{"id":49911,"date":"2019-07-05T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=49911"},"modified":"2019-07-05T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:44:54","slug":"mlw-to-enter-ppv-game-with-saturday-night-superfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/07\/05\/mlw-to-enter-ppv-game-with-saturday-night-superfight\/","title":{"rendered":"MLW To Enter PPV Game with Saturday Night SuperFight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wrestling\/2019\/07\/05\/mlw-major-league-wrestling-pay-view-november\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first reported by Sports Illustrated<\/a> on Friday, <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> is finally entering the Pay Per View game this year, starting with November 2&#8217;s <em><strong>Saturday Night SuperFight<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>event, taking place at Cicero Stadium, just outside of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year has been about expanding into live programming,\u201d MLW CEO Court Bauer told SI. \u201cThe evolution of a promotion is to produce more live content, and another milestone for us is pay-per-view. And now, we\u2019re going to get there with <em>Saturday Night SuperFight<\/em> on November 2.\u201d MLW has had multiple live specials this year, including <em><strong>Fury Road<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Battle Riott II<\/strong><\/em>, in addition to their weekly program, <em><strong>MLW Fusion<\/strong><\/em>, which airs Saturday nights on the BeIN Sports USA network.\u00a0<em><strong>Saturday Night SuperFight<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>will be MLW&#8217;s first foray into PPV.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Wrestling (MLW) <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/01\/17\/mlw-crown-new-mlw-world-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned to the wrestling promotion game in late 2017<\/a>, after its initial run from 2002 through 2004. It\u2019s owner,\u00a0<strong>Court Bauer<\/strong>, is a former member of WWE Creative. One of the early game changers in the indie wrestling landscape alongside\u00a0<strong>Impact Wrestling\/TNA, Ring of Honor, PWG<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>CHIKARA<\/strong>, MLW stopped being a wrestling promotion and pioneered the world of wrestling podcasts. But it returned in October of 2017 and has been going strong ever since, establishing itself with top stars like current MLW World Champion <strong>&#8220;Filthy&#8221; Tom Lawlor, Low Ki<\/strong>, and the <strong>New Hart Foundation<\/strong>, featuring <strong>Teddy Hart, Davey Boy Smith Jr.<\/strong>, and <strong>Brian Pillman Jr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can also see past episodes of MLW Fusion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNL6Rxxy-LtEdwH3YPbVS2g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on their YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As first reported by Sports Illustrated on Friday, Major League Wrestling (MLW) is finally entering the Pay Per View game this year, starting with November 2&#8217;s Saturday Night SuperFight\u00a0event, taking place at Cicero Stadium, just outside of Chicago. \u201cThis year has been about expanding into live programming,\u201d MLW CEO Court Bauer told SI. \u201cThe evolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":49912,"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":[2,5283,12,6],"tags":[2013,2012],"class_list":["post-49911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlw","category-news","category-north-america","tag-major-league-wrestling","tag-mlw"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49911","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}