With ROH holding its Final Battle PPV before going on hiatus, there were wrestlers from AEW and Impact Wrestling who sent in videos thanking Ring of Honor for what the promotion did for their careers.
WWE stars who previously worked for ROH didn’t do the same. Kevin Owens explained why this was the case when he spoke with Pat Laprade on the French Canadian podcast Les anti-pods de la lutte.
“The answer is quite simple: Ring of Honor didn’t ask any wrestlers from WWE to do that, nor contacted anyone at WWE,” Owens said. “I knew it was going to be their last show, but I didn’t think to send a video so they could play it at the show. I’ve watched it. I was at a WWE show, and I was watching it on my phone, so it was not something I simply ignored. I’ve read some people on the Internet saying that probably WWE didn’t let us do it, but that’s incorrect. It’s just ROH who didn’t ask us, and I bet that if they had, we could have done it, but that wasn’t the case.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcript
