Michael Elgin "quits" ROH?

[pikemojo]

Oct 24, 2014 20:11:30 GMT -5 amazingbadger said:

Oct 23, 2014 10:41:28 GMT -5 pikemojo said:

In other words... It's all a work.

Yeah because ROH is famous for doing angles via social media.

They constantly run storylines through YouTube. For them to extend that stuff into Facebook and/or Twitter would not a stretch.

[j]

Oct 24, 2014 23:11:23 GMT -5 amazingbadger said:

Oct 24, 2014 22:21:57 GMT -5 j said:

What did ROH do to punish him out of the blue?

They had to have him drop the title in Canada because he allowed his visa to expire and wasn't allowed to enter the US. This screwed over ROH fans, AIW & their fans who had him booked to defend his AIW title the Sunday after the Canada ROH show & any other American indie promotion he was booked for because he didn't bother renewing his work visa.

ROH then helped him get his visa issue taken care of & he decides he doesn't want to go to ROHs Michigan show that he was advertised for.

ROH is advertising him because he's under contract to work for them.

1. The visa issue was cleared up relatively quickly. At the most he'd have missed a couple of ROH shows, Austin Aries missed more ROH cards then that during his first title reign when he was defending the title abroad.

2. The visa thing is a bureaucratic problem, the details of which we don't actually know. It would seem logical that he did try to renew his work visa and something went wrong, because he clearly expected to be able to work the shows in question. A person should not be punished for circumstances beyond their control.

3. For reasons we currently do not know, Elgin has chosen to part ways with ROH. He has made this very clear and yet they're trying to make him appear despite his wishes. This is a very scummy thing to do.

4. People have had issues which have caused them to miss shows before. Some of them held titles in ROH, why haven't any of them been treated like Michael Elgin?

You're right, we don't know the full details of the story. Elgin could be wrong, ROH could be wrong.

The thing that bothers me is that through all of his twitter rants about his treatment by ROH, I never noticed him show any sorrow to the fans because they bought a ticket expecting to see him. Any easy "sorry guys who were expecting to see me but I'm stuck in Canada" or "sorry guys but because of the way ROH is treating me I won't be at any upcoming ROH shows"

I had tickets to AIW's 3 day weekend Wrestle Rager with the expectations of seeing Michael Elgin vs Tim Donst vs Josh Alexander for the AIW title and I feel I was cheated out of the match. And the least Elgin could of done was apologize to the fans & owners of AIW.