This week Ryan chats candidly about:
- Bad Luck Fale & Rocky Romero re-signing with NJPW
- Tama Tonga disputing rumors he has re-signed with NJPW
- Chuck Palumbo using his strength to save a woman’s life
- Michael Tarver’s post-WWE feud with John Cena
- More…
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You can listen to Ryan’s appearance starting at the 27:33 minute mark in the embedded audio player below. Some of his quotes have been transcribed below it:
On all the breaking news in the past week he has been putting out on ProWrestlingSheet.com regarding the New Japan wrestlers that could be heading to the WWE:
RS: Let’s see. First, I can say that I am still working on The Bullet Club story. All the time. Right now! It’s one of my main things that I have been trying to cover. As of today, Wednesday, I know on Monday when I was still working on stuff I was told that no deal had been signed by anybody still. Rocky Romero and Bad Luck Fale did sign new deals with New Japan tho. They are not coming over to WWE. Either of them. Despite having different sets of talks. Rocky Romero, there was definite interest. There wasn’t like a firm offer on the table but there was definite interest from WWE to have him come aboard and work in NXT as a trainer. What I am told is that he just basically felt like he had more left to give in wrestling. That it wasn’t time to kind of, for him, be a trainer and give up on his dream. Not give up on his dream, I guess, but, you know, he’s not calling it quits quite yet.
On Bad Luck Fale and Rocky Romero’s contracts with New Japan Pro Wrestling:
RS: Bad Luck Fale signed a contract with New Japan. Both of these contracts were not the normal one year deal that New Japan usually offers people. They are actually both for two years. Bad Luck Fale and Rocky Romero. Which is interesting since normally they are one year. Due to all of this stuff with New Japan, The Bullet Club, Nakamura… it seems like they are trying to lock people down for a little bit longer so they don’t get surprised out of nowhere. Like they did in this situation. With Bad Luck Fale he actually did have firm talks with WWE. He decided that New Japan was his home. They are the ones who gave him a chance. He also wants to tackle the main event scene like we had just been saying. Now that everything is being reshuffled. I think he is hoping that he gets reshuffled to the top.
On whether he think the relationship between New Japan Pro Wrestling and WWE is a contentious one at the moment:
RS: As of right now… it doesn’t look like this is… I don’t want to say, “contentious,” but it doesn’t look like this is something where they are going to be working together again in the near future. Especially with these two year contracts now. To me it feels like they are trying to not have WWE step on their territory. At least now they will have a better idea of… everyone expects with the American wrestlers they are going year-to-year. So, they assume, “Oh, at the end of the year they are going to come back.” I think with this it’s a little more of a hard contract that people will take more seriously when it’s about to be up.
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