Rocky Romero Speaks On ‘Stressful Situation’ With Karl Anderson Being In WWE And NJPW

This year has been crazy.

Rocky Romero is a catalyst for conversation between AEW and NJPW, but what about NJPW and WWE? Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows have recently left NJPW and went back to WWE while Karl Anderson is still the NJOW NEVER Openweight Champion. Karl still defends the title while in WWE and will be competing against Tama Tonga at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4th. Recently, Rocky Romero spoke on The Sessions with Renee Paquette, where he revealed some stressful details about Karl being in WWE and NJPW at the same time.

It’s been a very stressful situation for me. Obviously, when the guys started talking about WWE had reached out to them, I of course started to get nervous because I knew that we had a bunch of dates set and everything and obviously, like you [Renee Paquette] said, Anderson was the NEVER Openweight Champion. I got worried and I said, ‘You know, you guys just don’t screw me over please.’ I was part of the reason that you guys came back and helped to, you know? Obviously, they left on good terms and everything, but just to bring them back was definitely a part of that. So we started talking about that but then finally [Anderson] was like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna sign and somebody’s gonna have to talk to WWE.’ So of course that means me having to talk to WWE. But I got on the line and obviously, there was some confusion on the dates that they were gonna actually do and there was that November 5 show that Anderson had already been announced for for New Japan but then it was also the same time that the Saudi Arabia show was going on. Obviously there was gonna be conflict right there, so that’s kind of how it started. It started off real rocky and they went and did Saudi, we figured it out, got a new date, and then just decided to turn it into a big angle because I thought that was probably the best way to deal with it. Hoping that everything was gonna work out but not really sure. Finally, [Anderson] went and did this last show a couple days ago and successfully defended the title. So now he’ll be at the Tokyo Dome to face Tama Tonga, which is really exciting. Dude, this Tokyo Dome is gonna be insane. We have a WWE wrestler in Karl Anderson, we have Kenny Omega who’s an AEW wrestler, we’ve got Stardom wrestlers on the show, we’ve got New Japan wrestlers.

– Rocky Romero via The Sessions

Karl Anderson still remains active on Monday Night RAW weekly while making NJPW dates.

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