ROH GM Greg Gilleland sat down with Chuck Carroll of CBS Local Sports and talked about several situations regarding the promotion, with the most notable being WWE’s aggressive signings of independent talent.
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CBS Local Sports:
Is there any concern that your top guys, Cody Rhodes, the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, won't be available for that show, given the fact that their deals reportedly expire at the end of the year or shortly thereafter?
"Of course, we're going to do everything that we can to keep them. And we have fair offers and fair plans to retain them. With that said, I don't think we ever operate in fear. We always operate with solid backup plans. And we have to always think about what if this, and what if that. If they go to the WWE, and they very much deserve that opportunity, we'll continue to offer the best wrestling that we can. There's other talent out there. And we will continue as our brand has for the past however many years. We've lost top guys before...
"Am I gonna make an aggressive attempt to retain them and sign longer-term agreements? Of course we are. But, at the end of the day, the ROH brand is about the ROH experience, and that's how we continue to grow."
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