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[aceldamas]

ROH says it was the plan all along for O'Reilly to drop the belt at Wrestle Kingdom. I'm not buying it. Why put the strap on him for a month? That's worse than Xavier's run.

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Jan 5, 2017 22:25:37 GMT -5 aceldamas said:

ROH says it was the plan all along for O'Reilly to drop the belt at Wrestle Kingdom. I'm not buying it. Why put the strap on him for a month? That's worse than Xavier's run.

If by 'the plan all along' they mean 'the plan for the last week or so' then I guess that's accurate.

[Pete]

It was the plan all along for Cole to become the first-ever 3-time champion in the most anticlimactic way possible? If you buy that, I have some lovely beachfront property in Muncie, Indiana that I have to unload.

I really don't want to see War Machine split up. I'd almost rather both of them leave for NXT than just Rowe.

On the other hand, if everyone leaves, maybe ROH will have no choice but to pull the trigger and actually push Dalton Castle as a top guy.

[topdollar]

As an old school fan, I think they need to bring back Jim Cornette or J.J. Dillon as booker. Maybe bring in Dutch Mantel. When he was booking TNA, their shows were way better than WWE. The Knockout Division was so strong, there was a lot of talk about them getting their own show. Or why not just make Kevin Sullivan the booker? He has a great creative mind and he's already there.

[TTX]

Looks like Dutch is going to be working for TNA.

[topdollar]

Bringing back Dutch is the best thing TNA can do after getting rid of Dixie.

[Deleted]

Corino and Nigel left and now you can add Kevin Kelly to the list of departures. Guessing his attempt to get the booking job didn't go how he wanted to. As rovert said on Twitter, when you go after the lizard man you better not miss. Also this is the same company that fumbled the ball when it came to signing Keith Lee to a contract and they've run off damn near every star they had on their roster this time two years ago while essentially handing the company over to the Bucks. Holy shit this company is a tire fire.

[Pete]

Meltzer is indicating that Kelly quit his full-time position but isn't necessarily done as an announcer. Not yet, at least.

The idea that ROH is a tire fire still stands, of course.

[executioner]

ROH's, I mean Delirious', handling of business the last 2 months has been Dixie/Russo like. You do not put a belt on a guy at your biggest show of the year unless you have him under contract. Simple. ROH dropping the ball on this is inexcusable.

ROH whining when Nigel, who was not under a contract, left to go to WWE makes ROH look TNA like. If you wanted Nigel to stick around then SIGN HIM.

Other names have left, and if the rumors are at all true even more will. ROH really has no one to blame but themselves.

Truthfully, the first person ROH needs to look at is Delirious. I did not think there was a bigger goof as an indy promoter than Quackenbush (whom is vastly overrated and a hypocrite), but Delirious might just have taken that crown.

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Feb 3, 2017 16:44:24 GMT -5 Pete said:

Meltzer is indicating that Kelly quit his full-time position but isn't necessarily done as an announcer. Not yet, at least.

The idea that ROH is a tire fire still stands, of course.

In fairness, Dave isn't the most impartial person when it comes to reporting on ROH. There are issuess that he flat out sidesteps and the ones he doesn't, he tries to figure out the most careful way to go about reporting so he doesn't lose his sources within the company. He generally reports whatever BS number ROH claims for attendance while fans who were at the shows offer corrections and he never listens to them. The All Star Extravaganza TV taping is a real good example of that. The number he claimed didn't add up with pictures from the venue, much less the shows that aired.

Anyone else find it interesting that Corino and KK are gone after it was reported they were both looking to take over as booker?