Tony Khan: Having ROH Final Battle Air On HonorClub Has Been A Successful Experiment

Tony Khan discusses having ROH Final Battle 2023 air exclusively on HonorClub. 

Tony Khan discusses having ROH Final Battle 2023 air exclusively on HonorClub. 

Since Tony Khan acquired Ring of Honor in March 2022, the company’s pay-per-views have aired through Bleacher Report and other platforms. However, ROH Final Battle 2023 will air exclusively air on the HonorClub subscription service.

During the ROH Final Battle media conference call, Khan discussed having the show air as an HonorClub exclusive, rather than a pay-per-view.

“This has been tremendously successful in terms of gaining new subscribers. As an experiment, I think it’s been a big win. Coming up on Worlds End, I think it made sense for the timing of this event, at least as it stands right now, but we’ve had great returns on ROH pay-per-views. There is definitely a market for it. When we’ve put on these events, we’ve seen big box office returns. It’s been a great part of the investment. When you look at the revenues off of the pay-per-views, they are the biggest revenues ROH has ever done on pay-per-view. If we do decide to go back to or stay with that model long-term, it’ll be because we’ve had a lot of success as promoters with AEW and now ROH at selling pay-per-views. This is putting some folks on Watch ROH, the HonorClub product. We’ve been able to drive more subscribers in recent weeks, and expect to have another big week for subscribers with Final Battle as we’ve seen an increase on the run up to the event. We have a lot of options for how we want to disseminate the content going forward for streaming vs. pay-per-view or whatever combination. This has definitely been a successful experiment to grow Watch ROH,” Khan said.

During the call, Khan said that vacating the ROH World Tag Team Championship had been considered. Check out his comments here.

Click here to see what Khan had to say about ROH Women’s World Champion Athena potentially appearing in AEW and other places.

Fightful will have live coverage of ROH Final Battle as it airs on December 15.

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