WWE - All Japan Alliance

[j]

www.pwinsider.com/article/72054/wweall-japan-alliance-edge-joins-twitter-and-more.html?p=1

Tokyo Sports featured an article today claiming WWE and All Japan Pro Wrestling had forged an alliance and would be working together with John Laurinaitis being the person who put it together. We'll see what sort of agreement it is, or even if it was just an article for show, as we go.

[chewey]

does anybody even watch All Japan anymore? My limited knowledge of puro was that New Japan was No. 1, while the American internet crowd used to love All Japan but everyone worth watching there jumped to NOAH. Can anybody correct me? tystates maybe?

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Sept 19, 2012 21:06:12 GMT -5 chewey said:

does anybody even watch All Japan anymore? My limited knowledge of puro was that New Japan was No. 1, while the American internet crowd used to love All Japan but everyone worth watching there jumped to NOAH. Can anybody correct me? tystates maybe?

All Japan has gotten awesome recently thanks to their feud with Big Japan. A lot of internet fans cooled off on New Japan after the Okada title reign ended quickly. NJ is still #1, but it's not like people have abandoned AJ at all. NOAH, on the other hand...

[pikemojo]

You saying NOAH has been almost forgotten?

I haven't kept up with Japanese wrestling at all in recent years but for a long time it seemed like practically internet consensus that NOAH was the top Japanese fed.

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Not forgotten, it's that people don't like it like they used to. It's kind of like ROH in that they were the top of the heap, but things have happened and they're just a shell of what they were. The TNA/NOAH working agreement is interesting, at least.