1st PPV for Global Force Wrestling was announced with a twist

[Emperor Smeat]

Jeff Jarrett's GFW announced their 1st ppv won't be from them but instead as the American provider for NJPW 2015 Wrestle Kingdom ppv.

If you have been waiting word on when Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling will produce their first events, this should make you happy. If you are a fan of New Japan Pro Wrestling, this story should really make you happy.

PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources in the PPV industry that a Global Force Wrestling PPV event is on carriers' schedules for 1/4/15. Of course, 1/4 is the date of what has been the biggest Japanese event of the year for seemingly forever, the annual New Japan Pro Wrestling Tokyo Dome event.

It would appear that Jarrett's company has brokered a deal to bring the Tokyo Dome show to United States PPV for the first time. Sources indicate that the deal and all marketing for the PPV would be branded GFW, not New Japan.

Jarrett, who announced plans to launch GFW the day after Wrestlemania 30, was revealed as a member of the Bullet Club faction in NJPW recently. Jarrett departed TNA in December 2013, although he remains a minority owner in the company.

When this afternoon via telephone, Jarrett declined to comment on this story.

[Volare]

Should be interesting, better than waiting forever to watch it on YouTube....with half the theme's missing due to copyright.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Very smart. Americanizing Japanese wrestling is a potential goldmine.

[Nowhere Man]

That's honestly a really good idea, since they can make money off the show without having to produce their own content. Hell, even if GFW doesn't do an original show, if all they do is import New Japan and AAA, I'll be happy, since I've been wanting someone to do that for years.

[Seth82]

I'm definitely excited about this.

New Japan has been on fire the last two years. Hopefully this helps reach those who are unfamiliar or those who hate Japanese commentary.

[Volare]

I wonder if Jarrett is bugging JR to do this....

[Nicky Fives]

I wonder if Jarrett is bugging JR to do this....

If he is smart, which he seems to be, he better be kicking JR's door down.....

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Don't they hate each other?

[Tom Guycott]

Hopefully, the business sense of how awesome tha would be would outstrip any bad blood there may be.

[Fignuts]

Jim Ross recently spoke with sportingnews.com, and discusses his desire to do commentary for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Here are the highlights…

Is He Interested in Doing English Commentary For NJPW?: “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 pay-per-views — 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.

Has He Had Any Talks With NJPW?: “I have had no (contact) with the decision-makers within the New Japan organization, we have yet to engage in any discussions.”

Yeah, so they don't even need to convince him to do it. If the people in charge of introducing NJPW to American audiences have a single brain cell in their head, they'll take JR up on his interest to commentate for them. Not only is he argueably the best play-by-play guy in wrestling history, it gives the promotion instant credibility to those unfamiliar with the product.

Seriously, this is a no brainer.

[Volare]

And WWE will have serious competition again.

[Simple Fan]

Yea seem cool cant wait to hear more about the show.

[mhirn3]

Excited to see this and how it turns out.....even if I'm not getting hired to do it haha

[Emperor Smeat]

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. 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.

[Simple Fan]

I had a feeling that GFW was gonna be some sort of NWA type of promotion that just stuck thier name to a promotion to give it prestiege. Jeff took it global and signed some of the top promotions around the world but has yet to sign any talent to GFW deal. Maybe at this show the bullet club all anounce that they are with GFW and we get the first group on th roster. If they just continue to promote forign shows in the US then they could do one hell of cross promotion show for the Global Force Cup (or somthin like that). Realy seems interesting what they could do.