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Various News: Kota Ibushi On Why He Chose NJPW Over AEW, Rusev On Tye Dillinger’s WWE Release Request, Two More WWE Hall of Fame Pre-Sale Codes
– In an interview with ShuPro (translated by NJPW Announcer Chris Charlton), Kota Ibushi spoke about why he chose to stay with NJPW instead of go to All Elite Wrestling.
Ibushi says he was in negotiations with AEW at the end of last year. ‘The second I went, that would be the end of my wrestling career, I thought’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
‘What I realized (talking to AEW) was I really don’t care about money’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
‘AEW said they just want me in their ring in some form. The ideal for them was for me to move to America and be there full time. I turned them down just after Wrestle Kingdom’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
‘If I went it would be the end of my career. There wouldn’t be anywhere else to go after that. No step up, nothing left to do. That would be the last step to make, and after that things would just go down. Great money, but I want to keep developing.’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
‘Kenny wants to change the world with wrestling. I think to change the world with wrestling, New Japan is the best place to do that. That’s where he and I differ. I can do all that here. I’m all the places I’ve been, NJPW is the highest level’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
On his decision with New Japan and Osaka announcement ‘I really wanted to lay my cards out and shut down the ‘what about Ibushi?’ talk. Osaka was that chance. The Ibushi institute is on hold, I’m exclusive’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
Ibushi’s top three desired opponents in New Japan: Jay White, Okada and Shingo Takagi.
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
‘This is the last decision I will make in my career. I’ll end my wrestling career in NJPW’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
– Rusev posted to Twitter early this morning, reacting to the news that Tye Dillinger requested his release from WWE. He wrote:
God speed Ronnie….. @perfec10n ! I remember the days we used to go to war for stars. @WWEBigE always went 5 numbers below.
— Rusev (@RusevBUL) February 20, 2019
– Here are two more pre-sale codes for WWE’s Hall of Fame ceremony tickets on April 6 in Brooklyn: WWEYN and BKLYN.
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