Re: Jeff Jarrett's Promotion - Global Force Wrestling
I don't get what is so confusing about GFW. They haven't had a TV deal up until now, and GFW isn't going to do anything UNTIL THEY GET A TV DEAL. You're not going to have a roster a champion any shows or anything else anyone has been complaining about until you get a TV deal. This is not 1992 anymore, the main source of any nationally minded wrestling company is a proper TV deal. If GFW wanted to be an indie, it would've put out shows a year ago but they want to be a cable TV wrestling league. And you can't do that until the TV comes. Clearly they wanted a TV deal earlier and it looks like they thought they had it last year but it didn't happen. Guess what, it's not easy to get a TV deal. WWE signed a new deal for a fraction of what other live sports programming was getting, TNA was cancelled, Billy Corgan's wrestling reality show was signed then cancelled before it ever made it to air, WWE Main Event was cancelled, and NXT, everyone's favorite wrestling show could also not get a TV deal. Here's the breaking news folks, it's really fucking hard to get a TV deal for any kind of wrestling show in 2015!
You want to talk about Paragon? Like someone said, they are paying for that slot. They are not getting $175 million a year like Raw, or even $5 million like TNA. They will bleed money. New Japan? They are likely getting pennies from AXS, because New Japan is as dependent on a US TV deal for money as the WWE is dependent on a TV deal in Romania. GFW could have signed a deal like other companies, but GFW would likely have built up millions of debt in the process and been out of business in a year just like TNA did the first time. Isn't that what everyone says that they shouldn't be like TNA and make those mistakes? So GFW is doing exactly that and you people are still complaining?
Another business lesson for some of you, a movie, TV show, computer company, or basically any kind of business does not announce everything they just signed seconds after they sign a contract. You announce things when you want because you are marketing your business. Just because they didn't announce a TV deal with a network does not mean they don't have one. They announced the Las Vegas shows are "TV events", so it's going to be on TV, it has to be or it's false advertising. Which channel we'll have to BE PATIENT to find out.