New ROH Champ Crowned Saturday Night (PICTURE)

Published On March 20, 2011 | By | Other News, Wrestling News

Eddie Edwards, is the new World Champion of Ring of Honor. He captured the title at yesterday’s ROH show in New York City, vanquishing Roderick Strong’s six-month reign as champion.

The title change had been planned for a while, but kept under wraps to all but a few people.

Edwards’ next scheduled match is against ROH World Television Champion Christopher Daniels on April 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Daniels captured the title from Edwards last December.

Check out this picture of Eddie Edwards with the ROH World title, sent in by SEScoops reader Jim Aronson:

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  • Sting2WWEB4heretires

    now maybe that douche bag will shut up, the one with the Bromance with Eddie Edwards……..

  • http://www.wr-streams.net/ Charge

    ^

  • adementedjim

    FINALLY!!!!! Now maybe those WWE Marks will actually check it out, and see what REAL wrestling is.

  • DLocDaBudSmoka

    im a WWe mark, and i cant wait til ROH finds a new home on tv. sucks since i lost my HDnet. cant see it anymore.

  • adementedjim

    How can you ve a WWE mark AND a ROH fan? That’s like saying you like high school plays and Broadway productions just the same.

  • adementedjim

    BTW, I think its pretty funny that Luger is speaking at Shorter U, as since he went off steroids, he IS considerably smaller.

  • coopiero

    @adementedjim Ithink it has more to do with the spinal stroke he suffered 4 years ago,you are clearly a childish buffoon, if your avatar is actually a picture of you then you need to do some serious growing up pal becuase you sound like a 15 year old child

  • http://www.wr-streams.net/ Charge

    I Like WWE and ROH. How Can u say If I watch WWE I can’t be a ROH fan? I agree coopiero

  • adementedjim

    Now saying you can’t watch both…I watch every televised wrestling show. What I AM saying is that being a “WWE-mark” means you believe what you are seeing is great wrestling, while watching ROH is actually that. One is junk food, one is gourmet.

  • rowdysk316

    I was at that show. It was nuts! I was sorta glad I was late to the MSG show. I remember one guy saying “let’s go. Strong is going to retain anyway.” Little did he know…

  • Youllneverlearn

    DementedJim:
    The company making millions of dollars a year WORLDWIDE is junkfood and a company that just lost it’s television deal is gourmet? And here you’re throwing out the term ‘Mark’ like you’re not one. Look in the mirror brotha, I can see it stamped on your forehead in your avatar ‘ROH-MARK’
    What. A. Douche

  • beast

    I hate how people go hating on WWE and stuff but admit to them watching it weekly.. seriously if its crappy junk food stop watching bro its that simple, sure ROH may have some better quality matches but imo WWE is more entertaining because wwe wrestlers have what most roh wrestlers dont, charisma. there is a reason roh is where its at dude, its not as great as great as you make it out to be

  • somewrestlingfansareidiots

    No. ROH is amazing. No production values necessary cuz the talent is that damn good. I understand though, it’s hard nowadays to not be able to rate a wrestling product on it’s production values. However, once all the current cenation what ever you call it chumps grow up and get tired of WWE, fruity pebbles and gay bashing they will hopefully discover ROH and realise that wrestling doesn’t just need to be about charisma and produciton values. For a company that solely focuses on wrestling ability and competition (actual wrestling based competition than gimmick based) they really need new audiences to understand this.

    The whole gourmet vs junk food arguement doesn’t really stand as WWE just signed Sin Cara and for me that’s just as exciting as when I discovered AJ Styles. Both have come from their own respective ‘Indie’ circuits.

    People need to be pure wrestling and not pure douche’s, however, imo, WWE isn’t pure wrestling at all. But if you enjoy it then more power to you cuz that’s all it’s about at the end of the day.

  • somewrestlingfansareidiots

    @coopeiro – Was Lugers stroke a result of steroid abuse do you know?

  • let it be known

    I totally agree with Sting2WWEb4hetires, by the way.

  • somewrestlingfansareidiots

    good 2 know.

  • adementedjim

    I think I’ve made my point…thanks Scoops for putting up the pic I took….

  • somewrestlingfansareidiots

    @dementedjim – I hear ya, it would be nice if Sescoops weren’t so WWE centric, It’s amazing how nice they will write their WWE articles, yet the editorials on TNA articles are written to antagonise people (IMO), they repeated the Jeff Hardy articles a million times all saying the same thing. Basically, more indie coverage please.

  • JohnyH

    @adementedjim Thanks ROH fanboy, but I think we all know how good ROH is. We don’t need to have a mascot on SEScoops.com.

  • HarryRKO

    You guys do realise that there are hundreds of other wrestling sites, right? And that’s the worst picture i’ve seen, I can’t believe you sh*t your pants when SeScoops didn’t show it , looks like f****g Bamboozle from teletext

  • adementedjim

    Considering I took the pic with my cellphone, and security was pretty harsh on anyone snapping photos, it was the best I could get without getting tossed. Sorry about that!

  • coopiero

    @somewrestlingfansareidiots I have no idea what it was that caused his stroke but I think it’s pretty sad and distasteful for someone to be mocked for it regardless of what led to it, I would say it speaks volumes about the person who said it especially considering how judging by his avatar he is clearly at least in his late 30′s early 40′s

  • adementedjim

    coop: thanks! nobody has told me I looked that young in years! lol

  • Youllneverlearn

    @SomeWrestlingFansAreIdiots: The wrestling business and it’s successes/failures are a result of the success that WWE finds. It’s a downhill slope and all of that money that WWE makes eventually trickles further down to the likes of DragonGate, TNA, ROH, PWG, etc, etc. ROH may have great wrestling matches and a lot of talented performers, but ROH’s business model is a ship trying to stay afloat. For years their expenses were covered by the dvd market, due to piracy and the economy that market has fallen out because not many folks have $200 a month to buy ROH dvds to keep up with the product. They needed the HDNet tv deal to get greater exposure, and it worked for a while but ROH’s product clearly isn’t what HDNet wanted/pay for. Former ROH Booker Adam Pearce himself said that the day Cary Silken realizes that he’s losing HIS OWN money is the day that ROH will close it’s doors. Vince McMahon isn’t going into his own pocket to pay John Cena, it’s money from the networks, merchandise distributors, and live gate. Cary Silken is paying the likes of Christopher Daniels, Chris Hero, Davey Richards, and Homicide from his own pocket. If he were smart he would offer the HDNet execs stock in the company to retain their timeslot, because without it they’re nothing more than an expensive independent promotion.

    Cary Silken can spin any loss be it talent wise or the case of the timeslot however he feels, but when guys like Aries and Steen and London and Danielson leave that company because ROH can’t afford/won’t pay them then there is a problem and people know better than to buy into his bs. Losing the timeslot on Monday was a VERY big loss to ROH’s advancement in the wrestling marketplace.

    This is a bright and shining example of Ring of Honor’s place in the wrestling business. When someone that pretty much carried that company on his back and built gets on a microphone at an ROH show and says he’s going up north so he can pay his bills in the future? It’s a bad sign, and Bryan Danielson did that. When contracted Ring of Honor talent are going to WWE and TNA tryouts / making appearances on the side for WWE and TNA then there is a problem with the finances for those performers.

  • coopiero

    @adementedjim you are clearly a pathetic wanker arn’t you