While it was previously rumored that Juice Robinson‘s contract with New Japan Pro-Wrestling was set to end soon, it was unknown what would happen next.
According to Robinson himself, he’s all but done working with the company. During an appearance on Wrestling Observer Live, he stated that his contract is up on April 30, and he won’t be working for the promotion after that date.
“I don’t have any plans to travel back over,” said Robinson in a recent appearance on Wrestling Observer Live. “I am at the end of my contract. I did an extra three-month extension and that ends April 30, so that will be that. I will not be wrestling under the New Japan banner any longer. There you have it.”
When asked for what might not come next, Robinson said he had no idea, and also expanded on his experience wrestling in Japan as well as wrestling in America for the New Japan Pro-Wrestling STRONG brand.
“I really don’t know what’s next. I’m just gonna hang out and relax for a little while and see what comes to me,” said Robinson, before detailing his time in Japan. “I was there for nine months. I did like four of the quarantines, a lot happened. A lot of people, when we stopped going, it was just at kind of a boiling over point. And I did, and then they allowed us to go home. And then STRONG kind of took off. And then we were kind of needed, so it was kind of two things happened. We did ask to not be going any longer, but then we were needed domestically here for STRONG because you need Jay White and you need guys to fill up the show.”
As far as what his future holds, Robinson didn’t mince words when saying that he didn’t really have an opponent he was hoping to wrestle. Instead, Robinson said, he simply doesn’t have “the urge” to wrestle anymore.
“I don’t really have anybody that I want to wrestle,” said Robinson. “To be honest, there’s nothing there, really. I just don’t have the urge to wrestle really, anymore.”
Robinson is booked for NJPW Windy City Riot on April 16; he will team up with David Finlay and Brody King to face Jonah, Shane Haste, and Bad Dude Tito in a Street Fight. The former IWGP Tag Team Champion noted that this show is his last date with the company.
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