During Friday night’s ROH Death Before Dishonor Media Scrum, Tony Khan said due to Taz’s family not being able to make Saturday’s Collision, the ECW legend’s 2300 Arena Hardcore Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place during Wednesday’s Dynamite.
“He asked for more time to get his family and everybody lined up…It’s for him. It’s the least we can do for Taz….it’s a real honor for us to do that for him here in this building. Taz is an indispensable part of the team.”
After this past Wednesday’s Dynamite went off the air, Tony Khan and the roster surprised Taz with the announcement.
Khan also addressed the technical issues with the streaming platform host Brightcove that led to Death Before Dishonor being given away for free on YouTube, which includes a free month of HonorClub only for current subscribers.
“Tonight, our streaming provider had issues only with browsers…I put the show up free worldwide on YouTube…and I’m gonna give everybody a one-month credit, all the current subscribers…at first, we thought it only was Chrome and Firefox, but then also, they said Microsoft Edge. So I said, ‘You know, if it’s affecting those people, everybody should be able to just watch it for free on YouTube’ and we’ll rectify it with the streaming provider, Brightcove, that was responsible…it was a well-received choice. People thought it was a good thing to do, and you know, that’s a lot of money – a month of subscriptions – I’m not gonna lie to you. We have thousands of thousands of subscribers. That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars that I’m gonna eat with a month subscription but it’s okay, because we made new fans. I’ll rectify it with the people responsible on the other end and the fans got a great show tonight and it seemed like almost unanimously positive response on social media.”