New Japan Pro Wrestling Changes It’s Stance on the Title Change from iMPACT

Posted by Marc Middleton on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

- New Japan Pro Wrestling is now officially recognizing TNA’s British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) as the 53rd generation IWGP Tag Team Champions. This is a change from last week when New Japan issued a statement saying they were not acknowledging the title change on iMPACT two weeks ago with The British Invasion defeating Team 3D to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions and that 3D were still the reigning champions.

While it isn’t known why the company changed their stance so quickly, the belief is that some outside pressure caused them to do so.

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2 Responses to New Japan Pro Wrestling Changes It’s Stance on the Title Change from iMPACT:

  1. Shawn

    Date: Aug 11, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    If the belts meant that much to IWGP they wouldn’t have let 3D have them in the first place.

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  2. Sipeli

    Date: Aug 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    Well not really, Team 3D for the most part are a completley valid team. Perhaps the most high profile tag team still active in the industry.
    Putting the belts on them was a great idea.

    I imagine it was TNA who wanted the title change even though they arent their belts.

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