Before I got back into wrestling about 6 months ago, I had always thought that the WWE/F could do no wrong. It wasn't until I started visiting GameSpot's Wrestling game Discussion forum that I realized that what I was watching wasn't as great as it could be. I saw a couple people talking about Ring of Honor, and myself, being someone who actually liked guys like Goldberg and WCW era Scott Steiner, had no clue what they were talking about. Then, I discovered it. I found Ring of Honor, and Ring of Honor found me. Well, not really. What I actually found was a guy on Soulseek with a whole slew of wrestling matches to download. Now, before I heard about RoH, I downloaded stuff like Goldberg vs Bret Hart, and HBK vs Taker in a casket match. I downloaded a match between Michael Shane and Paul London one day, and despite the poorly compressed video quality, i was enthralled. That's not something I can say about the WWE's product these days. Well, I did some looking around on the internet, and found out how to order some Ring of Honor DVD's. It helped that the shipping was very reasonably priced and shipped very fast. Anyways, I bought Death before Dishonor, and watched the entire DVD in one sitting one early Saturday morning. Since then, I have been craving more Ring of Honor.
If only the people who are tired with the WWE's same BS could see Ring of Honor. Ring of Honor seems to do everything right, even with their small indy budget. I remember watching a bloodied CM Punk shoot a promo about Raven after a match, and the intensity was just amazing, rarely do I ever want to re-watch a PROMO time and time again. Their in-ring styles are incredible, you'll have a great technical match to start off the card, then they will break out the Scramble Cage or have a Fight Without Honor. Sure, Ring of Honor doesn't have a lot of name guys, but the guys they do have are more talented than 95% of the stiffs populating the Raw and Smackdown locker rooms. And all these guys lay it out on the line every single night, not because they want the money, it's because they want to entertain. These guys would rather hear the crowd chant "Holy $Hi+" or "Please Don't Die" than cut some stupid commercial for energy drinks. I respect each and every one of those guys in the ring, something I can't say about the WWE. It's just a shame that a promotion is doing almost everything right these days, yet a lot of wrestling "fans" are stuck watching Kenzo Suzuki and Renee Dupree win titles.
And there is the main difference between WWE and RoH. Ring of Honor's titles actually mean something. Samoa Joe has been RoH champ for more than a year and a half, and nobody deserves it more. He is the anti-JBL. He is the Anti-Jarrett. And you would NEVER see a woman or a pip squeak like Spike Dudley win the Pure Title. It just seems like the WWE uses their belts to try to coerce fans to cheer for who Vinny Mac wants them to cheer for. Well, in RoH, the fans know who to cheer for, and they always do, because the product is so great.
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