NWA is moving to Roku Sports Channel.
It is official that starting on July 29th, the National Wrestling Alliance's weekly Powerrr series is going to be airing on Roku Sports Channel at 8 PM EST on Tuesdays.
NWA owner Billy Corgan appeared on Busted Open to talk about the new deal. He shared that it took at least six to nine months to put together.
“If anybody might have seen just the other day, it came out that we’ve signed our first real true first-run television deal for NWA Powerrr with Roku, the number one streaming platform in North America. This is a deal that’s took at least six to nine months to put together and I think it’s the first significant NWA TV deal probably since the days of NWA-TNA and if you wanna go back further than that because obviously, Jeff Jarrett was trying to build up TNA, you’d have to go back to somewhere into the 90s so, this is a huge deal for us and it’s total credit to our team… We worked very hard as a team to put this together so credit to our great team for sticking with it. Many people have doubted the NWA’s progress, doubted the NWA’s game plan which I said many, many times was gonna take a long time. I wasn’t just gonna throw money at it and try to be a puffed-up indie. I wanted to run an international promotion that was gonna compete at the highest levels and I think as you’ve seen recently, when the WWE allowed Nattie to come in and wrestle for the NWA at Crockett Cup, I think that shows you that we’ve earned our flowers once again in the business and there’s such a great will around the NWA because the wrestling ecosystem as you see with WWE and now with AAA, and with TNA, you see this wrestling ecosystem open up which you know, on your show many times, I predicted this is where the business was going and so here we are. We are here at the optimal way for the business to be generated back towards the fans. In many ways, it harkens back to the territorial era, where really it was about the fans and letting the fans sort of tell promotions what they really need and now you’re seeing the benefit of that.”
The latest special that NWA presented was the Crockett Cup in May. The show featured WWE's Natalya challenging Kenzie Paige for the NWA World Women's Championship.
Natalya expressed her desire to return to the NWA for a rematch with Paige.
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