Marty Scurll vs. Kenny King – Winner: Marty Scurll

ROH World TV Championship: (C) Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Taylor – Winner: Jeff Cobb

ROH Women of Honor World Championship: (C) Mayu Iwatani vs. Kelly Klein – Winner: Mayu Iwatani

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven – 60-minute time limit draw

Post-match, Marty Scurll heads to the ring, picks up the title and puts it around his shoulder. Scurll then heads up the ramp and to the back with it. Taven and Lethal finally get to their feet, Taven doesn’t shake Lethal’s hand and goes to the back.

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Rapper, Mega Ran, performs “Going to the Garden.” Bully Ray ends up coming out to the ring, says he thought the song sucks and rips on Mega Ran. Bully makes fun of video games and says Mega Ran probably played wrestling video games, and picked his character, Bubba Ray. Mega Ran says he actually picked D-Von. Bully shoves both guys and kicks them out of the ring. Bully is offended by his song and says he’s the only one who’s actually wrestled at MSG. Bully picks on some kids, says he’s going to slap them if they don’t go sit down. “They’re just kids!” chant from the crowd. He says nobody can stand up to him at the garden. Crowd with a “Flip” chant, Bully shuts that down and then says he offers up an open challenge to anyone in the world, any company, anyone retired or still wrestling in a street fight.

Bandido vs. Rush – Winner: Rush

Post-match, Dalton Castle heads into the ring to get a closer look at Rush. On the mic, Castle says Rush is a good challenge for him and wonders if they could get in the ring at Madison Square Garden. Rush wonders who Castle is and cuts a promo in English and Spanish, sounds like he accepted before heading to the back.

TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marseglia vs. Mark Haskins and Tracy Williams won’t take place. Also, Jonathan Gresham took a chairshot to the knee when trying to save Lethal. Silas Young, who was scheduled to face Gresham, also attacked Gresham backstage, so that match won’t take place either. Young  joined commentary for the main event.

ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. PCO & Brody King – Winners and new ROH World Tag Team Champions: PCO & Brody King

ROH 17th Anniversary PPV will take place tonight from Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas, Nevada. 9 pm ET

You can watch the show on traditional PPV, Fite.tv, or ROH HonorClub.

ROH World Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven

ROH Women of Honor World Championship: (C) Mayu Iwatani vs. Kelly Klein

ROH World TV Championship: (C) Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Taylor

ROH World Tag Team Championship: (C) The Briscoes vs. PCO & Brody King

Bandido vs. Rush

Marty Scurll vs. Kenny King

Tracy Williams & Mark Haskins vs. TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia

Jonathan Gresham vs. Silas Young

When looking at areas of growth for Ring of Honor, one has to look at its parent company, Sinclair Broadcasting Group (SBG). Just as an example, this week came the announcement of Sinclair partnering with the Chicago Cubs on a new station, Marquee Sports Network.

One area that Sinclair has been especially aggressive in creating or partnering in developing are digital-tier stations. While some digital-tier stations are creating original programming, like Bounce TV, most are programmed cheaply with re-run programming, with a focus on one particular genre or target market such as “action” or “horror”.

As a wrestling fan, you’d be familiar with many of these stations such as Comet TV, Charge!, TBD and Stadium, as some of those networks have aired Ring of Honor. The primary method of finding these stations is through a television antenna. Most are in a low profile position right now, as one would literally need to seek out the station in order to find it.

Currently, the number of digital stations that each network could carry is limited. At the moment, many networks have 3 or 4 digital sub-channels per network. Sinclair has been investing in a technology called ATSC 3.0 and is now planning to launch in 26 markets. Sinclair executives hope this will be a new broadcast standard. If ATSC 3.0 does becomes widely used, a network can increase digital-sub channels from the current 3 or 4 to 20.

With most of its sub-channels, Sinclair has to split the revenue with the content providers (such as MGM). All of that leads us to Ring of Honor.

With the ability to create and program new digital-tier networks, ROH would fit nicely as a stand-alone network. With SBG already owning the rights to about 17 years of pro wrestling content, it could fill up a 24 hour pro wrestling network schedule with limited time spent to prepare the programming for broadcast. One could speculate that most content created after SBG acquired ROH would be ready to be programmed into the station. Pre-SBG ROH would need editing of music rights and possible programming that wouldn’t be appropriate for broadcast.

Utilizing a signal that Sinclair owns with content that Sinclair owns is a low risk free endeavor for Sinclair. The channel would likely be turn-key: no live specials and no fancy editing. In programming the channel, SBG could get off to a good start with themed nights for the first week. Imagine a launch week of nights featuring Tommaso Ciampa, Daniel Bryan, Tyler Black, Kevin Steen and AJ Styles?

Source: Wrestling Inc