so what's the purpose of the UK Championship?, NJPW wants relationship with the WWE

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has that even appeared on Raw or Heat? :wtf:


NJPW Owner Takaaki Kidani Wants His Company to Work With WWE
NJPW owner Takaaki Kidani was interviewed by Tokyo Sports to discuss a number of topics relating to his promotion and its future following ‘Wrestle Kingdom 12.”



As the content of the interview was in Japanese, @STRIGGA of Purolove.com provided translations as showcased by WrestlingInc.

Kidani first explained that he wants to fill out the Tokyo Dome which has a capacity of 55, 000 within the next two years. To do this, he believes the company needs new young Japanese stars with emphasis on them needing a Heavyweight in his 20s.

Continuing, Kidani looked back to 2012 when the New Japan fan club had 1, 890 members and now the membership figures are at 12, 000. He explained that the promotion is going uphill.

With those rising numbers, Kidani explains that he and NJPW will be able to pay more money for wrestlers and wants to get more wrestlers who have competed with WWE involved in the company.

He explains that he wants to continue getting those superstars in until WWE want to involve themselves with the company. When WWE are ready to get along with them, they can work together.

Only time will tell if WWE and NJPW do form a working relationship. That said, NJPW have a relationship with ROH and WWE have relationships with a number of independent companies. A cohesive agreement between all of these companies could be extremely beneficial for the business.

Below we have included the opening movie package for ‘Wrestle Kingdom 12.’ If you didn’t watch the event, be sure to give that a watch and let us know if it made you want to watch it.
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the return of funaki:lawd:
 
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It has appeared on Raw

It was supposed to be used for the UK show they were/are making.
 
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Twitter said:
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The crazy thing is, some of the indies are only on regional TV. Now London which has the strongest Indy RevPro and the most famous venue, doesn't have any TV for the region.

UK wrestling was on TV more nationally with The Wrestling Channel 12 years ago, when the scene was pretty barren, UK talent wise when you had the likes of Burchill and Spud starting out then it does now.
 
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JerseyBoy23 said:
The whole point of the UK championship was to try and squash the ITV show. The ITV show would've had more reach in UK than WWE.

So basically it was made to keep the English speaking market all to themselves.
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The ITV show was never going to work, those who like wrestling, already watch it. Those who use to watch it, either moved to MMA/Boxing or stopped watching it as they got older. Then you have, "it's fake" detractors telling people who already watch the product something they already know.

The reality show that Piper did over here got canned after 8 ep after it drew in 2.6m, when the first ep did 3.8m.
 
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