Ring of Honor wrestling has sent a cease and desist letter to Global Force Wrestling due to infringement on ROH's brand in radio and TV ads promoting the July 24 inaugural GFW TV tapings in Las Vegas at The Orleans casino. The story was reported by PWinsider, who received the info from a reliable source. According to PWInsider, the advertisement referenced ROH stars appearing at the GFW event on Friday even though ROH has their Death Before Dishonor iPPV in Baltimore that day. There likely won't be any ROH stars at the GFW tapings even though some of them have been at GFW live events. A big reason for ROH taking issue with GFW is that they have a strong television presence in Las Vegas since ROH airs on two different stations there and they also ran a show in Vegas last week. There was also a story circulating about former TNA World Champion Chris Sabin appearing on GFW, but he was never advertised for GFW events in the first place. It's smart of ROH to try to defend their turf, so to speak, in Las Vegas. They're established there and they don't want fans to think that ROH talents are going to be appearing at GFW's tapings. They are letting ROH performers work GFW live events if they don't have ROH bookings on that day and that's really it at this point.
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