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While flying home from Los Angeles, I caught up on a lot of ROH TV. The positives of the show is that you can see they have toned down the style of the wrestling in order to educate the new audience to what the style is and who the players are. I have heard from some long term fans who aren't a fan of that, but I am, because you put the guys into a position where they don't have to kill themselves every night but still get reactions from the fans. While there are aspects of the production that could use tightening, the writing is the most logical of any TV show right now. The commentary is very, very good, especially Kevin Kelly's work as he's the most underrated announcer in the business today. In some ways, the show is almost too serious, but the idea here is to appeal to sports and MMA fans and not do the silliness WWE does, so I can understand why. You can see some of the wrestlers are still very much in need of help with their promos and some of the production is still behind the HD production curve, but all of the shows are enjoyable. Jay Lethal has really upped his game in the last few months. Futureshock is a great team and you can tell both will be players down the line. You can watch the show at the official ROH website if you don't get it in your market.
A positive that the TV show has brought the company is commercial sponsorships. There are plans for ROH talents to make appearances and do local commercial spots for different markets to promote some of the sponsorships that have been signed.
Kevin Steen has been given the moniker "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare."
Rhett Titus is expected back in action at the March TV Taping.
The first match announced for the 3/4 Ring of Honor Tenth Anniversary event in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom will feature ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs. The Young Bucks.
ROH has released "Best of ROH on HDNet Volume 10" on DVD. This will be the final volume in the series and features Davey Richards & The Briscoe Brothers vs. Roderick Strong & The Kings of Wrestling from the last episode, a match that spanned the entire hour patterned after the Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko farewell match in ECW. They have also released a limited edition signed 8x10 with Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards and Dan Severn commemorating the Final Battle 2011 iPPV event.
ROH posted the following promo from The Embassy:
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