In a recent interview with Busted Open Radio, All Elite Wrestling star and former ROH World Champion Jay Lethal discussed several topics, including AEW President & CEO Tony Khan’s decision to purchase Ring Of Honor.

“I was more shocked when it was going way, only because financially, that was my bread and butter. It was more of a shock to me to find out, now you don’t have a job. It was definitely unbelievable when I heard that Tony bought it, the coolest thing to me is, throughout all the years of Ring Of Honor, it has always been and felt like this cult fighting club, if you didn’t know about it, then you weren’t cool and you were an average wrestling fan. Only the cool and knowledgeable wrestling fans knew about it, and they dictated who they thought was the best in the world, you think this guy on television is great, you have to to see this guy on Ring Of Honor. That has really carried them throughout the years, even though Ring Of Honor has struggled and tried to fight to become more than an underground promotion, we tried for years to overcome that, and sometimes we shouldn’t have rocked the boat and just stuck to that.

Now that Tony Khan owns it, really more than anytime ever, it has a chance to break out of the underground feel and have more eyes on it, and it has a chance where stars can be made and developed, but they stay because it is a destination and you can make a living there now. I was super excited when I heard that Tony bought it. On another note, it was very tough for me to get over the fact that when they dropped that bombshell on us, not only did I not have a job at that particular time, but do did a lot of the other guys. Hopefully, fingers crossed, it leads to some of my friends who are no longer employed, some fantastic wrestlers who need more experience and more eyes on them, hopefully it leads to guys who no longer have jobs, getting jobs, fingers crossed.”

The full interview is available at this link.