It’s no secret that WWE has struck a massive global streaming deal with Netflix for “WWE Raw,” with “WWE SmackDown” now residing in the United States and “WWE NXT” on The CW in America, while that AEW has renewed its US pact with Warner Bros. Discovery. That being said, what can fans outside of the United States expect when it comes to watching the latest shows from not only WWE and AEW, but also TNA?
According to Dave Meltzer on “Wrestling Observer Radio“AEW and Canada’s SportsNet were in talks, but the deal fell through.” (SportsNet) would say they went with TNA, AEW would say they got a better deal to stay with TSN and USA Network, so — USA Network in Canada, not to be confused with USA Network in the United States, although they have a lot of similar programs – so that’s what happened there,” Meltzer explained.
“Right now, the only real one…there are a lot of small stations around the world that WWE is missing from, but the one big one is the deal with India, which is left,” Meltzer added, arguing that TNT Sports in the UK would actually be able to get TNA if they wanted. “But the India deal is the biggest one, actually, the India deal – from a financial standpoint that WWE has on Ten – that deal is the most lucrative TV deal in the world. world, other than an American agreement.” Meltzer then noted that WWE was indeed going to walk away from the aforementioned deal and that Ten would likely offer another massive deal to a competing promotion like AEW.
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