“Scooby Doo” star Freddie Prinze Jr. bought a particular take a look at the ins and outs of working knowledgeable wrestling occasion as a WWE author. Prinze has even talked about opening a wrestling promotion prior to now. On a brand new episode of “Wrestling With Freddie,” Prinze mentioned that conversations with networks concerning the doable federation will not be going as swimmingly as he’d hoped.
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“I went out to…Warner [Bros] Discovery, which was the worst assembly out of all of them,” Prinze mentioned, noting that WBD executives wished a actuality present and nothing extra from Prinze. “I gave the identical pitch to everybody else. It was the one place that did not work.”
Prinze additionally took his pitch to “Darkish Facet of the Ring” proprietor Vice. Sadly, the media firm wasn’t in a spot to do something with their enthusiasm for the pitch.
“They have been going beneath some enterprise restructuring…they usually could not afford the present,” Prinze mentioned, lamenting that he could not capitalize on the “Darkish Facet of the Ring” viewers. “There have been a pair different locations the place the conferences went effectively however I really feel like I wasn’t pitching to individuals excessive sufficient on the totem pole to get the concept heard by the highest canine.”
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Prinze says an unnamed streamer requested his spouse, Sarah Michelle Gellar, about Prinze’s curiosity in wrestling, and she or he made the connection.
“The unique pitch was a documentary about attempting to tug this off,” Prinze mentioned, as he felt it was laborious to pitch a straight professional wrestling program, that means the professional wrestling present would find yourself being the two-hour finale of the documentary. “I sit and I discuss to this new firm they usually’re not within the documentary in any respect. They need knowledgeable wrestling promotion.”
‘It is nonetheless a protracted highway’
In keeping with Prinze, the financing course of was “unorthodox” however he remained open-minded within the identify of getting issues finished, solely to appreciate the method may not be possible within the present corporate-owned Hollywood system.
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“To create one thing new within the company world…is borderline inconceivable,” Prinze mentioned, bemoaning present advertising and marketing executives.
“You need to present all the pieces…So that’s the world we dwell in,” Prinze mentioned. “Current in that world, I come to the chilly realization that I can not begin it from scratch.”
This realization has led Prinze to an unnamed one who really helpful that Prinze not construct a wrestling promotion, however as a substitute use his cache and connections to assist an present unbiased promotion to get a tv deal, after which Prinze’s promotion would exist inside that promotion like ROH exists inside AEW.
“So I begin sitting down and serious about that and I begin trying on the rosters,” Prinze mentioned, “and I begin weighing the professionals and cons…My fundamental man, my proper hand favored the identical one I favored for all the identical causes.”
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Prinze was linked with the promotion by way of Zoom. Prinze had no want to alter their promotion and as a substitute began pitching the way to get the promotion’s present expertise over with mainstream audiences. The 2 parted methods and Prinze was texted by a wrestler on the behest of the promoter, and shortly the promotion was assembly with the streamer.
“It is nonetheless a protracted highway…I’m doing my damndest to make this work,” Prinze mentioned. “You need to be prepared when alternative comes.”
