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As usual, I didn’t look at the wrestling news during the weekend until Sunday night. The headline “The story behind Michael Elgin dropping the title, visa issues cause him to be stopped at the border” from Prowrestling.net caught my attention pretty quickly. I then went back wards to see what happened in the match. It cracked me up during the review of All Star Extravaganza VI that Zack Zimmerman hyped being an insider on Dot Net to find put the ROH title change news earlier. That’s like dangling rancid shark in front of me, telling me it’s half price and asking me if I want some. No thanks, it’s rancid. Even if you give it to me for free, I don’t want it.

Michael Elgin was supposed to have a lengthy title reign. That makes sense, I chronicled how Elgin had just been built up for the third time and he needed the win over Adam Cole more than Cole needed to hold on to the belt. (I swear I did this article after the server change over. I can’t find it.) Michael Elgin took out time after getting his big win to talk about wanting to try out for a professional baseball team, despite not having a track record of playing. Don’t all Canadians play hockey? I’m not even sure what makes him think he could play. And why do you think it’s a good idea to do directly after winning the title you have been after for three years? Michael Jordan won three consecutive champions ships before bolting for baseball. He couldn’t hack it in baseball. You aren’t a quarter of the athlete Jordan was. What exactly are you thinking? This mind blowing statement might explain the recent crowd reaction and turn in character. It seemed out of the blue when I was doing this review. Now it makes perfect sense.

Ring of Honor are mad about Elgin talking about trying out for a baseball team. Since you give him a pay check, how about talking to him and telling him to shut his pie hole? If that doesn’t work, why not let him leave like wrestlers do for Japan for months on end? You’ve already gone five weeks without putting your newly crowned champion on TV. This try out will only take a day before anyone with baseball acumen realizes Elgin isn’t cut out for their sport. Or ROH officials could co-opt this opportunity and have him go out there as the ROH World Champ to get extra exposure. It’d be less ham handed than the WWE desperately trying to get Michael Sam on Raw.

The other part of amusement with this whole situation is that Elgin was then detained at the Canadian border because he didn’t have the correct visa to come back into the US. Ms Chif, his wife whose real name is Rachel Frobel, was able to come back over. I’m sure the paper work will be fixed but shouldn’t you have your papers in order? You were supposed to be a wrestling champion in a company that mainly works in the United States. That makes it kind of important to have that paperwork.

Jay Briscoe ends up as the new ROH Champion. He’s a good choice. ROH now has one less main eventer with Elgin being in some weird limbo. Tomasso Ciampa is off TV. Matt Taven is off TV. Sounds like ROH is beating out TNA  Zim, even though I’m not interested in rancid shark, I can’t wait to smell the rancid smell coming of Ring of Honor’s dead promotion carcass. – Kevin