By Robert Ramos
Staff Writer
In professional wrestling, it is rare that a big promotion will partner with another promotion and allow for contracted superstars to appear on each other’s weekly shows. Up and coming promotion All Elite Wrestling has seemingly broken this long standing rule by partnering with Japanese promotion, New Japan Pro Wrestling. Currently contracted AEW star Jon Moxley also competed for NJPW. In fact, before the pandemic, he had won their IWGP United States Championship. Then the pandemic hit, preventing him from traveling to Japan. While he couldn’t make it to Japan due to travel restrictions, NJPW star Kenta won the right to challenge Moxley for his championship. For a year he has called out Moxley for not being able to defend his championship, begging him to show up. On the February 3rd edition of AEW: Dynamite, the weekly show of AEW, Kenta shockingly showed up to attack Moxley after a grueling main event match. The reason it was so shocking is because AEW and NJPW had issues before. NJPW had no idea how big AEW would be, so early last year they declined a working relationship. Now, a year later, that forbidden door has been smashed down as now Kenta will be wrestling for AEW next week, with Tony Khan confirming the relationship with the promotion overseas. The landscape of professional wrestling has completely changed for the better.