Takaaki Kidani will be taking New Japan Pro Wrestling public on the stock market.
New Japan is listing ROH, GFW, RPW, NWA, wXW, as their affiliates. The announcement was made today by Takaaki Kidani at the G-1 press conference.
The press conference had tons of press with two rows of wrestlers sitting behind the main podium as they took questions from different members of the media. I wish WWE could get their product to the point where they could be halfway accepted as something as serious as NJPW.
For those wondering why WWE was not listed as an affiliate (Jushin Liger/NXT), it’s because Liger is being brought in as a favor after William Regal made a call to ask him if he could wrestle at NXT TakeOver:Brooklyn so there doesn’t appear to be a relationship between NJPW and WWE.
NJPW going public is a huge story in Japan.
