Proper now could be a time of nice change throughout the skilled wrestling business, with each WWE and AEW getting into new TV rights offers. Talking on “Wrestling With Freddie,” Freddie Prinze Jr. shared his perspective of the TV panorama in wrestling, together with his tackle the prospects of some smaller promotions.
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“The massive canines are all going to have their new properties,” Prinze mentioned. “I feel there’s room for a number of the smaller ones to return up. Not simply TNA, however … the MLWs and the GCWs — I feel there’s room for them to discover a spot [on] TV, and I do know there [are] networks considering their product.”
GCW is an impartial promotion that is been in existence since 2015, and relies within the northeastern United States, although they’ve begun holding reveals in varied locations throughout the globe as they proceed to develop.
As for MLW, the corporate has existed in varied types for greater than 20 years. A number of years in the past, MLW was truly in talks with Fox to air a present on the community till interference from WWE shut the thought down. This led to a lawsuit filed by MLW in opposition to WWE, which resulted in an out-of-court settlement.
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Prinze acknowledged that issues really feel chaotic in the meanwhile, with so many reveals leaping networks and shifting codecs. The actor and former WWE director believes that is simply short-term, nonetheless, as the businesses settle into these new agreements.
Whereas there have not been any updates in a number of months, Prinze had lengthy been growing a wrestling TV sequence of his personal, protecting followers knowledgeable in regards to the standing of the undertaking via his podcast. This previous July, Prinze said that he was making an attempt to pitch to 1 final community in 2024 earlier than taking a break from growing the promotion if that did not work out.
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