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>Ogawa eventually gets hired to the Zenjo PR department (probably around 89-90?). This is when most of his legitimate achievements take place. There's a myth I've seen passed around via the usual sources that Zenjo had no wrestling press coverage before Rossy's time in PR. This is blatantly false. They had coverage. Their "commissioner" (actually minority owner) Shinji Ueda was literally the head editor of Daily Sports (ie the boss). However, Rossy almost certainly hustled on the phones to boost coverage in the 90-92 era. That being said, it -was- his job. Once he left in 97, he was replaced by Yurika Tada, who did all the same work Rossy did.
>His most significant accomplishment, however, was that he was the driving force in getting the Zenjo office to embrace home video. Rossy lifted the idea from WWF's coliseum video, and Zenjo was one of the first Japanese companies to provide a video release of every major event. They made a bunch of money off this. This marketing shift had some unintended consequences as the new, expensive merch alienated their traditional young female fanbase, but that's a tangent I'm going to pass on here.
>Rossy was never the booker for Zenjo using any conventional understanding of the term. He did "book" venues and outside talent as part of his duties in the PR department. For example, if Zenjo wanted to do something with LLPW wrestlers, Ogawa would have been one of the people making the calls. Some of this confusion stems from the difference between "booking" and "producing" in Japan, which Rossy has taken advantage of when curating his image in the west.
