>>5541603It's a tough time to get into wrestling. Wrestling is half as popular as it was 10 years ago and even then, it was half as popular as wrestling was 10 years before that. WCW dying was a good time to get into wrestling and maybe pre-AEW wasn't the greatest time to get in, but it's better than it is now.
There's a bunch of competition. WWE has 5 shows a week and AEW has 4 shows a week. Even if people like wrestling, they don't watch all of it because they want to watch other things too. Japanese wrestling is easier to access than ever before. Promotions like MLW and the NWA give away everything for free and people still won't watch. There's also a lot of non-wrestling competition.
There's not many good free agents out there either. Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman are probably the two biggest names you could maybe get and I don't think either one is going to be enough.
There's two ways to go about it:
1) You have a ton of money, you get a good primetime TV spot and you pay off Dave Meltzer. You also bribe mods of various sites to ban people who don't like your show/push people who like your show, you buy off some internet personalities and you need to buy bot accounts who will praise the promotion. You are going to spend a lot of money through this method quick.
2) You copy some of what OVW did. You build your own building, where you conduct all operations out of it. Perhaps you even buy two or three buildings. You hold and produce shows here. You run all the business aspects here and you have your training dojo here. All costs are minimized. You then get some athletic trainees, you loan them out to various indies in the US, Mexico and Japan so they can get experience and build a name. This strategy is going to take longer, but it will keep costs down and will pay off in the longterm.
