Sonjay chats candidly with Nick about how he got involved in Global Force Wrestling, what all he is doing with the company, working on Ring Ka King with Jeff Jarrett, how GFW’s current TV negotiations are going, the pros and cons of pro wrestling on a platform like Netflix, India as a pro wrestling market, whether he thinks WWE or TNA will be more successful there, his reaction to Jeff Jarrett telling him GFW was invading TNA, Kevin Nash’s time on screen with Sonjay in TNA as part of the Paparazzi Championship Series, more
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You can find the full audio of the interview as well as some transcribed quotes below:
On where people may be able to watch GFW’s AMPED TV show they have been filming:
SD: Great question. I wish I had a definite answer to give you but I don’t. Shopping a television show around for 52 weeks is probably not the easiest thing. Most TV shows are seasonal and only require a commitment of 12-13 weeks. Depending on how long the season is. We are asking for 52 weeks of first run television which is what people in North America are used to in a pro wrestling show. It’s a different task. It’s a hard task. I think that we are making some inroads. We are making some progress. We’ve literally had meetings every week for the last few weeks with various networks. We are very close to finalizing something overseas. I think that once we can make those announcements people will kind of get a better grasp and idea of what it is that we are trying to do.
On how many episodes of AMPED GFW currently has filmed and ready to air:
SD: More than 15 at this point.
On the pros and cons of distributing a pro wrestling show via an on-demand video streaming platform like Netflix or Hulu:
SD: One of the cons I think right off the bat is the binge watching. If a consumer is sitting there watching twenty episodes of AMPED in one day… that’s it. Then they’re done with it. We can’t penetrate that consumer going forward. Whereas with an episodic platform we have the consumer every week for one hour. We can tell our stories. We can show exactly what it is that we have to bring to the table. Whether it be merchandise, live events, etc etc etc. If you’re watching it on a Netflix style platform you could go through all of those episodes in one day. Then you would be completely done with the product. Television shows that are on Netflix, it’s a completely different animal. Their revenue isn’t going to come from any other avenues. Like a live event. You aren’t going to go to a live event for Breaking Bad. You just watch the TV show and you are done with it.
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