What I Submitted To Bleacher Report

This was the article I wrote for Bleacher Report to try to get in on their wrestling section. Ring of Honor is the 3rd, soon to be 2nd, biggest wrestling promotion in the United States & for the last year I've gotten really behind their product. The following article explains why I'm behind their movement.

When news broke that Ring of Honor had been purchased by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it sent a lot of shockwaves through the internet wrestling community. Ring of Honor is set to become the 2nd biggest promotion in the United States with this purchase due to the reach that Sinclair has on TV and thus the exposure they can give to ROH. Nobody will ever overtake WWE for the #1 spot, at least not anytime in the near future. But there is a now a competition between TNA & ROH for #2, and there's one specific reason why ROH will win that competition. It's called Tag Team Wrestling. Now anyone that watches WWE or TNA may have never heard of tag team wrestling, due to the fact that both companies have basically made it taboo. Can you name me the WWE Tag Team Champions right now? Go ahead and think about it, I'll wait. For that matter, can you name the TNA Tag Champs either? I didn't think so. (The answers are New Nexus & Beer Money) Ring of Honor, however, takes great pride in their tag team division. In fact, I dare say that ROH currently houses the greatest assortment of tag-teams since the NWA of the late 1980's. NWA at one point had The Road Warriors, The Horsemen, The Steiner Bros, The Freebirds, Doom, The Skyscrapers, The Midnight Express, The Rock & Roll Express, The Fantastics, & Varsity Club. Being Tag Team Champions in NWA meant just as much as being the World Heavyweight Champion, which is how a good promotion should be. Ring of Honor has created a very similar situation, led by their current tag champions, and appropriately named "Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team." Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin made their debut in September of 2010 and catapulted themselves to the tag titles in 7 short months. The former champions, Kings of Wrestling, are as good as anyone on the planet. They too are appropriately named, as they had an incredible series of 5-star matches with Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team. It culminated in what I consider to be the greatest tag team match I've ever seen at "Honor Takes Center Stage" this past April where Haas & Benjamin won the straps. But this is just the tip of the iceberg for ROH. Longtime roster members, The Briscoes have waged possible the feud of the year with Kenny King & Rhett Titus, The All-Night Express. There's also The Bravado Brothers, Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilley, and if they tagged up full-time, what could possibly be the best tag team in the world, The American Wolves. So when ROH comes to your TV sets in the very near future, you may see a type of wrestling you haven't seen in years. And in my eyes, that's what will set them apart from everyone else & make them a bonafied household name.