Fujinami leaving!?

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Tatsumi Fujinami, an executive board member, has been teasing his departure. Fujinami had a meeting with Yukinori Taniguchi, the president of Yukes which owns New Japan, for 3 hours. Fujinami said that he told Taniguchi everything he wanted to say while Taniguchi said that they were able to talk to each other positively. Let's see what happens...

It was reported that Fujinami disagrees with the office for bringing Choshu back as the head booker despite the fact that Choshu left the company twice in the past (and heavily criticising then-ower Antonio Inoki when he left for the second time).

Fujinami is the only active wrestler who never left New Japan since its foundation in '72.

Recently, the guys like Kengo Kimura and Hidekazu Tanaka who had been loyal to the company left New Japan.

Fujinami is a true legend in the sport and symbolic figure for New Japan. To me, New Japan losing him sounds as bad as WCW losing Flair or Sting.

[raggin kilbasa]

strong style spirit reported yesterday that fujinami is staying an denid that he even said about leaving. he also said he is thinking about returning to the ring sometime.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

I don't read English puroresu news sites, but it sounds strange. Fujinami had the meeting with Taniguchi on May 1st (yesterday). He said that he would let the company make the decision.

Fujinami is also known for flip-flops (changing his decisions frequently).

Anyway, I hope he will stay.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

He gave the notice to the office after all, but execs are trying to keep him.

Again, Fujinami was the only active wrestler who never left New Japan.

[Luds]

I feel a bit sad about this. NJ seems a bit lost at the moment.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

I hate to be a Hurricane, but if you haven't heard....

Fujinami left.

And he will be starting his own federation called MUGA.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

I don't think the actual promotion name is finalized, at least in public.

The August card Osamu Nishimura and Hidekazu "Kero" Tanaka are promoting will be called "New Muga Legend Epilogue - Black Cat Memorial". Hiro Saito, Yutaka Yoshie, and Tsuyoshi Takemura will join them.

It will most like be "Muga" after all since it is the name of the project Fujinami started years ago with Nishimura.

However, Fujinami's company Seahorse Corporation has applied for trademarking "World Pro Wrestling", which is the name of New Japan's weekly TV show on TV Asahi since its beginning. If the application is processed and accepted, he might use that name as well.