What's up you guys? Sean Ross Sapp. Welcome to Fightful. Here with the name you know. I remember five years ago, Maple Leaf Gardens. They had a big show there. ROH said, pick who you want to interview. And I said, I want to interview Shane Taylor. I want to interview him in front of this Toronto Maple Leaf Garden, like the hockey backdrop, all that stuff. And I've had the great fortune of interviewing you a number of times since.

It's wonderful to see, like, even then as R-O-H-TV champion, here we are, heading into final battle,

Hammerstein Ballroom.

You're still killing it, man.

It's a homecoming.

You know, for someone who shocked the world five years ago to win the Ring of Honor

Television Championship, World Television Championship, to be the only third black male and the

company's almost 20 plus year history to do that, it's incredible. And to now, here we are,

final battle 2024, back at the Hammerstein.

It really does give you that feel that Ring of Honor is headed back to where it should be, and that is the birthplace of innovation, the birthplace of producing badass events and badass pro wrestling.

How have you felt as you become a mainstay in this version of ROH after you had already worked so hard to become a mainstay in the prior iteration of ROH?

How were you feeling?

To me, it's just been part for the course.

This is what I do. This is what we do. This is what we've always done.

And that is put Ring of Honor at the forefront

and continue to make sure that we are one of the most felt

presences in ROH, that we will be respected

and we will do anything and everything we have to do

in order to make sure that people understand that.

And going into, I think the difference though, right?

Ring of Honor prior felt like a destination.

Ring of Honor had a reputation and its champions

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