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Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP) was revived successful 2024, putting connected value pay-per-view events arsenic it drew eyes to different awesome promotion successful North America.
In June, MLP will debut connected TSN and adhd different wrestling show to a ample paper for pro wrestling fans who tin watch nan athletics almost each time of nan week if they wished.
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Rohan Raja successful nan ringing during a Maple Leaf Pro event. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
"Ravenous" Rohan Raja, who is nan Pro Wrestling Alliance (PWA) Champion’s Grail holder, told Fox News Digital why fans should put MLP into their viewing list.
"I retrieve erstwhile we ran our first show a batch of fans, me, moreover if you spell connected Twitter and moreover news articles would study it, nan value is for illustration an AEW aliases WWE product. It’s very apical notch. We person Mauro Renallo arsenic nan sound of MLP," he said. "He’s connected occurrence and he still does a batch of worldly for illustration Jake Paul, he did Anthony Joshua’s past boxing match, Tyson Fury’s past match. We person each these star-studded guys.
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"How I kinda summarize it is it’s for illustration a world’s collide but each week because we’ve had guys from AEW connected there, we sewage guys from Japan, we sewage guys from Mexico, we sewage guys and girls from WWE who travel connected it. So, I consciousness for illustration that’s nan biggest point wherever not only are they showcasing nan Canadian talent but it’s showcasing everything. I consciousness for illustration wrestling now, you do get glimpses of nan worlds collide but I consciousness for illustration we’re nan promotion that’s had everyone – a sensation of everything into one. With nan TSN tapings and really that’s gonna go, it’s really conscionable going to amp up what we’ve built and it’s thing that you wouldn’t want to miss."
Rohan Raja performs astatine Maple Leaf Pro Resurrection. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
Raja defeated Jake Something astatine MLP Forged successful Excellence to triumph nan PWA Champion’s Grail. The PWA was formed from a business among MLP, Oceania Pro Wrestling and Qatar Pro Wrestling.
It was 1 of nan first large wins of Raja’s profession and put him successful nan precocious echelon of nan up-and-coming promotion aft moving his measurement done smaller independent promotions into WWE NXT UK and past into MLP.
"When I moved backmost to Canada, I was successful talks astir perchance going backmost to TNA and that full point happened, I publication reports that (Scott D’Amore) was reviving Maple Leaf Wrestling. And I was like, nary way," he recalled to Fox News Digital. "He hadn’t told maine firsthand aliases anything. I was moving pinch him, he has different independent promotion called Border City Wrestling and he fto maine cognize what was going on. I was like, man, if he revives Maple Leaf Wrestling – my granddad knew astir Maple Leaf wrestling, that’s a large deal.
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"We did our first show successful 2024 and I won nan PWA Champions Grail. It traces its roots backmost to Rikidōzan successful Japan and Kenny Omega. It’s for illustration a lineage title. Ever since then, we’ve been doing pay-per-view value shows and nan extremity was to get a TV deal. And they yet sewage 1 pinch TSN beautiful speedy remarkably. It’s a revived promotion of Maple Leaf Wrestling. It showcases Canadian talent but it showcases world talent arsenic well, which I’m a typical of because I correspond truthful galore countries. It’s going to beryllium a play show. I deliberation it consists of an hour. On TSN, it follows I judge ‘Dynamite.’ I’m heavy progressive there. I was nan first champion. I’m 1 of nan main players there. I’m really showcased. I sewage a batch of state pinch my pre-taped promos and my wrestling."
Raja suggested that everything he’s been through, everything he’s learned connected nan road, has culminated into a monolithic opportunity pinch MLP.
Rohan Raja formerly competed astatine WWE NXT UK. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
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"I consciousness for illustration I’ve taken everything I’ve learned and put it into MLP. I consciousness for illustration it’s really showcasing that I tin clasp myself arsenic a main arena player," he said. "I’ve had really bully matches pinch big-time names each nan measurement from Rich Swann to Moose to Bishop Dyer to Rhyno to Fred Rosser. I’ve wrestled truthful galore guys, moreover astir nan world. I’ve wrestled Robbie Eagles successful Qatar for nan belt. But it really is simply a halfway merchandise connected showcasing Canadians and having that world spirit which I bring into nan company."
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
