Court Bauer Talks About Working For ROH, Its Great 2014, Best In The World & More

– Ring of Honor’s Court Bauer recently spoke to WrestlingINC’s Raj Giri on a number of topics including how he got started with ROH, the 2014 they’ve been experiencing, going to PPV with Best in the World, signing talents like Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and AJ Styles, the rumors of TNA trying to sign ROH talents last week and more. Here are some extracts from the interview.

How he started with ROH: I signed my contract in December, just before heading out to Final Battle in New York. That was my first day with the company and here we are six months later. It’s been an amazing ride. We had AJ Styles come in January, Chris Hero come in at Final Battle, New Japan’s involvement starting with the announcement at the anniversary show in February, our announcement about live pay-per-views, and we have other cool stuff in the mix I can’t talk about yet that are business related on the licensing front. It’s a very ambitious year for us and we have our work still cut out for us. This is a critical stage in the process to deliver a high quality pay-per-view with good matches and a good experience for everyone at home.

On ROH’s 2014 and improvements: First of all, you had to write the script when it came to iPPV. There was a lot of frustration and ‘oh my god I can’t believe the stream went down’ with the product. Ustream has been doing this for a decade and they are the gold standard. You’ve seen the revival of New Japan in the last year through Ustream. It’s a fantastic portal. You see the product in high definition, can watch live or on demand, it’s well priced, and easily accessible. It’s a great product, so when we partnered with them I think people saw the iPPV working better than ever and that’s cool. We literally had no complaints about the iPPV in May. Best in the World will be available worldwide on Ustream, so if you want to check out the show that way, that’s how you can watch it. Bringing in the right talent with interesting matchups has everything locking in.

On Best in the World: I would have liked to do it a little later in the year, but this opportunity came when it did and you have to strike when you can. It allows Bad Influence — Chris Daniels and Frankie Kazarian — to work as a tag team for the first time in ROH and on a pay-per-view. We have reDRagon for them to challenge and they’re coming off some amazing matches the last few months. It’s a critical junction for us, interesting point heading into the summer, and an exciting one. After this upcoming pay-per-view, we go to Field of Honor in August from Brooklyn, [New York] at the MCU Park. We have a lot of cool stuff and this pay-per-view is a launching pad for our summer. A lot of cool things will come out of this.

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