Freddie Prinze Jr starting a Wrestling Promotion

[Hypnosis]

Hope this turns out well, but yeah, there should be a Lucha Underground successor.

[sdoyle7798]

May 4, 2022 11:12:12 GMT -5 nisidhe said:

I'm keen to see more major-league promotions out there. The SAG involvement might not be a reasonable expectation, but as a stretch goal I'm for it.

What an awesome time to be a pro wrestler these days.

Eh, I think there's a case to be made that they are actors.

Not that it's a 100% comperable, but SAG covers stuntmen I believe.

[mattyy]

Imagine if we really get three large touring companies? What a blessed timeline that'd be.

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May 4, 2022 12:03:01 GMT -5 sdoyle7798 said:

May 4, 2022 11:12:12 GMT -5 nisidhe said:

I'm keen to see more major-league promotions out there. The SAG involvement might not be a reasonable expectation, but as a stretch goal I'm for it.

What an awesome time to be a pro wrestler these days.

Eh, I think there's a case to be made that they are actors.

Not that it's a 100% comperable, but SAG covers stuntmen I believe.

I do not know the exact wording or if anything has changed.

But I know LU to be classified/recognized as an actual television show if I remember show runner EVW talking about it either during or after season 1 correctly at the time had to I guess hit certain marks in the show or do certain things...like kill people etc and thus everyone working on the show was classified as actors.

Again idk any of the specifics but I doubt anyone working in WWE or even AEW is classified as an actor working in those companies.

[CeilingFan]

May 4, 2022 9:23:49 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Hopefully it will be on Tuesday nights. We coming for you, NXT!

[XaviersSS2015hair]

Wrestlers getting SAG benefits and reality based story lines?!
Make it happen Freddie, I'm pulling for you! 🤞
I'll gladly pull out my wallet to support if this becomes a thing.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

If some of the specific things he says are true, this may become my number one promotion on principle

[Mid-Carder]

Good luck to him, this sounds really good.

[sportatorium]

No idea how it will all turn out, but am open minded and very interested.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

May 4, 2022 9:31:14 GMT -5 eJm said:

May 4, 2022 9:27:36 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

Dude wants SAG involved, for that alone I love the idea

Yeah, if he pulls that off that’s a real genuine game changer so I hope he does.

Yep, and for that reason WWE and AEW are gonna try to stop it. No wrestling company wants a union to be formed.

[Push R Truth]

My only gripe is "storylines based on reality". I mean, I'm not saying it's going to suck. But about 80% of the reason I watch wrestling is because where else can you see a cross dressing swamp dwelling cult leader in a Hawaiian shirt and a fedora threaten the alternate personality of a pumpkin demon king to a standard wrestling match?

I don't need everything to be Jurassic Express vs R Truth and Lesnar in a Punjabi Prison Match with Hornswoggle hanging above the ring in a sharkcage. But I don't want everything to be "I'm a better wrestler than you so let's fight to prove it!" best of 7 matches between two dudes in black trunks with slightly different facial hair.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

For storylines based in reality, I want wrestlers doing their taxes or picking up milk from Target.

[polarbearpete]

I’d support this if he can make it happen with SAG.

Sounds like it wouldn’t be a touring brand but would have a home base in the LA area.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

I wonder if this will veer in the direction i and a few others here have spoken of of a cinematic successor of sorts to LU. Not in storylines per say but in format.

Then again, Freddie’s a lover of the old school stuff. So it could be just a regular wrestling company. And shit, if it falls somewhere in between WWE’s storyline-eccentricity and AEW’s niche wrestling shtick…then damn baby, I’m all in.

[eJm]

May 4, 2022 14:06:02 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

May 4, 2022 9:31:14 GMT -5 eJm said:

Yeah, if he pulls that off that’s a real genuine game changer so I hope he does.

Yep, and for that reason WWE and AEW are gonna try to stop it. No wrestling company wants a union to be formed.

I think the "advantage" compared to just forming a union is that the framework is there already. I don't know the process but it can't be as complicated as, say, getting a union set up for Starbucks or Amazon or something like that.

I also sort of think the problem with asking for a new LU is that the format was so niche and basically supported off the name of Robert Rodriguez that the ratings it did doesn't really justify trying again. But then we all thought Turner would never go into wrestling again after the money pit that was WCW and here we are.

[The Ichi]

Buffy as first women's champion please.

I'm only like 75% joking.

[y4j1981]

Correct me if wrong, but didn't WCW do a angle where nWo members Hogan and a couple others tried to "invade" the SAG Awards since they were airing on TBS while Nitro was on TNT at the same time?

Nothing to add to the main topic, just what popped in my head

[jhbboy198917]

twitter.com/RealFPJr/status/1521917095730024448?t=zJJsNJQ8B_Q2N-xuSLWjjQ&s=19

[EZ: Brainy Bae]

Looking forward to this. Freddie is the man

[eJm]

May 4, 2022 14:48:20 GMT -5 jhbboy198917 said:

twitter.com/RealFPJr/status/1521917095730024448

Oh this is going to be fun.