>>5613192He didn't "lose the Elite", they were intending to fuck off for a while and were never going to re-sign. He didn't want to work with a new company that nobody knew whether or not it was going to succeed and instead wanted to continue with the partnerships that had been serving NJPW well and played the biggest part in its presence in the United States. ROH had a long and stable history and had been a reliable partner for NJPW and he saw no reason to torch that to join in with a completely new promotion that could've crashed and burned.
>ChonoBitched and moaned about western expansion and trying to appeal to westerners. Whether right or wrong, and whatever Harold's real feelings on the expansion were, he was still within his right to not have him do commentary for openly shitting on the very reason he was put on the job in the first place.
>always on cameraHe wanted to provide a friendly face for the fans. He personally would shake the hands of people entering the venue. Fans liked him for a reason and having a friendly, personable figure like that running NJPW would help give off the impression of NJPW as a whole being friendly and personable. Again, the old Japanese men didn't like this since that's now how Japanese businessmen are supposed to be.
>hated by all the boysRocky isn't "all the boys", just a pathetic hanger-on. The Elite didn't like him because they expected to be able to get their way with the AEW thing and Harold wasn't going to give them that. We don't really know how anyone else or any of the Japanese wrestlers felt.
