GFW promoting old footage of Bobby Roode on โ€œOne Night Onlyโ€ specials

Bobby Roode left Impact Wrestling to venture into NXT and become the Glorious One. If youโ€™ve ever seen him doing his gimmick live itโ€™s absolutely perfect and heโ€™s never been used better in his career. But before he left Impact Wrestling, Roode participated in a set of tapings for the first incarnation of GFW. These television tapings were reportedly intended to try and help gain interest for a Global Force Wrestling TV show, but that never really panned out.

It wasnโ€™t until years later when Bobby Roode was in NXT as their champion and Impact Wrestling morphed into GFW that this footage would really see the light of day. But apparently, Bobby Roodeโ€™s days in GFW arenโ€™t over just yet to a certain degree.

Dave Meltzer reported in the most recent Wrestling Observer Newsletter that in an effort to save money, GFW is going to use footage of Bobby Roode, Chael Sonnen, and others for โ€œOne Night Onlyโ€ PPVโ€™s in the United States and specials in India and the UK. Theyโ€™re allowed to do this because itโ€™s their footage, but theyโ€™re also kind of passing these off as current events. At least, that is the feeling among many people that have posted comments on YouTube.

It was noted that promoters from the past like Bill Watts have done the same thing when a worker left their company and they still had footage of them. So itโ€™s not a new idea in the world of professional wrestling, but it still could be interpreted as a tad deceitful. Roode was shown in marketing for the show with the premise of โ€œwhat is Bobby Roode doing in GFW?โ€

GFW only did a handful of shows in Las Vegas so they canโ€™t keep this keep up forever. Response on social media for the promotional videos hasnโ€™t been very good and some people are accusing GFW of using โ€œclickbaitโ€ tactics in this promotional campaign. So for the time being if youโ€™re in India or the UK and see Bobby Roode pop up on GFW television, please take it with a big grain of salt.

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