Chris and Des are joined by Jason Patrick of http://www.WrestleEnigma.com/ and who recently joined the PWP team to talk about all the controversy coming out of this past week in indy wrestling news. They go over House of Hardcore, FWE, Wrestling is Fun and ROH BitW iPPV results. They talk about the BITW no longer holding LIVE iPPVs, the controversy of the Briscoes possibly being gone from WWE, Jim Cornette’s recent interview with Mike Johnson and some news on the returning IWA-MS Ted Petty Invitational. They also preview the upcoming AIW iPPV Absolution VIII, AAW Bound by Hate, and Wrestling Cares. Lots of fun, as always we encourage feedback at Mailbag@PWPonderings.com
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PW Torch reported the following hours after we had recorded:
PWTorch has learned that ROH World champion Jay Briscoe and his brother, Mark Briscoe, are gone from Ring of Honor for the foreseeable future. (The status of the ROH Title is unknown at this time.)
The Briscoes’s contracts expired and will not be renewed at this time. The decision was made in response to Jay’s tweets in early May vowing to shoot anyone who teaches his children about marriage between same-sex couples.
PWTorch has learned that Sinclair Broadcasting, the publicly-traded company that owns ROH, recently became aware of the tweets. ROH had previously tried to handle the issue in-house by having Briscoe issue a public apology and donate his pay from two shows.
Both Briscoes were written off television at Sunday’s TV taping in Baltimore, Md. Jay’s storyline injury is that he re-injured his shoulder and Mark’s injury is that he suffered a “severe concussion.” Despite Jay being written off TV, ROH kept the ROH Title on Jay, who defeated Matt Hardy with a small package in their title match taped for television this summer.
After the match, S.C.U.M. delivered a vicious-looking beat down on both Briscoes to write them off television.
http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/ROH_News_29/article_71527.shtml#.Ucp6CPnVArU
Hours later the Wrestling Observer refuted claims of SBG letting Briscoes go because of tweets:
“Regarding reports online that the Briscoes are done with Ring of Honor, we can confirm that they have been written out of storylines per the latest set of TV tapings. However, online reports that this has to do with Sinclair officials being upset about ROH Champion Jay’s controversial tweets a month or so back are incorrect. The reason Briscoe vs. Briscoe for the title was booked last weekend in what seemed like a rushed storyline (one would have presumed brother vs. brother for the belt would have taken place further down the road) is that for whatever reason (and right now I don’t know what the reason was, but there are people who believe there was a WWE deal on the table) the plan was to write them out of storylines after this iPPV. These plans were made long before Jay made any tweets, and according to a source in ROH the tweets had absolutely nothing to do with the current situation. It is true that their contracts have expired, and while I don’t know this to be the case, there are people in the company who believe that unless they get a big money offer from WWE or elsewhere, at some point they’ll be back with the company.”
http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/104-ring-of-honor/31938-update-on-briscoe-brothers?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter