Jeff Jarrett is headed to Japan shortly to put the finishing touches on the battle plan for the Tokyo Dome show. He’ll be at the 10/13 Sumo Hall show. My impression is they will broadcast either New Japan promotional videos and/or current New Japan shows on the Global Force Wrestling web site to build the Dome show, since they don’t have any television support. It would make sense for the site to host the iPPVs the next few months but I’ve heard nothing in that direction and there is still no word of any broadcasting of the 10/13 show. Nobody has been able to make PPV work without TV support in pro wrestling with the exception of the UWFI in 1993, and that was with a huge TV ad budget (they bought commercials all over sports programming leading into the show) and this show will have no budget of the type. And nobody has been able to this point to use streaming on the Internet alone to build enough of a fan base in this or any similar genre, although my feeling is everyone would consider 10,000 buys as a home run here. New Japan Tokyo Dome shows in the early 90s were doing 60,000 to 80,000 U.S. buys and that was for shows taped delayed by several months, but they were also promoted by WCW, which had a lot of TV, and it was a different era in the sense PPVs were rarer and almost everything did better. The show will be called Global Force Wrestling presents New Japan Wrestle Kingdom from the Tokyo Dome. From the cable distributors side they want a $24.95 price tag, but New Japan charged $35 last year for the Dome on iPPV, so the price, not yet finalized, will fall somewhere in that range. I expect the PPV deal to be announced at the Sumo Hall show. The plan is for both a live showing, which would be on Saturday night right after what looks to be UFC’s biggest show of the year ends (Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier; Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano double main event), and a replay at 8 p.m. on Sunday in the usual pro wrestling PPV time slot. It will be available on iPPV in both English and Japanese. It may be available in multiple languages on regular PPV as well. There’s still nothing on the potential broadcasting of the 10/13 show, past that there have been talks involving Jim Ross, but no deal has been reached. Ross teased it in an article by Brian Fritz, saying, “I’m very interested in doing special projects and that certainly would be on that list of a special project. And I think if they were serious about their marketing of their PPVs, and I guess their big show is January 4th, that if they were really serious about that event being a hit in the English-speaking countries, that I might be able to help them. I think their style is right down my alley. They’re physical, they’re intense, their wrestling is logical and I am a fan of it. But I wouldn’t want to do it in a TV studio somewhere and doing it as a voice over. If I did it, I’d want to be in Tokyo. I want to feel it. I want to be a part of it. I don’t want to be artificial. I want to be emotionally invested and I want to be physically there at ringside.” Ross said he’s had no talks with New Japan, which is accurate, but there have been talks with the GFW side. There is a potential issue which Ross outright said, having to do with Oklahoma Sooners football, and if they have a bowl game that same weekend.
With Jarrett at the show, and Jarrett having already done an angle with Hiroshi Tanahashi at the Seibu Dome show, I could see Jarrett costing Tanahashi the title match with A.J. Styles, and the Dome being Styles vs. Kazuchika Okada, Tanahashi vs. Jarrett, Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Katsuyori Shibata, the tag team tournament winners against Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows for the tag title, either a singles match with Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Minoru Suzuki or possibly a tag. Sakuraba did an interview where he teased himself teaming with Wanderlei Silva against Suzuki & a partner, but Silva is under a UFC contract where UFC would have to approve of him doing this. Usually UFC wouldn’t allow it, but given they can’t book Silva for a fight perhaps ever again, and certainly no time soon, there’s no reason for UFC to not allow it. New Japan owner Takaaki Kidani is a huge fan of the Pride era, but there are also those in New Japan who don’t like the crossover given it was that crossover that hurt the company badly for years and it’s only in last few years they’ve started to dig themselves out of that hole.
mild homo. He just BELONGED. He was born for the current NJ athletic, high paced style. The hard hitting NOAH style that developed just doesn't suit him at all. I watched some of his AJ stuff recently and he's even better 
I think he'd be one of the legit main event dudes with Naka, Tana, and Okada a level above the Goto's and Makabe's.
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