Joe’s return was met by a thundering response from the fans inside the building. He then cut a promo on why he believes Ring Of Honor is the home of professional wrestling.
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Samoa Joe has signed for All Elite Wrestling. AEW President, Tony Khan took to Twitter to announce the arrival of his newest acquisition. He will also wrestle in Ring Of Honor since the company is now owned by Tony Khan
Joe returned at the end of the Supercard Of Honor to save Jonathan Gresham and Lee Moriarty from an attack from Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal.
Samoa Joe’s return was met by a thundering response from the fans inside the building. He then cut a promo on why he believes Ring Of Honor is the home of professional wrestling. Khan tweeted the All Elite graphic at the same time, before returning to the arena to toast Joe’s arrival, the crowd and indeed what he referred to as the “new era” of Ring Of Honor.
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Joe then spoke in length about his release from WWE and how he reacted to the news. He revealed that at the time, his focus was more on Triple H’s health whom he considers a dear friend. He said, “My going back to WWE was major because of the people I worked with and relationships I built in the company, mainly two people in Triple H and William Regal. As Triple H, dealing with his situation which I obviously knew about and was way more concerned about than my employment, Regal and his departure, I knew the writing was on the wall for me. Which is fine, we were a big collective team and a big collective think tank within the company and we went a different way.
He continued, “As far as the release, it’s an up and down process for a lot of people, for me it’s freed me up to pursue a lot of projects that I’ve wanted to work on. It freed me up to start talking with Tony and the future with what he wanted to do and I was very surprised that it matched up.”
During his time with the WWE, Samoa Joe won the NXT Championship three times and the United States Championship twice. He also won the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic with Finn Balor. He went on to have great matches with Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar
