TOKYO - US grappling start-up All Elite Wrestling (AEW) may need its Japanese partner to help fill London's 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium for a show in August, its billionaire founder said, looking to wrest market share from its newly beefed-up rival. The Wembley show is on pace to be one of the biggest wrestling shows ever and the largest not staged...
TOKYO - US grappling start-up All Elite Wrestling may need its Japanese partner to help fill London's 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium for a show in August, its billionaire founder said, looking to wrest market share from its newly beefed-up rival.
"In a world where the proposed merger happens, as it is suggested on paper, then I would believe the AEW, New Japan Pro Wrestling partnership is more imperative than ever before," Khan told Reuters in a video interview from Jacksonville, Florida. For New Japan, founded by grappler turned politician Antonio Inoki in 1972, the partnership is a chance to restart a global push cut short by the pandemic.
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