If you want AEW to succeed, the absolute LAST thing they need is a relationship with New Japan.
Foreigners don't draw money. They don't draw a casual audience. In fact, they actively turn them away. They already fucked up enough with the joshi, which still got a lukewarm reaction from the biggest smarks in the wrestling community. Do you honestly think Mr. and Mrs. America in Bumfuck, Arkansas are going to tune in and buy tickets for that?
It doesn't matter if Okada is the "best wrestler in the world," which itself is a laughable statement. Good matches don't sell tickets. They never have, and they never will. Filling your roster with tiny foreigners that can't cut promos or work an American style will tank this fucking ship without WWE having to lift a finger.
He's right if you want to draw casual television viewers. Anyone who disagrees is delusional. NJPW relationship caters once again to the fanbase AEW already have. heard Dave Meltzer saying it needed to happen..... Meltzer is a fanboy. AEW once they start running a few shows a week will fail unless they go after the MASSES.
Jaxon Rivera
This is objectively false.
Jordan Jackson
Prove it
Matthew Jones
WCW cruiser weights drew interest though you simp. Joshi style is new and unfamiliar to the western audience but those girls put on a great show (with an admittedly botched finish) and are a great novelty to open shows or pique interest. It’s not like Yuka is going to be doing promo feuds with Brandi or anything retard
Aiden Lewis
>uses the Joshi as an example >the most over match of the night Are your parents actually blood relatives or are you only pretending to be an inbred fuckin retard?
Jace Butler
So basically you're saying that Americans are morons and don't actually care about good wrestling when they watch wrestling. I won't disagree with you.
Hunter Davis
cringe
Blake James
This guy is really stuck in 99. Casuals if anything get impressed these days by flips and other shit done in the ring because they don't follow storylines. Wrestling is no longer mainstream, the point of AEW is grabbing wrestling fans who are tired of the same old shit(WWE). Jesus Russo is a fucking idiot sometimes. >Do you honestly think Mr. and Mrs. America in Bumfuck, Arkansas are going to tune in and buy tickets for that? Of course I don't, because the only time those people cared about buying tickets was during the attitude era.
Jack Hill
You have conflated New Japan and foreigners. And Joshi with New Japan.
These things are all separate.
AEW has chosen poorly with their booking of women wrestlers. The only woman on Double or Nothing who should have been there was Allie, and she wasn't even in a match.
If AEW wants Joshi they need to go with Hiroyo Matsumoto or Maho Kurone. These are women who will work a style that will appeal to American audiences. They also need to focus on Joshi who have some curves that will be attractive to westerners.
Aja Kong, legend she may be, had no place on that card. Nyla Rose is an awkward Joke. Awesome Kong, legend she may also be, simply does not draw as a babyface and if they go that with her it will be a mistake.
AEW needs women like Heidi Katrina and Santana Garrett if they want their women's division to not be considered a joke.
