ROH Champ Christopher Daniels Explains Why He Added Cody To His War Of The Worlds Match Against Jay Lethal

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Ring of Honor World Champion of The World Christopher Daniels joined host Nick Hausman to discuss tonight’s ROH War of The Worlds PPV. Featuring his main event match against Jay Lethal and “The American Nightmare” Cody where he’ll be putting his title on the line.

You can find some of Daniels’ comments on why he decided to add “The American Nightmare” Cody to his main event title match against Jay Lethal transcribed below.

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CD: I’ll tell you what man, it’s all a plan for me. Cody made his intentions known at Supercard of Honor. He made it clear that he wanted to be in the mix for the world championship. Instead of letting him take months and months to train I wanted him in the ring as soon as possible. Yeah, I asked Ring of Honor to add him and make it a three-way. In my mind, as the champion in the match, my focus is singular: keep my championship. When you get into a three-way match and you’re the challenger you have to not just contend with the champion but someone else who is trying to fight you and keep you away from the title. When I asked him to be added to that match that was basically just for the winner of the four-way Survival Of The Fittest match that Jay Lethal won. I originally figured, “Well, there’s going to be one other guy that Cody has to contend with.” I gambled and I won big because Jay Lethal won that match and title shot. Jay and Cody have a long history of hatred between the two of them. So, yeah, Cody and Jay Lethal are not only trying to win the match but now they’re looking at each other and they know the wars they’ve gone through together and they’ll do anything to keep each other from the title. All that does is it strengthens my hold on the championship.

You can listen to more comments from Daniels’ regarding War Of The Worlds in the embedded audio player at the top of the page.

You can order War Of The Worlds tonight on PPV or find it on FITE.tv or the FITE app.

As part of Fridays Of Honor Ring of Honor also sent WrestleZone the following preview video for tonight’s War Of The Worlds main event:

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Today’s episode of WZ Daily features host Nick Hausman joined by Joe Dombrowski as his co-host.

Some of the topics they discuss at the top of the show include:

Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan finally giving birth to their first daughter Birdie
Braun Strowman’s injury affecting plans for Bray Wyatt, Finn Balor and Roman Reigns
The buzz around Roderick Strong in NXT
Jim Ross‘ new role in WWE doing commentary for the UK show and possibly the Women’s Tournament
Linda McMahon saying the Vince McMahon movie probably won’t see the light of day
No Mercy returning and where it will be held
More…

Ring of Honor World Champion of The World Christopher Daniels then joins Nick to discuss tonight’s ROH War of The Worlds PPV. Featuring his main event match against Jay Lethal and “The American Nightmare” Cody where he’ll be putting his title on the line.

The show then wraps up with the first installment of Kids Talk Wrestling. Featuring Nick chatting with kids about some the top stories from around the world of pro wrestling. His first guest is a nine-year-old girl named Mary.

The WZ Daily will be made available Monday-Friday around Noon EST on Eric Bischoff’s IRWNetwork.com!