Later that month, the commencement date and transmission time of the show were announced.

KPW management made the decision to name the show Off the Ropes so that the title format would be similar to Steve Rickard's famous New Zealand professional wrestling TV programme On The Mat, broadcast some 25 years earlier.

[11] Off the Ropes was also promoted on the New Zealand website Throng on 25 September 2009[12] and on 15 November 2009.

[13] KPW mainstay H-Flame was also the subject of a cover story for the internationally distributed Fire & Rescue, the official New Zealand Fire service magazine,[14] and was also featured in the Wanganui Chronicle on 6 November 2009,[15] and the New Zealand Herald on 2 November 2009.

[17] KPW wrestler Jade Diamond was interviewed by The Northern Advocate on 3 November 2009.