Post by Office on Jun 14, 2023 22:07:57 GMT
During the television broadcast of Pollo Road’s RAINBOW ROAD event on 6/12, the pro-wrestling community finally learned the truth of the mysterious symbol of an orange circle that hit social media just a couple weeks earlier. The announcement of a joint show between Pollo Road and the believed-to-be defunct Maximum Japan Pro-Wrestling stunned audiences for a variety of reasons, in part due to the fact that most of the announcement was written in Japanese with the exception of a few critical pieces of text which we will address below.
As of right now, we have confirmed with sources that the announcement is, indeed, true. From July 7th to July 9th, a co-promoted weekend of professional wrestling known as CRUISERWORLD! will see several wrestlers from the Pollo Road brand travel to Japan in order to compete in a tournament that will inaugurate the World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The event will be broadcast locally on ENSOU! TV and will be available for streaming online to global audiences via the World Pay-Per-View (wPPV) app.
As of right now, we have confirmed with sources that the announcement is, indeed, true. From July 7th to July 9th, a co-promoted weekend of professional wrestling known as CRUISERWORLD! will see several wrestlers from the Pollo Road brand travel to Japan in order to compete in a tournament that will inaugurate the World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The event will be broadcast locally on ENSOU! TV and will be available for streaming online to global audiences via the World Pay-Per-View (wPPV) app.
One of the unusual aspects of the announcement unapparent to English-speaking audiences is that the event will be held at an outdoors venue on the shores of Shirahama beach, one of the most popular beachfront locales on the Izu peninsula. Municipal officials have selected a site nearly a kilometer from the famous Shirahama Jinja, a well-known Shinto shrine along the beach, and estimate a seating capacity supporting in excess of 1,000 fans in attendance.
The World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Adding to the mystery of the event, the promotional poster for CRUISERWORLD! states in English text the existence of a World Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The Japanese text listed above describes an inaugural tournament.
Though it seems reasonable to assume that the Pollo Road wrestlers selected to participate in this tournament will in fact be competitors in this inaugural tournament, we currently have little to no details regarding the tournament structure at this time as even Pollo Road officials have kept the details very hush-hush, with key officials possibly being under non-disclosure agreements for the time being.
Adding to the mystery of the event, the promotional poster for CRUISERWORLD! states in English text the existence of a World Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The Japanese text listed above describes an inaugural tournament.
Though it seems reasonable to assume that the Pollo Road wrestlers selected to participate in this tournament will in fact be competitors in this inaugural tournament, we currently have little to no details regarding the tournament structure at this time as even Pollo Road officials have kept the details very hush-hush, with key officials possibly being under non-disclosure agreements for the time being.
MAX-J… UNCONFIRMED?!?!
Amidst the fallout from the announcement was confusion regarding the status of MJPW, known more colloquially as MAX-J. Since the promotion disbanded in 2019, there have been no events held under or sponsored by MAX-J, nor are any scheduled. Additionally, the fact that the CRUISERWORLD! promotional poster describes the event as “a MAX-J production” but utilized a new MJPW logo prompted further confusion. The mystery surrounding MAX-J prompted a social media quest to get down to the bottom of events.
Within hours, we learned that in March of this year, an up-start entertainment conglomerate known as the 4536 Group quietly established a corporate office in downtown Yokohama. Documents confirm that 4536 owns the likeness of and all trademarks associated with MAX-J. Furthermore, corporate filings that detail the company’s organizational structure list several former MAX-J employees, with none other than former General Manger Masaaki Sano as the CEO of “the MAX-J brand”.
Thus far, this is the extent of information that we have regarding MAX-J. It is currently unknown if the MAX-J brand has signed any wrestling talent at this time.
Amidst the fallout from the announcement was confusion regarding the status of MJPW, known more colloquially as MAX-J. Since the promotion disbanded in 2019, there have been no events held under or sponsored by MAX-J, nor are any scheduled. Additionally, the fact that the CRUISERWORLD! promotional poster describes the event as “a MAX-J production” but utilized a new MJPW logo prompted further confusion. The mystery surrounding MAX-J prompted a social media quest to get down to the bottom of events.
Within hours, we learned that in March of this year, an up-start entertainment conglomerate known as the 4536 Group quietly established a corporate office in downtown Yokohama. Documents confirm that 4536 owns the likeness of and all trademarks associated with MAX-J. Furthermore, corporate filings that detail the company’s organizational structure list several former MAX-J employees, with none other than former General Manger Masaaki Sano as the CEO of “the MAX-J brand”.
Thus far, this is the extent of information that we have regarding MAX-J. It is currently unknown if the MAX-J brand has signed any wrestling talent at this time.