Sinclair Broadcasting kicks longstanding Ring of Honor employee Syd Eick to the curb

In a slow weekend for wrestling news, the biggest story was a low key departure from Ring Of Honor (ROH) management. Longstanding employee Syd Eick announced to the ROH locker room after their Philidelphia house show on Friday night that he was leaving the company, effective immediately. Eick was the sole person left in management who had been with the company from the very beginning and whose power grew to the role of Vice President when founder Rob Feinstein was forced to sell the company to Cary Silkin after being caught in a highly embarrassing Internet sting by Perverted-Justice. He had been responsible for the day to day running of the company for many years before Sinclair Broadcasting took it over late last spring.

Eick was a divisive figure backstage, often playing "bad cop" to Silkin's "good cop", in a role similar to the one WWE's heads of talent relations like J.J. Dillon, Jim Ross and currently John Laurinaitis performed for Vince McMahon. Inevitably then Eick picked up enemies, most notably the talented Austin Aries who acrimoniously left ROH in 2010 and immediately tweeted upon hearing the news:

"@ScrapDaddyAP @BookItGabe @rohcary Just heard some #GREAT news. About damn time someone got smart. #SeeYaPal #CutTheCancerOut"