EVIL and SANADA Discuss Wanting to Improve NJPW’s Tag Division, Top Wrestlers Missing World Tag League

NJPW stars EVIL and SANADA, who are teaming for the World Tag League, spoke with the company for a new interview. Highlights are below:

SANADA on wanting to improve the image of the tag division: “Right. I want us to overthrow that. I want to improve the image of the tag division. Anyway, for all those guys in the division, it’s the same for them whether they’re tagging or whether they’re solo right? … I don’t want it to be ‘Those guys in the tag division should only do tags’. Wouldn’t it be cool for the Tag Team Champions to kick ass in singles matches, too? That’s what I want for us.”

SANADA on Kenny Omega, Tetsuya Naito, and other top NJPW stars missing the World Tag League to prepare for WrestleKingdom 12: SANADA: “Honestly, I feel sorry for those wrestlers that they can’t participate. It’s a prestigious tournament, it has a long history. … The guys who aren’t entered are being told they can’t tag. There are a lot of wrestlers who are only effective on their own and fall apart in a team, aren’t there? Anyway, it’s a shame, I think.”

EVIL on Sami Callihan and Juice Robinson: “I don’t know about Callihan, but Juice has been teaming with Finlay for a long time. Now he’s picked Callihan and left Finlay to team with Kitamura. It feels like a strange choice, to throw away that relationship.”

SANADA on Sami Callihan and Juice Robinson: “I don’t know anything about the new guy Callihan. They were both in NXT, right? You’d think they’d be very American in style. But Juice has shifted and taken on a more Japanese approach lately. So I wonder how well those two will actually work together.”