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RING OF HONOR and New Japan are set to make history on April 6, 2019, when, for the first time since the Capitol Wrestling Corporation began running shows in Madison Square Garden in 1952, a professional wrestling event will take place in the world’s most famous arena without the McMahon family being associated with it. Making this even more remarkable, the joint Ring of Honor-New Japan extravaganza—dubbed “G1 Supercard”—is scheduled for the same night as NXT: TakeOver: Brooklyn on WrestleMania 35 weekend, taking place only five miles away at Barclays Center.
It was once unimaginable that Jay Lethal, Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, or The Young Bucks would headline Madison Square Garden for a company other than WWE. Other potential main-eventers include Kazuchika Okada, Tetsuya Naito, Dalton Castle, Nick Aldis, and, if he doesn’t resign with WWE, Daniel Bryan.
The box-office success of Cody and the Bucks with All In, which sold out a 10,000-seat Chicago venue in less than a half-hour, inspired ROH COO Joe Koff to believe the impossible. “We were very aggressive in wanting that date and we thought we had that date, but we did what we had to do as a business,” Koff told . “[MSG]
