ROH and Preston City Wrestling End Working Relationship

– Ring of Honor and Preston City Wrestling have ended their three-year working relationship. PWInsider reports that the UK promotion announced on September 5th that they were ending the relationship. The statement noted that they had contacted Ring of Honor on August 21st and raised several issues they had, including that ROH was running a show in Liverpool on the same night as PCW which would hurt the draw for their own show the following weekend. PCW also had issue with the fact that their company’s regulars were put on standby for events and then never brought them to the UK, and that PCW’s Cruiserweight Championship (held by Adam Cole at the time) wasn’t defended within ROH like they were promised.

PCW has announced that planned shows with Ring of Honor have been canceled and that they will now partner with Combat Zone Wrestling, Westside Xtreme Wrestling and Beyond Wrestling for a Cruiserweight tournament. ROH issued the following statement to the site:

We have had the pleasure of working with PCW for the past few years, as they have brought several ROH wrestlers over for PCW events. In order to help PCW with promotion of their events, we allowed PCW to use the ROH logo and we were very happy with the work we did together.

Over the past few years, ROH has also been working toward producing our own tour of the UK, as the demand for our product has grown. It has been nearly a decade since we last produced a ROH-promoted tour and 2016 was the right time.

At the same time, ROH’s global presence has grown, thanks to working relationships with NJPW and most recently CMLL, while simultaneously growing our touring and television base domestically in the US.

We understand PCW felt slighted with our plans to promote our own tour and never did we plan to conflict with any of their dates. But with our schedule as currently constructed, only a few dates were available and unfortunately, there was a conflict.

When discussed, PCW and ROH agreed to not work together on a 2016 series of shows but the door was always open for the future.