Romero knows NJPW will continue moving forward.
Over the last month, New Japan Pro-Wrestling has lost Tetsuya Naito, Jeff Cobb and BUSHI from their talent roster. With those departures, a conversation sparked up about the company's future and weighing in was NJPW Vice President of Talent, Rocky Romero.
He joined Matt Camp on Busted Open After Dark and shared his thoughts about the latest departures. He explained that he's not worried because New Japan has always created new stars.
"Absolutely (I feel that hunger in NJPW), and that’s why I never worry about New Japan. I think a lot of it, there’s a lot of criticism out there. There’s a lot of people saying, ‘With the departures, New Japan is shot.’ Let me tell you something, this is the company who creates stars so easily. They’ve got the best training system in all of professional wrestling. Maybe in professional sports. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. You can see who they’ve turned out over the last, you know, fifty-odd years that they’ve been around and so, I don’t worry. I think the future looks very good, very bright. I mean, you look at Yota Tsuji, you talk about Shota Umino. Gabe Kidd is another one. There’s four or five guys that are just ready to rock, loaded into the chamber. They just need the opportunity and the funny thing is like you said is they’re all hungry and they’re all ready to go and now that those spots have opened up and some of the older veterans have moved on, I mean, I think it’s up to them to take the company into the future and like I said, the future looks bright."
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