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#2 ROH/NJPW Present “G1 Supercard”

If you have been following wrestling news and rumors related to Ring of Honor over the past few months, you are most likely aware that ROH wanted to book an event at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.

For one reason or another, this booking did not come into fruition and fingers were pointed at WWE for keeping it from happening. However, several days ago it was announced that ROH is hosting a joint show at the Garden with New Japan Pro- Wrestling called the "G1 Supercard" during Wrestlemania Week on April 6, 2019.

As with the aforementioned All In, this booking is a bold step in taking popular niche wrestling talent and moving them into an arena. In the case of Ring Of Honor, its regular New York City venue is the Hammerstein Ballroom, which holds a little over 2,000 people when configured to do so.

MSG -- the home of the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers -- can also be scaled with an adjustable capacity but is known to hold over 20,000 attendees as needed. This is a big jump in terms of expected attendance, to say the least.

While ROH is owned by a major broadcasting company, but ROH and NJPW's weekly television shows are not carried on all American cable providers. In turn, the strength of these wrestling promotions likely comes from podcasts and other Internet-related outlets. If these 2 companies can band together and pack MSG, it is a sign that they can do the same in other major markets, showing that WWE is not the only arena-level promotion out there.