Ian Riccaboni

Ian Riccaboni is the host of Ring of Honor Wrestling. Riccaboni was born in Allentown, PA and graduated NYU with a degree in Media and Communications in 2009. Riccaboni did television commercials for Lehigh Valley's Kids Peace and the Allentown Ambassadors as a teenager before making his cable television debut in the 2005 MTV Special "The Notorious B.G. - A Forum with Bill Gates". Since then, Riccaboni has appeared in a 2006 MTV-U commercial for its Best Music on Campus competition and appeared in a local television show, "Hump Night with Kris Fried", as Fried's sidekick and the lead singer of the show's house band while completing his Master's in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2012, he joined Phillies Nation TV as a writer, reporter, and correspondent, interviewing famous Phillies fans and minor league prospects. A chance meeting with the Blue Meanie and Danny Cage led Riccaboni expressing interest in becoming a wrestling broadcaster. After serving as a broadcaster for internet exclusive and Video on Demand matches for two-plus years in Ring of Honor, Riccaboni became the lead announcer for ROH in February 2017.