Fox's Tubi In Talks To Bring New Pro Wrestling Promotion To Streaming

More professional wrestling could soon be airing on a streaming platform.

According to Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp, the Fox-owned streaming platform Tubi has held talks about investing in a wrestling product for its platform. Who Tubi has held talks with is unknown beyond that they haven't been with an active company. 

WWE SmackDown currently airs on Fox but the show will leave the channel and head to the USA Network in October 2024. Tubi previously held talks with Major League Wrestling in 2021 and the promotion was set to air on the channel until the deal was scrapped. MLW alleged in a lawsuit that Stephanie McMahon pressured a Tubi executive into scrapping the deal. MLW's antitrust lawsuit with WWE was eventually settled in 2023 with WWE paying Court Bauer's promotion $20 million. 

One possibility for the inactive company Tubi has held discussions with could be Freddie Prinze Jr., who has been trying to launch his own pro wrestling company since 2022. As of earlier this year, Prinze had been rejected by Warner Bros. Discovery but he was confident about securing a deal with another platform. 

Freddie Prinze Jr. is famous for his roles in Scooby-Doo and I Know What You Did Last Summer but he was also a member of the WWE creative team across two runs from 2008 until 2012.