your friend wicka posted:

Yeah I think this is the key point. He mentions the media rights deal because he’s trying to gain support of the other shareholders by suggesting he could negotiate a better deal.

Hefty Leftist posted:

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Drakkel posted:

Edit: Also it's wild that Cody missed the entire HHH era

Critical posted:

vinceurrection

Vandar posted:

The funniest option would be that somehow, SOMEHOW, Impact ends up buying the WWE.

JUNGLE BOY posted:

Bray should be in an e-fed and most well known for being banned from several other e-feds

MasterSitsu posted:

Just thinking of this moment for reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB7fMuFE_As

Drakkel posted:

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Lid posted:

did a google out of curiousity and there is a random collection of youtube channels obsessed with stating Roman Reigns converted to Islam

Gavok posted:

Tony buying WWE and putting Cody in charge would be the funniest ending and would deserve its own movie.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

CopywrightMMXI posted:

When this show was stories of teenage/child Rock it was okayish, but once they got to his WWE career it went to hell. Every screen cap I see looks like it’s from a WWE themed porno movie.

Astro7x posted:

WWE has just been failing upward somehow, getting more and more for their TV rights fees that just seems unjustified. If they receive anything less than the previous offer, that stock is going to tank so loving hard when it's currently at an all time high. And with ratings declining it seems like they are not going to get the same rights fees they got at the last renewal.

The plan is to sell the company prior to the contract negotiations in the fall. The company then goes private, everyone finally gets to cash out on their stock holdings, and then when they get less for rights fees in the Fall it doesn't matter anymore. Vince would easily lose over a billion dollars if rights fees go down and the stock tanks before a sale.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

should've gotten Rob Van Dam

DeathChicken posted:

Reminds me of Jericho's story about how he dressed up as Doink for an angle on Raw in 2001, a completely drunk Shawn finds him backstage. "I can't believe they made you Doink. You're too good to be Doink." "Shawn I'm dressed like this for an angle." "I'm gonna charge into Vince's office right now and tell him you're too good to be Doink." And then Shawn was gone from WWE for awhile

Edge & Christian posted:

I'm reasonably sure that is not how any of this works? The Oklahoma Firefighters' Pension & Retirement System has a net worth of around three billion dollars and according to its reports has that spread around to a lot of different stocks/investment instruments. It looks like the vast majority of the "stock" they they hold, like $500M worth, is in Index Funds/investment funds, which is how most people's investment accounts work. These investment funds own the majority of WWE stock

JUNGLE BOY posted:

That DICK! posted:

SpeakSlow posted:

Erudite commentary.

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Bray Wyatt seems like a guy who wants to be a writer/director but has to be a wrestler because wrestling is the only field of scripted fiction with a low-enough bar for what constitutes "creativity"

Gonz posted:

Sami is gonna get piledriven atop a Dippin' Dots cart by Uncle Howdy and then he will be fired. All traces of his existence will be wiped from every piece of WWE media.

Dango Bango posted:

Any chance this could be treated as a monopoly?

lukess1 posted:

Two things:

1. WWE wasn't great at it when they owned the service.
2. Endeavor is going to immediately try to get out of that deal.

JUNGLE BOY posted:

I just saw how much debt Endeavor was carrying before this deal lmfao there is gonna be a bloodbath + very expensive monthly PPVs

Digital Jedi posted:

Depends

From a fan perspective it was great. $10 a month is not much for a ppv every month (or 2 if the timing worked out on the day you subbed and the ppv date. Sometimes you could sub for 1 month and get 2 PPVS and unsub right after) and obviously their catalog

From business perspective I don't think they ever saw much growth in subscriors. I want to say over the years it constantly dropped and never got back to the heights it had when it launched. It would spike for the big 4 but it never retained that many.

Edit: also I think they realized selling access to their catalog is huge money. Peacock is like what 1 billion a year or something?

Suplex Liberace posted:

Cody Rhodes Slap Fight champion

1glitch0 posted:

Didn't that show end with Austin turning heel, unofficially ending the Attitude era, and sending the american wrestling business into 20 years of darkness never reaching the peak of popular culture since?

kalensc posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w&t=105s