Tony Khan teases renaming Ring of Honor

AEW President and CEO Tony Khan recently teased renaming the Ring of Honor (ROH). The Florida-based promotion was founded by Rob Feinstein in 2002 before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2011. Tony Khan acquired the company in March 2022.

Ring of Honor recently held its Death Before Dishonor event on July 26. In the post-show media scrum, Tony Khan expressed his desire to elevate the visibility of ROH by integrating it closely with AEW. Khan claimed that rebranding the promotion to ''AEW ROH'' would help grow the Ring of Honor brand.

“I recognize that AEW is at the very top of pro wrestling. The ROH brand could frankly benefit from even more association. I don’t think it’s out of the question to say or sacrilegious to say. I think it would only help grow the ROH brand if I were to license it, sublicense if it were AEW ROH," he said. [H/T: Wrestle Talk]

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Tony Khan on Ring of Honor and Warner Bros. Discovery becoming potential broadcast partners

During the post-show media scrum, Tony Khan revealed that he had realized that ROH would have a "lot more value as AEW Ring of Honor."

The AEW honcho also wondered about ROH possibly coming under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in the future.

“It’s not crazy at all to think Ring of Honor could be televised in the Warner Brothers Discovery family. Would Ring of Honor frankly have a lot more value as AEW Ring of Honor? Yeah, probably. I think I’ve come to that realization as far as the presentation. That might mean a more cohesive absorption of the promotion into the fabric of what we’re already doing, but not in a way that would affect things,” he said. [H/T: Wrestle Talk]

AEW is already in a partnership with WBD. The media house broadcasts the wrestling company's three weekly shows, Dynamite, Collision, and Rampage. Both parties had been negotiating the new deal for a while and reportedly recently settled on a new deal.

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