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Recently, in the Q3 earnings call, Stephanie McMahon mentioned that mergers and acquisitions are one of the areas for potential growth. During a recent appearance at the Wells Fargo TMT Conference with analyst Steven Cahall, McMahon was asked about this.>“Just to give some examples of what I meant by that, [an acquisition] has to align with our capabilities, whether that’s smaller wrestling promotions, say, internationally,” McMahon said. Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics speculates that WWE may be interested in companies in Mexico and Japan.>“For a quick survey of Japan, Bushiroad owns New Japan Pro Wrestling, the leader there, as well as Stardom, the women’s wrestling promotion, which is probably the fastest-growing company in the region.Additionally, CyberAgent owns Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT Pro-Wrestling, and Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling. NOAH would be among the biggest companies in Japan after New Japan’s wide lead. Dragongate and All Japan Pro Wrestling, I believe are more independently owned. The Japanese companies owned by large parents like Bushiroad and CyberAgent seem to me less likely to be acquired, but then again if one of those conglomerates ended up in cost-cutting mode in a major economic recession, it’s conceivable they, like Sinclair Broadcasting did earlier this year with Ring of Honor, might look to sell their wrestling assets. In Mexico, the major two companies have long been AAA Lucha Libre Worldwide and CMLL. Both have been family-owned for decades,” Thurston wrote.
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>>8124360 >buying gook and spic promotion Good luck with that. They should just buy NWA from Billy
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>>8124360 Our brothers at /stardom/ will love this
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>>8124360 CMLLmanos it's our time to join the HHH empire
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this guy is a "journalist" and yet doesn't know bushiroad doesn't actually own stardom, and that one of their subsidiary companies with entirely different management and structure does instead? that's like calling amazon and twitch the same company.
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They'll never, ever, ever, ever buy NJPW. AJPW is maybe the only thing they could grab.
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>>8124407 CMLL is too conservative to accept an offer from WWE. AAA has a more modern approach to wrestling and has collaborated with WWE in the past. Either war, WWE buying any foreign promotion is just plainly stupid.
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>>8124360 They should buy NWA and other smaller indie outfits so they can have more network content. But keep them with the distinct feel and don’t WWE-ize them. Make the network have something for everybody, not just people who like the WWE style.
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>>8124360 why can't they just work with foreign companies like they used to
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>>8124360 They should get Stardom but Bushiroad isn't selling it to WWE unless they overpay them. But I can't see Triple H convincing Nick Khan to do that
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>>8124519 WWE doesn't literally buy promotions any more they mean buy as in buy their tape library and upload it to peacock(what they did/are doing with some of the Uk company's and evolve)
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>>8124441 Ajpw has no value because the Baba era footage is owned by the tv station.
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>>8124585 >Hurr durr, WWE doesn't literally buy promotions >"Stephanie McMahon mentioned that MERGERS AND ACQUISITONS are one of the areas for potential growth" You dumb fucking nigger. open up a book and finish your homework, you middle schooler.
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>>8124609 If you think WWE is going to kill one of the top promotions in Japan you're braindead
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>>8124360 WWE have more chances of buying smaller indies feds than buying established feds
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>>8124360 >Paul tries to buy stardom again Anonymous
Plans to take NXT to Japan and Mexico are in the works, per wrestling icon Shawn Michaels. The Heartbreak Kid, who serves as WWE's Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative, spoke about those efforts in a chat with reporters after NXT's Halloween Havoc: “I know there’s been talks of NXT Japan and NXT Mexico. As I understand it those announcements could be coming down the road in 2023, so this company continues to grow and expand. I know a guy who’s interested in NXT and its expansion, so I’m sure those things aren’t very far down the line at all.” Michaels oversees creative at NXT, which featured another rebrand under Triple H last month. Triple H spoke about the vision he has for NXT moving forward on SPORTbible Stories (h/t Dakota Cohen of Wrestling Inc.): "NXT, for us, is that academy model or sort of that collegiate athletics for us. If 'Raw' and 'SmackDown' are the NFL ... 'NXT' is collegiate athletics and we had a small brand here called 'NXT UK.' We were headed down this road prior to the pandemic, pandemic kind of like, put a hold on it. But, we shut that brand down because we're going to relaunch it in 2023 as 'NXT Europe' and try to blow it out bigger." As Triple H noted, plans are already in place to relaunch NXT UK as NXT Europe. However, the international stage for NXT will reportedly span three continents imminently, per Michaels' comments.
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I wouldn't get too excited, folks. I don't see anything coming out of this.
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>>8124360 WWE can't buy anyone out in Japan, there are laws in place that prevent it, goes for the vidya game industry and other companies too.
Mexico is run by the cartel, not going to happen either.
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>>8124575 >They should get Stardom no they shouldn't
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>>8124384 >t. billy corgan Anonymous
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>>8124384 >just buy NWA from Billy This desu. Putting the final nail in the NWA's coffin after all those decades would be kino as fuck ngl.
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>>8124360 Paul should've just buy Asian promotion that isn't Japan like OWE.
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>>8124630 love all the random wrestlers that will just start their own feds. Taka having two companies is funny to me
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>>8124360 WWE should buy LU rights and make Bray Wyatt lead LU sideshow.
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>>8124360 ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BASED. I CANNOT WAIT FOR IWATANI MAYU TO STEAL THE SHOW AT MANIA
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>>8125062 >rejects wwe multiple times Anonymous
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>>8125062 >she retires just to spite Paul Anonymous
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>>8124920 It's basically feels indies/wrestling school
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>>8124575 >They should get Stardom Why SHOULD they?
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>>8124360 American company's aren't allowed to buy Japanese company's
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>>8124659 they will get chased out Japanese business is very cutthroat and nationalistic they don't like outsiders operating on their soil
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>>8125109 >Still believing this lie only told on /pw/ Anonymous
>>8124920 >Sells JTO to Paul for getting him over in the attitude era Anonymous
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>>8124360 >wanting a shit american company to shit up legacy Japanese and Mexican wrestling promotions This is why we can't have nice things. Corporate will subsume them and pervert them while retards clap like seals, see Star Wars, Marvel and all other Disney rape victims.
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>>8125062 >the charm point main events Wrestlemania HOLY FREAKIN' BASEDOLA!
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I will with no exaggeration cry and go into a deep depression if wwe buys TJPW. They can have stardom, anything really, just stay away from Cyber please.
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>>8124360 >wwe fears to buy impact.... Anonymous
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>>8125338 Only a retard would buy a cursed company
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>>8124360 >tfw WWE buys BJW and FREEDOMS Anonymous
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So like, Tony Khan promo? I mean last time any sort of WWE Japan rumor started. He did some insane schizophrenic promo, and still seemingly has some sort of fascination with hating Nick Khan. I’m assuming we get some sort of promo
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>>8125373 There were genuinely WWE big Japan, wrestling rumors like a year back
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>>8125385 yeah, that was really strange could you imagine this in "family friendly" WWE at the time
>more than likely they will just buy Sendai Girls Anonymous
>>8124360 >Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics speculates that WWE may be interested in companies in Mexico and Japan. I'm sure there's some shit tier lucha company like The Crash that may sell but I can't think of many Japanese promotions WWE would buy. They couldn't get NOAH before they sold to CyberAgent, they couldn't get BJW which has been dying for years. Maybe AJPW if it keeps going down but I doubt it. The Bushiroad and CyberAgent promotions are off the table.
Truthfully their best chance at buying a promotion in Japan is probably Ice Ribbon. Neoplus was ready to close it down last year, they have a dojo and they have SOME notable wrestlers that they can bring in. They'd just have to rebrand it as NXT Japan and kill it as a joshi promotion while buying the infrastructure and things like Tsukka's/management's connections.
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>>8124575 Didn't Stardom agree to be bought by Bushiroad specifically to avoid getting bought by WWE?
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>>8125458 Yup. For good reason too.
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>>8125445 I'm not surprised if WWE approaching to buy All Japan, other companies like Bushiroad, Cyberagent and Gaora will buy All Japan similar what happened with NOAH and Stardom purchased
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>>8124920 TAKA founded Kaientai Dojo. When the adultery scandal happened, he got booted and K-DOJO was renamed Active Advance Pro Wrestling so TAKA founded a new promotion called Just Tap Out.
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>>8124865 OWE basically doesn't exist. CIMA scammed the chink businessmen and got run out of China so "restarted" it in Cambodia but I don't think they've ever held shows and STRONGHEARTS has just wound up as a freelance stable.
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>>8124360 If WWE managed to buy Zero1, then they would get many of them affiliation
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>>8125458 Yes, WWE can't get STARDOM/NJPW because of Bushiroad and can't get NOAH/DDT/TJPW because of CyberAgent. AJPW was supposed to be on the table a few years ago for WWE when Hunter had Akiyama travel over but AJPW's video library isn't even owned by the current AJPW, its owned by the TV network similar to NJPW. Maybe DG would be viable but its still an indy and mainly only popular in Osaka, probably not willing to sell either.
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>>8125603 I don't see Dragon Gate getting bought at all. They'd either refuse or just sell to Gaora or CyberAgent.
I really only see small promotions that otherwise don't have a lot of value being willing to be bought by WWE. Ice Ribbon, Pure-J, Zero1, SEAdLINNNG Diana, shit like that. Sendai Girls is maybe the other promotion I can see allowing themselves to be bought considering Meiko's already working with WWE, they don't have much of a roster left anyway and the few wrestlers they have left (Hashimoto, DASH, Iwata, Manami) would add some value to NXT in general.
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>this shit again No, they are not buying CMLL
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>>8124659 they really need to come up with what shit stands for before using it. No one knows what NXT stands for. No Xilly, Trannies maybe?
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Very interesting indeed.
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CyberShite must be losing money hand over fist. Make them an offer and they'll sell.
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>>8125603 Man japs are so cringe, having the tv networks own the footage.
Would be so based to have all the classic AJPW stuff archived
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>>8125245 JTO is basically a feeder promotion to stardom. Taka is making money from that.
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>>8124920 >>8125245 >>8125472 Maybe the performance center will produce some decent wrestlers if Taka heads it.
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>>8127520 2 wrestlers in 3 years is too low for a feeder fed
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>>8124360 Instead of buying Mex and Jap feds, WWE should buy random Asian promotions and Puerto Rico promotion like World Wrestling Council
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Hoping they buy all Joshi companies and closed them down lmafo imagine the following joshipedo suicides
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>>8127622 They still have their talents brought over during the new blood events
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>>8127631 So does Diana, are they a feeder fed as well?
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They tried to buy Stardom offering Rossy a spot in the HOF, he laughed at them and sold to Bushiroad instead.
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>>8124360 I need stephanie to do a merger acquisition of my balls as she squeezes and chastises me in her office
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>>8125201 I feel the need to point out, because it's somehow still a common belief that no, that's not a thing. Hasn't been for ages. It took the French government practically trying to forcibly merge Nissan into Renault for the nasty shit to start happening for god's sake.
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>>8127644 Rossy has ties to the owner of Diana iirc. So he will always get their talent work.
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How will the trannies and smarks cope when njpw is owned by wwe?
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>>8124360 >Recently, in the Q3 earnings call, Stephanie McMahon mentioned that mergers and acquisitions are one of the areas for potential growth I hate corporations so much and all the faggot shit that goes with it it
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rovert said wwe world domination is happening
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they have to know they would get crushed in Mexico right?
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>>8124360 That's not BREAKING it's been known for years and it's still not going to happen
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>>8124437 BR owns 100% of STARDOM (Bushiroad Fight is 100% owned by BR).
BR only owns 85% of NJPW (10% to TV Asahi and 5% to Amuse).
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>>8124360 Would rather them buy Impact Wrestling.
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