Actor and former WWE writer Freddie Prinze, Jr., caught some buzz when he announced he was starting a wrestling promotion recently. The buzz wore off and his progress went silent. But he hasn’t given up on the dream.
In an ironic twist, the thing holding up his aspirations isn’t a TV deal. Which can be as hard as catching Bigfoot on video in sports entertainment. Rather, Prinze wants to buy into an existing company instead of starting one from scratch.
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This strategy, while noble, presents a new problem: finding the right company to strike a deal with him. On an edition of his podcast, “Wrestling with Freddie,” Prinze stated he was in negotiations with an unnamed organization, but things fell through.
“The company I was trying to work with, not the distributor, but the wrestling company I wanted to work with, we just couldn’t come up with a deal. So, I’m literally a dude with a TV deal without a promotion,” he explained (h/t WrestlingINC).
“The only promotion I want to buy is probably a little bit too big, I don’t know if it is. I would basically have to buy an existing company and bring them to the table and then produce the show there under the rules of whatever those rules would be,” he continued.
Freddie Prinze suggests his promotion would not be active 52 weeks a year
Prinze added it might take a reduced schedule of annual show dates to recoup his investment, however big it is. “It may not be a 52-week-a-year promotion, it may be a 32-week-a-year promotion, it may be a 22-week-a-year promotion,” he said.
Last month, on the same podcast, Prinze acknowledged he has “everything backward” and that his current dilemma has been the status quo for a while. “I’m a man with a TV deal who doesn’t have a promotion,” he said. “How does this happen? How do I do everything backward?”
Prinze continued, “I’m gonna have to meet with new people once again. I’m gonna have to pitch myself to these promotions once again and earn their trust once again, but hopefully, I’ll be able to do it.”
Time will tell, but as long as there is enough room in the wrestling landscape for Billy Corgan, Tony Khan, and LA Lakers owner/WOW co-founder Jeanie Buss to promote wrestling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., has a window of opportunity.
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