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Saturday, 02 December 2006 |
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It was exclusively revealed in todays Daily Star who the first four stars for the Ring of Honor UK return tour would be. Patrick Lennon, in this fighting talk column, announced 2 brand new ROH stars and 2 favourites from the companies debut tour back in August last year. The first four names announced are: Samoa Joe Mark Briscoe Jay Briscoe Delirious Samoa Joe is a huge signing for this tour said promoter Alex Shane. He continued I was the first promoter to bring Joe to the UK back in 2003 so Im well aware that hes been here before but there really is nothing like the authentic ROH Samoa Joe. The ROH version has seen him have his match of the year with Kenta Kobashi, the amazing series with CM Punk, his recent classic with Bryan Danielson and so many more modern day masterpieces particularly while he was ROH Champion. Fans in the UK, who think they have seen Samoa Joe live, think again because the authentic ROH Samoa Joe makes his UK debut on March 3rd and 4th. The Briscoe Brothers were the stand out stars of the first ROH UK tour. Having the match of the night both evenings the Briscoes clearly came to the UK to impress. Their impressive ways have however not stopped since returning to the US, now making them one of the current corner stones of the entire Ring of Honor promotion. Mark and Jay return to the UK for the first time in March and fans in Liverpool are promised to be brought to the edge of their seats once again by arguably the worlds most exciting tag team in the current wrestling scene. March also sees the Ring of Honor debut of Delirious to UK shores. The masked man has become one of the most popular figures in ROH and is set to bring his crazy brand of wrestling to Britain for the very first time this coming on the companys second trip to Liverpool. More names will be announced in the coming weeks in association with the Daily Stars Fighting Talk. Ring of Honour returns to the UK Americas top independent promotion Ring of Honor, in association with the King of Europe Cup 2007, is proud to announce its second UK tour weekend on Saturday March 3rd and Sunday March 4th 2007. After the massive success of its first UK tour back in August, ROH will fly its entire cast and crew overseas to bring European wrestling fans even closer, once again, to the most innovative pro wrestling product in the United States today. The original plans were to run two venues over two days, one North and one South of the country. Unfortunately an error by one of our venues forced us to move our arranged trip backwards one day. This lead to us having to rethink the dates that we had previously announced during our last two UK events. Upon review of the last tours ticket orders it became clear to us that over 65% of our fans who travelled to our last Broxbourne Civic Hall event had also attended Liverpool Olympia the night before. After heavy discussion we decided that rather than make those fans travel the entire length of the UK we would take a lead from our brand new sponsor the KOE Cup 2007. Therefore ROH will present two straight nights of action back to back from the prestigious Liverpool Olympia. Tour organiser Alex Shane said: After the huge success of the last tour we really wanted to see what we could do to make this tour better for our fans and wrestlers alike. Broxbourne is a great venue but due to its size we had a problem with it selling out so fast that many of our fans could not get tickets. With this being the case we decided that even though we will certainly look forward to returning to the Broxbourne Civic Hall in the near future we can now make sure that fans who want to see ROH have a far higher chance on both days with 3,200 tickets being available over the two events. With so many of our fans from the last tour travelling to both it made sense to make life easier for them and do two straight nights much like the KOE Cup ROH promoter Cary Silkin added: Everybody involved with the company loved the Liverpool Olympia so much when we were there back in August that we decided it really has to be the UK home for Ring of Honor. Even though we had a great sized crowd there is still room for improvement. We believe that by doing two nights back to back in the same building we can put all our efforts into making Liverpool a complete success whilst giving the fans two amazing shows in one of Englands most impressive wrestling venues. ROH find new UK sponsor in the KOE Cup 2007 ROH is proud to have the King of Europe Cup 2007 as its official sponsor for their March 2007 UK tour. The KOE Cup is the worlds biggest two day independent wrestling tournament featuring representatives from 16 world wide promotions. The event takes place on Saturday April 28th and Sunday April 29th from the Liverpool Olympia. Ring of Honor is one of the main companies in the KOE Cup tournament and management are working extremely hard to select the best possible representative for this extremely important event. For more details for to the official website at: www.KOECup.com The Liverpool Olympia The Liverpool Olympia holds over 1,700 and is one of the most elegant venues able to cater to wrestling events in the whole United Kingdom. Its internal architecture makes it not only spectacular to look at but creates an amazing atmosphere that will no doubt make Ring of Honors return to the UK just as memorable as the first ever UK show in the very same building back in August. The Venue is situated on: West Derby Road, Liverpool L6 9BY Tickets are priced between 85 and 12.50 Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 13th December at 1pm and are available through the official Ring of Honor website at www.rohwrestling.com Tickets can also be purchased via the official ROH box office from January 15th 2007 at 2pm. ROH Box office: 0151 206 0190 (lines are only open between 2pm and 10pm Monday to Friday from Monday January 15th) ROH Special Fanslam There will be a special 3 hour fan slam event held on Saturday March 3rd at the Liverpool Olympia where fans can meet the wrestlers as well as get autographs, merchandise and hear exclusive question and answer sessions with the stars of ROH. The event will take place at 1pm and finish at 4pm (1 hour before doors open for the main show). Tickets for this event will be limited to only 200 people. Fanslam price = 8.50 (Fanslam tickets can be bought online at www.rohwrestling.com from December 16th) Saturday March 3rd The ROH fan slam will begin at 1pm until 4pm Doors open at 5pm with the show starting at 6pm Sunday March 4th No Fanslam event Doors open at 4pm with the show starting at 5pm Stay up to date with all the latest announcements by making regular visits to www.rohwrestling.com
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