Jay Lethal renews deal with ROH, but Adam Cole remains a future free agent

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Source: PWTorch
By Sean Radican, PWTorch columnist

December 27, 2016
PWTorch has learned that Ring of Honor has signed former ROH World Champion Jay Lethal to a new two year exclusive contract.
Radican’s Analysis: This is a big signing for ROH, as Lethal is an integral part of the company. Lethal has been pushed strongly as a babyface during the second half of 2016 and it is expected he will feud with Cody Rhodes during the early part of 2017. He picked up a big win over Tetsuya Naito at ROH’s All Star Extravaganza VIII PPV in September. NJPW is very careful with how they book Naito, so that was a huge win for Lethal. WWE was said to have some level of interest in Lethal, but the money WWE has been offering ROH free agents has said to have been low. It remains to be seen what Adam Cole will do, as he is expected to finish up his ROH commitments in April. Sources have given me an indication that it is likely Cole will head to WWE at that point, but nothing is set in stone as of yet.

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sad to see Cole go

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per F4Online

'Jay Lethal and Christopher Daniels both signed new deals with ROH. Kyle O'Reilly is the name everyone is talking about. He has not signed a new deal at this point.'

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I'm pretty sure all of this speculation about Kyle will turn out to be nothing. I'm pretty sure there were all of these reports last December that he and Fish hasn't resigned yet but they wound up resigning in the end. No way Kyle goes to WWE right now. TBH, I don't even see Cole going, just because NXT is too crowded, and if what Lethal was offered is any indication, he might be able to make more working the ROH/New Japan combo.