During a recent interview with Conrad Thompson for AdFreeShows, former NJPW General Manager Michael Craven accused AEW wrestler Trent Beretta of backing out of a deal he verbally agreed to back in 2019. He said,
“If the two Presidents [AEW President Tony Khan and NJPW President Harold Meij] would have met, I think they would have actually liked each other. The Presidents didn’t meet. Even if they did, what would have happened was, ‘Let’s wait and see what they do first.’ They are the new guys. They are a new company. We don’t know what their wrestling is going to be like. We don’t know what their storylines are going to be like. We don’t know how their business is going to go. We had established partners already that were very fearful of this new company. We had partners, such as ROH, that were saying ‘they’re going to hurt our business so much.’ We had to take our partners as a priority first. We don’t just ditch partners overnight. You support through the good and the bad. We were more of a wait and see. The big first shot fired was when one of our talent had verbally agreed to a contract and he went to AEW. At that point, it shut down all talks with our company. At that point, New Japan was like, ‘they’re taking our talent, why do we want to work with them if they’re going to poach our talent?’”
When asked what talent was poached, Craven replied with the following, “Beretta. Yes. I wasn’t part of that deal. I just know of it. It’s a shame. He would have been high up on the card. New Japan was high on him at the time and wanted to use him a lot more.“
Major League Wrestling (MLW) sent out a press release today to announce that MLW One Shot will be taking place on December 5th from the Melrose Ballroom in New York City.
You can check out the official announcement below:
Major League Wrestling is returning to New York City Thursday, December 5 live for MLW: ONE-SHOT from the Melrose Ballroom.
One Chance. One Night. One-Shot.
The highly acclaimed MLW concept show returns this December and promises to be unlike the usual MLW event. More details will be revealed soon.
Tickets go on sale this Tuesday, September 3 at 10am at http://www.MLWNYC.com and Eventbrite.com.
Matches and fighters will be announced at MLW.com.
PLUS: Special Meet & Greets!
Tickets start at $15 at http://www.MLWNYC.com. Tickets will also be available day of show at the box office unless the event sales out in advance.
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