Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, WWE are reportedly interested

in signing a new Japan Champion. Is this cult favorite set for a monster AEW push?

There's uncertainty over William Regal in WWE after a certain return, and we're also

going to talk about Chris Jericho making his PWG debut. And Andy Murray, next to an empty seat

today, very sad indeed. I don't believe in later, don't worry about him, but we're going to

kick things off by talking, I'm supposed to say something here, aren't I? Yes, this is the news.

Anyway, let's kick this thing off by talking about WWE's interest in another New Japan wrestler,

so it was reported last week by Fightful Selected, WWE were interested in Hikulele,

six with a giant man WWE trying to sign the bloke from New Japan. Now, it seems they're

interested also in his half. Brother, that being Tamatonga, the current reigning, never-opened

champion in New Japan, he of course won that belt from WWE's Karl Anderson at Wrestle Kingdom

last week, so that's quite an interesting little detail to this story. This isn't necessarily anything

new, according to Fightful Select, at the top of it has been doing the rounds in the New Japan

locker room since before Wrestle Kingdom, before it filtered out to the outlet. Now, it comes about

seven years after Tamat actually turned down the opportunity to join WWE in 2016. This was,

of course, around the time that a bunch of people were jumping ship. Karl Anderson, Luke Gallo,

Shinsuke Nakamura, AJ Styles, Tamat opted to stay there. Gorillas of Destiny became the tag team

in that division, and he's obviously had a good run, of course. And I, of course, Tamatonga,

also a man who wants spearheaded chasing the majority of this very content creation team out of

a venue prior to WrestleMania 35, but we won't know that against him. He's been with New Japan

for a long time since 2010. He's a fixture in Bullock Club or was a fixture in Bullock Club,

I should say, since the group was formed in 2014, he was a formational foundational

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