You may recall that a couple of weeks ago Simon Inoki of New Japan said that he has talked to John Laurinitis about renting wrestlers to the WWE. You may also recall that New Japan star Minoru appeared on the recent TNA PPV. I don't know how much truth there is to what Inoki said but it appears that Minoru had a WWE tryout while in the US
According to the Multiple Romantic blog in Japan, Minoru was scheduled to go to the CMLL in Mexico after working for TNA in Orlando. It seems that Minoru is old pals with Funaki. Funaki invited him to a WWE tryout. So he cancelled his trip to Mexico and went to San Diego and had a tryout before the Smackdown tapings. Ricky Steamboat, Dean Malenko & John Laurinitis were all very impressed with him and Laurinitis told him to come to the WWE if there is no problem with his New Japan contract. Minoru declined the offer. Funaki asked him why and Minoru said that for now his goal is to win the X Division Title in TNA. This was reported in Weekly Fight magazine. So though we don't know if the WWE are interested in renting New Japan wrestlers this certainly indicates the WWE is interested in signing New Japan wrestlers.
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