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Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP) has relaunched in 2024, hosting quality pay-per-view events while drawing attention to another major promotion in North America.
In June, MLP will debut on TSN and add another wrestling show to an extensive menu for professional wrestling fans to watch the sport almost every day of the week if they choose.
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Rohan Raja in the ring at a Maple Leaf Pro event. (Provided to PK Press Club Digital)
Pro Wrestling Alliance (PWA) Champion Grail Holder “Ravenous” Rohan Raja spoke to PK Press Club Digital about why fans should put MLP on their viewing list.
“I remember when we aired our first show, a lot of fans, me, even if you go to Twitter and even the news articles report it, the quality is like an AEW or WWE product. It’s really great. We have Mauro Renallo as the voice of MLP,” he said. “He’s on fire and he’s still doing a lot of things like Jake Paul, he did Anthony Joshua’s last boxing match, Tyson Fury’s last match. We have all these star-studded guys.
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“To sum it up, it’s like a global collision, but every week, because we have AEW guys there, we have guys from Japan, we have guys from Mexico, we have guys and girls from WWE coming. So, I feel like that’s the biggest thing where not only are they showcasing Canadian talent, but they’re showcasing everything. I feel like wrestling now, you get a glimpse of the worlds colliding, but I have feeling like we’re the promotion that got everyone – a taste of it all in one With the TSN tapings and how it’s going to go, it’s really going to amplify what we’ve built and it’s something you don’t want to miss.
Rohan Raja performs at Maple Leaf Pro Resurrection. (Provided to PK Press Club Digital)
Raja defeated Jake Something at MLP Forged in Excellence to win the Holy Grail of PWA Champion. The PWA was born from a partnership between MLP, Oceania Pro Wrestling and Qatar Pro Wrestling.
It was one of the first big wins of Raja’s career and put him in the upper echelon of the up-and-coming promotion after working his way through smaller independent promotions in WWE NXT UK and then MLP.
“When I came back to Canada, I was in talks about possibly returning to TNA and all this happened, I read reports that (Scott D’Amore) was relaunching Maple Leaf Wrestling. And I was like, no way,” he recalled to PK Press Club Digital. “He hadn’t told me firsthand or anything. I was working with him, he has another independent promotion called Border City Wrestling and he let me know what was going on. I was like, man, if he starts Maple Leaf Wrestling again – my grandfather knew Maple Leaf wrestling, that’s a big deal.
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“We did our first show in 2024 and I won the PWA Champions Grail. It goes back to Rikidōzan in Japan and Kenny Omega. It’s like a lineage title. Since then we’ve been doing quality pay-per-view shows and the goal was to get a TV deal. And they finally got one with TSN pretty quickly and remarkably. It’s a revived promotion from Maple Leaf Wrestling. It highlights Canadian talent, but it also highlights value international talent, which I’m a representative of because I represent so many countries. It will be a weekly show, which will be an hour, it follows, I believe, “Dynamite”.
Raja suggested that everything he experienced, everything he learned on the road, culminated in a huge opportunity with MLP.
Rohan Raja previously competed in WWE NXT UK. (Provided to PK Press Club Digital)
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“I feel like I took everything I learned and put it into MLP. I feel like it really shows that I can consider myself a main event player,” he said. “I’ve had some really good matches with some big names, from Rich Swann to Moose to Bishop Dyer to Rhyno to Fred Rosser. I’ve faced so many guys, even all over the world. I wrestled Robbie Eagles in Qatar for the belt. But it’s really a staple to showcase the Canadians and have that international flavor that I bring to the company.”
