it only took one call from a high ranking WWE official, and not from Vince McMahon, and Madison Square Garden contacted ROH and pulled the date. We were told last week by sources close to the situation that it could and probably would turn into an ugly legal fight.
The story is that they had an agreement on the date but the contract for the date had not been signed. ROH by late last week was contacting other arenas in the New York metropolitan area to run that night, but we were also told Sinclair was furious and legal proceedings could take place and were being explored.
samo da kažem, kada bi roh imao dobre odvjetnike, a nisam siguran koliko dobre ima, mogao bi čak ići i na antitrust zakon, tvrditi da je ovo korištenje moći monopola kako bi im se uskratilo nešto.
Najviše će ih zajebat (ako išta) to šta nisu imali pisan ugovor. Svakako ako je istina da je WWE razlog zašto ne mogu održat show imaju po meni dobar slučaj.
Roh nidma siguran da ima dobre ali sinclair group sigurno ima.Vidjet demo sta ce biti i koliko je sinclair spreman daleko ici. JA bih volio vidjet da vise uloze u roh
izgleda da je msg ljugaviji nego što sam mislio. prvo su bili ljuti što je wwe uzeo drugu dovranu za wm, u istom području, i sada kada je netko u tom vikendu je htio unajmiti, što bi zapravo bila njihova poruka WWEu, oni su se jedni drugima dali guze i naguzili roh.