PWInsider.com has been told today by sources from each company that there have been communications between the two sides for several months but the main crux of it was over the potential of Daniel Bryan being able to potentially work some dates in NJPW.
No, the audience wouldn’t. WWE would only be interested in their talent and keeping them away from other promotions.
The booking of New Japan over the last year would tend to disagree. They have certainly upped their amount of sports entertainment
PWInsider.com has been told today by sources from each company that there have been communications between the two sides for several months but the main crux of it was over the potential of Daniel Bryan being able to potentially work some dates in NJPW.
I'm glad I stopped caring about ROH after BITW 2011 for this to bother me. We can discuss Dragon Soldier B all day though, since that actually took place when #ItUsedToBeBetter.McXal wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:46 am Hopefully WWE sends all their biggest names over for a tour once a year - where those big names dog it, trample over all the biggest NJPW stars regardless of what their storylines are and how it suits the NJPW product.
Then progressively the scale of the talent is reduced. It starts with Roman Reigns, John Cena or Brock Lesnar (making his big NJPW return). A couple of years down the line we have Okada putting over Baron Corbin or Otis.
(Why yes, this was a bitter post about how much I’ve disliked NJPW’s superiority in their ROH relationship)
Haha! Great point well made! Although everyone KNEW that sucked. We accepted it sucked, we were grateful for Danielson/Spanky from that show (I loved the Roddy/Gibson match too), the whole thing was dropped, then we moved on with our lives!supersonic wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:59 amI'm glad I stopped caring about ROH after BITW 2011 for this to bother me. We can discuss Dragon Soldier B all day though, since that actually took place when #ItUsedToBeBetter.McXal wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:46 am Hopefully WWE sends all their biggest names over for a tour once a year - where those big names dog it, trample over all the biggest NJPW stars regardless of what their storylines are and how it suits the NJPW product.
Then progressively the scale of the talent is reduced. It starts with Roman Reigns, John Cena or Brock Lesnar (making his big NJPW return). A couple of years down the line we have Okada putting over Baron Corbin or Otis.
(Why yes, this was a bitter post about how much I’ve disliked NJPW’s superiority in their ROH relationship)
The crowd helped too. There will NEVER be an audience in ROH again like Asbury Park that night, who DEMANDED better and were damn right to do so.McXal wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:23 pmHaha! Great point well made! Although everyone KNEW that sucked. We accepted it sucked, we were grateful for Danielson/Spanky from that show (I loved the Roddy/Gibson match too), the whole thing was dropped, then we moved on with our lives!supersonic wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:59 amI'm glad I stopped caring about ROH after BITW 2011 for this to bother me. We can discuss Dragon Soldier B all day though, since that actually took place when #ItUsedToBeBetter.McXal wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:46 am Hopefully WWE sends all their biggest names over for a tour once a year - where those big names dog it, trample over all the biggest NJPW stars regardless of what their storylines are and how it suits the NJPW product.
Then progressively the scale of the talent is reduced. It starts with Roman Reigns, John Cena or Brock Lesnar (making his big NJPW return). A couple of years down the line we have Okada putting over Baron Corbin or Otis.
(Why yes, this was a bitter post about how much I’ve disliked NJPW’s superiority in their ROH relationship)
It wasn’t 2/4/8 shows a year where we had to pause ROH and let all of NJPW’s guys steamroll everything and set back the product for months as a result. Every year!
In this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer provided some updates on last week's report that WWE and New Japan Pro Wrestling have had talks regarding a partnership.
In talking with people close to the negotiations, Meltzer said the partnership wasn't the idea of WWE president Nick Khan, but that Khan has been the point person and is believed to have recommended to Vince McMahon to further pursue it.
Meltzer said that while Daniel Bryan was involved in the early discussions, the free agent hasn't been part of any recent talks.
He said the initial intent of such a partnership wasn't to freeze out AEW, but an exclusive deal would end relationships with both AEW and Impact Wrestling where New Japan talent has appeared as of late. He believes any deal would be more NXT-focused and beneficial for both sides.
"New Japan also would not agree to any deal unless they felt it was extremely beneficial to them. Keep in mind that WWE has regularly tried to talk with (New Japan) in the past and it’s gotten nowhere. The real difference here is Nick Khan has never been involved in these talks in the past," he wrote.
"This very well could get about as far as WWE’s talks to buy NOAH, Stardom, Big Japan, Dragon Gate and AAA got, which all ended with no deal in place. Logic would indicate Tony Khan would not have cut that video thinking this deal is going to happen any time soon, so it’s more likely than not this deal isn’t happening," he wrote.
The video Meltzer mentioned was the AEW president cutting a promo going over all the New Japan talent that has been in AEW and that he has more plans for the New Japan U.S. title, joking that there is only room for one Khan in pro wrestling.
