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FIVE STAR WRESTLING SECURES WEEKLY TV SERIES IN UK

By Paul Jordan on 2017-09-07 09:05:00

FreeSports in the UK announced that Daniel Hinkles' Five Star Wrestling will have weekly live events on the new channel:

The promotion had announced a 128 Man tournament that would run over several months in Great Britain earlier this year following a live special on SpikeTV in the UK but announced a postponement in June. Earlier this year, the promotion had released a grandstand offer to CM Punk, claiming it would pay him $1 million to compete in the tournament.  Punk, who is under contract to UFC, did not publicly respond to the offer and contractually, couldn't have taken it.  Talents that were set for the tournament before its postponement included Rob Van Dam, Moose, John Morrison, Carlito, Bram, El Ligero, Joe Coffey, and Zack Gibson.

Preston City Wrestling had previously announced that they would be working with Free Sports. On the channel's official Facebook page they made it clear they would be exclusively working with Five Star:

UK Wrestling on FreeSports. - Please note the following. Preston City Wrestling (PCW) made an announcement last Tuesday highlighting an agreement with our company to show their events in the UK. We are afraid that while initial discussions did take place regards covering an event in October there has been a misunderstanding and there is no agreement in place to cover their events.

To be clear, FreeSports will not be airing PCW's event in October.

We have been hinting on social media that we plan to make an announcement with a British promotion to broadcast wrestling to thousands of fans live every week on FreeSports. The promotion will be our exclusive UK Wrestling supplier which rules out covering any PCW events.

Given what has happened over the last 48 hours we think it best to confirm that it will be 5 Star Wrestling featuring on FreeSports with all their shows available live and free in 18 million UK homes from 2018. We believe 5 Star Wrestling are investing heavily in creating the best Wrestling promotion the UK has ever seen with weekly events in major arenas planned in 2018. Keep an eye on our social media for further information and visit www.5starwrestling.co.uk for event and ticket information.

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