Ring Of Honor
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The Ring of Honor (ROH) is an independent professional wrestling promotion created in 2002. It is one of the leading US Independent companies and usually holds two or three shows every month. Annual shows include the Anniversary Show, Death Before Dishonor, Glory By Honor, Round Robin Challenge and Final Battle.
Unlike World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which mostly focuses on physical appearance, microphone skills, gimmicks, and characters, Ring of Honor showcases technical matches with smaller but very skilled performers.
Matches tend to be longer than those of larger promotions, and focus on the athletic abilities of the wrestlers.
Ring of Honor has developed a loyal fan base in the Northeast and around the country.
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Roster
Wrestlers who currently compete or used to compete for ROH include Samoa Joe, Low Ki, American Dragon, CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Homicide, Alex Shelley, James Gibson, Spanky, Nigel McGuinness, Jack Evans, Chad Collyer, BJ Whitmer, Austin Aries and more.
Legendary performers Mick Foley, Ricky Steamboat, Jim Cornette and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan have also made regular appearances in non-wrestling roles.
ROH are also involved in talent trading with a major promotion in the UK, Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) gaining superstars like Doug Williams and Jonny Storm they are also involved in cross-promotional shows like Frontiers of Honor.
International wrestling superstars such as Terry Funk, Keiji Mutoh, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Kaz Hayashi, Eddie Guerrero, Shinjiro Ohtani and 2 Cold Scorpio have also made appearances in ROH at one point or another.
Famous matches
* Low Ki vs American Dragon vs Christopher Daniels @ Era of Honor Begins - Feb. 23 '02
* Low Ki vs Spanky vs Doug Williams vs Christopher Daniels (One hour Iron Man Match to crown the first ROH Champion) @ Crowning a Champion - Jul. 27 '02
* Paul London vs Michael Shane (Street Fight) @ Unscripted - Sep. 21 '02
* American Dragon vs Paul London (2/3 Falls Match) @ Epic Encounter - Apr. 12 '03
* A.J. Styles vs Paul London (#1 Contender's Match) @ Night of Grudges - Jun. 14 '03
* Tag Team Scramble Cage Match @ Main Event Spectacles - Nov. 1 '03
* Samoa Joe vs C.M Punk - These two have had three amazing matches against each other, two resulted in one hour draws and the third went to then ROH Champion Samoa Joe
* Austin Aries vs American Dragon (2/3 Falls Match that went for 73 minutes) @ Testing the Limit - Aug. 7 '04
* Samoa Joe vs Austin Aries (ROH Title Match in which Joe's 21 month reign finally ends) @ Final Battle 2004 - Dec. 26 '04
Titles
* ROH Heavyweight Championship
* ROH Pure Championship
* ROH Tag-Team Championship
ROH wrestling school
The ROH promotion also runs a professional wrestling school called ROH Wrestling School in Bristol, PA. Its current head trainer is Austin Aries. One class of students have already graduated and currently wrestle on the US Independent Circuit. The second class are in training presently.