8 Biggest Ever Wrestler-Management Disputes In History

8. Keiji Mutoh And Nobuo Shiraishi

Keiji Mutoh was each a vigorous scrapper and former president of All Japan professional Wrestling, the second biggest wrestling company in Japan. A amendment within the possession of the corporate forced him to go away.

Last year, Speed Partners purchased the corporate and new president Nubuo Shiraishi had huge plans for his new item, plans the long serving Mutoh didn’t just like the sound of.

The Wrestling Observer newsletter’s Dave Meltzer reported  that Mutoh left the corporate and in riposte needed to start out his own new wrestling promotion with all the opposite discontent members of the All Japan roll.

Shiraishi definitely created a sway when taking the new seat as he initiated a war of words with New Japan professional Wrestling’s boss Takaaki Kidani. Shiraishi claimed All Japan would become the quantity one wrestling promotion in Japan at intervals one year and would buy up their competition. He additionally knocked New Japan’s roll claiming their solely smart talent was Shinsuke Nakamura and Yuji Nagata.

Then, in another move harking back to WCW, Shiraishi became entangled in AN argument with the phoney Kenso. Nubuo had antecedently aforementioned he ought to have discharged Kenso for not being real quality and began shoving him ahead of fans. This was at a live event, not the place 2 workers ought to be scrapping. In another strange move Shiraishi defendant New Japan of fixing their matches and the way it absolutely was his job to disembarrass professional wrestling of such practices.

His volatility continuing as he discharged All Japan’s president Masayuku Uchida despite overtly admitting he was learning the business from him. Former President Mutoh was expected to require Uchida’s place however Nubuo finished up appointing himself as acting President.

This double cross was the ultimate straw and Mutoh left the corporate, vowing to start out his own wrestling promotion. He found money backers and Wrestle-1 was born.