{"id":102517,"date":"2021-12-10T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=102517"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:02:40","slug":"fred-rosser-on-signing-with-njpw-strong-wwe-exploring-a-working-relationship-with-njpw-declining-to-remove-his-njpw-jacket-during-the-filming-of-a-wwe-documentary-coming-out-to-his-family-and-the-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2021\/12\/10\/fred-rosser-on-signing-with-njpw-strong-wwe-exploring-a-working-relationship-with-njpw-declining-to-remove-his-njpw-jacket-during-the-filming-of-a-wwe-documentary-coming-out-to-his-family-and-the-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Rosser on signing with NJPW Strong, WWE exploring a working relationship with NJPW, declining to remove his NJPW jacket during the filming of a WWE documentary, coming out to his family and the world, the support he received from fellow WWE wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2801277000\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Insight With Chris Van Vliet with guest Fred Rosser<br \/>\nHost: Chris Van Vliet<br \/>\nPodcast available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/insight-with-chris-van-vliet\/id1468939064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcasts.Apple.com<\/a><br \/>\nVideo available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7T_P5l2Ow98&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Chris Van Vliet&#8217;s YouTube Page<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7T_P5l2Ow98\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>WWE asked him to remove his New Japan branded jacket while filming a WWE documentary:<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The last time I wore this jacket was this past May with WWE. I was doing a Nexus uncut\/uncensored documentary, they invited me and I said sure no problem. I came in with my New Japan jacket on, and before we started the producer said \u2018Do you mind if you take off the New Japan jacket?\u2019 So I\u2019m like \u2018So you are asking me to take it off? I hope not!\u2019 I knew they were going to say it, so I said \u2018Look I worked hard to get this jacket, and you guys have just inducted Jushin Liger into the Hall of Fame. This is supposed to be uncut and uncensored.\u2019 Not only did I say that, I said \u2018I just talked to John Laurinaitis, because he reached out to me about maybe doing a collaboration between New Japan and WWE. So let me just be me, this is supposed to be an uncut\/uncensored Nexus documentary. Let me just be proud of this jacket. Then the producer said \u2018No problem, you sold me on it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On WWE reaching out for a possible partnership with New Japan:<\/b> &#8220;At the time, when John Laurinaitis took over talent relations, he reached out to old talent that he had hired, just seeing how things were. I said, \u2018Hey John, everything is going great. I\u2019m with New Japan and doing my thing.\u2019 And he goes [impersonates John Laurinaitis] \u2018Yeah, you know, I did a run in All Japan.\u2019 I told him that I watched his stuff and then he said about a possible partnership with New Japan and WWE. I said that\u2019s great and that was that. Who knows what that relationship could have been, but that\u2019s what he had told me. But never say never, bucket list for me is Daniel Bryan. We did original NXT and we trained together, but come to New Japan Strong. It\u2019s a new show with New Japan and work me, put us on the map. That\u2019s my challenge to Daniel Bryan. That forbidden door is so wide open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On signing with NJPW Strong:<\/b> &#8220;Before our last interview, I wasn\u2019t doing much. I kept speaking into existence my goals and aspirations of working New Japan. I think it was probably September 2019 at a show in California where I ran into Lance Hoyt, who was still with New Japan at the time. He asked me how I was doing and I\u2019m like I\u2019m just keeping it moving and I\u2019ve always had dreams and aspirations of New Japan. If we were at my place, I would show you the flyer he gave me about the New Japan show at The Globe Theater in November 2019, right before the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On the New Japan style:<\/b> &#8220;So I went to the New Japan show. It started at 7pm, I got there at 5pm, because I wanted to be able to feel the ring, meet the wrestlers and meet Rocky Romero, who is like my heart and soul. If it wasn\u2019t for him, I wouldn\u2019t be with New Japan Strong. So I sat there at the New Japan show, always intimidated in the style since I was a kid, it\u2019s physical. So I watch the show in November 2019 from beginning to end, and the one question running through my head was do I fit in? After watching the show at the Globe Theater, I said to myself that I can hang with these guys and I can go and elevate these guys. At this stage in my career, it\u2019s about elevating guys and I can get my shit in. After the show, I talked to Rocky Romero and I said \u2018What do I have to do? Do I have to try out at the Dojo? Whatever it takes I will do it.\u2019 That\u2019s what my mindset was when I got signed in WWE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On coming out to his immediate family:<\/b> &#8220;I came out to them two years before I came out publicly to the world. I came out to my immediate family, but I was nervous about my grandfather and what he would think. I said to my mom, because he saw it on the news \u2018Mom, what did pop say about it?\u2019 He said \u2018I don\u2019t give a damn if he\u2019s green, yellow, brown, blue, that\u2019s my grandson and I love him.\u2019 We don\u2019t talk about it but anytime that I am home, he\u2019ll be like \u2018Come on, sonny. Let\u2019s hit the town and find some chicks!\u2019 I\u2019m like \u2018[sighs] Alright pop, let\u2019s go.\u2019 He knows, but he\u2019s just joking like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On coming out publicly during an interview with TMZ in 2013:<\/b> &#8220;I tell people all the time that you need that support system, the sky\u2019s the limit. There are many reasons why I wanted to come out publicly. I wanted to bring my boyfriend with me to red carpets at the time, which I did. Also I wanted to bring him backstage to the masculine world of professional wrestling, and I was able to do that. I hear the wrestlers talk about their relationship problems and I can be sassy. I can be like, \u2018Mmm, honey thank goodness I am gay.\u2019 I can just be me, before I wouldn\u2019t be able to do that, I\u2019d be very tough. But now I can just be me, and that is very important to me. When you come out as an athlete you have a duty to instill confidence into our youth and to lead by example. So that\u2019s why I am always representing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>The support he received from the WWE roster after he came out:<\/b> &#8220;They didn\u2019t know, so I had to come out again. I remember that I had to do a Be A Star the next day. I told Stephanie McMahon that I can\u2019t do it, I can\u2019t be in front of a crowd because of that guilt feeling and that fear of the unknown. The next day when the news dropped, I remember Mark Henry being the first guy to text me. 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