It won't happen, there's no way WWE would run any sort of an angle with Ring of Honor. People keep referencing when WWE had that little "invasion" angle with ECW, but what they keep forgetting is that, back then, it made sense. WCW was still a viable threat, so why not promote ECW to give them some competition? WWE has no competition today, TNA is nowhere near them and probably never will be. That wasn't the only reason they did it, either. They wanted to use some of the ECW guys, they wanted to show a different side of the product to their audience to see if they could possibly do it themselves. With ROH, none of that is possible nor is it logical. ROH wouldn't bring in ratings for Vince, their audience is too small and too much of a niche, they wouldn't make him any money, they wouldn't do ANYTHING for WWE. Why would Vince go out of his way to build up Ring of Honor, when his company gets, literally, NOTHING out of the deal.
People, the IWC in particular, love jumping to conclusions and making big deals out of minor things. Maybe it's because most of the IWC are morons, maybe not, but this is just plain dumb. CM Punk was given the mic and allowed to, basically, shoot. The WWE had no idea he would mention Ring of Honor, in all likelihood. There is no angle planned, it would be stupid and pointless, really. Hell, the only reason Ring of Honor and New Japan were mentioned was to make it seem more real. To make it seem like Punk actually had somewhere to go, when in reality he was just name dropping some old buddies and people who helped him along the way.
Ring of Honor hasn't emerged, they're still where they were before the promo. CM Punk mentioning them once won't put them on the map, it won't make them a viable threat, no, that takes YEARS of building a loyal audience and putting out a great product. Sure, ROH provides us with some great matches, but they're still a minor league promotion for the most part. They're nowhere near the WWE, so working with ROH would be one HUGE step down for WWE and it's not a risk they need to take. To add onto that, the styles are so different that it would probably be disastrous. Ring of Honor is basically just built around being ALL in-ring competition, whereas WWE, and RAW in particular, are much more storyline based.
It never ceases to amaze me how something so insignificant can be blown out of proportion by wrestling fans. Ring of Honor isn't working with WWE and it probably never will. That's not meant to discredit Ring of Honor and what they do, as I'm a fan, but it's just absurd. CM Punk went out there and delivered an excellent promo, one that blurred the line between "work" and "shoot," to do so he had to bring in elements that he knew at least some fans would know of. Hell, just because he mentioned Hulk Hogan and The Rock in his promo doesn't mean he's going to go into a storyline with either of them, does it? Explain to me how that's any different than the mention of Ring of Honor? It's not. Why is Ring of Honor the only promotion people are pulling out of that promo, why not New Japan Pro Wrestling? Simple, really... people are inclined to over-think things and this is certainly one of those cases.
Just because the WWE has done some awesome things for us in the last year, doesn't mean they're going to embark on some complicated angle with CM Punk working the Indy scene, people. I hear people referencing the Daniel Bryan situation a lot in relation to this and it just makes me laugh. Do you know why Daniel Bryan was working the Indy scene? Because he was actually fired. There is no way Vince McMahon would allow CM Punk to go out and work with/for ROH, while still being under a WWE contract, much less go out and work it with his WWE Title. CM Punk was just trying to get people buzzing and it appears that he succeeded, but trust me, the WWE and ROH WILL NOT work together.
