62 days.
1,488 hours.
89,280 minutes.
5,356,800 seconds.

That’s how long The Addiction (Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels) have remaining on their Ring of Honor contracts. And as fans know, when those 62 days are up at the end of Final Battle 2018, COO Joe Koff plans to fire the two long-time ROH performers and enforce a non-compete clause forbidding them to go elsewhere. This came after Daniels threatened to reveal where the ROH bodies are buried to his friends in other companies, name dropping AJ Styles among others.

Ever since then, Daniels and Kazarian have had their backs against the wall. Watching as the hourglass has ticked down on their Ring of Honor careers, the two have tried to do whatever they can to gain leverage in their war with Koff in order to earn extensions. They decided that leverage was going to be found in the form of a championship.

Title Changes Hands at Ring of Honor TV Tapings

https://twitter.com/FrankieKazarian/status/1051302191460442112

In March, Daniels and Kazarian, alongside SCU teammate Scorpio Sky, took a step toward that goal when they won the Ring of Honor World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. The trio held the titles only briefly, defending them just once against the Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Flip Gordon, before dropping them in May to The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O’Ryan and Vinny Marseglia).

The past few months have seen the desperation of Daniels and Kazarian heighten. SCU lost their rematch to the Kingdom and were unsuccessful in recent attempts to regain the titles against Bullet Club (Cody and the Young Bucks). Unable to recapture the six-man belts, the Addiction resumed their pursuit of the tag team titles, again in a losing effort against The Briscoes (Jay and Mark Briscoe) at Death Before Dishonor 2018. The duo received another opportunity, a night after failing to capture the six-man titles at Glory By Honor XIV, and this time, they were successful.

Congratulations to the NEW ROH Champs!!! SCU!! @ScorpioSky @FrankieKazarian @facdaniels pic.twitter.com/uSkTHcjdYF

— Tyler (@Tbennett91) October 15, 2018

According to PWInsider and those in attendance at tonight’s Glory By Honor television tapings in Philadelphia, the Addiction, represented by Kazarian and Sky, defeated the Briscoes and the Young Bucks in a triple threat match to win the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship, Kazarian’s third overall and first since 2016. It is Sky’s first reign with the tag titles, which while unclear, could be free-birded among the trio going forward.

One of the best teams in Ring of Honor since joining the company in 2014, the Addiction, who are also former 2x TNA World Tag Team Champions, are not out of the woods yet. They’ll have to hold the tag titles for 62 more days, which won’t be an easy task given all of the teams that have recently been knocking down the door. If Daniels, Kazarian and Sky can do that, if they can keep the titles for the next two months, they’ll maintain their leverage against Koff and keep themselves employed.

That is of course if Koff doesn’t decide that the titles won’t be free-birded and that only Kazarian, as champion, has job security going into Final Battle…