Rok-C Discusses Signing With ROH, Sharing Her Story During Speaking Out

On September 7, Ring of Honor announced that Rok-C had signed a deal with the promotion.

Rok-C is set to compete for the ROH Women’s Championship against Miranda Alize at ROH Death Before Dishonor.

Speaking to Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling, Rok-C discussed her decision to sign with the promotion.

“So honestly, when I first realized I wanted to be a wrestler, I didn’t think that I would do as much as I did before. How do I say it? WWE was kind of like my dream, you know? I mean it kind of still — I feel like everybody that’s wrestling was like, ‘Oh! WWE,’ but then I kind of, as I was going, I fell in love with the craft and I saw Ring of Honor and I saw Japan, I saw STARDOM. I saw all these different places and I was like, ‘I wanna do everything…’ I can do that, and Ring of Honor, like I said, they were so welcoming and just being there, I just knew that I was happy there and I knew that I’d be happy in the long run as well and I feel like right now, I just — I wanna do so much in Ring of Honor before I do anything else and so, yeah. I can’t wait. I can’t wait,” she said.

She continued by praising the ROH locker room for being a welcoming atmosphere.

In June 2020, Rok-C was one of the many who spoke up and spoke out, accusing Joey Ryan of sexual misconduct.

Asked about her decision to share her story, Rok-C said, “It was definitely hard [to speak out] but I kind of had to just think about it like, okay, I have younger sisters and I’ve met so many younger people in this business that are kind of like starting up but are younger than me and that are kind of inspired by me and I just felt that I wouldn’t be doing the right thing if I just kind of like stayed quiet knowing that these younger girls were coming in and could possibly deal with something like that. So yeah, but I’ve definitely seen a change. You know, we see with the Ring of Honor women’s division has started back up and Maria [Kanellis-Bennett] is in charge of that and that’s so amazing just because you never really see women in power in wrestling, and I think it’s so important for the women to have that because the [man’s] brain doesn’t work the way the woman’s brain works, you know? To kind of have that insight from a woman’s perspective is so different and I don’t think that many people kind of realize that but, we even have Mickie James and she just did NWA EmPowerrr which was amazing and it’s just so crazy to see all these things happen because like I said, for so many years, you just saw a load of male wrestlers and like three women’s wrestlers and then you saw all these [men] in power and you never saw a woman in power and I just think that wrestling, especially women’s wrestling is at the forefront right now and it’s on fire and so that just makes me so happy for the younger generations to come in and just do their thing.”

Rok-C defeated Sumie Sakai, Quinn McKay, and Angelina Love on her way to the finals.

Fightful will have coverage of ROH Death Before Dishonor beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday.