It was announced earlier this year that there will be a massive joint show hosted by Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling next year during the weekend of WrestleMania in 2019. The show, called the G1 Supercard, will be hosted in the famous Madison Square Garden arena as well. The show will be the arena’s first wrestling event not to be hosted by a member of the McMahon family in decades. When the show was being planned earlier this year, ROH COO Joe Koff confirmed that WWE officials were able to contact MSG officials and have them cancel plans for the event. However, WWE eventually relented and allowed ROH & NJPW to come to Madison Square Garden for the first time in either promotion’s existence.
Although some reports have claimed that Vince McMahon himself would be meeting with MSG officials to talk about nixing the G1 Supercard show, a new report from PWInsider says that there are no truth to those rumors at all. It was also noted that McMahon has not contacted anybody on the matter and has not even been involved in the whole ordeal in the first place. The ambitious show from ROH & NJPW sold out in just a matter of minutes, and it appears now that fans who will be attending the show no longer have to worry about the event being cancelled via orders from WWE. The G1 Supercard is set to take place in MSG in New York City on April 6th, which is just one night before WrestleMania 35.
WWE landed huge new television contracts earlier this year that will see Monday Night Raw continue to air on USA Network while SmackDown moves over to Fox in October of 2019. Both television contracts are said to be worth millions and are some of the most lucrative deals that the company has ever landed. With these new TV deals now in place, WWE is reportedly in the process of locking down their talent and making sure that they stay right where they are. PWInsider says that WWE officials have been approaching their roster members and wrestlers outside of the company and offering them deals to remain in WWE long-term. This could mean that the typical amount of departures from the main roster each year will drastically be going down now.