Ring of Honor COO Joe Koff once again addressed several rumors that Sinclair Broadcasting is interested in purchasing TNA Wrestling. When the rumors surfaced several weeks ago, Koff said at the time that “rumors are rumors and that’s exactly what they are.”
Koff told the PWInsider website on Thursday, “I think it’s natural when one company is in trouble and there are bigger companies available to look at them as a business. I will say this about our company Mike. We do so many corporate acquisitions over the course of the year in so many different spaces. We just bought a complete channel – The Tennis Channel. We’re buying digital assets. We look at deals because we are a company that is looking for deals. One of the things I asked personally is, really, I don’t want to have a direct involvement in that. If they [Sinclair] feel, from a business standpoint, it’s a worthwhile deal to look at, of course I’m going to get involved in it. I think the rumors are just escalating because it seems logical and I think there’s a lot of people that want it to happen and a lot of people who are worried about it happening, but you know what, until it actually happens, it’s nothing. We can talk about all the speculation and all the naysayers [from when Sinclair purchased ROH] and ‘what do they know about wrestling?’ and all that stuff, you know, you just have to go with the flow with all this and not second-guess and be that guy.”
