PWTorch.com - NEWSWIRE: WWNLive announces long-term China plan, Ross talks importance of Tokyo Dome, New Japan's subscription goals, latest World Tag League standings, more

Other News
NEWSWIRE: WWNLive announces long-term China plan, Ross talks importance of Tokyo Dome, New Japan's subscription goals, latest World Tag League standings, more

Dec 3, 2014 - 5:26:40 PM

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO BOOKMARK US & VISIT US DAILY

By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

-- WWNLIVE LONG-TERM IN CHINA: WWNLive announced Wednesday a long-term deal with Great-Wall International Sports Management to bring DGUSA/Evolve wrestling to Asia on a regular basis. The next tour is scheduled for Spring 2015. After launching an international touring schedule last month in China, WWNLive and Great-Wall are planning to tour China again, plus Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. WWNLive says "over 16,000" people watched the November 16 show in Beijing that ended the first tour.

-- ROSS TALKS TOKYO DOME: The latest edition of Global Force Wrestling's YouTube series includes portions of an interview with Jim Ross discussing the importance of the Tokyo Dome, where New Japan's "Wrestle Kingdom" event will take place January 4 and air on U.S. PPV via Global Force. Ross also talked about his preparation calling the Tokyo Dome Show in his latest blog at http://youtu.be/dQzMsWSjxFE ]

-- NEW JAPAN WORLD UPDATES: At Monday's press conference, New Japan announced that the 2015 G1 Climax will be included on their new subscription service. Also, more streaming options will be released down the road and New Japan is considering English language subtitles/commentary down the road. The stated goal at launch was 100,000 subscribers, but they believe they can achieve 300-400k worldwide. [ Thanks to Matt Prentice ]

-- NJPW TAG LEAGUE UPDATE: New Japan is nearing the conclusion of the World Tag League tournament. At present, the A Block is being led by IWGP World tag champs Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows with 10 points and the B Block is being led by Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii and Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith, Jr. with 8 points each. [ LINK: Latest Results & Standings HERE via PuroresuSpirit.com ]