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With the cliffhanger of CONTRA-Unit overrunning Major League Wrestling and "taking over" the company at the end of this past weekend's MLW Fusion, Major League Wrestling now has a storyline explanation for the interruption of new footage, which is obviously due to the COVID-19 pandemic as MLW head Court Bauer absolutely refuses to film empty arena content.
The angle itself was filmed in multiple locations, produced virtually with Bauer overseeing the content virtually from New York, working hand in hand with the talents. The idea is to preserve MLW within the confines of storylines, so that they can continue moving things forward with the Takeover storyline while MLW isn't producing new live events. Since the promotion had been so far ahead of the game with content shot in Texas, Philadelphia and Mexico, the TV had remained the most electric and fun of everyone running weekly broadcasts over the last six weeks. Going forward, there are plans to move the story of the hijacking of the company forward with viral, online twists and turns.
So, what's next for MLW if there won't be live content? Here's where things stand going forward as of today.
The promotion has already mapped out over sixty episodes of future TV, including their new MLW Anthology series, which will kick off this Saturday on BeIN Sport at 10 PM EST. They have also digitized the entire MLW Underground series that was distributed via different broadcast platforms, including the Sunshine Network from 2002 through 2005 that they will be able to utilize. They have been working on different plans and have strategies for ideas for up to 18 months from now if necessary.
There is also new TV project being developed by MLW built around Alicia Atout.
MLW is also continuing to build its relationship with AAA. They will be streaming the lucha company's Lucha Fighter finals this Saturday at www.Facebook.com/MajorLeagueWrestling.com. MLW was really happy with the surge in traffic and likes on their Facebook page for last week's stream. The two sides are also working on producing a new Super Series (the event that made up recent Fusion episodes from Mexico) but given the state of the world right now, there's no timeline. It's possible the next live event content will again be from Mexico, but that's more my speculation than anything officially set in stone.
On the talent front, while the promotion is dark, the only current contract that is coming up shortly is Richard Holliday of The Dynasty. They are already working on locking him into a new contract and given his recent push, he's being seen as a priority talent to lock in to a new, long form deal. They recently started selling Holliday coffee mugs, playing off his coffee gimmick. Holliday was originally trained by Paul Roma of WWF/WCW fame.
As all this is going on, MLW won't be working out of their Westchester, New York offices. The promotion will be working remotely through at least September.
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