In a recent interview with The WrestlingINC Daily Podcast, Rocky Romero discussed several topics, including how New Japan Pro Wrestling’s plans have changed in 2020.

“Well, I mean the original plan was to go August 22 to MSG, we were going to have a huge card there and obviously, with the pandemic and New York being the major hotspot, especially in the beginning, that all got thrown to the wayside, I had to come up and kind of change plans. In New Japan, in general, it’s just like a live event company more than it is like an actual TV company, so it’s very different from AEW or WWE in that sense, so obviously, being a live event company and not being able to do live events hurts our business quite a bit.

This is kind of maybe like a forced model change in a way, not saying like, oh it’s going to be TV first, but this definitely gives us maybe room to try things that we wouldn’t normally try, like a studio show shot in Los Angles, not too far from the dojo and being able to find new talent, which we’re always looking to do and always trying to add to the roster and find new players, especially new young players, because I feel like the one thing that New Japan is golden at is finding talent and creating new stars.”

The interview is available in full at this link.