MLW Signs New Streaming Deal With Tubi

As noted before, Major League Wrestling’s television deal with beIN Sports expired at the end of this past August after MLW had notified beIN Sports that they would not be renewing their deal with the network.

MLW announced that they have recently signed a new streaming deal with Tubi to air their weekly MLW Fusion shows on the service every Thursday starting on September 17.

MLW’s official website:

MLW Sets Streaming Distribution Deal with Tubi

Flagship Weekly Series to Stream Free on Tubi, Thursdays at 8 PM ET.

Major League Wrestling (MLW) today announced a new streaming distribution agreement with Tubi for its weekly flagship series, MLW FUSION. Beginning Sept. 17, new episodes of MLW’s flagship weekly series will stream Thursdays at 8 PM ET free on Tubi.

“Wrestling should be easy to find and free to watch,” said MLW Founder and CEO Court Bauer. “We built MLW around that, no paywalls, no subscription barriers, nothing standing between a fan and the show, and Tubi shares that same fan-first philosophy at scale. Starting Sept. 17, Tubi’s 110 million monthly active users have a front row seat on Thursday nights to the hardest hitting hour in pro wrestling, and it won’t cost a dime.”

MLW FUSION serves up a distinctive brand of pro wrestling, blending cutting-edge, new-era wrestling with the grit, colorful characters and throwback flavor of ’rasslin. Built around big fights, heated rivalries, championship stakes and an anything-can-happen attitude, FUSION brings a rowdy, hard-hitting edge to the modern wrestling landscape. MLW will also continue to produce live special events alongside the weekly series.

MLW is executive produced by Court Bauer, Paul Walter Hauser and Bryan Walsh.

The Hollywood Reporter reported that this is the same streaming deal that MLW and Tubi had initially agreed to in July 2021. This deal was dropped following a meeting with then WWE executive Stephanie McMahon and Tubi executives that led to WWE pressuring Tubi to cancel the deal due to WWE’s media rights deal with FOX at the time. MLW filed an anti-trust lawsuit against WWE in response in January of 2022 that was settled in December of 2023 with WWE paying MLW $20 million for a settlement.