FloSlam, o novo serviço de streaming de Wrestling

Working on story but FloSlam is suing WWN for data

— SRTorch (@sr_torch) 21 de setembro de 2017

Story will be up @PWTorch later today

— SRTorch (@sr_torch) 21 de setembro de 2017

PWTorch has learned that FloSports has filed a lawsuit against WWN, which is the parent company of EVOLVE, FIP, Style Battle, Shine, and ACW. The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 15 in Travis County, Texas. PWTorch has obtained a copy of the lawsuit, which states that WWN misrepresented financial data from the events it was putting on in terms of iPPV and VOD buys. As a result of the misrepresentation of data, FloSlam claims they were induced into paying WWN hundreds of thousands of dollars.

FloSports contends in the lawsuit filed that when they asked WWN for spreadsheets to back up their claims on their iPPV and VOD buyrates, that they were told that the data was lost. WWN eventually sent FloSlam the data requested, but FloSlam contends in the lawsuit that was filed that subscribers were listed more than once and DVD purchasers were included, which should not have been factored in with iPPV and VOD purchases.

In the lawsuit filed in Travis County, Tex., Floslam is seeking damages of 1 million dollars from WWN. The causes of action are listed as breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation.

One Flo source familiar with the numbers told Fightful that during negotiations, WWN told Flo that they were averaging about 5,000 buys per Evolve pay-per-view, which sounds very high based on conversations with indie wrestling sources familiar with the internet pay-per-view landscape. The other WWN in-house promotions, Full Impact Pro, Shine, Style Battle, and ACW, which all draw incredibly small crowds even by indie standards, are believed to have been included in the deal as a value add. A WWN source who was privy to conversations within the company during negotiations alleged to Fightful that management was openly talking about inflating the numbers, with the idea that Flo had no way of verifying them.

In the end, per the Flo source, FloSlam was up to just under 2,000 paying subscribers before a brief flirtations with a $30/month price point scared some users off. Starting with that move, all of FloSports’ channels are available when you pay the monthly subscription price, whereas before, you only got one sport on the monthly plans (the one that went from $20 to $30 to $20) and had to do a discounted annual subscription to get all of them in one shot.

FloSlam is refusing to broadcast tonight's EVOLVE event. We apologize, but this is their decision. Please contact them for customer issues

— Gabe Sapolsky (@BookItGabe) 22 de setembro de 2017