ROH Dojo
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Professional wrestling |
| Founded | February 23, 2002 |
| Founder | Rob Feinstein |
| Headquarters | 2000 West 41st Street, Baltimore, Maryland |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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David Smith (chairman/CEO - Sinclair Broadcast Group) Joe Koff (COO – Sinclair Broadcast Group) Christopher Ripley (CFO – Sinclair Broadcast Group) Hunter "Delirious" Johnston (senior producer) Cary Silkin (ambassador) Gary Juster (VP of operations) Dan Bynum (head of television production + senior director) Court Bauer (marketing consultant) |
| Products | Television, pay-per-view, merchandise, home video, video-on-demand |
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Sinclair Broadcast Group (2011–present) |
| Website | ROHWrestling.com |
Ring of Honor (ROH) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG), one of the largest television broadcasting companies in the United States.
ROH was privately owned by founder Rob Feinstein until 2004. The promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin from 2004 to 2011, before being sold to Sinclair. ROH holds live events, television tapings, PPVs and internet PPVs primarily in the United States and occasionally internationally. Annual PPV events include Best in the World (the first event in the chronology – aired June 22, 2014 – was also the promotion's first live PPV broadcast), the Anniversary Show, Supercard of Honor (held during WrestleMania weekend) and its flagship event Final Battle. All ROH shows are sold on-demand and on DVD via its online store.
In 2009, the promotion signed a TV deal with HDNet, which aired shows weekly until 2011. As of September 2011, ROH's flagship broadcast, Ring of Honor Wrestling, has been syndicated in the U.S. by Sinclair and airs on Sinclair-owned stations.
Depending on the source, ROH is the second or third largest professional wrestling promotion in the United States, behind WWE and sometimes Global Force Wrestling (GFW).
In April 2001, the pro-wrestling video-distribution company RF Video needed a new promotion to lead its video sales when its best-seller – Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) – went out of business and WWE purchased the rights to its brandname. RF Video also videotaped events held by other, less-popular, regional wrestling promotions; it sold these through its catalog and website. After months of trying to join Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), RF Video's owner, Rob Feinstein, decided to fill the ECW void by starting his own pro wrestling promotion, and distributing its made-for-DVD/VHS productions exclusively through RF Video. The first event, titled The Era of Honor Begins, took place on February 23, 2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the former home area of ECW. It featured nine matches, including a match between Eddy Guerrero and Super Crazy for the IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship and a triple threat match between Christopher Daniels, Bryan Danielson, and Low Ki (who would become known as the "founding fathers of ROH"). In its first year of operation, Ring of Honor confined itself to staging live events in a limited number of venues and cities – primarily in the northeastern United States. Ten shows ran in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; two in Wakefield, Massachusetts; one in metro Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and, one in Queens, New York. In 2003, ROH expanded to other areas of the United States, including Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland. It also began to build its international identity by co-promoting an event with Frontier Wrestling Alliance in London, England on May 17, 2003.
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