How Vince McMahon Will React To ROH Selling Out MSG

While getting to WWE is still the end goal for most professional wrestlers, New Japan and ROH’s modern success, along with that of events like All In and the G1 Supercard, has altered the rules.

Rarely, if ever, has it been this possible to earn a good living and make a name on the sport’s smaller stages. Cody & co. have legitimately changed the game. They are calculated, intelligent businessmen as well as talented performers, and their efforts have opened new doors not only for themselves, but anyone else in a similar situation.

Would The Young Bucks willingly cede control of their flexible schedule to spend 4-5 nights on the road with WWE every week?

Would Kenny Omega want to work in a restrictive in-ring environment that would, without question, rob his high-impact arsenal of his flashiest moves, hindering his ability to produce seven-star epics?

Would Cody, who’s still only 33 years old, even want to go back to a company that mishandled him so badly last time he was there?

These performers may eventually head to Stamford, but with so many possibilities existing that don't require handing complete control to Vince McMahon, it’s easy to say why they’d stick around instead.

A successful first Madison Square Garden show all but guarantees a second. Cody and The Bucks haven’t explicitly stated it, but there will be another All In. NJPW bit off a little more than they could chew with their recent G1 Special In San Francisco, but the company’s surge continues, and their US and UK expansions are going to plan.

This is an exciting time to be a wrestling fan, and if things continue along the current path, the wrestling world may soon be one that Vince McMahon no longer has complete control over.

He will react with aggression and spite, but if Omega, the Jackson brothers, and their cohorts aren’t willing to play ball, he, like everyone else, will be nought but a helpless observer when the zeitgeist-grabbing G1 Supercard goes live on 6 April 2019.