Bobby Cruise Recalls How He Joined ROH, Cary Silkin Giving Him the Gig

During a recent edition of What Happened When, ROH ring announcer Bobby Cruise discussed being brought into ROH by Cary Silkin and more. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Bobby Cruise on Cary Silkin Bringing Him on Full-Time

“He called me one day, and I’ll never forget, he said, ‘Hey, if the ring announcing position becomes available, would you take it?’ We want you to announce all of our shows.’ They used to use someone on the East Coast, someone in the Midwest, someone wherever. He’s like, ‘We want you to do everything. So if it becomes available, will you take it?’ And I said, ‘If it becomes available, I’ll take it.’ And he said, ‘Okay. Give me an hour.’ Within a half hour, he called me and said, ‘Okay, it’s available.'”

On the Previous Announcer He Replaced

“I had posted something online because the ROH message board was a big thing back then, and I had said, ‘Hey, I appreciate the opportunity and I’m looking forward to doing this, and I plan on reaching out to the previous ring announcer, just to kind of say ‘Hey, I guess this is the wrestling business’ or whatever.’ But then I got word secondhand, like this high school stuff, that he buried me with something. He thought it was fake, he thought Ring of Honor wrote it for me, and all this other stuff. And I said, ‘You know what? I’m not even going to bother.’ So that’s kind of the way it went.”

Bobby Cruise is still the main ring announcer for ROH.