Former ROH COO Joe Koff has handed away.
Main League Wrestling shared the information on Twitter. They prolonged their condolences to Koff’s household. Of their publish, they highlighted Koff’s integrity, honor, and fervour.
Mike Johnson of PWInsider reported the information as nicely and famous that Koff had been battling most cancers privately for a while. Per Johnson, Koff made the choice in August to discontinue therapy to enhance the standard of the time he had left together with his household.
Joe Koff served because the Chief Working Officer of ROH from September 2011 to Might 2022. This was a key interval in ROH’s historical past, because it got here when the corporate was owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Koff’s time within the wrestling world dated again to the Nineteen Eighties. He joined Sinclair in 2003 and served as their Senior Vice President of Coaching and Improvement. Koff’s work with Sinclair led him to Ring of Honor.
Below Koff, ROH reached new heights in a number of methods, maybe culminating with their G1 Supercard occasion they co-promoted with NJPW at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2019. The corporate additionally held month-to-month pay-per-views, launched HonorClub, and had a weekly tv present.
Koff and ROH acquired quite a lot of reward for the way in which they dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, each with security protocols and the way in which they saved the corporate working in order that expertise, crew, and workers would nonetheless have a spot to work.
On behalf of WrestleZone, we ship our condolences to Joe Koff’s household, associates, and followers.
