{"id":32976,"date":"2018-12-19T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=32976"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:26:40","slug":"cwa-and-wwl-heading-for-national-television-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/19\/cwa-and-wwl-heading-for-national-television-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"CWA and WWL Heading for National Television in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico keeps bringing surprises. After a solid show by <strong>World Wrestling League<\/strong> last Saturday, the company announced that they had reached a deal with Telemundo PR. Also, <strong>Championship Wrestling Assocaition<\/strong> announced that they were closing in on a deal with <em>WAPA TV<\/em>, Puerto Rico&#8217;s largest and most popular television channel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33034\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33034\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-8.24.02-PM-e1545269118525.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>WWL<\/strong> deal was made possible by <strong>Danny Nieves<\/strong>, one of the heads of the company. Danny was brought to the company after the exit of <strong>Savio Vega<\/strong>, <strong>Hector &#8220;Moody&#8221; Melendez<\/strong>, and <strong>Dennis Rivera<\/strong> and had tons of experience under his belt. Nieves is a big believer that in Puerto Rico you need national television exposure to bring fans to the show, so he set his goal on finding a tv deal for the number one wrestling promotion in the island. Telemundo PR used to showcased <strong>Victor Qui\u00f1one<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>International Wrestling Association.<\/strong> It had the hot button for wrestling in the mid-2000s when they aired Impacto Total at 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>CWA<\/strong> deal came as a surprise since WAPA TV has been the home of Carlos Colon&#8217;s <strong>World Wrestling Council<\/strong>. Two years ago, WAPA 2 agreed to aired<strong> Championship Wrestling Schoo<\/strong>l, a small indie promotion that showcased wrestlers from <strong>Star Roger<\/strong>&#8216;s school and <b>Thomas Martin<\/b>&#8216;s school. After the Hurricane Maria, the deal never proceeded. Now, with CWA getting huge investment, WAPA and CWA are close to finishing a deal that will see the second best promotion in the island on the same channel that WWC is aired.<\/p>\n<p>Both deals represent considerable opportunities to expand for the promotions. CWA is in need of a good tv deal since they&#8217;re airing their shows on Facebook. WWL is broadcasting their shows on YouTube, which doesn&#8217;t leave a lot of revenue. Moreover, the move can bring new sponsors to both companies. Puerto Rican wrestling will have an exciting start in 2019 with this moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico keeps bringing surprises. After a solid show by World Wrestling League last Saturday, the company announced that they had reached a deal with Telemundo PR. Also, Championship Wrestling Assocaition announced that they were closing in on a deal with WAPA TV, Puerto Rico&#8217;s largest and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":33032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3318],"tags":[1022,1021],"class_list":["post-32976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","category-puerto-rico","tag-cwa","tag-wwl"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}