From Dave:
The only story is what ROH, NJPW or WWE offers. If DAZN or ESPN+ or a major TV station wants to spend tens of millions annually for a wrestling product, like is going on with MMA, then things are different. There is no commitment to this and unless you hear about and there's a huge money media deal in place, there is no viable story and WWE knows what's going on in MMA and wants to make sure to take all the chess players off the board to keep things the way they are in case one transpires. That's why they're trying to take over U.K. and Germany and have eyes on Japan. They don't want a Bellator around in this time where perhaps somebody is paying stupid money for a product. If somebody is media is willing to spend real money for a new company and if you look at the landscape, that is a very real possibility, there are several if not tons of people and investors who will want to get in. That's just logic. That's why it's time for everyone to study boxing and MMA business moves, and why I'm talking so much about it. It is the obvious only precursor to the pro wrestling world. Time to study the business moves of Bellator, ONE, Golden Boy, Eddie Hearn, PFL and others. Corgan and Jarrett have been working to get that kind of a deal for how long and Corgan is a real celebrity who has inroads?
AXS is not a platform you can build a national company off. AXS has denied the story. I didn't even have to call them, that's how much I knew that aspect was wrong. .
WWE can't make any money offer until January or they'd be hit with a tampering suit, especially on a subject this big and with warnings from the past. Until January, anyone who says they know what is happening with those guys doesn't. Nobody will know anything until January.