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Post by kingofoldschool on Feb 23, 2007 13:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by Adam Haze on Feb 23, 2007 14:25:59 GMT -5
It took Homicide a year to get the belt and then loses
it in 2 months. Wow..oh well, congrads to him on his
ROH Title Win.
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Post by magnoodles on Feb 24, 2007 18:37:01 GMT -5
It took Homicide a year to get the belt and then loses it in 2 months. Wow..oh well, congrads to him on his ROH Title Win. Dave Ditch said: As an independent wrestling company, you don't always have a world of options. Stars come and go because there are no long-term contracts. Bigger companies can dictate your booking options. You have to drop whatever you're doing in order to take advantage of an opportunity that someone else is giving you. ROH has certainly been opportunistic in the past (witness their use of CM Punk and Matt Hardy in 2005), and they're being opportunistic now.
They have a good chance to have the ROH title defended on the main or semi-main event of a NOAH show at Nippon Budokan Hall. The show won't sell out, but it will assuredly be the largest live crowd for an ROH title match by close to an order of magnitude. It will be the only singles title match on the card. That's gigantic in raising ROH's stature in Japan, which is all the more important because Japanese wrestlers drive ROH's top DVD sales and ROH will be running Japan shows in July.
Sorry NYC. Sorry Homicide fans. I don't know if ROH had this planned in the fall when they first brought Morishima in, or if they knew in December when Homicide won the title, or if they even knew a month ago when Morishima vs Misawa hadn't happened yet. I don't even know if they would put the belt on Morishima even without the title being featured at the Budokan show.
What I do know is that this opportunity is more important than a few more token Homicide title defenses that nobody- NOBODY- was seriously clamoring for. Homicide as a Puerto Rican Steve Austin chasing the title is an interesting storyline; Homicide trying to get his 5th and 6th title defenses against the likes of BJ Whitmer isn't. Homicide deserved a longer reign but the company didn't owe him that at the expense of the Budokan opportunity.
Phil's argument seems to be that ROH could have gotten NOAH to book Homicide vs Morishima and chose not to. I very much doubt that. First, ROH would jump at the opportunity to get Homicide established in Japan at a Budokan show. Second, NOAH would be very unlikely to book a wrestler like Homicide in a high-profile Budokan match without his having any kind of exposure in Japan. Third, and I base this on what I've seen about Japan rather than any slight against Homicide, I'm not even 100% certain that he could get a visa due to his, ah, youthful indiscretions. If he's at the July shows that will prove me wrong, and if he isn't it might be because of TNA. Speaking of which, a NOAH booking would need to be cleared with TNA, and the politics there could get in the way.
I'm convinced that ROH took the only option they had for getting the title belt in a prominent place on a big stage in Japan. No serious ROH fan can really blame them for that. Be disappointed, but don't be pissed. |
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Post by kingofoldschool on Feb 24, 2007 19:52:30 GMT -5
Makes enough sense.Still disappointed though.
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Post by randyjackson1 on Feb 27, 2007 1:28:09 GMT -5
who cares
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Post by pierredoucet on Feb 28, 2007 17:42:12 GMT -5
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Post by randyjackson1 on Feb 28, 2007 17:49:50 GMT -5
eat me
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Post by Mr Bubbles on Mar 2, 2007 1:12:55 GMT -5
I have nothing against new champions. I love seeing title wins especially when you dont expect it so soon. I bet nobody on this board thought that Homicide was gonna be losing the title after only 3-4 title defenses. Everyone new Homicide was going to walk out of New York with the title around his waist, but nobody anticipated a win from Morishima. I really do hope this increases Ring of Honor's fan base and it would be amazing if they decided to invade Canada.
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Post by pierredoucet on Mar 3, 2007 11:47:54 GMT -5
It's smart booking, because no one expected it, and it gives the belt credibility being defended in NOAH.
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Post by kingofoldschool on Mar 3, 2007 12:09:47 GMT -5
Morishima will defend the ROH belt against KENTA at Budokan Hall in late-March I believe
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Post by porto4vida on Mar 4, 2007 18:38:11 GMT -5
that has potential to be a very good match. i am a huge KENTA fan, more so than Morishima.
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Post by kingofoldschool on Mar 4, 2007 19:19:27 GMT -5
me too!
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