Tony Khan discusses the options for ROH programming and notes that it deserves better than a YouTube show.
Khan, the president of All Elite Wrestling, bought ROH in March 2022. Since then, he has repeatedly discussed his interest in bringing the company's weekly TV show back. ROH has held two pay-per-views, and its titles have been defended on AEW TV, but updates on its own weekly show have been few and far between.
During the AEW Full Gear post-show media scrum, Bill Pritchard of WrestleZone asked Khan about putting an ROH show on YouTube in order to give it a consistent presence. He stated that there are plenty of options out there, and the pay-per-views are a valuable property. Khan noted that the buys have remained stable since he started holding ROH shows after his acquisition of the company.
"I’ve definitely considered a lot of options, but I think it would be hasty when there are other options out there, to jump into something. It’s a pretty valuable property. For example, even the pay-per-views, for an AEW pay-per-view, it would be 25% or so of what you might get for an AEW pay-per-view or less than 25%. Say a number like 35,000 buys, at the pricepoint for Ring of Honor, which is also a lower pricepoint. On the one hand, for AEW, it’s not bad revenue, but on the other hand it’s not something I see cannibalizing the AEW pay-per-view product because the AEW pay-per-view buys have been pretty stable while we’ve done the Ring of Honor pay-per-views," Khan said.
Khan then emphasized that he wants to get a weekly show back up and running. He noted that he could easily have it on YouTube, but he believes the product deserves better than that. Khan stated that a YouTube show would be a tradeoff, given some of the stars who are currently involved with ROH.
"For the TV, I really would like to get that going and I see it as a weekly series. Because it’s such a major leap, I’ve been holding off on...yeah, I could easily just do a YouTube show, but I think it deserves something better than that. It would be like going from, doing a YouTube show as a place holder...it would be a trade off because it would be beneficial by not having some matches that could take away from other matches that would feature people in AEW, but I also think a lot of people from Ring of Honor that would featured like the champions happen to be some of the biggest names in AEW like Chris Jericho, Samoa Joe, FTR. At times, those have been good to show, but I also try to keep it balanced to where it’s not the whole show," Khan said.
ROH will return to pay-per-view with ROH Final Battle on December 10. More information is available here.
During the media scrum, Khan also stated that CM Punk never asked for Colt Cabana to be moved to the ROH roster. More information is available here.
Khan previously promised that he'll have great news about ROH TV soon. Click here to see what he had to say.
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