NEWS - WWE In Talks With NJPW For Partnership

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Is the forbidden door about to be slammed shut?

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0:00.0	Hi guys, I'm Adam Wilburner from WhatCulture. Join by Michael Sitchwick from WhatCulture to discuss
0:14.4	some breaking news coming out in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, of course written by Dave
0:19.5	Meltz, revealing the fact that WWE President Nikon and therefore WWE on the whole are in talks
0:25.2	with New Japan Pro Wrestling about WWE becoming New Japan's exclusive American partner.
0:31.2	Apparently these talks date back to late March, early April. No indication of where the talks
0:37.8	are currently at. Now, we've known previously, of course, New Japan worked with Ring of Honor
0:42.4	and then joined the ongoing Global Bastard. We've seen them work with the likes of all the
0:45.9	leaked wrestling and of course impact wrestling as well. Intriguing story this, lots of
0:51.7	buzz already on the internet around this Sitch. You're one of the most foremost knowledgeable
0:56.4	people here at WhatCulture regarding New Japan. First of all, your reaction to this news.
1:03.2	It's stunning, shocking, unsurprising. WWE is a spiteful company. The key detail I read from
1:12.7	that copy and if thoughts are flustered, forgive me, we've just received this breaking news.
1:18.5	Is the information on when these talks started? Can you repeat that for the YouTube people out there?
1:26.0	I'll just read a bit about what Meltz wrote directly here. He said, obviously there are a million
1:30.0	questions regarding such a deal if it was to happen and there are no indications where talks are.
1:34.8	They date back to late March, early April, but it would include important this. We'll get
1:39.6	into this as well in a second. It would include WWE sending talent and WWE top stars being allowed
1:44.4	to work in New Japan if talks go anywhere. So those days March and April of 2021,
1:51.8	what was already happening, Will Vaughn in March and April 2021? Who had already appeared on
1:57.8	AEW Dynamite by March 2021? New Japan Pro Wrestling's Kenta. This news follows the opening of the
2:06.5	dividend door and WWE clearly out of spite wished to slam it shut because feasibly in a post-pandemic
2:15.5	world, AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling could theoretically, and this isn't even theoretically because
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