Post by HMARK Center on Sept 13, 2006 0:28:43 GMT -5
Again, this is something I just found on the ROH message board; I posted it when this was a rumor, but it's now official:
This is very big.
I believe it's bigger for Japanese companies, since they're the ones who really have to worry about "stepping on each other's toes", but it's also pretty big for the American companies, since this means more international talent in the US, and probably more US talent getting booking oppurtunities in Japan.
If anything, though, this is a good thing for wrestling on the whole. The wrestling world needs another "Wrestling Alliance", organizations that support a nation-wide, or even international scale, partnership to ensure the financial security of multiple companies. That means more wrestling for the fans, and more payday oppurtunities for the wrestlers. Not to say this will lead to a wrestler's union...but maybe a re-birth in stuff like this could lead to steps in that direction. Who knows?
Regardless, I think this is very cool news, especially for the puro community.
Saw this on the Zero one site
Today the leaders of some of the most recognizable wrestling promotions in Japan officially announced the birth of the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA). Pro Wrestling NOAH's CEO Mitsuharu Misawa was inaugurated as the first Chairman of the new alliance, with ZERO1-MAX's Yoshiyuki Nakamura announced as the company's President a position he hold also in FIRST ON STAGE.
At the Press Conference, Misawa commented that currently in Japan there are more than 30 companies running at the same time, but everywhere the management of all companies is "painful." With the GPWA, the promotions involved will all share the same training facilities and coordinate their event schedules so the don't run against each other and split the wrestling fan base. Nakamura said NOAH will be the flagship since they're currently the best managed in the country. The following eight Japanese companies are official members and their representatives:
* IWA-JAPAN (Tatsukuni Asano)
* El Dorado (Noriaki Kawabata)
* KAIENTAI DOJO (TAKA Michinoku)
* Kensuke Office (Hisako Sasaki)
* ZERO1-MAX (Shinjiro Otani)
* Dramatic Dream Team (Sanshiro Takagi)
* BIG MOUTH LOUD (Kazunari Murakami)
* NOAH (Mitsuharu Misawa)
And the Foreign Companies in the alliance:
* EWA (Chris Raaber)
* ROH (Cary Silkin)
* WLW (Harley Race)
* WORLD-1 (Steve Corino)
And the following freelance wrestlers have said they will participate:
* Kikutaro (freelance)
* Shiro Koshinaka (freelance)
* Minoru Suzuki (Pancrase)
* Yoshihiro Takayama (Takayama Hall)
* NOSAWA (freelance)
* Takaku Fuke (Pancrase)
* MAZADA (freelance)
* Tadao Yasuda (freelance)
"Future standardized organization simplifies the participation of the various promotions," said Misawa, " and it assures the spread and revival of worldwide wrestling..." Simply stated, the concept is to form an alliance that will keep the promotions from stepping on each other toes and fostering and environment of cooperation rather than competition. And to sometimes put on "Super Shows" where all the promotions will send fighters to compete representing their own companies under the GPWA banner.
Today the leaders of some of the most recognizable wrestling promotions in Japan officially announced the birth of the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA). Pro Wrestling NOAH's CEO Mitsuharu Misawa was inaugurated as the first Chairman of the new alliance, with ZERO1-MAX's Yoshiyuki Nakamura announced as the company's President a position he hold also in FIRST ON STAGE.
At the Press Conference, Misawa commented that currently in Japan there are more than 30 companies running at the same time, but everywhere the management of all companies is "painful." With the GPWA, the promotions involved will all share the same training facilities and coordinate their event schedules so the don't run against each other and split the wrestling fan base. Nakamura said NOAH will be the flagship since they're currently the best managed in the country. The following eight Japanese companies are official members and their representatives:
* IWA-JAPAN (Tatsukuni Asano)
* El Dorado (Noriaki Kawabata)
* KAIENTAI DOJO (TAKA Michinoku)
* Kensuke Office (Hisako Sasaki)
* ZERO1-MAX (Shinjiro Otani)
* Dramatic Dream Team (Sanshiro Takagi)
* BIG MOUTH LOUD (Kazunari Murakami)
* NOAH (Mitsuharu Misawa)
And the Foreign Companies in the alliance:
* EWA (Chris Raaber)
* ROH (Cary Silkin)
* WLW (Harley Race)
* WORLD-1 (Steve Corino)
And the following freelance wrestlers have said they will participate:
* Kikutaro (freelance)
* Shiro Koshinaka (freelance)
* Minoru Suzuki (Pancrase)
* Yoshihiro Takayama (Takayama Hall)
* NOSAWA (freelance)
* Takaku Fuke (Pancrase)
* MAZADA (freelance)
* Tadao Yasuda (freelance)
"Future standardized organization simplifies the participation of the various promotions," said Misawa, " and it assures the spread and revival of worldwide wrestling..." Simply stated, the concept is to form an alliance that will keep the promotions from stepping on each other toes and fostering and environment of cooperation rather than competition. And to sometimes put on "Super Shows" where all the promotions will send fighters to compete representing their own companies under the GPWA banner.
This is very big.
I believe it's bigger for Japanese companies, since they're the ones who really have to worry about "stepping on each other's toes", but it's also pretty big for the American companies, since this means more international talent in the US, and probably more US talent getting booking oppurtunities in Japan.
If anything, though, this is a good thing for wrestling on the whole. The wrestling world needs another "Wrestling Alliance", organizations that support a nation-wide, or even international scale, partnership to ensure the financial security of multiple companies. That means more wrestling for the fans, and more payday oppurtunities for the wrestlers. Not to say this will lead to a wrestler's union...but maybe a re-birth in stuff like this could lead to steps in that direction. Who knows?
Regardless, I think this is very cool news, especially for the puro community.