News On New Japan World Subscribers And Wrestle Kingdom 9, NJPW Talking To Announcers

- Before this week's Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view event that was promoted by Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling, New Japan World had 1,000 subscribers from the United States. New Japan World is NJPW's new version of the WWE Network. In Japan, they had around 10,000 subscribers before WK9 and hoped for 40,000 after.

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New Japan is working at having English language broadcasts on World and at least one announcer is having talks with them. The company has wanted to attract more fans outside of Japan for some time now.

Due to the launch of New Japan World, the country has been working hard to get their content removed from the internet.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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