El Desperado denies being a freelancer.
Back in June, Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer reported that Desperado was a freelancer and was not under a contract with NJPW.
Now, Desperado has made sure to make it known that this is not the case. He told NJPW’s website:
“Dave Meltzer wrote something like ‘Desperado is a freelancer so he can take all these outside bookings’, which was absolute BS,”
“When you have NJPW wrestlers go out to these other companies, there’s some cross promotion involved there, there’s an acknowledgement and a little bit of publicity on NJPW’s end. To an extent, from a promoter’s standpoint, that publicity is part of my payoff, that they’re able to book ‘NJPW star El Desperado’. NJPW’s name value there is as, or more, important than my own, so to go about and take that branding away from me for no reason stank.”
El Desperado
This year alone, Desperado has worked for promotions such as ROH, DDT, FREEDOMS and CMLL.
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