NJPW Officially Acknowledges AEW Title Stipulation

Yesterday, Chris Jericho responded to a challenge from Hiroshi Tanahashi and said that if Tanahashi can beat him at their Wrestle Kingdom 14 match on January 5, Tanahashi will get a future shot at the AEW World Championship.

Then, in a sign of a possible thawing in the relationship between AEW and NJPW, NJPW’s official Twitter account acknowledged the AEW title stipulation – the first time the account has ever mentioned AEW:

BREAKING:

In a message released by Chris Jericho, The Painmaker has stated that if Hiroshi Tanahashi can beat him at Wrestle Kingdom January 5, he will be granted an opportunity at the AEW Championship.

WATCH: https://t.co/9MfpZDtGAp#njpw #njwk14 pic.twitter.com/zVW8zPZHWc

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) December 29, 2019

Last month, The Young Bucks’ Nick Jackson said that a partnership with NJPW has “zero chance” of happening. “It’s really not happening. Been asked this thousands of times and telling the truth is always best. Don’t want fans holding onto something that has zero chance of happening,” he tweeted.

This could be a sign that the “forbidden door,” as Tanahashi put it in his original challenge, is possibly ajar.