Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 6:15 PM EST

Ring of Honor officially announced today that the company would be debuting on Pay Per View starting on July 1 with coverage on inDemand and Dish Network (no DirecTV as of now). The first show airing on July 1 will be a tape of the May 12 event from the Manhattan Center in New York. Following that, taped shows will be airing every other month with the deal seeing six shows airing between July 2007 and June 2008.

As a result of Ring of Honor signing this new Pay Per View deal, it will mean that any TNA contracted talent can no longer appear on shows that are designed as PPV tapings. The only TNA contracted talent remaining on ROH's roster at the moment includes Homicide and Austin Aries/Starr (who was recently suspended by TNA for 90 days after the Lockdown PPV).

Announced already for the May 12 show is ROH World Champion Takeshi Morishima, Nigel McGuiness, The Briscoe Brothers, Bryan Danielson, Delirious, Roderick Strong, Davey Richards, BJ Whitmer, Brent Albright, Eric Stevens and Claudio Castagnoli.

Here is a video of the big ROH announcement below:


Thanks to Tony Guidotti & Ian (HK & Cult Film) for sending word