Okay, so you guys don't know. That's cool. Usually bookers are any combination of the owner, the owner’s friend, an active/retired worker, or someone promoted within. That last bracket casts a wide net, as it can include employees in office management/advertising (Gabe Sapolsky), magazine editorial...

Well that's sort of a standard for nearly all of wrestling forever. Even really rinky dink promotions like IWC out of Pittsburgh do it. Most people like something like a backstory to a match and a direction to go in. If they didn't then most promotions wouldn't bother doing it as it is a hassle. It...

Wait until Wilson lets me pin him for the ROH world title using the Finger Poke of Doom. You think I’m bumping for you, brother? Maybe I should rephrase. Adam Pearce and Delirious are/were both wrestlers, correct? But they became bookers for ROH somehow. Meanwhile, Gabe Sapolsky was before both Pea...

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STITCHES wrote: Like if I was someone worth a shit in the ROH front office, I'd be pushing to find someone who could inject fresh ideas but honor what ROH was originally supposed to be about.

I see no evidence that there is someone in the ROH front office doing this.

Yeah, no shit...

Har har har. Maybe I should rephrase. Adam Pearce and Delirious are/were both wrestlers, correct? But they became bookers for ROH somehow. Meanwhile, Gabe Sapolsky was before both Pearce and Delirious, but obviously was never a wrestler. So, what's the criteria? Like if I was someone worth a shit in...

When you only have 10-12 shows a year, with one storyline of the Young Bucks and their buddies being dicks, and an open door policy where there's no restrictions on hiring random guys from everywhere once or twice (or what you can do with them if you do), it's kind of easy to avoid repeats. When yo...

Agreed. They could have really done something with Ciampa's character. It was another case of being told but not actually shown how much of a psychopath the guy was. If you watched Tomasso match on mute, you'd just think he was another slightly erratic heel.

How does ROH determine who becomes the next booker?

It might. If I watch any Omega contest in NJPW without my glasses on, it just makes me think there's English dubbed anime on TV.

Fish as TV champ would be awesome. Follow that with a contender tournament and now the mid-card is finally doing something again.

I think guys sign ROH contracts try to get to the WWE, not NJPW. Signing a contract with ROH is an affirmation that you're one step closer to Vince, not Gedo. With SBG locking guys up to contracts, their value may increase as opposed to indy guys with none. Don't you think The Young Bucks will use ...

I did find the Roderick feud ending on the note of Roderick winning the TV title to be an underwhelming way to get the TV title off of Lethal instead of building a new star. With how Roderick's TV title reign ended up going, I still feel that way although the match in Michigan that they had was eas...

Man, I don't know. Call me crazy, but when someone like Cole has the belt, I'm thinking here's some young punk that knows how to stick it to you with his arrogance and his ability. He's almost like the Young Bucks that way, just not as flashy. So, when that was going on, I loved to hate him and also...

It's just going to take more than Colt Cabana randomly showing up for me to take a chance on being underwhelmed by seeing Briscoes teamed up with War Machine yet again. And by the way, that rivalry is old news despite ROH not even exploring it to the fullest. And it began like what? Exactly a year ...

“Started off” with heavy challengers? Two of those title defenses you mentioned (plus the Styles defense) happened after Lethal had already been the champion for SIX MONTHS. Compare that to Cole’s first six months in which he was chased by Steen, Briscoe, Elgin, and Hero and had defended the belt a...

Ummm... well, yeah. Did he not just wrestle as a midcarder against ACH? He's obviously held heavyweight championships before other places. Doesn't mean he's walking right into ROH as a top guy. If that were the case, he'd be the one randomly confronting Lethal, not Colt Cabana.

Fair enough. Would be nice to see some new Briscoe promos.

Damn right.

WWE definitely seems to be raking up the talent. Gallows & Gun, Nakamura, Balor, Zayn, Owens, Styles and now possibly Ricochet. It's exciting. Just hope the programming is as worth while as the roster.