Mark Briscoe Reveals WWE Offered The Briscoes A Deal, But They Chose ROH Instead

Mark Briscoe is currently one of the most beloved names in AEW today, most recently competing at AEW All In 2025 in the Casino Gauntlet match, coming seconds away from winning the contest. Throughout his career, Briscoe became synonymous with Ring Of Honor alongside his late brother Jay Briscoe, with the two regarded as one of ROH’s greatest tag teams. At one point in time, however, they could have been WWE bound. 

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Briscoe discussed the loyalty The Briscoes showed to ROH over the years, and even revealed that they turned down an offer from WWE. 

“There was another time, 2015ish, that they wanted us to come down to NXT. They gave us a pretty good offer, more money than we were making in Ring of Honor. We didn’t want to leave Ring of Honor and move down to Florida with the family and all that, but they were offering pretty good money. Next thing you know, we get to talking with Joe Koff, God rest his soul, and Hunter Johnson, all the office there at Ring of Honor, and they end up making us a better offer than NXT did. We came back and told WWE, ‘Here is what they are offering,’ kind of expecting them to say, ‘Okay, we can give you this,’ but they didn’t. Well, shit, this makes it a really easy decision. We don’t have to move to Florida. Florida is great, but we both had kids and were starting to grow our families. Here is more money and we don’t have to uproot the entire family, and we get to stay here at the place that we love. It was a real easy decision. Ring of Honor was always such a home.”

Briscoe touched on a potential WWE move falling through a couple of years earlier due to a controversial tweet made by his brother. The pair went on to become one of ROH’s most acclaimed tag teams of all time.

H/T Fightful

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