Tony Khan promised a major announcement all week, promised the major announcement that

would rock the entire wrestling world, not just AEW, but the way he was building this

up, you knew it was more than just some kind of talent acquisition or the announcement

of an international tour or something like that.

He was talking about this as something that was going to change the very foundation of

the wrestling business itself.

Tony Khan makes a lot of promises.

He's made a lot of big announcements, usually he'll go on busted open, he'll go on Twitter,

he'll say that he's got big news to share, there's going to be a big debut on television.

He loves promising big things.

Most of the time it does involve talent.

Most of the time it involves somebody knew that they have signed that they're going to

debut on TV.

Tonight, this announcement had nothing to do with AEW, at least not on the surface.

Tony Khan has bought Ring of Honor.

A lot of people were wondering if Ring of Honor might have something to do.

In fact, we were just talking about this in the podcast on Sunday.

All the rumors that Ring of Honor perhaps had something to do with this announcement.

Maybe it was an acquisition, maybe it was something more, maybe it was some kind of

a inter-promotional event involving talent from all companies, but it turned out to be Ring

of Honor.

But we read you right now from the press release that went out during the show.

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