Freddie Prinze Jr. recently gave an update on his attempt to start a wrestling promotion during the most recent edition of Wrestling With Freddy.
The former WWE creative writer said:
“I went through some frigging ups and downs wrestling-wise. I’ve been trying to start my own federation for a long time, my own promotion. It started off, this reality company came and pitched this docuseries to me of me trying to pull this off, with the final episode being sort of what we call a backdoor pilot, so the last episode would become the first episode of the new promotion. So that was kind of the hope and goal for it. I had some Vice, who couldn’t afford it, and they’re restructuring their finances and their entire company. They admittedly said, ‘We don’t know anything about wrestling, but we like the business, and we want to be business.’ They tried to make it work but couldn’t. Warner [Bros. Discovery] wanted me to be way more established and only focused on the reality portion of the pitch. They just wanted a reality show, which I wasn’t interested in. The things they pitched, they’re like, ‘It needs more people working against you.’ I was like, no, I’m actually trying to pull this off. I don’t want to have people working against me. I’ll have enough of that already. All they wanted was fake, created drama, which is such horseshit. That’s why reality TV sucks. None of it’s real. So that was a pass on my side,” Prinze Jr. said.