Ric Flair/WWE/ROH Deal

The Associated Press has done an article on Ric Flair, discussing working or both ROH and WWE. In the article, Flair comments on working for both companies, saying… "They [WWE] don't look at Ring of Honor as being competition to them. If everybody just focuses on their own brand and what they're trying to accomplish instead of worrying about the other guy, it usually works out much more better."

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Basically, for WWE, Ring of Honor is to them today what ECW used to be to them during the Attitude Era, which can explain why there's a good working relationship with both companies and why we saw many WWE or former WWE stars work ROH shows since the beginning of ROH's existence. In a certain way, I think that's great because that opens up lots of possibilities for ROH workers to get WWE contracts someday.

That's something you'll never hear 'bout TNA.

Despite being pulled by WWE from Friday night's Ring of Honor TV tapings in Philadelphia, PA for HDNet, ROH has announced that Flair will still make appearances on 6/12 in Manassas, VA and on 6/13 in New York City, NY at the Hammerstein Ballroom. ROH's official Twitter page has a backstage photo (http://twitpic.com/67ykk) from the company's production truck of Flair announcing at last night's TV taping that he would have to step down as ROH Ambassador due to his current WWE obligations.

Flair did end up doing an in-ring segment explaining that he would have to step down as ROH Ambassador due to his current obligations with WWE.

Many in ROH were said to be very unhappy about how it all went down.

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EdgeHead wrote:

That's something you'll never hear 'bout TNA.

Hey, Never Say Never, besides, some of the ROH Guys worked for TNA, but in case you didn't know:

The Motor City Machines Guns did work ROH Show, but they couldn't work on camera b/c of a TV Deal.

Now, everyone knows that I'm not an ROH guy, but hey, if some of the former wrestlers want to appear @ ROH, NWA or TNA, then that's great.

Bruno Sammartino made 2 appearances in ROH and he even appeared on the Kurt Angle TNA DVD and that was a privelegde for Bruno.

and also, most of the TNA Wrestlers work in the Indies and the NWA as well as in New Japan.