>>13372020>giant sports entertainment promotion bought a cool indie promotion but uses its brand as a pseudo-developmental instead of having it be close to anything it once wasIt's weird how this very specific scenario has now happened twice.
>>13373869>Jay Lethal (greatest American wrestler of our generation)>Dalton Castle>Silas Young>Roderick Strong>Damien Priest>reDRagon>Cedric Alexander>Lio Rush>All-Night ExpressAdam Cole was way better in ROH because him being a turbo manlet wasn't nearly as noticeable, so he was able to be a convincing main eventer. ROH's booking was also more strict on what they would allow. I've noticed that there are a lot of wrestlers who do embarrassing stuff in other promotions, but wrestled more serious matches in ROH. Like that one .webm that's been posted a couple of times of Dalton Castle and Jonathan Gresham dodging corner chops repeatedly. Neither of them ever did anything as ridiculous as that in the actual ROH. Castle always had a flamboyant and funny gimmick, but he would actually compete during his matches and had a really cool amateur wrestling moveset.
>>13374320A decade ago is when ROH had a national television deal and a partnership with red-hot NJPW. While 00s ROH had more smark fans, 10s ROH had more mainstream fans.
