They'd be fine if they didn't have two touring rosters. Their house show revenue can't be that much. They could easily alternate rosters every week too.
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They'd be fine if they didn't have two touring rosters. Their house show revenue can't be that much. They could easily alternate rosters every week too.
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Brock's going soft. All hail Rusev.
Titus, my best wrasslegaf friend, how are you?
Your avatar threw me off, pal.
I think if Brock wants to fight he wants Cain. If he wanted cash I'm sure CBS would pay him 10,000,000 to destroy Kimbo Slice or kickbox Bill Goldberg.
Cain would destroy Brock now at Brock's age and I think he knows it.
Host Samurai
Member
I'm still surprised that WWE had Lesnar job to Goldberg at Mania XX
JesseEwiak
Member
http://www.prowrestling.com/wwe-q3-financials-live-event-business-13/
In Q3, they made $25 million off live events. Now, let's assume 50% of that is RAW and Smackdown tapings. So, you're down to $12 million a quarter off house shows. That's nearly $50 million a year.
So, assuming the 2nd brand is doing about 40% of the total revenue, that's $20 million a year you want the WWE to give up - I'm sorry, but Kurt Angle wasn't going to bring in $20 million in extra revenue in his last couple of years.
Both guys were leaving, Goldberg was the face, and Lesnar brought up leaving out of nowhere in the leadup to Wrestlemania.
Well Goldberg's contract expired. Lesnar effectively wanted to quit without really any notice.
Lesnar was originally supposed to beat Goldberg.
Meltzer said on the lapsed fan podcast that the company was so looking forward to having Goldberg job to Lesnar because Goldberg refused to do any other dates despite being making a ton of money.
Then mania comes and the news about Brock breaks and Goldberg is the face.
It's probably why Goldberg won't make it into the hall of fame. He just didn't enjoy the business on any level and he didn't respect it.
Masquerader
Member
Even Song of the South-era Disney wouldn't fuck wit WWE.
Fun fact: The movie was released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Triple H also hates Goldberg so that's going to make it hard for him to get in.
JesseEwiak
Member
And by respect the business, you mean do extra work for free.
I'd have to take Goldberg's side on that one. Considering how the only reason they brought him in was to try to prove to everyone that he wasn't a star.
Why hasn't anyone given Bray Rabbit a straw fedora, and Hawaiian shirt yet?Even Song of the South-era Disney wouldn't fuck wit WWE.
So was Citizen bah gawd its KANE
IIRC on the podcast Meltzer said they wanted to pay Goldberg more he just refused to work more dates. After Summerslam Brock signed a new agreement that said the WWE could use him whenever they wanted. They just had to pay him his appearance fee. He wanted to work during that time but the WWE didn't want to use him.
I don't think he is going to hold Grudges like Vince. HHH fucking hated Warrior and he brought him back in.
Anybody here going to the NXT show Friday? I ended up spending more on those tickets than WrestlemaniaShould be a wild crowd that night.
I hope that event airs on the Network. Somehow...
I think its shit like this where you point to the corprate culture and how it really fucks up the product.
Austin had to fight with creative to keep his character over considering some of the stupid ideas they had.
Same could be said for HHH. The Mania 21 match with Batista they wanted to have on Raw. Except after Montreal HHH had political capital to work off of.
Vince is somebody who is addicted to conflict. He wants employee's who get up in his face and fight with him about the creative. Except the marketplace is different for wrestlers today and unless they want to get their face smashed in like Punk they have nowhere else to go.
Jimmy King
Member
Tay has that effect on people.
I'm doing well, thanks for asking. About to head off to Mania (for free) and spend the next few days fucking around. How are you, brother?
Brock Lesnar is the brass ring.
Brock Lesnar is...
beaten.
Again this is what Vince respects. Here is an snipit from an Article on Shane McMahon.
slightconfuse
Banned
old but lol
Host Samurai
Member
I also remember rumors that if Brock stuck around post Mania XX that he would have been jobbed to the Newley resurrected Taker.
In a what if scanerio if Brock never left I doubt Batista would have left the mid card
In a what if scanerio if Brock never left I doubt Batista would have left the mid card
Sibersk Esto
Banned
old but lol
The smark is off the charts
"A match that would've been cool 15 years ago" is the perfect description for HHH vs Sting.
If there's one thing that I can't wait for is a Mania that doesn't prey on nostalgia. Mania 30 was that but now here we are again with a match that is there for the "remember the good times?" folks.
If there's one thing that I can't wait for is a Mania that doesn't prey on nostalgia. Mania 30 was that but now here we are again with a match that is there for the "remember the good times?" folks.
JesseEwiak
Member
Still going to make tens of millions of dollars for Vinny Mac, so the Internet can lol all they want.
So, the WWE shouldn't appeal to their widest possible audience?
Jimmy King
Member
Jesse, have you considered doing the April OT?
The WWE should look at the future like any good company does instead of relying on something good they did 20 years ago.
JesseEwiak
Member
It'd be mostly links to 70's Memphis, arguments over 80's lucha, and why Buddy Rose is great.
They are looking toward the future - the future of Roman Reigns beating indie guys for the next ten years.
Jimmy King
Member
Sounds like my okcupid profile!!!!
Liquidsnake
Banned
His run there was an embarrassment, and only proved more to Sting that at the time it was not the place to go.
Steiner got buried
Goldberg got treated like shit.
Ridiculous that you can put BS aside and make some money together.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Is Cage that brah that's bangin Kaitlyn?
They fucked over Goldberg by beating him at Summerslam 2003 for no reason. HHH was injured, Goldberg was over, and instead of having him just crush HHH and take the title, for some reason HHH retained with generic Evolution cheating.
Then he lost the title to Goldberg at the next PPV instead, by which point no one cared.
HHH beat Goldberg twice. Goldberg won once. Pretty much tells you what you need to know.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
To be fair, HHH beat him with a sledgehammer and with the help of Kane, in a triple threat match that killed any remaining momentum monster Kane had by making him HHH's lackey for practically that entire bout.
Fucking hell, 2003 era HHH really was the worst. The absolute worst.
Fucking hell, 2003 era HHH really was the worst. The absolute worst.
it almost sounds as if they saw a hot property come in that they had no hand in crafting whatsoever and had a grudge against him from the first working day
nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh never
Oh god that list.
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Konnor huh?
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Lucha time, friends!