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MLW files antitrust lawsuit against WWE

Post by cero2k » Jan 11th, '22, 18:15

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Major League Wrestling announced today they have filed an antitrust lawsuit against WWE.

MLW announced the lawsuit in a press release, accusing WWE of pressuring third parties to abandon contracts and prospective relationships with them, citing as an example a potential streaming deal that “would have been transformative for the company”.

Additionally, the company alleges that in early 2021, when MLW was in talks with Vice TV to air programing, a then-WWE executive warned Vice TV that Vince McMahon was “pissed” about Vice airing MLW programming and that Vice TV should stop working with MLW. A Vice TV executive responded by saying that what they were doing was illegal and an antitrust violation. The executive replied that she could not control McMahon.

“WWE has been wrongfully depriving its competitors of critical opportunities for many years, but its latest conduct has been even more unconscionable," MLW CEO Court Bauer said in the press release. "I think we speak for the rest of the professional wrestling world when we say that this anti-competitive behavior has to stop.”

WWE, in a statement to Wrestlenomics, said MLW's claims have no merit.

"WWE believes these claims have no merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against them,” they said.

MLW aired one special on Vice TV back on October 7, a Fightland event that had Alex Hammerstone defeat Jacob Fatu to win the MLW World Heavyweight title.





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Re: MLW files antitrust lawsuit against WWE

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Re: MLW files antitrust lawsuit against WWE

Post by Thelone » Jan 14th, '22, 17:36

Kinda feels like a desperate move from Bauer. I mean, maybe the show that aired on Vice did abysmal numbers and they backed out as a result? It seems more plausible than "Vince got scared of MLW and did everything to fuck them up", especially when Fusion did something like 10k on average on beIN a couple of years ago.

MLW was already on a downward spiral when I briefly watched in 2019 (that's why I stopped), lost countless people and didn't really replace them (MJF/Pillman Jr./Havoc/the other Martin brother to AEW, Salina to OnlyFans, Bulldog Jr./I guess Priscilla Kelly to WWE, Lawlor to New Japan US, Hart because he's an idiot), and just doesn't seem to have a real strategy/long-term plan overall.

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