Scott D’Amore Details How MLP On TSN Deal Came About, Says It’s Structured As One-Year Deal With Options

Details about MLP on TSN.

July 15th is the premiere date of Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s ‘Mayhem’ show on TSN. To promote the debut, the promotion’s owner, Scott D’Amore, made the media rounds, and he stopped by The Ariel Helwani Show.

He detailed how the deal with TSN came to fruition, and it derived from TSN executive David Bross showing up to an MLP event. It was at that event that Bross admitted to D’Amore that he was the reason why MLP’s initial talks with TSN went quiet.

“You know, it’s funny because from the very inception for the idea of Maple Leaf Pro, we wanted to be on TSN. I reached out to them, made a connection through somebody, had a whole discussion. It kind of just sort of stalled. You know, it happens in television, and then last year, as we were running, we said, ‘Hey, I’ve been saying for over three decades, we’re gonna run Maple Leaf Gardens, and we’ve never done it. This is the time. If MLP does nothing else other than run Maple Leaf Gardens, we’re gonna accomplish that goal’ and that was our big thing last year, and then lo and behold, at the event at Mattamy Entertainment Center… formerly Maple Leaf Gardens… one of the head guys of TSN was there… one of the very top guys in the company showed up and I hope he doesn’t get mad but it was David Bross, and he’s like the Executive Director of Programming. He showed up just to check out the show and he kind of looked at it and was like, ‘Wow,’ and then he kind of told me that night, ‘I know you guys had talked to us before and it kind of went quiet.’ He goes, ‘I don’t know if this makes it better or worse but I’m the reason it went quiet.’ He said, ‘There was just so much on the go, and we’re just trying to get organized and we just didn’t have enough hands for the work we had and I just basically said everything below this on this list is done. Don’t pay attention to it…’ Us running Maple Leaf Gardens… him looking and seeing the show and seeing a full arena, and going, ‘Wow, this is cool,’ that got our conversation started again.”

Following up on that response, D’Amore revealed that the deal with TSN is for one year and has options attached to it. He stated that MLP views this as a long-term situation.

“It’s structured as one year with options, and we’re certainly looking at it as a long-term deal. We know we have to produce.”

Fightful will have coverage of the debut episode of MLP Mayhem on TSN. New episodes of the show will also air on MyAEW.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The Ariel Helwani Show with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.