Savio Vega Comments On MLW Forming A ‘Strategic Alliance’ With IWA Puerto Rico

In an interview with Wrestling Inc, Savio Vega spoke about what he calls a ‘strategic alliance’ between MLW and IWA Puerto Rico. Here are highlights:

On the alliance of MLW and IWA Puerto Rico: “[It’s] been coming for a long time since I heard they wanted to get in touch with me. Then was a some time where I heard nothing about that. Then [they] came back again, and we sat down and talked. Court Bauer had that in mind. Coming up on this TV, Court called, and I agreed. Why not? We would like to bring the company here to Puerto Rico and why not join the IWA? You’re going to have two banks of talent, and you could do a big, big show here in Puerto Rico and have a joint company with WWC, Carlos Colon’s company there. You have a huge bank of talent from three companies, and a mega big show could happen here in Puerto Rico anytime soon. Hopefully, this coronavirus goes away and let’s us do what we’d like to do.”

On if there is trouble flying talent to Puerto Rico due to the pandemic: “They never closed the airport. I mean, different cultures of course. They closed their airport because they own the town or whatever. In Puerto Rico, the airport is always kept open. I had the chance to fly a few times, and the army, when you’re coming out of the plane, they’re right there. [They have] papers for you to sign, where you need, how you feel, emails and your information, which is okay. If you feel something, whatever you cough, you have a fever, they take you to this other side where they do the test for you to check on you and not just a check on you, after that, they continue to check on you by text where every day they send you a text message where they ask you how you feel. If you have fever, how do you feel? A couple of questions and you say yes or not.”

On IWA Puerto Rico talents that could face MLW talents: “Of course, you have Mr. Big. He’s 6’8″ almost 200 something pounds. He’s the champion right now. You got Manny Ferno, a big tough heel. You have some juniors that could have great matches with the talent in MLW, and also, I’d like to see a mixed card with MLW in Puerto Rico. We’re talking about Roberto Clemente Stadium in Carolina, Puerto Rico. We just opened it now. Good news is basketball in Puerto Rico has started. Some baseball has started. It’s 25% that they’re going to let people come into the arenas. So we need to get the open space, open arenas, stadiums or baseball parks to do wrestling. If you have a 5,000-seat arena, building or stadium, you would have at least 1500 people coming in, and that’s okay because if you have a small place [and] not too many people coming in — it’s hard for the promoter to make some money because this is a business. So let’s see what happens in the next year to see if the coronavirus [numbers are going] down. People have to take care of themselves because they don’t take care of themselves this is going to continue for a long time. So we need to cut down the percentage of sick people so the government give us the time to open the arenas so that way we can entertain the people, and we can come back to normal. So let’s see what happens next yea. You never know. I don’t February, maybe the summer, we could see MLW in Puerto Rico.”