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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 30, 2016 10:22:26 GMT -5
What are some that have happened and was raided/left?
A recent one that comes to mind is WWE doing a mini raid of NJPW by sigining Styles, Nakamura, Anderson, and Gallows in January 2016.
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Post by Ted Sheckler on Dec 30, 2016 11:14:05 GMT -5
A large majority of AJPW left the company to form Pro Wrestling NOAH due to issues they had with Giant Baba's wife who was running the company at the time. Of course both WWE and WCW raided ECW many times and the classic Vince McMahon raiding the territories effectively killing them.
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Post by Mike Bockwinkel on Dec 30, 2016 13:06:49 GMT -5
The Radicals/z Bret, Davey, Neidhart, Rude & Adams after Montreal.
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Post by MrElijah on Dec 30, 2016 13:13:30 GMT -5
The AWA to WWF in '83-'84: Hogan, Heenan, Mean Gene, Jesse Ventura, Dr. D, Adrian Adonis.
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Post by 魔界5号 on Dec 30, 2016 19:28:17 GMT -5
Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Aoki, Jun Akiyama, Kotaro Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru all jumped from NOAH to AJPW in January 2013 at the same time after NOAH released Kobashi from his contract. There's also the mass exodus that formed NOAH, when pretty much the entire roster left All Japan and followed Misawa when he quit. The only people who stayed were Masanobu Fuchi, Taiyo Kea, Stan Hansen and Toshiaki Kawada.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 30, 2016 19:47:32 GMT -5
The AWA to WWF in '83-'84: Hogan, Heenan, Mean Gene, Jesse Ventura, Dr. D, Adrian Adonis. There was a pretty big raid of Mid-South too, wasn't there? I think Vince got Dibiase, Duggan, Hercules, and a few others, but I might have the timing wrong.
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Post by chrom on Dec 30, 2016 19:49:47 GMT -5
There was a second Exodus for All Japan when Mutoh left in 2013 and took a number of guys with him to form Wrestle-1.
Of course, you can't forget about The Radicalz
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 30, 2016 19:52:40 GMT -5
Benoit, Malenko, Guerrero and Public Enemy to WCW in late 95/early 96 with Sabu making a few appearances and rumored to be jumping ship for good.
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Post by chronocross on Dec 30, 2016 19:55:40 GMT -5
The AWA to WWF in '83-'84: Hogan, Heenan, Mean Gene, Jesse Ventura, Dr. D, Adrian Adonis. There was a pretty big raid of Mid-South too, wasn't there? I think Vince got Dibiase, Duggan, Hercules, and a few others, but I might have the timing wrong. Yeah he also got Kamala, Butch Reed, Koko B.Ware, JYD, which really got Watts upset as JYD didn't give him notice that he was leaving. He ended up showing videos of Butch Reed beating JYD and saying he ran him out of the territory scared, and tried to replace him with guys like George Wells, which didn't work at all.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 30, 2016 20:57:47 GMT -5
Knoxville was killed for several years after a split in the late '70s.
After the Fullers bought the territory from John Cazana, top draw Ron Wright owned the towns from Morristown east to the tri-cities, as well as southeast Kentucky and southwestern Virginia. He even had a TV deal in Kingsport.
Wright and the Fullers made a deal in which Wright would sell them a 49% interest in his towns and the Knoxville TV show would air on his local timeslot.
Well, the Fullers apparently never finished paying him, and instead started getting licenses in their name and squeezing out Wright.
Between this and rumors of the Fullers being caught skimming off the top (which everyone did back then, but usually managed to hide), Wright quit the company, taking not only his towns, but stars Ron Garvin, Bob Orton Jr., Boris Malenko, and Bob Roop.
The Fullers still had Knoxville and the good TV, but the roster was depleted. Wright had his TV, but it didn't go as far, and had to co-promote with the Poffos' ICW to fill the roster.
The end result was that the Fullers sold Knoxville and the new owners shut down in short order. Wright didn't have the resources to continue and shut down after losing over $50,000. The guys who left with him continued to work for Poffo before going their own ways.
Wright sold his towns to Crockett, but before he was paid in full, the courts ruled that you couldn't own a town . So, since they couldn't own them. They stopped paying him.
The town was pretty much dead as a doornail until Fuller came back in '85, and it never fully recovered.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 30, 2016 21:51:14 GMT -5
There was a pretty big raid of Mid-South too, wasn't there? I think Vince got Dibiase, Duggan, Hercules, and a few others, but I might have the timing wrong. Yeah he also got Kamala, Butch Reed, Koko B.Ware, JYD, which really got Watts upset as JYD didn't give him notice that he was leaving. He ended up showing videos of Butch Reed beating JYD and saying he ran him out of the territory scared, and tried to replace him with guys like George Wells, which didn't work at all. We need to put that in perspective though - that list of guys left over the span of almost 3 years; it wasn't the one big swoop that some of the others experienced.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Dec 30, 2016 21:57:09 GMT -5
Hogan and his cronies (Beefcake, Earthquake, Bossman, Honky, Nasty Boys, Haku etc.) all joining WCW around 93-94.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 22:47:40 GMT -5
Hogan and his cronies (Beefcake, Earthquake, Bossman, Honky, Nasty Boys, Haku etc.) all joining WCW around 93-94. Hacksaw Duggan and his stupid finisher of wrapping his hand in tape and punching a guy. Man that pissed me off when he beat Austin.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 30, 2016 23:03:31 GMT -5
AAA was created when Antonio Pena left CMLL and a number of younger luchadors followed him out the door.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 30, 2016 23:14:06 GMT -5
Jericho
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 31, 2016 0:06:44 GMT -5
A bunch of wrestlers left All Japan in 1990 when Genichiro Tenryu announced the formation of Super World of Sports.
It was also a big move into All Japan when Keiji Mutoh became the booker, bringing Satoshi Kojima and Kendo Kashin with him (along with other members of his cross-promotion group BATT Taiyo Kea and Kax Hayashi).
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 31, 2016 0:14:33 GMT -5
Didn't Konnan lead a big exodus out of AAA in the mid-90's to something called Promo Azteca that only lasted 4 or 5 years?
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Post by hulksmash87 on Dec 31, 2016 0:17:05 GMT -5
What about the uwf raiding wccw in the 80s
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 31, 2016 0:46:24 GMT -5
AAA was created when Antonio Pena left CMLL and a number of younger luchadors followed him out the door. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Mexican wrestling, so I was legitimately shocked the other day when I read that AAA has only been around for 25 years. I just assumed it was much more established for whatever reason.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 31, 2016 3:01:52 GMT -5
A large majority of AJPW left the company to form Pro Wrestling NOAH due to issues they had with Giant Baba's wife who was running the company at the time. Of course both WWE and WCW raided ECW many times and the classic Vince McMahon raiding the territories effectively killing them. Wasn't there also a situation in NOAH after Misawa died and the guys didn't want to deal with Misawa's wife?
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