History YMMV / RingOfHonor

* EvilIsSexy:
** Despite being a reviled member of the reviled Prophecy, the [=ROHbots=] still voted Simply Luscious to be the hottest woman in the promotion. A fact Christopher Daniels would tease Alexis Laree and her fans with.
** Taeler Hendrix got this response after graduating from jobber to [[strike:Hoopla Hottie]]Truth Martini's RightHandHottie.
** Brad Dykens' [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/information/dvds/roh/glory-by-honor-6-n2/ review]] of the [=DVD=] for ''ROH Glory By Honor VI Night 2'' called Wrestling/SaraDelRey "devilishly sexy."

* FridgeBrilliance: The invading heel Knights of the Rising Dawn had a mission stance of being opposed to the idea that tenure longevity and company politics should override talent when it comes to who's the best for the job in ROH. Come the reveal of KRD's membership—The Addiction and Chris Sabin—it all starts to make sense. Christopher Daniels is a guy who's routinely traveled off and on between ROH and TNA, while Kazarian and Chris Sabin both sporadically appeared in ROH in the past but never as full-time members. ''Of course'' they don't want the company prioritizing tenure, that works against them. Furthermore, KRD's stance was the exact opposite from the Decade, another heel group. So why were they acting as heels instead of attacking the Decade? Well, this is where we remember that Daniels and Kazarian came back as faces ''before'' launching the KRD plot, and their first ROH feud as a tag team was against…the Decade.

** Enzo and Cass got so much of it for their worked shoot brawl that it was never mentioned again.

** While The Briscoe Brothers as a team are remembered as ROH's most decorated tag team, Jay Briscoe on his own will forever be known as the person who once tweeted that he'd shoot anyone who told his kids gay marriage is OK. Both ROH and New Japan will similarly get scolded by LGBT fans and allies every time Jay gets a solo push. Unfortunately for them, the 2017 fan votes for ''Tournament of Honor'' suggested Jay Briscoe was the single most popular wrestler employed by the company at the time, ahead of even Cole, Castle, Daniels and Lethal, or at least the one fans wanted to see pushed the most since the voting ''was'' on who they would have as their world champion (though ROH did end up pushing Daniels in that instance, to rave reviews). It's also the most likely reason why they are one of the very few ROH champions that never appeared on AEW television, due to Warner-Discovery not wanting to risk the backlash.

** While The Briscoe Brothers as a team are remembered as ROH's most decorated tag team, Jay Briscoe on his own will forever be known as the person who once tweeted that he'd shoot anyone who told his kids gay marriage is OK. Both ROH and New Japan will similarly get scolded by LGBT fans and allies every time Jay gets a solo push. Unfortunately for them, the 2017 fan votes for ''Tournament of Honor'' suggested Jay Briscoe was the single most popular wrestler employed by the company at the time, ahead of even Cole, Castle, Daniels and Lethal, or at least the one fans wanted to see pushed the most since the voting ''was'' on who they would have as their world champion (though ROH did end up pushing Daniels in that instance, to rave reviews).

** Few [=RoHbots=] can tell you much about Mike Mondo's role in, say, Bolin Services. A larger-than-you-may-expect amount have not even committed to memory most of his time in this company. The main thing everyone knows is that he was a member of The Spirit Squad.
** Jay Briscoe will forever be known as the person who once tweeted that he'd shoot anyone who told his kids gay marriage is OK. Both ROH and New Japan will similarly get scolded by LGBT fans and allies every time Jay gets pushed. Unfortunately for them, the 2017 fan votes for ''Tournament Of Honor'' suggested Jay Briscoe was the single most popular wrestler employed by the company at the time, ahead of even Cole, Castle, Daniels and Lethal, or at least the one fans wanted to see pushed the most since the voting ''was'' on who they would have as their world champion.(though ROH did end up pushing Daniels in that instance, to rave reviews).

** Flip Gordon is a talented wrestler on his own, but when his anti-vax and anti-mask instance was made public in the middle of the pandemic has caused him to be remembered as a "Conspiranoic Alt-Righter" instead, and ROH had a serious COVID-19 protocol from 2020 to 2021. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account, and was also not picked up when ROH was rolled into AEW, despite his p-revioud friendship with the Elite. David Finlay pretty much eulogised his career by calling him "the dumbest person I know, and I know Ospreay."

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Many long-term fans were already skeptical enough about a large corporation buying Ring of Honor, but the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group Sinclair Broadcast Group]] being the one to do so was a turn-off for other reasons, given their reputation and their actions (see the linked entry from Wiki/TheOtherWiki). There's a ''reason'' they're called "The Heathens of Hunt Valley".

** Flip Gordon is a talented wrestler on his own, but when his anti-vax and anti-mask instance was made public in the middle of the pandemic has caused him to be remembered as a "Conspiranoic Alt-Righter" instead, and ROH had a serious COVID-19 protocol from 2020 to 2021. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account.

** Few [=RoHbots=] can tell you much about Mike Mondo's role in, say, Bolin Services. A larger-than-you-may-expect amount have not even committed to memory most of his time in this company. The main thing everyone knows is that he was a member of [[TheCheerleader The Spirit Squad]].

** Flip Gordon is a talented wrestler on his own, but when his anti-vax and anti-mask instance was made public in the middle of the pandemic has caused him to be remembered for being a conspiranoic "Alt-Righter" instead, and ROH had a serious COVID-19 protocol from 2020 to 2021. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account.

** Flip Gordon is a talented wrestler on his own, but when his anti-vax and anti-mask instance has made public in the middle of the pandemic has caused him to be remembered for being a conspiranoic "Alt-Righter" instead, and ROH had a serious COVID-19 protocol from 2020 to 2021. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account.

* FandomRivalry: Used to be FriendlyFandoms with TNA till the first pullout and got more hostile which each subsequent pullout, as management of the two companies continued to try to work something out for six years, failing every single time. Somewhat contentious with the WWN due to Gabe Sapolsky and who took over after ROH left but not too much due to the unsurprisingly similar styles, even taking the Dragon Gate influences into account.

* HypeBacklash: Ring of Honor itself, with a good bit of HypeAversion. While certainly a good promotion, and arguably better than both WWE and TNA, its fans never stop singing its praises while endlessly bashing either WWE or TNA, sometimes without real reason.

** Flip Gordon is a talented wrestler on his own, but his anti-vax and anti-mask instance the middle of the pandemic has caused him to be remembered for that, and ROH had a serious COVID-19 protocol from 2020 to 2021. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account.

* ShockingSwerve: Even Ring of Honor isn't immune to [[Wrestling/VinceRusso Russo-esque]] booking with [[spoiler: Jimmy Jacobs siding with Wrestling/KevinSteen at ''Showdown in the Sun'', less than a month after being brutalized by him at the Anniversary show.]] Unlike most of Russo's swerves, however, this one had a somewhat logical explanation, revealed in a speech from [[spoiler: Jacobs]] the very next day.
-->'''[[spoiler: Jacobs]]:''' For the past year, Steve Corino and I have been on a road to redemption. Trying to do what's right, trying to be good. And the whole way through, the man that was trying to stop us was Kevin Steen! But at ''Final Battle'', when I drove that railroad spike into Kevin Steen's face and I froze...it wasn't because I was disgusted by what I did. It's because I'd been celibate for a year, and I finally had an orgasm! And in that moment, in that moment I realized being good isn't for me, uh-uh! I realized, in that moment, that [[spoiler: the zombie princess Jimmy Jacobs]] ROSE FROM THE GRAVE! And Kevin Steen was ''right''; sometimes, [[TheBadGuyWins EVIL WINS]].

** Flip Gordon, once a popular wrestler, has fallen into this when it's revealed in social media that he posted anti-vax and anti-mask messages in the middle of the pandemic. As a consequence of this, he closed his Twitter account.

** "Woman At ROH Event!" [[DiscreditedMeme This was eventually discredited]], but the company did once have a "boys club" reputation due to its lack of a women's division before the creation of the Women of Honor.

%%* NarmCharm: All of Jimmy Jacobs' songs.

** Weak writing by pretty much everyone since since Gabe left in 2008: former ROH in-ring wrestler Adam Pearce, veteran writer Wrestling/JimCornette, and now wrestlers [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bully Ray]]. (It had been almost 20 years since ECW folded, so people tended to forget how bad their booking was when Bully was working behind-the-scenes.) It's generally-agreed that Delirious is stuck in his ways: he was still booking it as if it were the DVD-sales indie of yesteryear, and he has difficulty recycling guys in a way which keeps them interesting. Jay Lethal and the Briscoes were the only thing they had going, but both were doing the same stuff since 2012.

*** Matt Taven not being over with the Honor Nation when he won the ROH World Championship in the ''G1 Supercard'' event, leading to a lukewarm title run at the time, as they wanted the then-fan favorite Marty Scurll to win. In hindsight, ROH technically dodged a bullet because one year later, Scurll got accused of sexual misconduct in 2020 when [=#SpeakingOut=] hits in.

** Wrestling/MichaelElgin, ironically, became more of one the better he got. Mainly because 'better' doesn't necessarily mean 'best' and some people wouldn't care for his style even if done to perfection.

** Everyone agrees [[Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra Bobby Fish]] is a good wrestler and he has credentials no one can deny, but some people just find his work in the ring to be bland. On the microphone his {{hipster}} like {{trolling|creator}} is amusing to some, just plain annoying to others.

** The discussion of Wrestling/MikeBennett and whether or not he was a "star". Despite all the abuse he got during his runs from the fan base, people arguing he was mistreated by the company started derailing various topics after he left for TNA (where he ''was'' better received, to be fair).
** Cody's debut didn't leave much impression on fans, and the purists remained largely apathetic as he was pushed ahead of up-and-comers (eg. Wrestling/LioRush, Wrestling/KeithLee), stronger technicians (eg. Wrestling/SilasYoung, Wrestling/DaltonCastle) and several foreign wrestlers interested in the World Title (no less than Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi!) but Bullet Club fans came to adore him after he joined the group, to the point they drowned out cheers for ''Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels'' with their Cody support.

** Dave Prazak or Wrestling/KevinKelly, who is the better commentator?

** The Top Prospect Tournament. Its purpose is obviously to showcase whom ROH thinks has the most future potential at the moment and some fans accept that, except that being presented as a wrestling tournament, other fans ignore this premise and just want to see who they consider the best wrestlers ''right now'' win, as seen in Wrestling/MattTaven over [=TaDarius=] Thomas, Donovan Dijak over Will Ferrara and Wrestling/LioRush over Brian Fury.

** Kenny King and Rhett Titus became this as the All Night Express, a tag team mostly put together to keep tag team matches from becoming monotonous. That was until they won the belts only for King to leave and try his hand in TNA's X division...
** Wrestling/MichaelElgin: Went from simply being a guy with a few impressive power moves to having a huge following after having a match of the year candidate with Davey Richards.

** "[[Wrestling/HaniaTheHowlingHuntress Hania]] didn't see the 2012 Homecoming attack on the Briscoes, though Jay deserved it for grabbing Saturyne."[[note]]Tamara [=McNeill=] dropped the Saturyne gimmick after she left Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} following ''Aniversario: Never Compromise'' on June 2, 2013, which was the night of the shutdown, and never looked back, using the Hania the Howling Huntress gimmick until she retired in 2018.[[/note]]

** BJ Whitmer didn't start off as this, but after the departures of Wrestling/RoderickStrong and Jimmy Jacobs from [[PowerStable the Decade]], quickly became this in record time. Part of it is due to the fact that the fans believe that he's just too old and broken-down to wrestle well anymore, and part of it is his feud with Wrestling/SteveCorino, which became [[ItsPersonal personal]] to the point that most fans found it uncomfortable.

*** Matt Taven not being over with the Honor Nation when he won the ROH World Championship, leading to a lukewarm title run at a time, as they wanted the then-fan favorite Marty Scurll to win. In hindsight, ROH technically dodged a bullet because one year later, Scurll got accused of sexual misconduct in 2020 when [=#SpeakingOut=] hits in.

*** The hiring of both Enzo and Cass, infamous for their atrocious backstage behaviour during their time in WWE.
*** Matt Taven not being over with the Honor Nation when he won the ROH World Championship, leading to a disastrous title run at a time when Marty Scrull was more deserving to win the belt than him.