It looks like the new Real American Freestyle Wrestling promotion is already closing in on a significant streaming deal.
Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan and “the third man” Israel “Izzy” Martinez appeared as guests on The Ariel Helwani Show on Monday afternoon and shed some light on ongoing negotiations they have with two different platforms.
“Well, there’s two answers,” Bischoff told the MMA journalist. “In the short term, as a matter of fact as soon as we’re done with this, I have a call with a major platform that everybody would know about and recognize. We may end up there, we may not. We’re going to end up on a platform on August 30th.”
Bischoff continued, “We’re in discussions, I don’t even want to call them negotiations, we’ll be really straight forward with you on this. We’re in discussions with two different platforms, like I said, one in the next 45 minutes. I’m confident that we’re going to land a streaming opportunity, and it may be cable or broadcast, but time will tell. It’s a challenge in that the exciting thing about creating something new and something that nobody has ever done before is that, you know, if you’re successful it’s a major accomplishment. The downside is, you’ve got to convince somebody, you’ve got to convince a network or platform that your vision is real and that we can execute on it and that we can build on it. Those conversations have gone great and I am not concerned that we won’t have a platform, I’m only concerned with which one it will be and how it will work for us.”
(H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.)
