All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling further strengthened their working relationship in 2021 as stars like KENTA, Satoshi Kojima, Rocky Romero, Minoru Suzuki and Yuji Nagata all competed on AEW programming at some point during the year. One of New Japan’s titles even changed hands on an episode of Dynamite over the summer when Lance Archer beat Jon Moxley in a Texas Death Match for the IWGP United States Championship. With KENTA still teasing a match with CM Punk, The Best Friends getting inducted into the Chaos faction (which gave fans more hope of Kazuchika Okada finally arriving to challenge Kenny Omega again) and COVID-19 restrictions on international travel presumably lightening up in 2022, many fans are curious about future potential crossover between the two companies. AEW president Tony Khan addressed that during a media conference call on Thursday.
