Friday, March 27th, 2015 - Redwood City, Ca

NEW JAPAN’S JUSHIN LIGER HEADS TO SILICON VALLEY FOR SUPERCARD OF HONOR IX

Ring of Honor is proud to announce the legendary New Japan Pro Wrestling superstar Jushin “Thunder” Liger will be returning for Supercard of Honor on Friday March 27, 2015 at the Sports House in Redwood City, CA.
Liger is an international superstar with a list of legendary accomplishments throughout the world. He is a former 11 time IWGP Jr Heavyweight Champion, 6 time IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, WCW Light heavyweight Champion and has held numerous championships on nearly every continent in the world.

He made his Ring of Honor debut in November 2004 and has faced some of the greats in ROH, such as Bryan Danielson, Austin Aries and most recently battled former ROH World Champion Adam Cole at ROH’s War of The Wolds in May of 2014.

Jushin “Thunder” Liger is returning to ROH with a lot of fan fare. The names lining up to take on the legend is hungry and vast. As always, stay tuned to www.rohwrestling.com for updates and announcements.

Ring of Honor: Supercard of Honor IX will feature the likes of: The Briscoes, reDRagon, Jay Lethal, Matt Sydal, ACH and all the elite ROH wrestlers in what will be a stacked card full of must-see encounters.

“What better place to host Supercard of Honor IX than Silicon Valley,” COO of Ring of Honor Joe Koff said. “ROH was built by a loyal and passionate online fan base that has helped make it into the global phenomenon it is today. It’s rather apropos that an area known for innovation is the location for Supercard of Honor, given how innovative our product is.”

Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT! If you don't have a ticket, you will be able to see this entire event through the Ring of Honor's Video On Demand.

I would have been excited about this, except that I read the Observer and heard that originally this was supposed to be both Liger and Naito, and ROH only had the budget for one, so they chose Liger instead. For any other show, I would totally understand that, but this is WrestleMania weekend when all of the hardcores and many internationals are in town anyway, so why not go with Naito, who will almost certainly give you a better match?

Heh. Just re-read the press release, and with tickets already being sold out, it doesn't matter who you bring in, so you might as well being in whoever is cheaper and/or whoever New Japan will let you beat (I assume they'd be happier with Liger losing than Naito, but if there were ever a time when Naito could take a loss, it'd be now (unless the New Japan Cup Brackets are set up for him and Ibushi to beat the tag champs in the first round and then get eliminated, setting up a tag title match for Invasion Attack [although if you were going to do that, you could put the title match at the New Japan Cup Finals and give Goto & Shibata their rematch on the bigger show).

Poster has been updated

Dave is reporting a six way between Ciampa, Sydal, Moose, Cedric, Caprice, and the returning Andrew Everett!
Cool to see Everett back, and sticking Sydal and Ciampa in a six way is a good idea to protect them and let them heal (assuming they don't do anything crazy/stupid, which is certainly a possibility with both guys).