Rocky Romero compares the Forbidden Door to Monopoly.
For over two years now, the Forbidden Door between AEW and NJPW has been very active, allowing wrestlers to crossover and wrestle for the other promotion. If you've ever wondered about the process of how everything works and how the promotions determine who can lose where, Rocky Romero has the answer you're looking for.
"I worked very closely with Tony on this end and I worked very close with the booking committee in Japan and Tanahashi and everybody involved with that and obviously they everybody knows who's important on their side and it kind of always starts there and then we can kind of trickle down to see like where everybody fits. It's like a big puzzle, you know, putting it all together and trying to make everybody happy and there's side deals that go along. It's a lot like playing Monopoly. It's like side deals going on, like, ‘Okay, well, if we give you this here, can we get this there.’"
Romero went on to say that the partnership has been a very successful compromise from both sides.
"I think it's been a very successful compromise on both sides since the relationship started. I know like there's people who probably don't fully understand the scope of it, but have are quick to you know make their opinion known of who's getting more and who's not and I always say like this is a relationship that's not here for six months, we're doing one show and that's it. This is going to be a relationship that is going to be built for and worked on for a very long time. So I always tell people have patience and I think that that's the one thing in professional wrestling that most fans and most people don't have is patience to see how it's all gonna play out."
Elsewhere in the interview, Romero talked about the complexity of NJPW stars leaving for AEW. Check out his full comments on the matter by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful's full interview with Romero in the video linked at the top of this article.
