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Post by lordakiyama on Jul 6, 2012 10:21:21 GMT -5
Courtesy of Wrestle Observer/Figure Four Online
ROH issued a response to Kenny King, half of their tag team championship team the All Night Express, appearing on TNA tonight.
According to the response, King's contract expired 11 days ago, but before the expiration, King and ROH reached an agreement that allowed him to negotiate with other promotions, but not to wrestle for other promotions. When the short extension period was over, he would either sign a new ROH contract or he would leave.
They claimed King had agreed verbally to the deal, but then said he wasn't sure other promotions would accept the negotiation clause period. He said he was afraid if he signed the extension and negotiated that they would feel they were tampering. ROH told him they would not view other offers as tampering.
On Tuesday, King told ROH he was going to have a meeting with TNA, which was allowable under the agreement. Then, this morning, he told ROH that he'd be wrestling on tonight's show. He was told by ROH that his agreement didn't allow him to wrestle on tonight's show.
ROH claimed his response that that while the deal he agreed to seemed fair at the time, others had told him it wasn't fair and he was going to wrestle. It is notable that King did not sign the papers, only verbally agreed to them according to ROH.
ROH said they consider this a breach and they will not be using King going forward. A decision will be made regarding the tag team titles.
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Post by tarrpf on Jul 7, 2012 16:16:43 GMT -5
In other words, ROH are a bunch of whiners.
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Post by Captain_44 on Jul 12, 2012 19:26:04 GMT -5
ROH came off looking very bad in all this.
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Post by xnocreativityx on Jul 13, 2012 0:58:56 GMT -5
ROH came off looking very bad in all this. Exactly. I'm not really watching the product anymore and this just helps solidify my decision.
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Post by cabanahammock on Jul 13, 2012 20:40:57 GMT -5
How so? Kenny King made a commitment. No, he didn't sign the agreement, but he did verbally agree (and has not denied that he did). It was quite clear, he could NOT wrestle for another promotion on TV. King agreed to this, then back on his word to ROH.
He lied, in essence. Ring of Honor does not look bad in this. They expected a talent to actually be honest with them, and go through with his agreement. He did not. That makes King look very bad, but not ROH.
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Post by xnocreativityx on Jul 14, 2012 18:21:57 GMT -5
How so? Kenny King made a commitment. No, he didn't sign the agreement, but he did verbally agree (and has not denied that he did). It was quite clear, he could NOT wrestle for another promotion on TV. King agreed to this, then back on his word to ROH. He lied, in essence. Ring of Honor does not look bad in this. They expected a talent to actually be honest with them, and go through with his agreement. He did not. That makes King look very bad, but not ROH. Take a negative and make it a positive then... do something else other than randomly having a tournament for the belts. That's also unfair to Titus. Take a half hour and come up with an angle for it.
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Post by jimthy on Jul 15, 2012 8:44:31 GMT -5
How so? Kenny King made a commitment. No, he didn't sign the agreement, but he did verbally agree (and has not denied that he did). It was quite clear, he could NOT wrestle for another promotion on TV. King agreed to this, then back on his word to ROH. He lied, in essence. Ring of Honor does not look bad in this. They expected a talent to actually be honest with them, and go through with his agreement. He did not. That makes King look very bad, but not ROH. Take a negative and make it a positive then... do something else other than randomly having a tournament for the belts. That's also unfair to Titus. Take a half hour and come up with an angle for it. Kinda hard to come up with an angle when the guy who caused all this is working for another company no? I'm glad they're doing a tournament, gives meaning to some tag matches, and doesn't just hand the belt to someone, i.e. had they had Rhett just pick a new partner. You obviously know what they should do, so let's hear your ground breaking angle they could have done here. For the record, while I think it was slightly insane of ROH to not have a champion locked up with a written contract, and they were horribly naive to believe anyone's "word" in the wrestling business, I still feel this falls on King for going back on his word.
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Post by unofficialartist on Nov 18, 2015 10:35:42 GMT -5
...And HERE we are 3+ years later and SOMEHOW ROH & King are BACK TOGETHER!? WHO made the first move & thought: Most of the fanbase won't recall what happened because we have short-term memory loss like wwe fans?? King deserves to get BOOED at every arena he shows his dishonorable face for pulling such a "WDR" or at least have "jimmy rave-style" stuff thrown at him and Titus should have his head examined for taking him back as a team.
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