Sonny Onoo Says He Pitched Eric Bischoff to BushiRoad For a Kickboxing Project

– Sonny Onoo recently appeared on Eric Bischoff’s podcast (via wrestlezone.com), and spoke about his recent trip to Japan, where he met with BushiRoad (The owners of NJPW). Here are the highlights…

New Japan is now owned by BushiRoad. I went to their office about a month ago. This guy by the name of Hanazawa is in charge of New Japan’s version of kickboxing called KNOCK OUT. During that conversation with their executives one of the things I did I told the story of the first time I went to a Japanese wrestling office with Eric Bischoff. I said, “One of the reasons we came there was to share our idea about having a kickboxing deal with them.” Here I am twenty years later talking to New Japan who just launched a kickboxing program on their TV shows. You talk about being ahead of our time. It’s the same company that owned [Pride] it but they promote it separately. It’s called KNOCK OUT. It’s funny, Eric, because when I told them this story I said, “If you ever want to bring the product to the United States you might want to see if you can reach out to Eric Bischoff. He’d be a great guy to do commentary on that show with since we have such history.” Who knows?