Nigel McGuinness Wishes Tony Khan Had Been Around When Ring Of Honor Was In Its Prime

Nigel McGuinness discusses Tony Khan and Ring Of Honor.

According to WrestleTix, AEW All In is currently at over 80,846 tickets distributed. This would be a new record for a wrestling event. The previous record was set at WWE WrestleMania 32 with 80,709 tickets accounted for at the turnstiles. AEW All In is set for August 27 at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

The show is the most anticipated in the history of the promotion and will feature several of the top names in the promotion. However, not everyone will make the PPV on Sunday, as even with AEW’s tendency to have long PPV’s, there is only so much room to go around on the card. This is an attribute to how successful AEW has been under Tony Khan’s direction.

Last year, Tony announced that he had acquired the Ring Of Honor promotion, and has been revitalizing it over the last few months.

Speaking to Tempest of Wrestletalk, representing Fightful, former ROH Champion and ROH Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness was asked about ROH having representation on AEW All In.

“It’s huge. If Adam Cole and MJF win the titles and are the Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions in the main event, that would raise the profile even more. That’s always been the problem with Ring of Honor. It’s a company that, certainly in the early 2000s, I don’t think there is much of an argument where (we were) revolutionizing the industry, but there weren’t enough eyes on it. When we had those opportunities to jump to that next level, financially, for whatever reason, it just never took off. It would have been lovely if Tony [Tony Khan] would have been around at that point to be able to help us get to that stage. Now that Tony is on board, we have the opportunity, but because so much time has passed, what was the Ring of Honor style, you can make the argument is now the pro wrestling style because so many of the Ring of Honor guys are top guys in the companies. Kevin Steen [Kevin Owens], Sami Zayn, the list goes on. Everybody took that style and took it everywhere else. Now, it’s very hard for Ring of Honor to stand on it’s own and be different because the in-ring style is the same as everywhere else. How do you differentiate that? That’s the million-dollar question,”

“It talks about a love and respect for professional wrestling, the art form and the history. Whether you like it or don’t like it, Vince McMahon took pro wrestling and made it sports entertainment. It’s his vision and, for better or worse, that’s the way it is. With AEW and Ring of Honor, they are more open to accepting they are part of the legacy and the history of this industry that has evolved over 100 years.”

Nigel McGuiness

We will have to wait and see how lucrative AEW All In will be when it airs on Sunday evening from Wembley Stadium in London and if Warner Bros Discovery will continue to be happy with how the company continues to succeed.

H/T to Fightful

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