about the NJPW/CMLL meeting

SuperLuchas was a day out ahead of everyone else; CMLL sent up a press release about the meeting. R de Rudo was the rare exception of actually adding to it, so I’ll point you there.

There actually wasn’t much news here – there’s plans to do stuff, but nothing definite itself. It seems like that’s as much a timing issue as anything – NJPW’s not going to want to announce much about it’s 01/04 show until the end of it’s next tour, while CMLL isn’t going to put a date or names to anyone coming in until the last moment. Everything at this point is just plans, which may or may not happen, and the stuff they’re putting out (who might go where) is not as important to this deal as other points (how much they’re getting paid.)

CMLL says they’d like to see Sombra, Terrible, Texano Jr. go to Japan next. If Terrible & Texano are going to face No Limit in a hair match in the next month, a rematch in Japan makes a lot of sense. Sombra in the upcoming Super J tournament would make sense, though that’s just what I’ve been guessing.

NJPW’s mentioned as possible sending Tanahashi & Nakamura, probably their two biggest active stars. Which is probably not going to happen, outside maybe a week in between tours. CMLL is more likely to get more young guys on long term trips; it’s still a good environment for their wrestlers to learn, and CMLL can build up a young guy as well as they can a Japanese star who’s not already known in Mexico. Whomever comes, they won’t be coming until February of 2010, which is a friendly signal to ignore January 2010.