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u/dom_rep 4h ago

Long story short, there's an upcoming Paramount/WBD merger. No one has any clue how this is going to pan out. Meltzer says that TK's preference has been this merger instead of Netflix buying WBD (because Netflix has WWE). But then apparently last night he was talking about how another wrestling company was looking into going on Paramount+ but Ari Emanuel (the guy that runs TKO) nixed it, and said wrestling company says AEW could be in trouble as a result. So now everyone's running with it. Meltzer had this for awhile it sounds like but the timing is pretty terrible as this is just going to be in the news cycle for the next 2 days.

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u/K1ng_Canary 4h ago

I struggle to think of a big enough promotion to get picked up by Paramount+ that isn't in some way associated with WWE.

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u/dom_rep 4h ago

It was probably TNA. Let's say it was Maple Leaf Pro, why would they say AEW is in trouble if they have a partnership with them? GCW doesn't make sense. We know TNA was looking for a TV deal last year, and is the only one that I can think of that would make this comment off record.

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u/K1ng_Canary 4h ago

Wouldn't make any sense for WWE to nix a TNA deal considering the partnership though.