The Pro Wrestling Industry Needs a Proper Media, ASAP

This year, the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission threatened AEW with “punitive action” if they dared to use trans wrestler Nyla Rose again.

It’s an insane story for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the fact pro wrestling is scripted. There’s no advantage that Nyla Rose gains in her matches versus other women. It’s just another in an endless series of hateful attacks against the trans community from red states.

How did the world find out about this shocking story in pro wrestling? Real Rasslin, a blog with a few thousand followers, found the agenda for Oklahoma’s commission meeting in January, which listed the Nyla Rose incident.

The meeting minutes for the January meeting were not obtained by a pro wrestling news site or a pro wrestling news reporter. They were obtained by me, a wrestling fan with less than 1,000 followers on Twitter.

My tweet with the meeting minutes has now been viewed more than 3.3 million times, and stories have popped up in a multitude of mainstream outlets, including The Washington Post.

This is a problem

Pro wrestling is a billion-dollar industry, and that’s being conservative. According to Forbes, AEW and WWE alone combined to gross more than $1.5 billion in 2023. That doesn’t account for…