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Post by chrom on Apr 9, 2022 7:17:00 GMT -5
Today at Hyper Battle, former All Japan Junior Heavyweight Champion Francesco Akira appeared and revealed that he is the newest member of The United Empire.
Will Ospreay earlier this month teased a new member joining them in a vignette under the name of Bruciare which in Italian means burn and Akira appeared after the Junior Heavyweight Championship match wearing an United Empire shirt and announced that he will be taking part in The upcoming Best of Super Juniors
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 9, 2022 18:04:11 GMT -5
AJPW fans and anyone else familiar with his work, how is he? A Junior to United Empire makes sense, and frankly, TJP wouldn't be a good pick for that alone.
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Post by chrom on Apr 9, 2022 19:02:18 GMT -5
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Post by Convoy on Apr 9, 2022 23:06:52 GMT -5
Fun fact: Tajiri used that same lighter to burn All Japan's future to the ground.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 10, 2022 0:14:16 GMT -5
Fun fact: Tajiri used that same lighter to burn All Japan's future to the ground. AJPW's rebuilt itself a few times over by now. It'll probably be fine. Hell, NOAH's been around a fraction as long, and they've had to do it a few times over, themselves. I think that's just what it's like with Japanese promotions sometimes. |
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Post by AwamoriRock on Apr 10, 2022 2:51:55 GMT -5
AJPW fans and anyone else familiar with his work, how is he? A Junior to United Empire makes sense, and frankly, TJP wouldn't be a good pick for that alone. He’s very much a work in process but has shown pretty good flashes. |
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Apr 10, 2022 18:23:35 GMT -5
Fun fact: Tajiri used that same lighter to burn All Japan's future to the ground. AJPW's rebuilt itself a few times over by now. It'll probably be fine. Hell, NOAH's been around a fraction as long, and they've had to do it a few times over, themselves. I think that's just what it's like with Japanese promotions sometimes. I don’t know what happens with another exodus. Which is the current speculation at the moment. |
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Apr 10, 2022 18:24:11 GMT -5
AJPW fans and anyone else familiar with his work, how is he? A Junior to United Empire makes sense, and frankly, TJP wouldn't be a good pick for that alone. He’s very much a work in process but has shown pretty good flashes. It seems like he was the guy All Japan was trying to build their junior division around. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 10, 2022 18:37:37 GMT -5
AJPW's rebuilt itself a few times over by now. It'll probably be fine. Hell, NOAH's been around a fraction as long, and they've had to do it a few times over, themselves. I think that's just what it's like with Japanese promotions sometimes. I don’t know what happens with another exodus. Which is the current speculation at the moment. I guess one of three things happens: a reliance on freelancers and gaijin to pick up the slack, an influx of people who NOAH and NJPW passed on for any number of reasons or people who see an opportunity to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond, or AJPW folding/being bought out. I don't think any wrestling company is "too big to fail", but AJPW definitely has a lot of seniority in its favor, so I feel like the other two options are more likely. |
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Post by chrom on Apr 11, 2022 0:40:04 GMT -5
If there's another Exodus and it leads to Khan purchasing AJPW I'm gonna sit back and laugh.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 11, 2022 0:46:28 GMT -5
If there's another Exodus and it leads to Khan purchasing AJPW I'm gonna sit back and laugh. I doubt it comes to that. I know people have speculated in the past that WWE would buy AJPW, but I do know the pandemic layoffs apparently created a lot of visceral disgust in many Japanese promotions, along with stuff in the past like them botching buying STARDOM due to failing to explain what their plan going forward would be for it and trying to bribe the owner with a Hall of Fame spot. And that was when WWE was going the Triple H approach, so I think there's even less chance of it now. As for TK, I get the impression that'd complicate his relationship with DDT and NJPW, to say the least. |
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Post by Fundertaker on Apr 11, 2022 3:23:16 GMT -5
There's also the problem of Japan's laws pretty much blocking most, if not all, deals of non-Japanese companies buying Japanese ones (if anyone's been keeping up with gaming news, that's a pretty big discussion topic with Microsoft buying major companies and Sony (through Sony Interactive Entertainment, their gaming division, which is based in the US) also buying some and there's speculation about either trying for a big Japanese publisher, but Japanese laws an authorities being a major hurdle in that), so I don't think that can ever happen.
I could see, however, a smaller Japanese company buying it up, like that one that bought AJPW before and then NOAH, rebuilt them from a financial perspective and flipped them.
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