This is a great time to be a wrestling fan as there are so many options out there and more are coming.
The latest planning to venture into creating a new promotion is Freddie Prinze Jr., and he has an 18 month plan and enough funding for three years before he has to “be in Scooby part seven or some crap” to maintain the new company.
He made the announcement on a recent Wrestling with Freddie podcast and he went into greater detail on what he plans and how he studied from past and current promoters.
Putting things in motion
“I started watching other shows, older shows, old Ring of Honor. I started listening to Jim Cornette and his philosophies on wrestling. I started listening to other promoters and people in the business and their philosophies on wrestling. I started watching what other wrestlers were trying to do. I started asking everyone I knew in the business questions. Then I started looking at arenas, locally here and what it will cost to rent them.
“Then as I saw what my opportunities would be in this business [movies], as there would be more of them after I did the Netflix one. I started saying, ‘Well, I can accelerate the plan. Or I could keep the plan as it is, do a couple more of these and own the space. Which I believe right now is the plan that I’m going to execute. I already have a commercial realtor that I know and love. She’s already looking at properties for me. I would love to have a full-time home for this. The plan was originally a two-year plan.
“Now, I should have the money for a three-year plan meaning it doesn’t have to make money for three years before I’m like, ‘Yo man, I gotta go do another damn movie.’ I have to be in Scooby part seven or some crap like that to keep this floating.”
Doing research
“So, I started looking for properties. Then, social media did what social media does, which is like a feeding frenzy, right. It’s like bait in the water,” he continued. “There’s a lot of wrestling Instagram pages and websites out there that do dirt sheets and wrestling news and things like that. They need content, so they picked up on this and put it out.
“All of a sudden, all these indie wrestlers, indie refs, and indie musicians who have done wrestling stuff, all started reaching out. Before I get into this, let me say something. Whether you were being real with me, or whether you were trying to troll and crap on me, thank you.
“Some of you wrote some stuff that was like — you took the time to not only say, ‘Hey, man, I would love to come and be a part. But here’s some wrestlers that I respect and I think you would, too, and for you to take the time to do that — and it’s not just one cat that did that, that’s the most beautiful part of the wrestling community to me. I love that. That’s what acting used to be.”
Had added that he has more plans such being a two hour live show with an eventual TV deal, but he also wants it to be a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) union show so the wrestlers would be entitled to insurance, medical benefits, and retirement plans.
He also admitted he’ll need a booker because he “can’t book to save my life.”
“I want it to be a SAG show and what that means is I want it to be a union show, which would mean each and every single one of my wrestlers would be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and be entitled to all the insurance and medical benefits and retirement plans that that entails.”
“But if I had a local show in Los Angeles, an office that I could go to every day, and I would have a booker because I cannot book to save my life. I can really write, I can connect with people, and I can pull good performances out of people when their bosses didn’t think that performance was within them before. I know I can do that because I’ve seen it happen. I know what my strengths are, and I damn well know what I suck at. I was told what I suck at enough.
“So yeah, so that’s that’s the plan. I hope you guys support it. I hope you dig it. If you don’t, you can be just as vocal because like I said that stuff motivates me too.”
This has all kinds of possibilities and we’re curious to see how it works out for him. We wish him the best and can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
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