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I am starting to get into ROH via Sinclair and I was confused by something. Cary Silkin was named the founder of ROH on one of the episodes, but I thought it existed before he owned it, so what gives?

Cary Silkin is the founder of ROH and he's not. I know that sounds confusing so here's the explanation. Ring of Honor was launched in 2002 by Rob Feinstein's RF Video to supplement that company's sagging sales after ECW, which they worked closely with, went out of business. When Feinstein, who at this point, was a minority owner in the company as Cary Silkin had purchased shares of the company over time as he invested into it, was forced out following the embarassment of the NBC 10 incident where Feinstein was caught on camera going to the home of what he believed to be a 14 year old boy, Ring of Honor shut down. Silkin founded a new company, Ring of Honor Wrestling, and hired all the old office workers and continued the same storylines with the same roster. Something similar happened when Silkin sold the company to Sinclair Broadcasting. He shut down his verson of the company and Sinclair signed the roster to new deals, bringing over the existing staffers under their umbrella as well. So, technically, there have been three ROH companies and Silkin founded one of them.

Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat had a series of matches together in which Steamboat won the belt then lost it back to Flair. Could you list these matches in order and the DVD releases containing these matches?

Steamboat defeated Flair in Chicago at NWA Chi-Town Rumble '89. He then defeated Flair in a Best of Three Falls Match at Clash of Champions 6. Flair regained the belt at NWA Wrestlewar '89: Music City Showdown in Nashville, TN. That is the series of bouts you are talking about.

The first match is available on WWE's Greatest Wrestling Stars of the 80s. The second and third match appeared on WWE's Ultimate Ric Flair Collection.

How old is Barry Windham? Is his heel turn on Luger on any commercial dvd or tape?

Windham will turn 52 on 7/4. The heel turn was made available on WWE's Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen DVD. It was, in my opinion, the best heel turn I've ever seen.

Another ECW reunion show? Really? Who's going to care about this?

ECW fans?

I am really worried about the WWE Hall of Fame. I would love to go and see the Four Horsemen get inducted but the last time I went, they gave the Funks all of three minutes to talk. Terry Funk! Three minutes! How can I know the same won't happen here?

You really can't, but a positive sign is that the Hall of Fame will not air in edited form on the USA Network the same night, which is why abbreviated segments like the Funk induction (which was beyond disrespectful, but so were all the other short inductions) were rushed through. WWE's production team had a few scares where the ceremony ran so long, they were actually on the air for the broadcast with no finsh to the show, so they were editing like mad to make it work. Moving the broadcast to another day allows for those being honored and the fans in attendance to get the most out of their experience, and WWE production to get the show cut and ready without being under the gun.

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