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With ROH likely going down, what do you see CMLL and New Japan doing to expose their talents to a market in the US? A lot of people think the eventual New Japan/AEW relationship is just a formality, but is it? New Japan has been very staunchly trying to protect their content from AEW. Even if the ROH relationship gets devalued, the CMLL relationship is still something they'll probably want to maintain.
MLW is a possibility. Court Bauer has ties with AAA though, but that could always change should MLW decide to get more competitive as a promotion. I guess there's also a chance that New Japan could do something with the NWA, should it become an actual functioning promotion again with the right backing, Impact Wrestling (as much as I hate to admit it), or even a new one.
Part of me has wondered this since the start of the year, however, and I'm not sure I've vocalized it in here before: A WWE/New Japan/CMLL relationship would not absolutely astound me. When news of AEW started up, I thought one of the wildest things Vince could do to take the edge off is announce something with New Japan. Vince has worked with other promotions before, he just prefers WWE to be the center of the universe and won't rely on those relationships when he doesn't need them.
I'd never have predicted that Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff would end up as "Executive Directors" of Raw and SmackDown, respectively. The industry is undergoing some pretty heavy changes. It really would be something.
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