Warner Bros. Discovery Turns Down Another Pro Wrestling Promotion
WBD turn down Freddie Prinze Jr.
May 3, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery had an opportunity to put more professional wrestling on their network but they ultimately turned it down.
Freddie Prinze Jr. announced plans to launch his own promotion within 18 months back in 2022, citing WWE's mass releases in 2021 as a motivation for getting back into wrestling. At the time, Prinze noted he had a three-year plan to get the promotion up and running before he needed to return to acting.
Two years on, though, and Prinze has yet to launch his promotion. Speaking on his Wrestling with Freddie podcast, Prinze noted he reached out to Warner Bros. Discovery about a TV deal but he was rejected.
"It was Warner Discovery. They were the first people that I went to... It's such a roller coaster going up and down, but it's never fast when you want it to be fast and it's never slow when you want it to be slow. So yeah, so it was Warner Discovery that, and I'm not saying that to hate on them or anything like that," Prinze stated.
While he didn't land a deal with WBD, Prinze is confident about securing a TV deal with another network in the United States.
"There's two places where I think one is a definite yes and it's coming because they've made multiple calls asking all kinds of questions from creative to financial. When they start talking money, that's when it's getting serious. And the other place is like a dark horse, kind of a, not a long shot, like a weird choice, but it could be really cool. And if they say, I just want to yes, so whichever one says yes, I wanna put wrestling on TV and put more wrestlers on TV because that experience does nothing but help everybody, including the fans. So yeah, so that's where we stand with that," Prinze added.
Primarily known for his roles in 'Scooby-Doo' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer', Prinze was also a member of WWE creative across two stints between 2008 and 2012.
Warner Bros. Discovery already have pro wrestling on TBS and TNT through their deal with All Elite Wrestling.
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