MLW expands beIN Sports TV programming partnership
MLW and beIN Sports announced an expansion of their TV deal Thursday as Fusion will now seen on their free streaming/over-the-air channel, beIN Sports Extra, starting Friday.
Fusion will be seen on Fridays at 10 PM Eastern, debuting on beIN’s linear channel Saturdays at 10 PM Eastern.
beIN Sports Extra is a channel available on Roku, PlutoTV, Samsung TV Plus and other streaming platforms. Additionally, the channel is available in a large amount of cities as a free, over-the-air digital channel.
MLW has been in partnership with beIN for four years.
It’s the second announcement the promotion has made this week related to TV deals. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Fusion would debut this week on Ayozat TV, part of Sky Network in the UK.
Fusion still debuts Thursdays for free on their YouTube channel. This week’s show will see both Openweight Champion Alex Kane and Women’s Featherweight Champion Taya Valkyrie in open challenges in addition to Real 1 (nZo) against Lince Dorado.
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