Perhaps it's a test run to see what the viewership would be. Either way, it would beat the current network situation in North AAmerica if TNT decided to bring it stateside.
It would be better to be on TNT! what they air in Germany has nothing to do with air in the US and has no relation to the getting picked up by stations in the US.
That article is clickbait and all Forbes wrestling article are terrible. Avoid them like the plague.
The more interesting bit is you can watch Lucha Underground in the US and Canada and Germany and Japan and Malaysia (?!?!) but somehow not in Mexico (or England.)