History YMMV / RingOfHonor

** 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.[[hottip:The speech: "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 the zombie princess Jimmy Jacobs ROSE FROM THE GRAVE! And Kevin Steen was ''right''; sometimes, [[TheBadGuyWins EVIL WINS]]."

* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: Crossed with DudeNotFunny and a perfect example of the problems with the ThereAreNoPolice trope, the Allison Danger-Larry Sweeney-Bobby Dempsey rape angle. At the ''Sixth Anniversary Show'', February 23, 2008, Danger was a guest on Sweeney's TalkShowWithFists "The Sweet Shop." Sweeney made implications about Danger sleeping with everyone in the locker room and then knocked her unconscious. He then told his flunky Dempsey that he needed to "become a man," and threw him on top of her, after he initially refused. Some losers in the crowd shouted "Suck her tits!" ROH subsequently flip-flopped on whether or not they would include this on the [=DVD=] release, and it pretty much led to Gabe Sapolsky's removal as booker.

* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: Crossed with DudeNotFunny and a perfect example of the problems with the ThereAreNoPolice trope. At the ''Sixth Anniversary Show'', February 23, 2008, Alison Danger was a guest on Larry Sweeney's TalkShowWithFists "The Sweet Shop." Sweeney made implications about Danger sleeping with everyone in the locker room and then knocked her unconscious. He then told his flunky Bobby Dempsey that he needed to "become a man", that is, '''''rape''''' her, and threw him on top of her, after he initially refused. Some losers in the crowd shouted "Suck her tits!"

* GrowingTheBeard: The one-hour draw between CMPunk and SamoaJoe is cited as the turning point for the promotion; the original owner had been ousted shortly before that due to a pedophilia scandal, and the promotion was in danger of going out of business. The Joe vs. Punk series and the breakout of the Generation Next stable created heightened interest for the promotion as well as heralding a more sophisticated booking style augmented by a roster of young wrestlers who were constantly improving.
* HilariousInHindsight: During the Colt Cabana/Homicide feud, Cabana referred to Homicide as "Konnan's bitch." When he said this, it was based on such an unpublicized real-life connection that it had a ViewersAreGeniuses vibe. A few months later, Homicide began wrestling for {{TNA}} with Konnan as his manager, making the burn much funnier in retrospect.

** The same can be said about BryanDanielson, whose current "YES! YES!" catchphrase became a chant throughout the entire 10th Anniversary show in New York.

* ShockingSwerve: Even Ring of Honor isn't immune to [[VinceRusso Russo-esque]] booking with [[spoiler: Jimmy Jacobs siding with Kevin Steen at Showdown in the Sun, less than a month after being brutalized by him at the Anniversary show.]]

** Kevin Steen as well. Packaged Piledrived [[spoiler:Steve Corino, Jimmy Jacobs, and El Generico]] onto the injured reserve list, has been on a one-man crusade against JimCornette (and ROH in general), shown absolutely no remorse for his actions...and [[MisaimedFandom the ROH fans]] [[RootingForTheEmpire cheer him]] [[DracoInLeatherPants like crazy]].

** Ring of Honor itself, with a good bit of HypeAversion. While certainly a good promotion, and better than either WWE and TNA, it's still massively over-hyped, what with the fans constantly singing its praises while endlessly bashing either WWE and TNA, sometimes without real reason.

* CompleteMonster: Jimmy Jacobs. In a promotion where heels are cheered as often as babyfaces are, it speaks volumes that Jimmy was never cheered when he ran the Age of the Fall.
** In the span of two years, Homicide lit a fireball in Samoa Joe's face, disrespected the ROH World Title, and tried to kill Colt Cabana no fewer than three times. Fittingly, he was the one who the fans called upon to [[DracoInLeatherPants defend]] ROH against CZW.
** With help from Steve Corino, Kevin Steen has turned into this. When [[ManipulativeBastard Steve Corino]] essentially disowned Steen because his mentorship had gone [[GoneHorriblyRight too]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters well]] and ''begged'' El Generico to simply end this before it got worse (which it did), you know something's wrong. In a span of a year, Kevin Steen went from being best friends with El Generico to beating him with a chair, [[BigNo unmasking him]], and various other terrible acts.

** Kevin Steen as well. Packaged Piledrived [[spoiler:Steve Corino, Jimmy Jacobs, and El Generico]] onto the injured reserve list, has been on a one-man crusade against JimCornette (and ROH in general), [[CompleteMonster shown absolutely no remorse]] for his actions...and [[MisaimedFandom the ROH fans]] [[RootingForTheEmpire cheer him]] [[DracoInLeatherPants like crazy]].

* Michael Elgin: 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.

* StrictlyFormula: Due to the promotion having a lot of well balanced (to the point of being generic at times) wrestlers, a lot of their matches have a very similar structure, around five minutes at the beginning of the wrestlers locking up and exchanging amateur throws and pins, then one wrestler starts using high impact maneuvers, both wrestlers will work a body part as they trade momentum this all concludes with a series of near-falls with a climactic finish. Which is a nice structure...if they don't use it. All. The. Time. Roderick Strong is especially guilty of this.

* 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.

** "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett goes here in most eyes, especially when he is feuding with Chris Daniels and Eddie Edwards for the TV Championship. He even received a "YOU CAN'T WRESTLE" chant at "Tag Title Classic II."

** Kevin Steen as well. Packaged Pildrived [[spoiler:Steve Corino, Jimmy Jacobs, and El Generico]] onto the injured reserve list, has been on a one-man crusade against JimCornette (and ROH in general), [[CompleteMonster shown absolutely no remorse]] for his actions...and [[MisaimedFandom the ROH fans]] [[RootingForTheEmpire cheer him]] [[DracoInLeatherPants like crazy]].

** With help from Steve Corino, Kevin Steen has turned into this. When [[ManipulativeBastard Steve Corino]] essentially disowned Steen because his mentorship had gone [[GoneHorriblyRight too]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters well]] and ''begged'' El Generico to simply end this before [[ItGotWorse it got worse]] (which it did), you know something's wrong. In a span of a year, Kevin Steen went from being best friends with El Generico to beating him with a chair, [[BigNo unmasking him]], and various other terrible acts.

** 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.[[hottip:The speech: "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 the zombie princess Jimmy Jacobs ROSE FROM THE GRAVE! And Kevin Steen was ''right''; sometimes, [[TheBadGuyWins EVIL WINS]]."]]

* RuinedFOREVER: Try to find one event that didn't trigger this reaction from somebody.

* FanDumb
* GrowingTheBeard: The one-hour draw between CM Punk and Samoa Joe is cited as the turning point for the promotion; the original owner had been ousted shortly before that due to a pedophilia scandal, and the promotion was in danger of going out of business. The Joe vs. Punk series and the breakout of the Generation Next stable created heightened interest for the promotion as well as heralding a more sophisticated booking style augmented by a roster of young wrestlers who were constantly improving.

* TheWesley: The Carnage Crew. Nearly everyone flipped shit when they beat Whitmer and Jacobs for the Tag Team Titles.
** "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett goes here in most eyes, especially when he is feuding with Chris Daniels and Eddie Edwards for the TV Championship. He even received a "YOU CAN'T WRESTLE" chant at "Tag Title Classic II."

* LoveItOrHateIt: Final Battle 2009, particularly the main event, is ROH's gold standard for this trope.

* UnpleasableFanbase: This is particularly true of the fans on the ROH Message Board, who seem to find one thing per show that is a sign that the company is on its death bed. Some ROH fans have been saying that the company is "almost dead" for nearly 3 years now.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Homicide.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: After handling an unruly fan who tried to take a swing at Austin Aries, referee Paul Turner has been cheered mightily, especially in New York.

* DethroningMomentOfSuck: Not even a promotion as critically acclaimed as ROH is immune to these. Exhibit A: Kendo Ka Shin winning the Best of the American Super Juniors tournament. NJPW stuck him under a mask and billed him as Dragon Soldier B, proceeding to also mail in all three of his matches. After defeating Black Tiger to win the tournament, Ka Shin received a thunderous "DON'T COME BACK" chant, and James Gibson buried him even more.
** Even worse, DSB wasn't even in the Best of the Super Juniors XII tournament, while Black Tiger was.
** Usually, FanDumb is the direct cause of ROH's dethroning moments. The worst offenses include Matt Hardy's treatment in his last appearance with the company, the Bobby Dempsey-Larry Sweeney-Allison Danger rape angle where the fans cheered Dempsey potentially taking advantage of an unconscious Danger, the "TWINKIES" chant which has presented itself at every New York show since Glory By Honor VIII, and the various other chants at Glory By Honor IX.
* FanDumb: It even goes to the point where the fans themselves cause [[DethroningMomentofSuck Dethroning Moments of Suck]] on occasion.

** Even worse, DSB wasn't even in the Best of the Super Juniors XII tournament, while [[WallBanger Black Tiger was]].

* TheWesley: The Carnage Crew. Nearly everyone flipped shit when they beat Whitmer and Jacobs for the Tag Team Championships.