Major League Star star AKIRA was interviewed recently by Fightful Overbooked Indie podcast as they discussed a number of topics.
Akira was commenting on his current run with MLW when he revealed that a joint MLW/NJPW show is coming up in the future;
Even with MLW, I can probably just be like, ‘I don’t want to do that’ and they’ll listen to me. It’s crazy. I’ve heard so many things about the culture in this area, but things have changed. We’re doing a joint show with New Japan coming up. I talk to people, I invested in myself, I sit there and email back and forth with people in the office regarding it, about what they were doing with me, what I wanted to do, my background. I got what I wanted out of it and people are still shocked that I’m getting the things that I’m getting. I asked! They said, ‘Hey, you can’t work for this certain company’ and I said, ‘Yes I can, here’s the exact reasons why I can’, and they go, ‘Yeah you can, that makes sense.’ It’s not that hard. This isn’t a knock on younger people, because I had to go through life, I had to work at a factory. I had to shackle a crazy Russian to get to this level of thinking. A lot of the kids have this mentality of paper, sign paper, oh I’m not happy now. It’s like, you’re a business. You represent yourself. The merchandise that you put out, the theme music you use, the way you interact on social media, it all adds up to the representation of your business. It’s not just you’re a wrestler, you are everything. That’s the reason the Young Bucks were multimillionaires before a major company.”
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MLW recently announced a working agreement with NJPW with the first match taking place at MLW Fury Road that saw KUSHIDA defeat Tony Deppen. A second MLW x NJPW match will occur at MLW Slaughterhouse on October 14th as Minoru Suzuki faces Jacob Fatu.
Now, according to AKIRA, fans can expect a joint MLW/NJPW show to take place in the future.
AKIRA also pointed out in the interview that despite people telling him not to sign with MLW, he did so anyway and is having a great time:
People said don’t sign with MLW. You know what? I’m gonna do it. I went to them, I told them what I wanted, what I’m going to do, and we discussed it, and I’ve been having a great time there.
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AKIRA is currently in Japan touring with Big Japan Wrestling.
(H/T goes to Fightful for the transcribed quotes)
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