WWE reportedly trying to partner with a Wrestling Company in Puerto Rico and Mexico

[Chris]

Nick Khan was literally at Bloodsport and NXT does a Bloodsport match every other month now

 

[Comrade Khan]

style wise I agree but it just doesn't make sense politically @Kross Rhodes , MLW already aligned with NJPW and CMLL like AEW as Chris pointed out. GCW's owner is a massive wwe mark and wwe owns the ecw trademark to boot. gcw also works or has worked with aaa and has crossover with tna so the wwe alliance is already paved imo.

MLW is a wildcard as idk if they wanna allign with aew at all but they might have to just out of loyalty to its other partners (and theres the mjf connection obviously)

 

[Comrade Khan]

Nick Khan was literally at Bloodsport and NXT does a Bloodsport match every other month now

oh yeah and so was Shayna, wwe talent. the alliance already started lol i forgot

 

[Smart Marx]

You guys are completely ignoring the relationship GCW already had with WWE and MLW has with AEW partners lol we're not fantasy booking alliances we're legitimately predicting them, there's a difference

To be fair I am actually completely unaware of a single relationship detail between GVW and WWE already so can you fill me in on that because that’s news to me lol

 

[Chris]

To be fair I am actually completely unaware of a single relationship detail between GVW and WWE already so can you fill me in on that because that’s news to me lol

They let Shayna Baszler and Natalya appear at Bloodsport over the GCW Collective weekend during Mania week. Shayna fought Masha Slamovich

 

[Smart Marx]

style wise I agree but it just doesn't make sense politically @Kross Rhodes , MLW already aligned with NJPW and CMLL like AEW as Chris pointed out. GCW's owner is a massive wwe mark and wwe owns the ecw trademark to boot. gcw also works or has worked with aaa and has crossover with tna so the wwe alliance is already paved imo.

MLW is a wildcard as idk if they wanna allign with aew at all but they might have to just out of loyalty to its other partners (and theres the mjf connection obviously)

I think the working alliances are kind of murky anyway because at one point MLW was partnering with New Japan, and AAA at the same time TNA was. I remember thinking MLW and TNA would do something and they never did.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I think AAA just does weird shit that pisses off ppl which is why the mlw and aew alliances were short lived lol

 

[Chris]

I think the working alliances are kind of murky anyway because at one point MLW was partnering with New Japan, and AAA at the same time TNA was. I remember thinking MLW and TNA would do something and they never did.

Yeah MLW kinda unceremoniously dropped AAA for CMLL too. CMLL are the stubborn ones so it's their involvement that really makes the difference here

 

[Smart Marx]

They let Shayna Baszler and Natalya appear at Bloodsport over the GCW Collective weekend during Mania week. Shayna fought Masha Slamovich

Oh, right bloodsport. That one makes a little bit more sense.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Like CMLL ownership doesn't go on podcasts and talk shit about other US owners or booking as far as i know. they just kind of stay in their lane

 

[Smart Marx]

Even though TNA didn’t switch over to CMLL aren’t they also still technically partnered with new Japan or has that been quietly dropped?

 

[Chris]

Even though TNA didn’t switch over to CMLL aren’t they also still technically partnered with new Japan or has that been quietly dropped?

Kinda loudly dropped with ABC IMO, Kushida did work NJPW recently as a TNA talent but only as a last minute injury replacement, it wasn't planned.

And they also announced an official AAA partnership in January which I found odd bc they already had one but in hindsight seems to have been stating their loyalty to them when everyone else was moving to CMLL

 

[Smart Marx]

Like CMLL ownership doesn't go on podcasts and talk shit about other US owners or booking as far as i know. they just kind of stay in their lane

Yeah Konnan definitely make shit harder from south from virtually every conceivable angle.

Just from MLW alone, you know shit had to be hard working with them for court to just give up on it when he at one point basically made having AAA talent like his entire identity. The power struggle at the top was all about the AAA stuff he was going to split a separate brand out of Azteca Lucha or what the fuck he was gonna call it.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Even though TNA didn’t switch over to CMLL aren’t they also still technically partnered with new Japan or has that been quietly dropped?

I never heard it was over. WIll probably become more evident as time goes forward. You will know for sure next mania season if there's no njpw tna crossover show its probably over.

It's hard to know because SO FAR we have never heard of AEW requesting the termination of partnership with WWE as prerequisite to do business.\

We have to imagine TNA will not be able to work with AEW during the NXT partnership given past policy but we could be proven wrong

 

[Comrade Khan]

Kinda loudly dropped with ABC IMO, Kushida did work NJPW recently as a TNA talent but only as a last minute injury replacement, it wasn't planned.

And they also announced an official AAA partnership in January which I found odd bc they already had one but in hindsight seems to have been stating their loyalty to them when everyone else was moving to CMLL

what happened with abc?