10 Things AEW Fans Need To Know About Ring Of Honor

10. Code Of Honor

Though long since done away with, in its original form at least, as the promotion looked to move with the times and evolve over the years, Ring of Honor's Code of Honor initially acted as one of the foundations that helped set the upstart promotion apart from the rest of the pack.

Taking a ton of inspiration from Japanese professional wrestling, the five laws that made up ROH's moral requirement were as follows:

1. You must shake hands before and after every match.

2. No outside interference.

3. No sneak attacks.

4. No harming the officials.

5. Any action resulting in a disqualification violates the Code of Honor.

Sure enough, if a star did choose to break any of the following laws, their status as a genuinely detested heel was all but guaranteed.

The latter two laws in particular helped add a certain level of legitimacy to ROH's bouts as the majority ended with clean finishes. And on the rare occasion a bout did end via distraction, DQ, ref bump etc. fans would very much let their criticism be heard; something AEW have clearly been influenced by as a promotion already.

Gabe Sapolsky would ultimately scrap the Code in 2004, though it'd return later down the road in a slightly altered capacity.