Post-production on the Ring of Honor PPV debut "Respect is Earned" has been completed. The PPV will begin airing on 7/1 depending on your PPV carrier. In Demand will carry it starting 7/20. When asked for his feelings on the post-produced show, ROH's Gabe Sapolsky said, "I couldn't be happier with the final PPV product. I feel that it is a great show for new fans. If you've never seen ROH before this is a great place to start. The show was really designed for new fans and to give them an introductory point and I feel that this PPV accomplishes that. Our regular fans know what to expect from us and this will not disappoint them."
Ring of Honor is currently running their answer to the MTV Real World with a series of vignettes on Youtube.com focusing on long suffering Jimmy Jacobs who is trying to romance long-time manager Lacey. The promotion is posting daily video journals of their weekend together (shown below) with Lacey and Jacobs both commenting "MTV Real World Confessional" style about the things that transpire after they were filmed. The idea behind the vignettes is to give Jacobs something to do while he's recovering from his knee surgery and to do something different that ROH hasn't done. They are different for ROH but pretty damn entertaining. After watching these, it's hard not to let Jacobs grow on you and Lacey's reaction to his attempts make me smirk.
Jimmy Jacobs/Lacey Video
ROH is currently running a 20% off sale on all merchandise at
www.ROHWrestling.com. If you are reading this, I highly advise you to head over there to pick up the recent released 3/30 All Stra Extravaganze III and 3/31 Supercard of Honor II DVDs from Wrestlemania weekend in Michigan, which feature talents from Dragon Gate in Japan in an awesome six man tag, the best cage match in ROH history and career performances by BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs, and a lot more top to bottom great wrestling. From an in-ring standpoint, these shows are phenomenal.
The complete listing of upcoming Ring of Honor live events are:
Friday 6/8 at Roxbury Community College - Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury, MA
*ROH champion Takeshi Morishima vs. Jay Briscoe
*Mark Briscoe vs. Kevin Steen
*Nigel McGuinness vs. Chris Hero vs. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Mike Quackenbush
*Bryan Danielson vs. Jimmy Rave
*No Remorse Corps (Roderick Strong, Rocky Romero & Davey Richards) vs. The Resilience (Matt Cross & Erick Stevens) & Delirious
*Matt Sydal vs. El Generico plus Tank Toland, BJ Whitmer, Daizee Haze, Brent Albright, Damien Wayne and Rex Sterling
Saturday 6/9 at Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Philadelphia, PA
*ROH champion Takeshi Morishima vs. FIP champion Roderick Strong
*ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs.Claudio Castagnoli & Chris Hero - Best of Three Falls
*Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw
*Bryan Danielson vs. Matt Sydal
*Nigel McGuinness vs. Larry Sweeney's Mystery Opponent
*Delirious vs. Rocky Romero
*Davey Richards vs. Matt Cross
*Brent Albright vs. BJ Whitmer vs. Jimmy Rave vs. Erick Stevens
*Also scheduled: Daizee Haze, Lacey & Jimmy Jacobs, Pelle Primeau, Rex Sterling, Damien Wayne and more
6/22 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Dayton, Ohio
*Bryan Danielson & Nigel McGuinness vs. ROH champion Takeshi Morishima & Naomichi Marufuji
*ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs. Matt Sydal & a partner of his choice
*KENTA vs. Rocky Romero
*Also scheduled are Jay & Mark Briscoe, Kevin Steen, El Generico, BJ Whitmer, Brent Albright, Lacey, Jimmy Jacobs, Adam Pearce, Shane Hagadorn, Jimmy Rave, Roderick Strong, Davey Richards, Chris Hero, Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland, Jimmy Rave, Delirious, Matt Sydal, Erick Stevens and Matt Cross
6/23 PPV Taping at the Frontier Park Field House in Chicago Ridge, Illinois
*KENTA vs. Bryan Danielson
*ROH Tag Team champions The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico
*Nigel McGuinness vs. Chris Hero plus ROH champion Takeshi Morishima, Naomichi Marufuji, BJ Whitmer, Brent Albright, Lacey, Jimmy Jacobs, Adam Pearce, Shane Hagadorn, Jimmy Rave, Roderick Strong, Davey Richards, Rocky Romero, Larry Sweeney, Tank Toland, Jimmy Rave, Delirious, Matt Sydal, Erick Stevens, and Matt Cross
Additional upcoming dates for ROH include 6/16 in Tokyo, Japan, 7/17 in Osaka, Japan, 7/27 in Long Island, NY, 7/28 in Edison, NJ, 8/24 in Hartford, CT, 8/25 in New York City, 9/14 in Detroit, Michigan, and 10/20 and 10/21 in Great Britain. The next NYC show following Summerslam weekend looks to be early November.
