On the latest episode of “The Sessions” podcast, Rocky Romero talked about the situation involving Karl Anderson still wrestling for New Japan despite being signed by WWE:
“It’s been a very stressful situation for me. Obviously, when the guys started saying that WWE had reached out to them, of course I started to get nervous because I knew that we had a bunch of dates set and everything. Obviously, Anderson was the NEVER Openweight Champion. I got worried and I said, ‘Just don’t screw me over please. I was part of the reason why you guys came back.’
Obviously, they left on good terms and everything, but just to bring them back was definitely a part of that, so we started talking about that. Finally, he was like, ‘Ok, we’re going to sign and somebody is going to have to talk to WWE’, so of course, that means me. I got on the line and obviously, there was some confusion on the dates they were actually going to do, and there was that November 5th show that Anderson had already been announced for New Japan, but then it was also the same time the Saudi Arabia show was going on. Obviously, there was going to be a conflict right there, so that’s how it kind of started. It started out real rocky.
They went and did Saudi. We figured it out. We got a new date and decided to turn it into a big angle because I thought that was probably the best way to deal with it, hoping that everything was going to work out, but not really sure. Finally, he went and did this last show a couple days ago and successfully defended the title, so now he’ll be at the Tokyo Dome to face Tama Tonga which is really exciting.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit The Sessions with Renée Paquette with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
