Nice partnership you've got there
>>19582195WORKED
>>19582195Tony wanted a partnership working arrangement in the early days but NJPW at the time were determined to get STRONG over as their American brand, only to watch it fail hard. They forced AEW in to taking more aggressive stances and approached talent with big money contracts. All NJPW had to do was read the writing on the wall early on and things would be very different now.
He's just building his feud with Okada for Forbidden Door broski
>>19582195Yota would also fall to the mighty dollar at his age.Okada did and he was supposed to turn NJPW into a mighty ocean.
>>19582195This was Gabe Kidd’s whole character and then he showed up in AEW in Moxley’s stable with zero explanation. Sadly a work.
>>19582226nah, things would be the same. Tony would have still raided the place. there really was neve hope for NJPW with Tony in the game. Harold was the only one to see the threat early, and was trying to nip it in the bud but as soon as AEW got a TV deal, it was over for NJPW and the US indies.
Must be weird being an elite titan who claim to be the "real wrestling fans" and realizing every fed hates you
>>19582195>Have a match at WK against an AEW guy>Start a "fuck AEW, I'm NJPW" gimmick >Have a match at Forbidden Door>Start appearing on Dynamite >Sign with AEW when your contract is up We've seen this multiple times now (Ospreay and Gabe Kidd). I wonder if Tsuji will be in the Don Callis Family or Death Riders
Mind you this was an interview done by NJPW not some independent outlet. Dronies will take the bait though
>>19582195>What has being with AEW done for NJPW, really?This is exactly why they need to cut ties. Tony only uses the NJPW connection for smark clout, and so he can get all his favorite NJPW toys to come play in his toybox for a bit, then he inevitably signs them to an exclusive deal with AEW when their contract comes up. What has NJPW gotten out of it? A handful of Moxley appearances? A bunch of heatless matches with US foreigners the local NJPW audience doesn't really care about? The NJPW partnership is almost as bad as AEW's TNA partnership where they wouldn't put over any TNA talent and Omega got to keep their belt hostage for months and never defend it.
>>19582195Is he secretly an e-drone that desires the taste of e-cock, or does he not know how the world works.The country of Japan as you knew it won't even exist soon enough, given they don't procreate.
>>19582195time for him to go to TNA to play zorro or whatever the fuck they did to okada in tna
>>19582195The only chance japs have ever had to be taken seriously and not be some racist gimmick like tozawa (if he's still employed) is in AEW, none of them have ever had a stage like okada and takeshita, I assume this nigga is happy because he's not seeing any money/
>>19582251Every NJPW talent or CMLL talent he's hired in the past year and a half have been on split deals actually. Could have been like that from day 1
>>19582431the point is that even if they go between the two companies, AEW is the priority and they are not committing to NJPW.
>>19582195based, hope aew trannies die
>>19582195>John Cena's retirement match>Used to build up a main-event level talent who will be with the company for the next 10 years in the future>Tanahashi's retirement match>used to advertise a storyline about Don Callis Family happening on AEW DynamiteNJPW deserves to die
>edrones worked by a heel promo LMAO
>>19582514>Gunther for 10 more yearsAbsolutely depressing
>>19582611>shitting on aew>heelHow do we tell him?
>>19582305>I wonder if Tsuji will be in the Don Callis Family or Death RidersWhy would you wish that on anybody? A fate worse than death.
>>19582659he will be based with the hitlerino gimmick
>>19582514I want to love New Japan, but shit like this makes it so hard.
>>19582195It isn't a partnership, it's similar to what the British did to Australia, get his best soldiers and leave them nothing
>>19582793There's not much to love about New Japan these days, sadly.The real reason to watch is that it can be an easier watch than American wrestling alongside the hope that it will become great again. But there ain't much that's going to capture your heart and make you say, "Wrestling is great," at the moment.But this is part and parcel of being a pro-wrestling fan... we focus on the times when it's great but most of the time it's not and being a fan is about wanting to be there when a company catches lightning in a bottle. It's like being a surfer waiting for the good waves.
