WRESTLE LAND

WRESTLE LAND also known as Professional Wrestling Happy Land was the developmental branch of professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), which holded events between May 2006 and 2007. The brand was launched in March 2006 that also featured wrestlers form other promotions. The goal of that concepts was to reach out to a broader audience that reached fans who are unfamiliar with the actual New Japan. WRESTLE LAND was a colorful with entertaining storylines and oriented projects, which is particularly interesting for people of other ages. When New Japan decided to create several "Brands", Tiger Mask was appointed as an 'ace' of Wrestle Land alongside Hiroshi Tanahashi but ended up wrestling 2 matches under the WRESTLE LAND Brand to saying his goodbye to the branch. There were quickly replaced by Milano Collection AT and Manabu Nakanishi as the top ace of the branch. After the project closed NJPW created several projects with same theme that inclued NEVER and Lion's Gate Project which saw the debut of several young lions.