Masakatsu Funaki leaves Wrestle-1
"At a press conference in Tokyo, at which Wrestle 1 Keiji Muto and Masakatsu Funaki founders were present, told the latter that he will leave the promotion, at whose foundation he worked in September, 2013, the end of June. Funaki erlärte that he had been in discussions about a contract extension, but he had been unable to agree on terms with the promotion, which allowed to remain. Thus, he would win his last time on Saturday for Wrestle 1 and be active as a freelancer from 1 July. Keiji Muto pointed out that the many innovations that have been introduced by the new CEO Sanshiro Takagi since May, were generally positive, but in this case you have not found each other. The 46-year-old also revealed that he decided against a "Spot Participation" agreement, in which it had been paid per appearance for W-1. It is therefore assumed that the paths of Funaki and Wrestle 1 have finally separated.One of the issues raised by Muto innovations by Takagi are apparently the "spot contracts". With such a deal is from early July TAJIRI, who was responsible for the booking since the end of 2014, be active for Wrestle 1. It involves a limited number of performances that are guaranteed by the promotion. Remarkably, this is mainly because only TAJIRI almost exactly a year ago came to Wrestle 1 when he left Wrestling New Classic with five other wrestlers. To what extent this is changing its status within the promotion, was not known."