Between All Elite Wrestling and Ring of Honor there are quite a few title belts under the AEW banner. Last month Samoa Joe vacated the ROH World Television Championship, and many people were surprised to see Joe just relinquish the belt.
The decision to have Joe simply relinquish the ROH TV Championship was criticized by some fans online, but Samoa Joe has since moved on to the AEW World Title picture.
During the recent media call for ROH Final Battle, Tony Khan was asked about Samoa Joe dropping the belt, and he indicated that he wanted to focus more on using Joe in AEW instead of ROH.
“I do think it made a lot of sense for him to be a focus because he is such a huge star for AEW,” Khan said during the Final Battle media call. “There’s a lot of commercial benefits to having a huge star of Samoa Joe’s stature on AEW television every week. It felt like, as big as Samoa Joe’s presence on AEW has become, it become challenging for him to defend the [ROH TV] championship, so relinquishing at that point, I think, did make some sense.”
With the ROH TV Title in his rearview Samoa Joe is currently set to challenge MJF for the AEW World Championship at the World’s End pay-per-view later this month. Stay tuned for updates.
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