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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 5 On April 25th 2025, Manson took a flight to Jacksonville, Florida He had spoken to Khan a few times over the previous Six months. Khan was impressed by the Seaport plan and both Khan and Manson had talked about how AEW's relationship with NJPW would be after the...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 4 Once the deal with Amazon was announced Manson had initial internal meetings with Cary Silkin as well as Harold Meji to go over prospective names for events. With Manson, the usual term came up, 'Make it make sense'. For him, a lot Wrestling event names didn't make...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Amazon Prime & New World Pro-Wrestling (NWPW) announce multi year broadcast and media rights deal. News provided by Seaport Entertainment Group, Inc Apr 22, 2025, 16:00 ET LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, April 22 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazon Prime & New World Pro-Wrestling to Establish New Era of...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 3 Now that Seaport had control over the NWA and NJPW, the next plan of action was tying down contracts for both the wrestlers as well as commentary team so that both sides of the company were set up for the January 2026 start. Manson really liked Mauro Ranello and...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business - 2 Manson and the board had sat down in late March to go over the first appointments to the day to day backroom staff. Shane McMahon was a major discussion point. The board were interested to know what Manson felt about any potential issues regarding the tainted...
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    BTB Discussion Thread

    Morning All, Just thought I would introduce myself to the forum. I have restarted by BTB which centres around private equity investment into NJPW and NWA and the idea that an alternative sports / realism based company could be created through amalgamting them both. I prefer this one to my...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Getting Down to Business The next day on March 6th 2025, Manson got to the office in downtown Las Vegas around 7.30am. He knew he needed to work fast to start getting the ball rolling creating the ground work for what New World Pro-Wrestling would look like. The Japanese side of the operation...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Seaport Entertainment Group, Inc, complete take over of NWA Wrestling & New Japan Pro Wrestling - Announce new Promotion - New World Pro-Wrestling. News provided by Seaport Entertainment Group Inc Mar 5, 2025, 12:01 ET LAS VEGAS, NV, USA, March 5 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seaport Entertainment...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 7 While negotiations were going on with Bushiroad in late 2024, the structure of exactly who would be on the board of directors of the new company was taking place. Manson knew the main players at Seaport and Pershing would be on there as they were the money people and with...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 6 One of the important things that took place at the start of the initial negotiations to take over NJPW and NWA was signed NDAs. Seaport and Manson did not want anything leaking to the press until both transactions were complete and contracts were signed and if anything had...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 5 One of the over-arching conversations the team at Seaport were having while both negotiations were going on was the potential, long term financial success of the transaction. Manson believed that the initial investment to take over both NJPW and NWA which would be in the...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 4 While the negotiations were going on with the various investors in Japan, Manson was also looking at options in North America. The most obvious option was the NWA. From a purely IP point of view, the history and heritage could be a huge asset and decent starting point to...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 3 The pro-wrestling business in 2023 into 2024 was a saturated one. With WWE, AEW, TNA as the main Three organisations, as well as a myriad of 'Minor' league indie promotions could a new one be in any way profitable in the long term? Looking at the landscape, Manson...
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the Scene - 2 The next 10 years were busy but fulfilling. Based in Las Vegas, Manson was really enjoying life out there with drives out to the Nevada and Utah desert, partying in Sin City and easy trips to LA and the West Coast, his life had it all. There was a real difference from...
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    Professional Wrestling Championship - The True Alternative

    https://wrestlingsmarks.com/threads/new-world-pro-wrestling-the-new-alternative.243253/
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    New World Pro-Wrestling - The New Alternative

    Setting the scene The story starts in the Summer of 2025. The wrestling landscape is one of big ideas and big money but no true alternative to the usual weekly episodic soap opera with the same in ring promos, the same gimmick matches, the same false finishes. An ambitious Las Vegas based...
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    Professional Wrestling Championship - The True Alternative

    Good Afternoon All. After some time away I have decided to re do my BTB. Instead of doing a 2017 to present day story of the PWC, I am going to start a new story beginning in 2025. The idea is a Private Equity group based in the USA looks at taking over both the NWA and a majority ownership in...
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    Professional Wrestling Championship - The True Alternative

    Hi Stojy. Sorry for the lack of updates. Basically, I've had a personal matter to take care of, a bereavement in the family which means I have lost a little passion/drive to continue at the moment. Rest assured, I will return at some point.
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    Professional Wrestling Championship - The True Alternative

    Long Days and Nights - 3 - November & December 2016 It was an emotional last few months for Manson. He was tying up a lot of loose ends in Hong Kong. His last day in his old role with the HK Football League was December 10th, a Friday, which allowed him to spend a week travelling in Asia and...
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