A Double shows up at ROH show

[chrom]

Austin Aries just now showed up at Ring of Honor's 16th Anniversary PPV show and issued a challenge to Kenny King for The TV Title.

Unless I'm mistaken isn't he not allowed to show up there. Their "World Champion" just showed up on another promotions event with zero announcement whatsoever.

[J Lee O'Brien]

Depending on if it's still in the Anthem/Impact Contract, all it costs Laredo Sagittarius is about 10% of his booking fee.

Otherwise, talent can go do whatever.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Mar 9, 2018 22:36:15 GMT -5 J Lee O'Brien said:

Depending on if it's still in the Anthem/Impact Contract, all it costs Laredo Sagittarius is about 10% of his booking fee.

Otherwise, talent can go do whatever.

I don't think they do the 10% anymore.

[Deleted]

Impact contracts are written on Friendly's restaurant placemats

[Deleted]

Aries is going to win ALL of the titles and head straight for the pawnshop.

[Allie Kitsune]

Mar 9, 2018 23:33:49 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Aries is going to win ALL of the titles and head straight for the pawnshop.

And then spend it all on bananas.

[mcmahonfan85]

from PWInsider:

HOW THE IMPACT CHAMPION COULD APPEAR ON ROH PPV
by Mike Johnson @ 11:34 PM on 3/9/2018

Former ROH and current Impact champion Austin Aries made a surprise appearance on ROH's 16th Anniversary PPV tonight, sparking speculation that the two companies are now working together.

To respond to all the emails we received, the companies are not working together, at all. If they were, certainly ROH would have identified him as Impact champion, which they did not.

Austin Aries is not under a signed contract with Impact. Contractually, they couldn't prevent him from appearing, as he's not signed to any paperwork that would prevent him from appearing elsewhere.

Aries was booked, we are told, like any other independent talent is by ROH - directly and wouldn't need to clear the appearance with Impact.

As far as the idea promotions working together, it was just a year ago that ROH had a PPV event pulled from DirecTV because Impact Wrestling made the decision to send cease and desist letters to a number of PPV companies because ROH was going to utilize The Hardy Boys, with Impact claiming ownership over the characters and trademarks. While Matt Hardy may have eventually gained control of the characters and trademarks, ROH was still burnt that night, and they aren't likely to offer an olive branch to Impact when they were the ones wronged in that scenario.

So, Impact Wrestling was not involved in the least and may not have even known Aries was going to be appearing tonight.

Tonight was Aries' first appearance for Ring of Honor since 2015. He noted in his promo that he'd held every championship in ROH except the TV belt. If one doesn't include the Six Man Tag Team championships, which were introduced after Aries departed the company, Aries would be correct as he was the first two-time ROH champion and had a run with the ROH Tag Team championships while partnered with Roderick Strong.

www.pwinsiderelite.com/article.php?id=116000&p=1

[jagilki]

Damn it. I saw this and though "A double what?"

Was not thinking "A Double"

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Aries isn’t under a signed contract with Impact and he’s their champion? lol vintage TNA, oh my!

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Mar 10, 2018 0:22:45 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Aries isn’t under a signed contract with Impact and he’s their champion? lol vintage TNA, oh my!

Yeah, that should be the big story here.

They gave the title to a dude who isn't even under a signed contract.

[Deleted]

Is anyone in impact even signed to them exclusively?....I mean other than Abyss.

kind of anwsered my own question.

[Deleted]

Giving the title to someone not under contract who opts to go work for a direct competitor in the midcard.

TNA!

[Deleted]

Champion not under contract? Least surprising thing ever

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

For what it's worth, Aries did have the Impact World title with him. Even sitting in the back row of the arena, I could spot the bumper sticker on that belt a mile away.

[DASH 243✅]

Mar 10, 2018 1:24:48 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

For what it's worth, Aries did have the Impact World title with him. Even sitting in the back row of the arena, I could spot the bumper sticker on that belt a mile away.

I'm just waiting for that damn sticker to fall off

[siredger]

Ugh. I just can't watch Impact anymore until they change those freaking titles.

[chrom]

Of course they didn't know he was there.

I'm willing to bet he was there and showed up to visit and offered to do something there

[schma]

Mar 10, 2018 0:09:11 GMT -5 jagilki said:

Damn it. I saw this and though "A double what?"

Was not thinking "A Double"

I thought the exact same thing.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Hahahah

Aries is gonna show up at Alabama Doink's company and throw the title in the trash.

Your champion is not even signed loltna.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

Mar 10, 2018 0:22:45 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Aries isn’t under a signed contract with Impact and he’s their champion? lol vintage TNA, oh my!

TNA's gonna TNA...