Austin Aries Returning To Ring Of Honor

Austin Aries has decided to go back to a familiar place, Ring of Honor. After his TNA Wrestling deal expired last week, he became a free agent and it was announced on Monday that Aries will return to ROH on July 17 in Las Vegas. According to ROHWrestling.com, Aries plans to address the crowd and not hold anything back. He has always been a guy that's not afraid to speak his mind or shy away from being controversial, so it will be interesting to see what he has to say to the fans in Vegas. Aries is a former two time ROH World Champion that worked for the company from 2004 to 2010. He signed with TNA in 2011 after he tried to get into WWE as part of their Tough Enough show. Aries went on to win TNA's World Title as well, but was unhappy in the last few months of his deal because he was no longer a main event performer. While Aries has never worked for WWE, he did provide the voice of the main character Jacob Cass in the WWE '12 video game. There's been some speculation that WWE might have interest in him now as part of the NXT brand, but at 37 years old he might be viewed as too old for WWE to bring in. It is not known at this time if Aries has a full time deal with ROH or if it's just a part time deal, but that should be known when he addresses the crowd on July 17.