WWE and AJPW form an alliance
 

Tokyo Sport is reporting that WWE and AJPW have forged an alliance and will be working together. Johnny Ace reportedly helped put the deal together. Ace worked for AJPW from 1988 through 2000, before retiring from active in-ring competition during the Pro Wrestling NOAH exodus.

It'll be the first time in nearly 20 years that WWE form an alliance with a Japanese promotion, as they had previously co-promoted with NJPW, AJPW, SWS, and WAR.

Hopefully, a Great Muta vs. Undertaker match may be happening.

Awesome. I have been wanting something like this to happen for a long time. I hope they go full force with it. Trading wrestlers. A lot of mentions of AJPW. Big PPV matches with AJPW stars. Plus angles worked and a lot of takering it easy from the radiation capital of the world.

Well, besides Mutoh, there's quite a few AJPW veterans that are there, as well as some young, rising stars.

I dunno, feel like this is 10 years too late. None of the "rising stars" would get over well with american audiences, imo.

Should of went for New Japan instead.

Hmm... Cruiserweight division? *crosses fingers*

theyre saving that for the wwe channel................:n:

So you're saying it's never gonna happen then. :-\

Would be a great idea sending people to Japan to wrestle, maybe it would do good for the ones who are surplus to requirements, plus I agree that The Undertaker vs Great Muta would be well awesome.

I don't know about that. I say let's just wait and see what happens, Fignuts.

sad but true my friend

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Yeah, maybe they're after footage or something? They could probably try and get bonus footage of Brock Lesnar in Japan or something to throw onto his DVD or something.

No, Brock never wrestled in All Japan. He wrestled in New Japan and IGF. So it can't be that reason.

Should have done this with AAA

Or OCW.

WWE did cross-promote with AAA in the mid-to-late 1990s.

This is pretty cool. I've wanted the WWE to do something like this for a while. It'd be good experience for some of their younger workers to go over there and help boost the AJPW roster, and for some Japanese prospects to make it over to WWE soil. I envisioned it happening with whatever Taka Michinoku was involved with, to be honest -- and I imagined Jack Swagger going over there and being their biggest heel.

a...DEADLY ALLIANCE?

Isn't the Japanese wrestling business in horrible shape? Maybe crossover is one way of trying to help it?

A stable to help Yoshi Tatsu get on TV more, a revamped Cruiserweight division, and a boatload of antagonists for Giant Bernard. [/wishful thinking]

Thought that would be the case after I made my post, but since I'd already posted it, I was too lazy to check.

Could be anyone though, not just Brock Lesnar.

Best of Stan Hansen DVD Narrated by JBL?

It would be great to see more Japanese wrestlers like Lord Tensai on the roster.

Hansen to the WWE Hall of Fame inducted by JBL?

Thjis could just be AJPW letting them use some 10 sec footage for a DVD but maybe WWE will use them as a way of getting wrestlers some more experience?

It can't have escaped them that two of the most over guys in the company (and countless others in the past) have benefited from international experience.

Most of them are, but New Japan has recovered signifigantly thanks to flat out awesome wrestling.

Johnny Ace leads an AJPW stable to WWE I hope... Just looked at the AJPW roster though... it's very thin...

Hopefully WWE sends guys that suck to AJPW and they become magically better...

Zeke, Mason Ryan, Drew Mac, and Tyson Kidd come to mind.

Not that there is anything wrong with Tyson but I think he can only get better.

Drop the ball on one Yoshi Tatsu......Join forces with an entire army of Japs. Great idea WWE.

If you tried to do a Crossover PPV in the US right now it would end up like those Legends PPVs with drunken jake Roberts. No one would watch it. No one would care. They would sell less than ROH cards.

Sending guys over to get seasoning like a AAA between Main Roster and Developmental could be great.

Zeke and Mason Ryan could work on their powerhouse style. Would be a great idea to loan their midcarders out. They dont need to bring any Japs back, no one would care about them.

See Tensai, Lord

See Tatsu, Yoshi

About the only thing I could see working is bringing in a tag team for a short run, or a few matches like ECW did with Hayabusa and Hakushi

Could bring them in as "the best" team in the orient and maybe make it work. Otherwise singles pushes in the same fashion would fail to get over. But people might buy a cohesive team as a legit threat.

Ah, "The Triple H Approach".

Zeke and Ryan should just stay over there. The American audience doesn't want huge roided up freaks anymore.

Accept the ones chanting feed me more.....

Don't you dare compare Ryback to Zeke and Mason Ryan.

Mutoh was one of those few Japanese guys that I could see making it into the WWE hall of fame.

Now I'd bet it's a sealed deal, along with Stan Hansen and Giant Baba.