Richie Moon
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All Elite Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling is the alternative that pro wrestling fans have been clamoring for, for years. There are certain things that just come with watching pro wrestling and for fans we’ve grown for better or worse use to certain type of formats in the colorful performance based genre. WWE has been running and setting the standard for years but there has been a rise in the east of NJPW(new japan pro wrestling) The fighting spirit and focus on in ring action has provided a light alternative to WWE. It wasn’t until the end of 2017 going into 2018 that the wrestling world would be body slammed by one match that would send a ripple affect across the industry and spark a much needed change. A veteran of the wrestling industry, lead singer of The rock band Fozzy Chris Jericho went over to NJPW to have a match with fellow Canadaian Kenny Omega. Kenny Omega and his contemporaries in NJPW were putting on some of the most critically acclaimed wrestling matches in the world, the issue was barely half a million people were watching. The match with Kenny Omega Vs Chris Jericho at wrestle kingdom 12 was set and bought over 100,000 new subscribers to new Japan world their streaming service and helped NJPW completely sell out the 50,000 seater in the Tokyo Dome.
By Richie Moon4 years ago in Unbalanced