Various: TNA Rebellion 2024 TV PPV Buys Update, Freddie Prince Jr. on Warner Bros Discovery Passing on TV Deal for His New Promotion, Indies

May 4, 2024

TNA Rebellion PPV Buys Estimates Update

As noted before, TNA Wrestling had generated around 500 cable television pay-per-view buys for this past April’s Rebellion2024 event for its first week following the event.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that TNA’s Rebellion 2024 is currently at around 1,200 television buys based on late buys numbers.

Meltzer reported that Rebellion 2024’s television buys is currently down 60.6% compared to this past January’s Hard to Kill 2024 based on the same number of days after the event.

In regards to streaming, Meltzer reported that Rebellion 2024 is currently estimated to have generated around double of its current television buys.

Freddie Prince Jr. Comments on Warner Bros Discovery Passed on His New Promotion & Talks with Two Other Networks

As noted before, actor and former WWE writer Freddie Prince Jr. has been working on plans since May of 2022 to launch a new wrestling promotion.

In a recent episode of the Wrestling With Freddie podcast, Prince Jr. provided an update revealing that Warner Bros Discovery had passed on signing a potential television deal for his new promotion and him currently being in talks with two other networks.

“I’m comfortable saying who the ‘pass’ was this week. It was Warner Discovery. They were the first people I went to. I should have mentioned by the types of questions that it was going to be a ‘no,’ but pitching an idea is like being underwater. It’s such a rollercoaster. It’s never fast when you want it to be fast and never slow when you want it to be slow. So, it was Warner Discovery. I’m not saying that to hate them. I just want to give you all the information.
They eventually passed on it. I know that one of the places is going to be a ‘no’ because at one point in the conversation I wanted to say, ‘Do you guys even like wrestling?’ It just didn’t go well. I’ll talk about them when it’s officially a no, but it’s going to be a no.
There are 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. The other place is a dark horse. Not a longshot, but a weird choice. It could be really cool. I just want a ‘yes,’ so whichever one says yes, I want to put wrestling on TV and put more wrestlers on TV because that experience does nothing but help everybody, including the fans.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Saturday’s Wrestling Dontaku 2024 Night 2 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Fukuoka, Japan featured two new champions crowned. The first was Bullet Club (Chase Owens & KENTA) defeating Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions. The second was David Finlay defeated Nic Nemeth to become the new IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion.

Friday’s NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 Night 1 event in Fukuoka also featured one new champion crowned. This was Jeff Cobb defeating Zack Sabre Jr. to become the new NJPW World Television Champion.

Saturday’s WRESTLE MAGIC event for Pro Wrestling NOAH featured Kaito Kiyomiya defeating El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. to become the new GHC Heavyweight Championship. Following the match, Kiyomiya celebrated his title victory with Japanese wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Keiji Mutoh.

Friday’s Under Siege 2024 event for TNA Wrestling in Albany, New York featured one new champion crowned. This was Alisha Edwards & Masha Slamovich defeating Spitfire (Dani Luna & Jody Threat) to become the new TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions.

Prior to the start of Friday’s Under Siege 2024 event, TNA Wrestling announced that they had pulled Hammerstone from his scheduled match against Jake Something due to him not being medically cleared to compete. It was also announced that several matches were changed as a result with Rich Swann replacing Hammerstone for Something’s match and KC Navarro replaced Swann for Laredo Kid’s match at the event.

Friday’s Rather You Than Me event for Game Changer Wrestling in Tampa, Florida featured Matt Cardona officially announcing himself as the General Manager of GCW. Later in the show, Cardona used his GM powers to reverse Danhausen’s victory over Blake Christian for the GCW World Championship due to his claim that Danhausen had cheated by using the belt as a weapon. This led to the match being restarted and Christian retaining his belt after using it as a weapon to Danhausen that Cardona had no issue with.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Matthew Justic is the next official competitor for this year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VI event on June 1st in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pro Wrestling Revolver recently announced that Ethan Page will be making an appearance for the company at their Another Friday event on May 17th in Dayton, Ohio.

House of Glory recently announced that Daniel Garcia will be making his official debut appearance for the company at their Cinco De Mayo event on May 5th in Jamaica, New York.

Action Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Newman Fight Club event on May 16th in Newman, Georgia:

Anthony Henry vs. Kody Manhorn