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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
If RoH wants to compete, they need to become sports entertainment. There's nothing wrong with what they are now, but if they want to be a big promotion, they're going to need to book for an audience other than their current one. Marks. Casuals.
So they're not going to break into the market against the established champion. That's a pretty big long shot, and in order to viably compete, they have to become a lot of things that I doubt their current fanbase actually wants to see. In music terms, it'd be the sort of thing where your favorite independent band goes national, signs a deal with Universal, gets on MTV, and completely changes their act to get radio play. I can see why fans would want to see them succeed, but it seems like it'd be a hollow victory even if they win.
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Bingo. And that's the problem a lot of ROH's fans seem to be having right now, is the change in booking already is annoying them (More run ins, no contests, DQs, etc, which is a complete 180 for ROH, for the most part.)
Personally, who knows... I'm going to the ROH show in Detroit on Friday, and we'll see what's up. It'd definitely the weakest looking card to any ROH show I've gone to, with the only really interesting match being Tyler Black vs Jerry Lynn. It's not a bad card, it's just weak... I mean, Danielson vs Rhett Titus? Aries vs Silas Young? These are glorified squash matches... At least Detroit will get it's mandatory "We're going to go fight in the crowd match where you can't see shit" with Brodie Lee and Necro Butcher...