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I phrased that to make the dude sound altruistic, but I think it will be done with selfish reasons, mainly. Like, Brock helps professional wrestling by protecting his star in the WWE and walking over jabronis who don't matter, even though with one stumble off a right hand he could make them look bad-ass. It counts when he does it.
I think Brock is a shark. He's got to be the predator. He's competitive. In Japan he'll easily make millions, then there are sponsorships, there will be media coverage in Japan and probably even small stuff over here too. "What's this New Japan thing." I also think he wants to make sure Heyman is set too, which might mean keeping with WWE, but if Heyman is getting an itch to do more, and the WWE is not the place for it (and Heyman has even said it), then carving out a new niche benefts him and helps fertilize a business he may not have the same sort of passion for as, say, a Bryan Danielson or Jim Cornette, but understands about as well as anybody working. He knows that wrestling needs a shot if he's going to be making money off it in five years time when he's too old to fight.
Like, I don't think he'll say "I love wrestling, so I'm going to help it," I think it will be more of a "I'm really fucking good at wrestling, and I can make it a lot more lucrative long-term for Paul and myself if I further establish this promotion as legit.
Brock has friends in Japan, and he went there in the first place. I really don't think it's far-fetched to imagine him saying "Fuck it, I'm going to go back there and really give people something to talk about, make a smaller out of money, but a larger slice proportionately, and not get bored suplexing the same scrubs at house shows." Besides, it's kind of my running gag to predict it.
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