Report – SportsNet Negotiated With AEW Before TNA Wrestling Deal
12/27/2024 01:11 AM
As we previously reported here on eWn, TNA Wrestling has signed a multi-year partnership deal with Sportsnet in Canada, which will commence in 2025.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that Sportsnet originally held talks with AEW, but those negotiations ultimately fell through.
Consequently, AEW will be broadcast on TSN and Canada’s version of the USA Network.
Meltzer said, "[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, even though they have a lot of similar programming — so, that's what happened there. Right now, the only real — there's a lot of small stations around the world that WWE's out of, but the only big one is the India deal, that's left. But the India deal's the real big one, actually, the India deal — from a financially standpoint that WWE has on Ten — that deal is the most lucrative television deal in the world other than an American deal."
Meltzer mentioned that WWE will soon exit its deal with Ten in India, potentially allowing AEW or another promotion to take over that slot.
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