Freddie Prinze Jr. makes an opening statement about the promotion of wrestling

Freddie Prinze Jr. likes professional wrestling. He worked for VVE as a writerhas an aptly named wrestling podcast Wrestling with Freddyand he even has eyes to open his own promotion, as he has been hinting at for literally years in his various media ventures.

How’s it going? Well, on a recent episode of his podcast, Prinze broke it down, noting that he has interest from television companies, but no gathering of contracted broadcasting talent.

“The company that I was trying to work with, not the distributor, but the wrestling company that I wanted to work with, we just couldn’t come to an agreement. So I’m literally a guy with a TV deal with no promotion. The only promotion I want to buy is probably a bit too big, I don’t know if it is. Basically, I would have to buy an existing company and bring them to the table and then produce the show there under the rules of whatever those rules are,” Prinze explained via Fightful.

“It may not be a 52-week promotion in a year, it may be a 32-week promotion in a year, it may be a 22-week promotion in a year.” Some of these shows only want ten episodes. So if it’s just something like that where there would be ten episodes, it’s not worth it for me to buy an expensive promotion because I can’t get enough money back for myself or my investors. It would have to be at least 30 to 40 episodes a year and then if that money was right per episode where I felt like I could get my money back and if I had investors making money off of the promises they had to But if they couldn’t , then I won’t, because I won’t lose people’s money, and I won’t throw away my money either. I’m in a state, not in a holding pattern, but I have to turn this truck the other way because it’s not going to make it off the cliff. There’s a wrestler on the Sam Roberts show who talked a little bit about a project he was working on, which was my project, so I’ve already had to change direction a few times.”

Wow, talk about a disappointing turn of events.

Fortunately, Prinze isn’t letting that get him down, as he knows something will eventually work out, whether he can elevate an existing promotion or have to build his own from scratch.

“So I’m not giving up, I’m not giving up, it didn’t break me, but I definitely have to make a course adjustment to pull this off,” Prinz noted. “Who knows, maybe I could buy something you all know and find a home for it and sell it all and try to help make it big.” If not, I will build my own thing from scratch and work slowly, establish it and sell it.