Keith Lee has said he is in AEW to raise the bar for the All Elite promotion, after joining earlier this year.
The former NXT Champion joined AEW this past February, after being released from WWE in November 2021.
Speaking to the MackMania podcast, Lee was asked about possibly working on Ring of Honor programming, as the company is owned by Tony Khan:
“Considering that I have just recently joined AEW, I’m pretty committed to trying to raise the bar there, in a multitude of ways. Something about more marketing or an interest in growing the name itself is kind of my goal and purpose right now. Ring of Honor is something that I haven’t seen since 2017. I’d be willing to have a match there under the right circumstances.”
There are quite a few (names) that are interesting, like Mr. Samoa Joe. He’s a circumstance where I would consider him to be a bit of a mentor, especially from the business side of things, taught me a lot. For all intents and purposes, he’s the reason that I ever took a chance going to the east coast. If it was not for his advice, him and Brian Cage, I never would have gone to the east coast. I never would have had that match with (Donovan) Dijak that kind of changed the trajectory of my career as a whole. I could have been just another dude stuck in Texas doing random stuff. There’s something special about those three letters, especially when you come from it and it’s helped build who you are. I’d be open to fighting there.”
