10 Things AEW Fans Need To Know About Ring Of Honor

And just like that, Tony Khan, via his typically erratic promo delivery style, has thoroughly changed the landscape once again.

Rather than introducing yet another mouth-watering signing or flinging open the Forbidden Door once more, the President of All Elite Wrestling took to Dynamite this week to reveal that not only had he acquired the eye-catching library of Ring of Honor, as heavily theorised over the last few weeks, but he'd only gone and bought the legendary promotion outright.

What this means for a company that looked to be on its knees just a few months back, remains to be seen. Will TK go out of his way to rehabilitate the once-prestigious name of ROH en-route to perhaps making the brand his own personal developmental territory? Or did the leader of The Land of All Elite just simply feel like adding even more jaw-dropping talent to his already heavily stocked roster?

Whatever his plan may be, it goes without saying that the purchasing of such a historic promotion comes with it a boatload of history and heritage that now all falls underneath the All Elite banner. So, now is as good a time as any to take a dive into everything an AEW fanatic needs to know about TK's newest big-name acquisition.

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.