I hate when people use the "by your logic" construction. Because it's never the same logic.
Let's take your "maybe they're just trying to give back" idea. Here's how you work with a charity as a business. Usually, they come to you- charitable corporations typically have a staff devoted towards finding likely donors. (These days, it's more data-mining then a dedicated staff.) If you have a particular pet charity you'd like to give to, you get in touch with them privately, construct an agreement, then promote the hell out of it, once you have an agreement, to get the most advertising bang for your buck out of the package.
Now let's look at what ROH is doing. They've 'privately' put out a press release seeking organizations with which to fundraise. ROH doesn't look like a strong property right now as it is. They've got a TV deal? Great, ECW had a better one and collapsed eight months after it wasn't renewed for lack of value. Their best performers are being stolen away or are leaving the industry, and haven't been replaced by anyone equivalent.
Speaking from personal experience here, if you're running a business and trying to convince investors that you're a worthwhile investment, you don't put out press releases saying that you're looking for fundraising partners. It's a bush league, desperation move. Maybe they want to give back? If so, they've chosen the best way possible to scare off anyone with any real money to invest in their product.
Hey, sorry that you don't like the fact that small professional wrestling companies come and go pretty quickly. ROH had a good run, and if you really want to see an ROH show, well, you should have gone a few years ago to see a good one, but it'll likely be at least a year, and probably two before they fold. When they start cancelling shows a couple of weeks prior to the event, that's when you can be sure it's over.
I can admit making a mistake in my first post, however what I meant to say is that the press release was released from within Ring of Honor, to local companies and organizations located in the regions they perform in. It wasn't meant to come across as though they are seeking national charities to help "aid" them. They're seeking people to fundraise, not for them, but for their respective groups.
Now that I explained that, onto your diatribe of a second post.
First of all, do you watch Ring of Honor? Chances are you don't cause you seemingly know little about it. Ring of Honor has been running longer than Extreme Championship Wrestling has, Ring of Honor has a parent company which ECW didn't, "not renewed for lack of value"? That isn't why ECW's television deal wasn't renewed. It wasn't renewed because TNT wasn't supplying any advertisement or funding toward the television product. TNT cancelled it because one, Paul Heyman took several shots at the network on television and two, they wanted Monday Night Raw, which from a business stance was smart due to WWE's larger fanbase and mainstream appeal.
Best performers? You think Kenny King was one of "best performers" Ring of Honor had? I retract the question on whether you watch the product or not because if you reference Kenny King as one of the promotions "best performers" you're high, ******ed, both or simply clueless. Kenny King is a solid talent paired with another solid talent because they'd little for him, Kenny and Rhett Titus did well to grow as a tag team, but it took them three years to even win the ROH World Tag Team titles.
Other talents to have left in the last couple of years, have been sufficiently replaced. Kevin Steen is one of the most talked about wrestlers today, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Michael Elgin, Mike Bennett, TJ Perkins, just some of the younger guys who are very promising; and just in-case you retort by asking, "Who?" or "Who are they, they're nobodies?" That is exactly what people used to ask years ago when CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, Austin Aries, KOW and others were in Ring of Honor. And by the way, just to keep you up to speed, Davey Richards may have said he'll be retiring next year, but hes said that the past two years and he's still scheduled to return at DBD X.
I don't mind the final two paragraphs, cause Ring of Honor have supposedly been "about to fold" since mid-2006, and are still running shows and are continuing to book shows, but just to note something you may not have read from the main page or whatever misinformed source you use to gain your limited information about Ring of Honor, that show they scheduled in North Carolina? They rescheduled it for the 8th of September, and its nearing a sell-out. Definitely a promotion on the edge of going out of business, huh?
It may not prosper into a mainstream promotion like some believe, it may not attract the "stars" and notable name of the wrestling industry, but considering both mainstream companies top champions made their name in ROH, yeah, it could close down tomorrow and It'll have a very strong legacy in the modern day of wrestling industry.
But its not going to close down tomorrow, so that legacy can keep building. Tyler Black seems to be doing pretty well for himself on NXT.
