Rich Bochino and Jared St. Laurent will be the permanent MLW announcing team going forward. Alicia Atout, who has gotten great reviews from those in the company, will be the backstage correspondent permanently as well.
The Low Ki injury in the Opera Cup finals against Tom Lawlor (which was a fantastic match) was storyline to help keep Low Ki strong but also having the injury being the key to his loss alongside a heel getting a sneaky but clean win.
If you enjoyed the Opera Cup, that is the style the promotion is seeking to pivot towards going forward, showcasing the in-ring workhorses and the primary focus on in-ring, clean action.
Mads Krugger will be getting a massive push going forward. The gimmick is somewhat inspired by The Spoiler Don Jardine and was a Court Bauer creation.
New Japan Pro Wrestling's Rocky Romero will be working here regularly going forward.
TJP and Bu Ku Dao will be a tag team here.
MLW is planning on a Filthy Island episode of Fusion built around Tom Lawlor and Team Filthy, obviously a takeoff of UFC's Fight Island with Tom Lawlor in the Dana White role. The idea is to have a full series of matches in that setting, sort of a less glamorous, more gritty version of Yas Island, where UFC runs.
MLW's next scheduled live event is currently listed for February in New York City, but realistically, is not likely to happen. The promotion is waiting to see how COVID-19 vaccinations roll out and is hoping for perhaps the second or third quarter of 2021, but everything is so liquid, it is impossible to have a plan. One of the genres MLW is keeping an eye on is the Broadway industry, as the feeling is their unions won't allow any shows to open prematurely, and if they start to open up and run intimate theaters, that could be a sign it's safer for pro wrestling crowds to congregate. That should actually, in my opinion, be the blueprint for what every wrestling company follows.
As announced yesterday, MLW Fusion will now air Wednesdays on The Roku Channel, a free channel that any and every Roku user has built into their device.
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