new ROH World Six Man Tag Team Championship

[Vegas]

Six-man tag team matches have been a highlight of Ring of Honor events for years, and now competitors in those bouts will have something to fight for other than pride and the winner’s share of the purse.

The inaugural ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions will be crowned in an eight-team tournament that begins at the end of September. This will be the first time in six years that ROH has created a new title.

Teams expected to compete in the tournament include: Bullet Club, The Cabinet (Rhett Titus, Kenny King and Caprice Coleman) and the current World Tag Team Champions The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and Kamaitachi.

Six-man matches are a staple of Lucha Libre (where they are referred as trios matches), and with ROH’s recent partnership with Mexico’s CMLL promotion, the timing couldn’t be better for ROH to introduce a six-man tag title.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling, also a partner of ROH, introduced the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship this past January with a tournament that was won by The Briscoes and Toru Yano.

ROH’s new championship will mark the first time a major U.S.-based promotion has had a six-man tag team title in nearly 25 years.

Roy McClarity, Pat O'Connor & Yukon Eric were the first NWA 6-Man Champions crowned over 60 years ago. In the ‘80s, the NWA created a six-man tag title that was held by the likes of Dusty Rhodes and The Road Warriors, and in World Class Championship Wrestling, the legendary feud between The Freebirds and The Von Erichs often revolved around that promotion’s six-man tag title.

The tournament gets underway at All Star Extravaganza weekend in Lowell, MA on Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st, and continues on Oct. 29th in Baltimore.

rohwrestling.com/news/roh-introduce-world-six-man-tag-team-championship

[aceldamas]

Hmm. I just don't see this lasting long. It will be high profile at first but I see it fading fast.

I actually thought the new title announcement would be Women of Honor title.

[maddog1981]

I think this will last about as long as the No. 1 Contenders Trophy did. I don't see how with their roster size they can keep a trios championship interesting for very long.

[TTX]

It's no Chikara for trios. Interesting that they're going this way.

[maddog1981]

RoH seems to be making a lot of bad choices recently. This, jobbing endlessly to the NJPW talent and pushing the Women of Honor all come to mind.

[Vegas]

Depending on how they structure the tournament, I could see The Addiction dropping the ROH World Tag Team Championship to the Young Bucks at ASE and then along with Kamaitachi winning the tournament to become the first ROH World Six Man Tag Team Champions.

[Deleted]

This may or may not be the exact statement that lead to these titles being created: "Hey, New Japan did this thing and it was a really stupid idea. We should do it too!"

Also, I'm amazed that ROH works with New Japan and threw out that bullshit line about a tournament for those NEVER Six Man Tag Titles. They booked a random six man tag at the Dome and created a set of useless belts to have the match for. Good grief.    

Aug 30, 2016 20:56:04 GMT -5 maddog1981 said:

RoH seems to be making a lot of bad choices recently. This, jobbing endlessly to the NJPW talent and pushing the Women of Honor all come to mind.

WOH wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't a half-hearted attempt to showcase women's wrestling that revolves around the booker's girlfriend who has the personality of a blank cereal box and the in ring ability of the WWE Divas division circa 2007.

[Tournament Master]

Aug 30, 2016 20:25:14 GMT -5 TTX said:

It's no Chikara for trios. Interesting that they're going this way.

Chikara is smart that they do a trios tournament yearly, but don't have title belts.

Trios titles works in Lucha Underground given the Mexican influence and the lack of tag team titles in the promotion.

This just doesn't seem like a long term viable proposition.

[TTX]

I remember when WCW brought them back only to have the first champions be JYD, Tommy Rich and Ricky Morton. Not quite as fun as when the Varsity Club was trapping people so they could fight the Roadies for the belts.

[amazingbadger]

Aug 30, 2016 20:56:04 GMT -5 maddog1981 said:

RoH seems to be making a lot of bad choices recently. This, jobbing endlessly to the NJPW talent and pushing the Women of Honor all come to mind.

Yes ROH talent jobs so endlessly to NJPW talent that the Briscoe Brothers are currently the IGWP tag team champions. Also at the last show Adam Cole defeated both Naito and Tanahashi to defend the ROH World Title and Kyle O'Reilly defeated Shibata. Oh and Bobby Fish successfully defended the TV title against EVIL and won that title FROM one of those NJPW talents that you claim never lose to ROH guys. Not to mention all the times Jay Lethal successfully defended against New Japan guys when he was World Champion AND during his TV title reign as well.