ROH News: Roster Signings and the Card for Their Debut Episode on 9/24

What's that, someone's actually writing an article that's not about the WWE and a certain man that set the wrestling world (and the IWC) on fire over the course of the past few weeks? Shocking.

But in all honesty, let me just give a quick tip of the hat to Punk for going back to his old ROH music, it's where I first realized that I was watching someone special. In a room of 10 wrestling fans, I was the only one that knew what was going on when "Cult of Personality" hit.

Alright, that's enough of that, now on to business.

Over the past few weeks, Ring of Honor has been signing several members of their roster to contracts leading up to the big taping on August 13th.

The following wrestlers have been confirmed as having extended their contracts:

Shelton Benjamin

Charlie Hass

Adam Cole

Kyle O'Reilly

Rhett Titus

Kenny King

“The Project” Tommaso Ciampa

Michael Elgin

“The Prodigy” Mike Bennett

Bobby Cruise (The Voice of ROH)

Todd Sinclair (Senior Referee)

Kevin Kelly (missed this one, credit goes to my buddy ShredderIsAlive for informing me) 

All these signings come on the heel of the news that ROH may have lost the Kings of Wrestling, Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli (about an 80 percent chance of this deal getting done in my opinion) and possibly Colt Cabana (speculation).

If these guys do end up leaving ROH/the Indy scene, I wish them the best of luck, all three men deserve to be top superstars in my books (Claudio will be the next big thing to come from the Indy scene in my opinion).

So far the following matches have been announced, signed and confirmed for the ROH debut show:

ROH World Title Match
Davey Richards defends vs. Roderick Strong with Truth Martini

World Tag Team Title Match
Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas) vs. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) with Shane Hagadorn

World TV Title Match
El Generico defends vs. Jay Lethal

“Defy or Deny” Rematch
Eddie Edwards vs. Michael Elgin with Truth Martini

The following wrestlers are also scheduled to appear on the show as well:

- Jay and Mark Briscoe
- The All Night Express (Rhett Titus & Kenny King)
- Adam Cole
- Kyle O’Reilly
- “The Prodigy” Mike Bennett
- Tommaso Ciampa with The Embassy
- The Bravado Brothers

I also expect the man ROH officials deemed "The Wrestler That Can't Be Named" after his tirade at Best in the World, Kevin Steen, as well as a couple of surprise returns (maybe The Young Bucks (a.k.a. Generation Me, or maybe a CM Punk sighting, he's been at a few of their shows in the past year.)

Now in my personal opinion, this looks like an amazing card and a great way to kick off what promises to be a good run for the promotion.

I have been asked by many people how they can view ROH when it launches. For information of ROH's schedule in your area, click here. Also, if it is not in your area, the show will be streamed for free on ROH's website (ROHWrestling.com).

Last bit of news, The ROH Best in the World Dvd is now on sale. It's $20 and in my opinion is well worth that price (I actually ordered my copy as I was writing this article).

I'll keep you guys up to date with all the breaking ROH news as it comes out.

Thanks for reading and as always comment your thoughts below.