According to the Observer and PWI, ROH's parent company Sinclair is considering filing a lawsuit against the WWE for causing their MSG show to be canceled. Also reported it wasn't Vince who made the decision to get this event canned.
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH COO Joe Koff, in an interview with Mike Johnson, said, “I’m not going to discuss beyond this statement because I am not going to litigate this in the press. We had a deal with the Garden and they then told us they were backing out after communications from the WWE. We are not able to get any other dates in any kind of discussion. I’m expecting that our lawyers will be contacting all the parties involved and the best we can hope for is that we can find resolution, and we can bring the kind of energy and excitement that ROH and our partner New Japan brings to a bigger audience and to bigger arenas to the fans of New York City.”
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Originally Posted by Observer
After Chris Ripley, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcasting on 6/12 first publicly announced an ROH show in MSG (the date itself was first reported here), WWE immediately went to work, although one source said it only took one call from a high ranking WWE official, and not from Vince McMahon, and Madison Square Garden contacted ROH and pulled the date. We were told last week by sources close to the situation that it could and probably would turn into an ugly legal fight.
The story is that they had an agreement on the date but the contract for the date had not been signed. ROH by late last week was contacting other arenas in the New York metropolitan area to run that night, but we were also told Sinclair was furious and legal proceedings could take place and were being explored.
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