Select Answers: TNA contracts, What Announcers know, ROH media (Patreon)

Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Is it standard for promotions like WWE, AEW, TNA for announcers to know results ahead of time? Or does it vary by promotion/ announcer?

Yes, they almost always know. There have been some announcers that have preferred to know as little as possible so they can react naturally, but almost all modern day television production for wrestling requires that they know.

What are terms of an average TNA contract?

These days? Exclusive PPA with some exceptions.

TNA has relative exclusivity on TV. Wrestlers under contract can't wrestle for WWE without permission, AEW, NWA or MLW.

TNA has right of first refusal on dates, and there's an amount per appearance they pay wrestlers. I haven't heard of most of them getting minimums.

Hey Sean question for you, do you know if in the next media rights deal for AEW that they would try to get ROH wrapped up in it? like for example say they stay with WBD would they try to get ROH as a Max streaming show? Try to get some added value for whoever the next partner is and try to get that increase as well?

Well, WBD tried to get ROH wrapped up in it during the last media rights negotiations. They offered Tony Khan a Friday night slot at 10 PM ET on Fridays after when Smackdown usually ends. However, Tony Khan didn't like the money offered, so he passed on it and they rolled in a Dynamite replay instead. I really think that for American TV, they should take almost anything presented as a means to sell the MYAEW service domestically. ROH Honorclub seems virtually worthless. The way I look at it (not educated to all the details) you can use an ROH TV deal to sell MyAEW, which can house the ROH library and PPVs.