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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Diary - 8th July 2025 Hotel - The Aoyama Grand Hotel, Minato City, Tokyo - 3 Nights. 4pm JST - Meeting with Harold Meji at Bushiroad Headquarters, Tokyo. Meeting notes 1 - Contracts typed up - 1 year rolling contracts for both Tetsuya Naito and Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 - Agree 5 year commercial...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Diary - 7th July 2025 9.20am GMT - Flight from London Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda Airport - British Airways - 13 hours 40 minutes. While on Flight - Arranging Bullet points for IWGP meeting with Harold Meji Putting together contract package for Tetsuya Naito Continued meetings face to face...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Sunday - 6th July 2025 Official Logo Launched - Website Launched - www.nwpw.com Official Twitter Account Launched - New World Pro-Wrestling (@nwpw) Official Instagram Launched - Instagram · nwpw 1k+ followers 1k Followers, 102 Following, 1 Post - New World Pro-Wrestling (@nwpw) on...
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    BTB Discussion Thread

    Evening All, My BTB is now going to be more present day. I have tried to set the scene from conception to where we are now. I think I will move to a more 'Diary' vibe with what Manson and the rest of the team would be getting up to most weeks as well as 'News' spliced in.
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 9 Coming up to present day, work on what the product would look like come January 2026 was continuing to take shape. The signings of the Three Japanese superstars had gone down incredibly well with many feeling like the wrestlers would probably get treated a little...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 8 At the start of June, Manson and Khan met again. This time it was in Las Vegas. The two met at the New World HQ. Manson showed Khan around the building, showing the separate areas that had already been established. There were still parts of the backroom / front...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 7 The team, both in Las Vegas and in Tokyo had started having weekly meetings with Amazon Prime regarding what the weekly and monthly schedule would look like as well as the costing base for PPV Events. Starting on the 5th January 2026, WrestleKingdom would be the...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 6 Throughout May, Manson and Silkin met most days at New World HQ in Las Vegas to go over initial outline of what the NWA roster side of New World Pro-Wrestling would look like. The idea was a mix of NJPW gaijin, Previous and current Free Agents and members of other...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 5 On April 25th 2025, Manson took a flight to Jacksonville, Florida He had spoken to Khan a few times over the previous Six months. Khan was impressed by the Seaport plan and both Khan and Manson had talked about how AEW's relationship with NJPW would be after the...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 4 Once the deal with Amazon was announced Manson had initial internal meetings with Cary Silkin as well as Harold Meji to go over prospective names for events. With Manson, the usual term came up, 'Make it make sense'. For him, a lot Wrestling event names didn't make...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Amazon Prime & New World Pro-Wrestling (NWPW) announce multi year broadcast and media rights deal. News provided by Seaport Entertainment Group, Inc Apr 22, 2025, 16:00 ET LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, April 22 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazon Prime & New World Pro-Wrestling to Establish New Era of...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 3 Now that Seaport had control over the NWA and NJPW, the next plan of action was tying down contracts for both the wrestlers as well as commentary team so that both sides of the company were set up for the January 2026 start. Manson really liked Mauro Ranello and...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 2 Manson and the board had sat down in late March to go over the first appointments to the day to day backroom staff. Shane McMahon was a major discussion point. The board were interested to know what Manson felt about any potential issues regarding the tainted...
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    BTB Discussion Thread

    Morning All, Just thought I would introduce myself to the forum. I have restarted by BTB which centres around private equity investment into NJPW and NWA and the idea that an alternative sports / realism based company could be created through amalgamting them both. I prefer this one to my...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business The next day on March 6th 2025, Manson got to the office in downtown Las Vegas around 7.30am. He knew he needed to work fast to start getting the ball rolling creating the ground work for what New World Pro-Wrestling would look like. The Japanese side of the operation...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Seaport Entertainment Group, Inc, complete take over of NWA Wrestling & New Japan Pro Wrestling - Announce new Promotion - New World Pro-Wrestling. News provided by Seaport Entertainment Group Inc Mar 5, 2025, 12:01 ET LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, March 5 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seaport Entertainment...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 7 While negotiations were going on with Bushiroad in late 2024, the structure of exactly who would be on the board of directors of the new company was taking place. Manson knew the main players at Seaport and Pershing would be on there as they were the money people and with...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 6 One of the important things that took place at the start of the initial negotiations to take over NJPW and NWA was signed NDAs. Seaport and Manson did not want anything leaking to the press until both transactions were complete and contracts were signed and if anything had...
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