In a recent interview with Comedy Store Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Rocky Romero discussed several topics, including the creation of the NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship and some reaction online.

“Mercedes will be there of course, kind of headlining this whole thing with this tournament, the first-ever STRONG Women’s Championship, which is like an American championship, and I’ve kind of been reading the boards and Twitter and people talking about this.

It’s been controversial in the fact of why is New Japan making another Women’s Championship, and it just seems like everybody was complaining two years ago that there wasn’t a Championship, there wasn’t a division, where’s the women, where’s the representation, and now we’ve got two Championships, one which is obviously being headlined in Japan, which is the IWGP Women’s Championship, and now the New Japan STRONG Women’s Championship.

I feel like we’re trying to give women that representation and give them a great place to show professional wrestling in New Japan Pro Wrestling, so I don’t really understand where all the controversy is coming from, it’s like, why can’t you make fans happy, come on guys, enjoy yourselves.”

The full interview is available at this link.