During a recent appearance on “T95: The Rock Station,” AEW wrestler Paul Wight discussed WCW handing him the gimmick of Andre The Giant’s son when he first signed with the promotion.
That gimmick lasted for about a year before eventually getting dropped. Wight said,
“That’s how they did things back in the day. When you get introduced, you’ve got to have some kind of legacy and validity of who they are. And that was one of the ways they did it. Arn Anderson wasn’t really Ole Anderson’s nephew — stuff like that. There was a lot of that going on. ‘Somebody related to somebody. That’s why they’re here.’ So they billed me as Andre’s son and we were off and running after that.”
On a recent edition of “The Insiders” podcast, former ROH owner and ambassador Cary Silkin discussed AEW President Tony Khan purchasing Ring of Honor last year.
Silkin stated that ROH has not “gelled together” under Khan’s leadership. He said,
“It’s still alive today, but it’s…it doesn’t have… even in the worst times of my Ring of Honor, even in the worst times of the Sinclair Ring of Honor, there was like ‘We’re all in this together’ kind of. It was a family; the fans are family. And I like Tony Khan, and he’s a good guy, and he’s got so much on his plate that I just think the current Ring of Honor is … I can’t come up with the right words, and maybe I’m sour grapes a little. But it’s not gelled together properly.”
ROH currently runs its weekly TV show on HonorClub. The latest pay-per-view event was Death Before Dishonor 2023 in July.
