From our article “Region Break: From Managers to Translators, Bringing Puro to the West”: “That angle made New Japan an amazing amount of money. They sold 8 million dollars from t-shirts in 1998, an nWo t-shirt.” -Sonny Onoo

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1. Interesting article. I cannot help but wonder how much different the wrestling landscape would have been had Bischoff not been able to mend the fences with New Japan in the 90s. Surely, their exposure would have happened eventually but in what way? Thank goodness that streaming and social media have had a hand in giving us puroresu, otherwise things would have been bleak.

   P.S. Bill Watts is an asshole.