Ring Of Honor Champion Jonathan Gresham Wants CM Punk And Bryan Danielson As Next Challengers

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Ring Of Honor Champion Jonathan Gresham made some waves when he declared that the next step in his goal to «bring honor and prestige» to the ROH World Title is to face All Elite Wrestling megastars and recent ROH Hall Of Fame inductees CM Punk and Bryan Danielson.

This news comes on the heels of Gresham's recent big victory at the PROGRESS Chapter 130 event, where he claimed the PROGRESS World Championship in a Title vs Title match versus the now-former PROGRESS Champion Cara Noir. The intrigue behind Gresham's victory comes from the fact that PROGRESS is a WWE-endorsed promotion, whereas ROH is now a subsidiary of Tony Khan and AEW after his purchase of the promotion at the beginning of March.

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Gresham made his statements during an interview on the most recent WrestleTalk podcast. At ROH's last event before going on hiatus, Final Battle 2021, Gresham fought and defeated Jay Lethal to lay claim to the ROH World Title. While Bandido was originally the titleholder going into the event against Lethal, a positive COVID test forced him off the event and Gresham was slotted in, winning and becoming the «original» ROH World Champion. With both Gresham and Bandido laying claim to the ROH World Title, a unification match between Bandido's world title and the «original» title held by Grisham is scheduled for April 1 at the return event for ROH, Supercard of Honor. In the time leading up to that match, Gresham has had multiple successful defenses of the «original» ROH World Title against Impact Wrestling talent such as Chris Sabin, Steve Maclin and Josh Alexander, among others. Confident about his upcoming match versus Bandido,