10 Things AEW Fans Need To Know About Ring Of Honor

While the likes of the NXT and AEW Championships have held the claim to having perhaps the most respected North American World Championship lineages in modern times, a quick glance at the sheer level and quantity of eventually world class performers to have held the Ring of Honor World Championship could leave both of those other straps blushing.

After Low Ki picked up the win that earned him the honour of being the inaugural ROH Champion back in July 2002, Samoa Joe would eventually seize the strap and go on to hold it for a record breaking and setting 645 days. Said reign would see the eventual TNA and WWE man defend the strap on 31 separate occasions and form one half of a legendary rivalry with CM Punk.

The Voice of the Voiceless would also hold the strap for a spell, before infamously signing his WWE developmental contract on it.

Along with Ki, Joe, and Punk, Bryan Danielson, Tyler Black, Kevin Steen, Adam Cole, Jay Lethal, Kyle O'Reilly, Christopher Daniels, Cody Rhodes, and Austin Aries have all once held the strap up high, with Johnathan Gresham currently reigning as the ROH Champion heading into this bold new chapter.