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Originally Posted by Noid
Personally, I'd like to see New Japan start up a working relationship with Pacific Coast Wrestling. They're only like a year into operating, but they seem to take something resembling a more serious sports-based approach to wrestling. Their website has rankings for their belts, but they also have a list of most popular and most hated. Rob Van Dam is their current champion and he won the belt from Pentagon, Jr, who people seem to love from Lucha Underground.
Having a PCW Heavyweight Title match between Rob Van Dam and Kenny Omega as Okada defends the IWGP Title against Tanahashi, or something, would be a good way to segue people into the New Japan product.
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Doubt they would even bother to do it mainly because PCW is likely too small for their expansion plans. The current AXS tv deal probably does a better job of seguing people into NJPW than what PCW could provide.
If they really wanted to expand more into the west coast, a deal with PWG would probably be a better option and a good supplement to their ROH partnership. They already have a couple of wrestlers who wrestle there and NJPW is probably going to be a lot more picky on partner deals considering only ROH has worked for them while others like GFW, TNA, and NWA ended up being big busts.