WWE and All Japan Pro Wrestling Teaming Up

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Source: http://nodq.com/wwe/350094896.shtml

Tokyo Sport and The Wrestling Observer are reporting that WWE and All Japan Pro Wrestling have forged an alliance and will be working together. John Laurinaitis reportedly helped put the deal together. More details should be available soon.

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This is interesting, especially if there's going to be talent exchange. WWE has alot of very young competitors that haven't competed in other promotions and working in All Japan could only help them to improve. On the same hand it would be interesting to see who WWE would want to bring in (outside of Muta/Mutoh and Kaz Hayashi most of the roster isn't known well by mainstream fans)

[Darth Shizzel]

As long as WWE don't do the sterotypical crap with the Japs then great.

[Qore The Conqueror]

Mmmm, very interesting.. Let's see, first, how is this going to workout, and then, see if WWE can take advantage of this, the whole roster could take a step foward just for working at least once with those guys; and it would be very interesting to see who they can bring..

[The Indy Junkie]

I pray WWE runs this right, if they do WWE will improve vastly.

[chaoskid]

looking back I have my doubts weather this would work, I mean remember the mess of the wwe vs wcw angle that they messed up

[flame3169118]

Here's a thought: people keep talking about Sting/Taker.

If this deal goes through what about Muta/Taker?

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Source: http://nodq.com/wwe/350380484.shtml

We noted before that WWE has apparently agreed to partner with All Japan Pro Wrestling, a deal that John Laurinaitis helped put together. Early reports indicated that AJPW may be a new developmental territory for WWE.

New reports coming out of Japan suggest that WWE and AJPW may be doing a talent exchange, most likely for the proposed cruiserweight show on the WWE Network. This doesn't mean that the possibility of a developmental territory in Japan is ruled out but the talent exchange is more likely.

The newspaper Tokyo Sports featured an image of Laurinaitis with AJPW President Masayuki Uchida. Apparently Laurinaitis has met with AJPW officials one other time this year besides the reported meeting in August when WWE was on tour in Japan.

There are also rumblings of some kind of talent exchange where Big Show may be sent to make an appearance for AJPW in exchange for a WWE appearance by The Great Muta. That report is not confirmed but we hope to have more solid details on the WWE-AJPW partnership soon.