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AEW or TNA could end up getting a “significant” international television deal with WWE’s current broadcaster

Aaron Rift

WWE is set to transfer the company’s media rights in India from Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) to Netflix India. While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com explained how this could affect AEW or TNA…

“There’s a lot of small stations around the world that WWE is out of, but the only real big one is the India deal that’s left. I mean, TNT Sports in the UK, could they get TNA if they want wrestling? Yeah, you know, maybe they could. But the India deal’s the real big one. Actually, the India deal is from a financial standpoint that WWE has on Ten, that deal is the most lucrative television deal in the world other than an American deal. And WWE is exiting that deal in I believe March, but it’s in a couple months, I think it’s March.

So April, if they (SPNI) want to keep wrestling, you know, I don’t expect that they would pay anywhere near what they pay WWE, which WWE is like 30… It’s somewhere between 36 and 42 million a year. But if they want to keep wrestling, and they’re used to paying pretty significant money, that’s a pretty significant number. You know, it’d be very, very significant for like a TNA and it’s pretty significant for an AEW as well. So, there could be another thing out there.” (quote courtesy of @meraWRESTLING)