Since all of the participants in Sumie Sakai's retirement were announced I've had a few interactions where I've mentioned that Sakai is one of the people that New japan has hired to board young lions when they are on their overseas excursions. All of these interactions have got me thinking about the people who New Japan hires and has hired in the past for this purpose. I know about Sakai of course and I do know that when Douki was wrestling regularly in Mexico he had a house down there and was being hired by New Japan to board young lions on excursion in CMLL.
Does anyone else know who else New Japan has hired,in the past or is still hiring to do this for them? I have no idea who would be the individual they use for any young lion on excursion in Rev Pro or Europe for instance. With Leube and Nakashima on excursion over there I would imagine there's someone they're paying at the moment to board the two of them.
by Wizardknee
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Iirc Shota rented(idk if New Japan paid for it) a house while on excursion. He talked about how his flatmates were super noisey and parties even through the pandemic which lead to him having a pretty miserable time overall.
The most famous would be Tetsunosuke Daigo.
Leube is from Germany and that’s where Youngblood are currently based, I believe they’re living in an independent flat and not being directly boarded by anyone.
I would assume from things I’ve seen that Andy Quildan, owner of RevPro, is usually the main guy involved with coordinating the living situation for guys who go over there. Shigeo Okumura is probably the main guy for that with CMLL, but there might be others.
About young lions, are there new young lions joining? because there was one I’ve never seen at wrestle dinasty, specifically the young lion who guided kenny out of the ring area after his match
Besides what the others have said, I know Jay lived with Alex Shelley in Detroit while he was on excursion in RoH.