Posted on 1/05/126 by Colin Vassallo
Speaking to Tokyo Sports following Hiroshi Tanahashi’s
retirement match, WWE’s Shinsuke Nakamura revealed that he
did everything he could possibly do to be part of it.
But while Nakamura was previously given permission to work
and appear at shows by Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan,
appearing on a New Japan Pro-Wrestling broadcast, a company
with big ties to competitor AEW, was going to be difficult.
“I thought I did everything I could,” Nakamura told Tokyo
Sports. “But the fact that it didn’t come to fruition makes
me think that there was a (other) mission that was imposed
upon me. That’s the only way to look at it. I think that’s
dramatic in itself.”
Nakamura was, at one point, in consideration to be
Tanahashi’s final opponent, but that spot unsurprisingly
went to AEW’s Kazuchika Okada.