News broke on Wednesday night that there were sources confirmingđŻ that WWE had been in talks to purchase Ring Of Honor since January.
The sources were saying đthat it was going to be a full buyout and thaêŠt the WWE would air the weekly ROH show on the WWE Network.
This was met with equal amounts of unbridled excitement and nervous hand-wrinđging. There were lots of comments about this being "the death of the territories all over again." Others were eagerly antđicipating an influx of top level talent into WWE.
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.
 spoke with a two sources at ROH who has denied the buyout is in the works.  One source, reportedly "high-ranking" said: "There is no story êŠșhere,â categorically denying any deal between the companies.
Earlier this month, when asked about a possible sale,đž RđOH COO Joe Koff told Carroll the same thing:Â
âNo. No, no, no. Itâs very flattering and humbling to us. It validates what weâve done. A lot of their current performers and stars are ROH guys and we have their history. So maybe thđe content of the backstories of Kevin Steen before he became Kevin Owens or AJ Stylesâ run in Ring of Honor, Tyler Black (aka Seth Rollins), Claudio (Castagnoli aka Cesaro) ⊠all of the guys who have wrestled for us. We have their backstory and where it began⊠Thaê©Čtâs our content. Iâm always open to any conversation. We do business with them if they want to do a DVD or VOD if they need footage from early matches they do come to us. We are open to work with them on that basis because it doesnât hurt us. It actually helps us.â
We'll keep you updated with all theêŠ latest on this story.Â