Big news out of Japan this morning, Impact Wrestling going retro and

Yes, thank you, Holly.

For Monday, October the 21st, 2019, I'm Tom Campbell and this is your

cultaholic daily news podcast. You see I'm coming to America.

Can you see I'm coming to America.

Can you see I'm coming to America?

So we're coming to America. So in the last few minutes New Japan has revealed plans to expand into the United States.

They held a mystery press conference at 3 p.m. local time in Japan

and they laid out plans to expand their operations into America, launching a subsidiary of New Japan Stateside.

This is potentially game-changing news.

So this is what we know so far after watching the press conference.

There was audio issues for the first three quarters so nobody heard anything

which was handy but thankfully New Japan Global on Twitter were able to expand on the points that were made

throughout the press conference. So New Japan has been hunting for talent and running events in the

U.S. over the last year as part of phase one and two of their expansions.

We are now into phase three, they say, establishing a subsidiary in the United States.

New Japan Pro Wrestling of America will run in the West Coast, in Texas, in the Southeast,

and in the mid areas of the U.S.

With live tours through the cities in those areas. The plan is to

run US tours between the Japanese tours. So when the when a new Japan is on a tour, US is on a break,

when US on tour Japan is on a break, which does lead the idea of, you know,

cross-promoting with talent, you know, more chance to see Ocada in America,

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