NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd recently spoke with the company on a number of topics including confronting NJPW President during the G1 Climax 34 backstage press event and calling him out.
Kidd said, โHey Tanahashi, hey, come here.โ โYou walking past me? Letโs get it for the cameras. Stand here. Shut the f**k up and listen to me, look at me. You look at me in the eyes, I want you to see the hate in my eyes, you pay attention. I donโt know what you and these other little office busy bodies think that youโre doing, but you really want Shota to be that guy, donโt you? You really want Tsuji to be that guy. You really want Naruta, all these boys, musketeers. They ainโt got s**t on me.โ
โDo I lie when I talk, do I talk lies? No I donโt, I say what Iโm going to do and I do it. Iโm the man up in here, none of them little b***hes. Itโs me. Let me get this very clear. In 2008, New Japan was rock bottom, you remember? You saved this company, you saved this company. That was 2008, this is 2024 and I am actively saving this company every day so if you donโt start paying me the respect I f***ing deserve โ putting those boys here and me there, no, Iโm better than every single one of them. You donโt put the respect on my name that I deserve, Iโm going to take everything from you. Everything.โ
You can check out Kidd’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
