Did You Know... Joey Styles

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Did You Know... Joey Styles

Post by Big Red Machine » Aug 21st, '16, 13:09

Did you know that Joey Styles tried out for the role of lead commentator at the beginning of ROH but Gabe thought Joey was "too ECW" so he didn't hire him?

BIG mistake there.
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Re: Did You Know... Joey Styles

Post by cero2k » Aug 21st, '16, 17:39

I did know this. Pretty much the same reason WWE removed him from broadcasting after wwecw went down
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Re: Did You Know... Joey Styles

Post by NWK2000 » Aug 22nd, '16, 09:01

I think that's a bit goofy don't you? That'd be like if in 1993 Vince was like, "Nah Jim Ross you're too Mid-South for us sorry."
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Re: Did You Know... Joey Styles

Post by Big Red Machine » Aug 22nd, '16, 10:01

NWK2000 wrote:I think that's a bit goofy don't you? That'd be like if in 1993 Vince was like, "Nah Jim Ross you're too Mid-South for us sorry."
There is a logic behind not wanting to be "too ECW" for ROH at that time because the whole point of ROH was to be the exact opposite of every other indy at that time (which were all trying to be ECW). That being said, I think having both Joey's name value and his ability would have outweighed the negatives. Joey could have been the same Joey Styles that people loved while calling the ROH style and making it work.
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