Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, our ESPN, pissed off with the Fed. WW responds to the ESPN allegations. Darby Allen has been hospitalized. And Bailey was bummed out at missing WrestleMania 41. I'm Adam Wilborn. I'm Andy H. Murray, the H stands for Halloween. Yep, on the day of the Christmas party, good stuff. Yep. This is the news.

He's got his Halloween jumper on and everything. Look at this. Angus the Bull from Aberdeen there. Good stuff. All right, let's talk about ESPN. Ooh. So we've spoken about ESPN, maybe not being the best pleased with the WW deal before, right? We've spoken about this. I mean, they started with wrestle losers. Yeah, yeah, well, my goodness.

Freddy Prince Jr.

has claimed that they ain't happy with this whole business. So the media rights deal is WWPLEs are no longer on Peacock. They're now carried by ESPN in the USA, which means if you are certain viewers, you need to pay extra month. You need to pay like $30 a month 35 whatever it was which obviously increases is an increasing

cost if you're a W.W.Fand and maybe you're getting them for free on Peacock with your

subscription now you may be paying like I don't know free $400 a year more something

like that so yeah a bit of a ball a bit of a pain in the butt.

It's been a controversial deal since it was announced, but it does earn WW, like, $350 million a year. That's why it exists. Yeah, they're struggling to be fair. Yeah, they are. They're really on the breadline here. Freddy Prince Jr. Star of Scooby-Doo. Yep. Former WWW writer. Oh yeah, he did that as well, yeah.

Wrestling fan.

He has a wrestling podcast called Wrestling with Freddy

and in fact, that's where he has done this. He said this, I should say. He said ESPN, by the way, is so unhappy with the deal. I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Disney, who own ESPN. And he was just like, yo, they're so they better make their money back on this deal. He said they're hot. Guys, we need to buy more PLEs, is what he said. Also, he was like talking about how crap the app was earlier, which is, you know, just him kind of, him talking about it, seeing he gets signed out all the time.

Maybe Friday, your Prince Jr. is just pissed off,

that it signs him out every time he opens his phone. Also, I hate quotes from podcast, because people, I know, I know we do, go off on weird tangents. So the sentence there, I'm glad he said, guys, we need to buy more PLs, because it's like, is that a dismissive comment? We better do the, it's hot.

What?

What do you mean?

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Bit more context for this, because we might as well fill in all the gaps here, right?

So the deal is the ESPN are paying WW350 million a year, basically, for this deal, right? Apparently, Dave Meltzer

previously reported this on Wrestling Observer Radio. For Russell Palooza, they attributed about

100,000 to 120,000 subscribers to wrestle Palooza and to the WWPLE, which if you times that

by $35 or whatever, 10 or 12 times a year you come out about

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