RAW RATINGS PLUMMET

lmao Corbin in the main event knocks it out of the park again.

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS YOUNG LADY!??!!?

Getting so close to Hour 3 being under 2M

they're getting hours below two million this year

Still more than AEWho.

Can someone tell me where did this "AJ is a draw" meme originate from?

Why doesn't wrestling draw peoples attention anymore

OH NO NO NO NO SETH CONFIRMED SUPER ANTI DRAW

He is a draw

Seth was in the highest drawing segment

Below 2 mil soon!

>Brand is filled to the brim with TNA shitters
>Ratings drop quicker than expected

Just have Joe, Bobbo, Drew, Roode, and Young help AJ beat Seth to really cement things.

>Filled with TNA shitters
>Getting TNA like ratings
Woah....

Corbin was hour 3.

Ratings will FUCKING SKYROCKET next week once all the casualfags see Based Big Dimes Bray's new gimmick.

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That drop off yikes

Ratings don't matter its all about social media and they had a billion mentions

Build TNA roster, get TNA numbers. It’s over Vince, pack it up.

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Fuck you.

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Wow these are terrible ratings kek

Based Anti Swiss Shitter user

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This happens every Easter Monday

>last year’s hour 3 higher than any hour of this show

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Based Corbin tanking the ratings

You know how I know you're an e-drone?

thisisfine.jpg

Not an argument

>raw will finally go under 2 million
OH NONONONO AHAHAHAHAHAH

No one's a star, no one's over. What else is new.

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Kek at the e-drones on Twitter defending this by saying they were still in the top 5 shows for the night

>Move Big Dick Devitt to SDL
>RAW ratings plummet

cuz it's fake and gay

Based Corbin tanking the ratings

It will be interesting to see if the sd ratings are up with roman

Crazy thing about this is. Yesterday nba playoffs games were absolute garbage and small markets

Milwaukee Detroit
Houston Utah

Next month 2nd round of nba and nhl will have started, 3rd hour might actually hit under 2 million

Becky Lynch is the new Stone Cold

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last night was pretty much all wrestling so workrate nerds btfo

OH NO NO NO NO

Because nothing is fun anymore. The type of geeks that would be into this right now would rather watch other people play video games or react to something than experience it themselves.

The marks. The ring.

Nagasaki Schezuan

Jinder in '17 was a bigger draw than Styles in '18

except for the first 20 minutes where it was all WAH I IZ GOING TO BEATS U AND I R CHUMPIONZ. Literally bored to tears.

This meme is shit because Stone Cold was in the ring 23 years ago and everything was going great

>A 25% drop YOY in a SINGLE year.

So THIS... is the power of the big leagues?

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Game of Thrones did 10.3 million despite being on Easter sunday

The NBA playoff ratings are down 36% this year. No one cares about shit on tv besides game of thrones right now.

>not even 3 weeks after wrestlemania
>already almost under 2 mil
yep, im thinking wwe's gonna die

Im more concerned about that lump

Ratings are delayed, ya pinheads

>Expecting Alicia to do anything beyond stand their and be looking fine

Oh yeah, sure, Becky is the problem here.

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why would regular looking guys draw?

Hogan vs. Andre
Hogan vs. Macho
Hogan vs. Warrior
Bret vs. Shawn - business tanks
Austin vs. McMahon
Rock vs. HHH
Austin vs. Rock
Rock vs. Hogan
Benoit & Guerrero - business tanks
Batista vs. HHH
Cena vs. HHH
CM Punk and Daniel Bryan - business tanks

what's really funny about that whole segment is that it was worthless for the tv viewers since they showed a graphic for the matches and had commentary explain the whole thing in under a minute right when the show started.

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Damn, raw was actually good, minus women, for the first time in months
So many over 6’1” 215#+ guys actually burying flipping shitters
It’s a shame AJ had to win though

Becky no dimes, anti draw Sef and AJetty kek

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Who won this match?

BASED BIG BANTER BARON

Corbin

That's unironically good. Him or McIntyre would have deserved it.

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Is this the lowest rating of the year?

Ahahahahaha, as of right now. It's only going to get much worse from here on out, buddy.

Corbin was unironically the best choice, the Miz carried them to a good match, being that he is the king of safe style.
AJ v Corbin was cringe; AJ tried to styles clash and looked like a god damn geek
It’s shitty that we won’t get Corbin as a champ, ever, most likely

>Diesel is champ for a year - business tanks
>HHH is champ for 3 years - business tanks
>Roman is pushed to the moon - business tanks
FTFY

*DRAW 3 MILLIONS AS A CHAMPION IN YOUR PATH*

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>wrestling will die in your lifetime

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Jinder in 17 had semi active John Cena, you idiot.

Finna

flicked through Raw in 5 mins; only talent who stood out were Corbin & McIntyre due to their size, Cesaro who looks like a way more physically imposing Jason Statham, & Robert Roode who just has a star quality to him with the tache, music, physique, gimmick, robe, etc.

Everyone else is just meh... they don't stand out thus won't capture casual television viewers.

AJ vs. Sef = niche catering.

Raw really lacked a bonafide star i.e. Roman Reigns. SmackDown won't fall nearly as hard due to The Big Dog.

Jinder > AJ

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lol @ that lardass in the front row covering his mouth like he saw something amazing happen.

Corbins fault

>wolfcuck
Disregarded.

>Corbin, McIntyre, Cesaro, Roode
Add Miz to the list
Common theme, they’re all over 6’1 and over 215#
Raw can be good because they have actual men for once.

>Cites Meltzer data
>b-b-but wolfchad
Ya seething

>wolfcuck
Yikes

Record low attendance

forbes.com/sites/alfredkonuwa/2017/09/20/wwe-raw-and-smackdown-lives-low-attendance-is-a-study-in-fake-controversy/#42e35a2f5bab

WWE's fault for thinking Sef, AJ, and Becky are the answer

Reigns, Lashley, Braun, Drew, Orton, Jinder, EC3 should be key guys who raw builds around. Heavyweights who looks like stars. Add Cobrin also cause he has great heat and size - just needs to get him some better gear.

Burn it down!
>the ratings
Burn it down!
>the ratings

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>""Cites"" Meltzer
>Doesn't actually offer information
Ya mark.

disregard all you want
won't change the reality that Jinder and Wolfchad are based

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fake
ratings drop on wednesdays

False equivalence
>wolfchad
Wew lad.
>That drop off when he stops going against Orton
KEK.

ask you shall recieve

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More like smarks trying to hide that indy darlings are rating poison

>Orton in 2019
>Mahal after he failed to get over in his own country
Yikes

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Already BTFO eternally here wolfcuck

Orton in 2019 is still 6 foot 5, 250+lbs with abs, looks like a ma who would kick you ass in a bar, looks like a star, cans till work, still over, fresh feuds with Roman, Braun, Lashley, Drew

Orton is a stud

>great heat
>Audience literally stops watching in their droves and the live crowd stops reacting to him
Moron

Orton sounds like the kinda guy you'd want in your ass

*dabs*

Ok? Doesn't change the fact that he's stale lol

Because pic related is cancer and are collectively destroying wrestling as a whole.

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You're not important enough to benefit from the companies ratings; you only talk about it because you're an ugly loser whose desperate to feel significant. Its no different than some 16 year old emo girl rping her favorite Tim Burton movie. Kill yourself

>Redditors keep telling themselves this
The match with Corbin, Drew and Miz had more views than Rey, Aj and Joe on youtube

This

Mahal was pretty over in Canada during that run

SO TALENTED

SO BRAAAVE

OPetty ethered

Don’t be mad. That faggot ass Rollins can’t draw a single dime

>Manlets keep telling themselves Corbin is over
Lowest rated Raw hour in history
Lowest viewed WM match this year
Audience turns off in droves when he's in the main event
No one wears his merch
Isn't over

Deal with it, manlet

because it's not appealed to us anymore. it's appealed to advertisers. and advertisers want kid friendly content. so dance gimmicks.
though wwe doesnt realize if they appeal to their main core, the young adult male, the advertisers will come anyway. and better ones like Bud Light (example).

Bases

Imagine not thinking Orton vs.
>Bobbo
>Big Dog
>Braun
>Drew
as the heavyweight main event scene of Raw is not what WWE should be doing and instead thinking Sef vs.
>Ajetty
>Sloppy Joe
>Mizetty
>Ricoshit
>Zayn
is what WWE should do to increase audience

Fans want LARGER THAN LIFE STARS not 2010 ROH bingo hall main events

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Controversial yet brave and true.

>Muh ratings
I thought ratings didn't matter?

because wwe doesnt build stars so much as shove them in front of you and then demand you like them and then cut you down when you point out how terrible they are.

>Big Dog
RECORD

LOW

RATINGS

Not even Orton could get Romanetty to FOTC status

>Blames Corbin for Raw despite Rollins being champ
>"Audience turns off in droves
Redditors say this about everyone they dont like despite pulling it out of their ass
>The heel is supposed to be over
>Heel is supposed to be the merch seller

>Jumping from Hogan vs Warrior to Bret vs Shawn CONVENTIENTLY ignoring Diesel and Luger
>Adding Benoit and Guerrero as if they weren´t both just transitional champs
>Saying Cena vs. HHH instead of Cena vs Randy
>Blaming Punk and Bryan for bussines tanking when ratings began to nosedive in 2015 when the show started to be built around Roman

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>pretending wrestling losing popularity is a good thing

>Rollins isn't in main event of record low drops
>Corbin is
>Surprised when people blame Corbin
>corbin isn't a believable heel so he isn't over
Moron.

>The heel is supposed to be over
Uhh yes? What do you think "over with the audience" means? At best he has Go Away Heat and at worst he gets no reaction or What'd.

This, if WWE dies, wrestling dies. WWE isn't the greatest, but its the last thing keeping wrestling mainstream

>pretending the carny freak show that ruins liberally to sell a fat autistic kid a t-shirt and jorts shouldn't die

>AJetty in the main event killing ratings like hes back on Smackdown
>i-it's Corbin

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desu they had the two best matches in the first hour so i went to bed, sorry Bray but I knew you wouldn't be in a match.

What fucking heel is over? The purpose of a heel is to get the other guy over.

>Corbin has been in neay every lowest rated main event on Raw for the last 6 months
>But nah it must be this other guy!
Moron.

Haha fucking wow, user. Learn what the lingo means, of course a heel has to be over.

>le look meme
That doesn't matter when you have the personality of a wet paper, and Blandy Boreton sure is the example

RATINGS DOOOOWN

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>What fucking heel is over? The purpose of a heel is to get the other guy over.
Daniel Bryan, Drew McIntyre, Somoa Joe, Buddy Murphy, Randy Orton, Shane McMahon, Miz (when he's a heel), Charlotte Flair, etc.

You're ill equipped for this conversation.

Show was built around Seth Rollins is 2015 you fucking stupid simp cunt

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>What fucking heel is over?
Most of them, just not Corbin. What do you think Over means?

AJ Styles didn't headline for longest time in TNA for a reason. Russo only liked to use ratings draws in main events.

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The only people on that list that actually get booed are Brayn and Miz. The others don't do their job as heels

AJ killed ratings with his last main event run on Smackdown like Corbin did on RAW. It's almost like both are to blame instead of trying to put it on one or the other.

You're deaf.

true, smarks would cry about muh x-divison guys but ignore the fact they were shitters and the ex- WWE and WCW main eventers were the draws

AEW

>Replying to yourself

You're clueless. Bryan and Miz get crowd participation heat NOT real heat. Corbin (and Jinder when he was pushed) are the only guys in WWE who get REAL heat. Big Cass also did.

>Joe gets cheered
>Orton gets cheered
>Buddy gets silence
>Drew gets silence
Shane's pretty good

Hi, Cass

Drew isn't over
Buddy was on a show no one watched while 70% of fan would leave the building while the show was happening
Joe gets cheers and chants like a face would
The RKO is over

No it wasn´t, Roman was the hero of the story, Seth wasn´t even the main villain, that was The Authority (Steph and HHH), he was never presented as important, just a generic chicken shit heel and a punching bag for Roman to use.

If WWE dies that just means more of the good American wrestlers will go to New Japan. WWE dying is a win-win situation.

Based and Lexipilied

Holy shit, Raw is actually going to do a rating less than 2 million at some point this year, isn't it? That's crazy.

Mainstream doesn't give a shit about New Japan, if that happens then wrestling will become a Japanese thing

I'm not seeing the problem here.

WWE killed it. Nothing means anything in WWE. It's this bullshit logic of wins and losses not meaning anything, and as thus everyone is booked 50/50.

The kliq is the worst thing to happen to WWE. 4 shutters that destroyed three companies. HHH is finishing the job now by making sure the new guys carry on his legacy.

That sounds pretty based actually

NO ANTI DRAWS WERE NEVER DING
A BARTENDER GIMMICK WITH NO DONG
MAIN EVENTING AND DING-DONG DIDDLY TUNES OUT
WOMENS WRESTLING WILL NEVER BE EQUAL

-womyn wrestling
-nearly all wrestlers are skinny manlets
-little to no gimmicks
-pg era makes all storylines automatically be uninteresting
-belts might as well not exist
-WOMYN WRESTLING
-"winning or losing" doesn't matter mentality

Gee i wonder why dubya dubya E is dying

This is almost entirely true, except for Cass. Everyone hated him except himself and Enzo, cmon ya simp

Below 2 mil after MITB?

This, but it's Yea Forumsso DURHURH EDRONE SEETHE MUCH WORKED SUMMER OF 92 ELECTRIC BOOGALOOO

Nah, they won't go below 2 million until the NFL starts back up. Maybe the NBA Finals.

I think the briefcases might keep numbers up for a bit since people will watch in case there's a cash in

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Without a doubt. MITB looks exhaustingly boring. Less and less people are tuning into WWE programming. I don't even hope WWE tries to fix their show. They can do all they want, but the core will always have Vince and that dude just ruins a show. And no, when Vince croaks, HHH taking over isn't going to be any better. Another user above said it best - this show isn't for you. Your not the main audience. The main audience is advertisers.

Depends who win it. According to Yea Forums Corbin should win it again. SAVES WWE RATINGS.

Nigga, nobody's going to get hooked just for that. At most, they'll just watch the cash in on YouTube. No fucking way I'm gonna sit through 5 hours of shit to see a cash-in effectively ruined by Michael Cole's garbage commentary.

You’re all forgetting it’s Stanley Cup finals season which is a mega draw, every year. Only time people watch NHL.
It’s also NBA playoffs, again, pretty much same as NHL.
Baseball is a mini draw in April/May then again after allstar break and playoffs
But NFL will squash E, since they saw a mega ratings boost last year
Doesn’t help womyn are the main eventers now; and the entire roster is fucking TNA from 10 years ago.

I think that's why they're making MITB so early this year. I don't think it will lead to a big increase, but I think it'll have a small impact on numbers.

Indeed, plus we got some fucking womens money in the bank bullshit won by some shitter which everyone of them are. So we have to be annoyed with that shit even. Nah, its doomed.

Because it’s fucking gay and talentless cunts like becketty are treated like stars

kek NBA playoff ratings are down 36%. NHL playoff ratings are down 33%. MLB doesn't draw on Mondays.

LOL E is finished
People just aren’t watching TV anymore, everyone just cucked out to netflixing every night

Influencers and whores on instagram is the way of the future.

>tfw I turn off E for baseball every week
>tfw I can only watch Trout and Arenado play at 10pm every night
>tfw east coast babby

>Becky goes to Raw, ratings plummet.

Corbin and Becky on the same show? Thats a ratings killer.

>thinking cable ratings matter in 2019

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COPE

WWE isn't abiding "le look meme" right now and ratings are in free-fall, though.

>ratings down
>stocks at an all time high

Vince doesn't give a shit

Not true considering they give Alexa Bliss 25 minute segments every week even tho her neck is sawdust

Same reason it sucked until WCW changed the game. Vince McMahon has shit tier taste.

You don't know what a mark is.

Fucking kek is that Renner shitting all over Marlel again? Christ that lad gets more based every time I see him.

Not for long lol.

>the heel will never get over
austin

Based and wymyn-pilled.

It's embarrassing to be a WWE fan nowadays

They should make another show called WWE:TNALMAO and put all of them there.

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>AAA draws more ratings than WWE
lol

main event Corbo Borbo strikes again. Who knew that nobody wants to see a guy who dresses like a waiter and can't wrestle.

>being tethered to cable pay TV channels in the age of cord cutters
The whole thing is a giant fucking scam and even if the ratings go down Vince is still getting paid the same. It hurts the value of his product more than it does his immediate bottom line. I don't think he's gonna cry too hard seeing as he just scammed these Fox rubes out of a billion. Could be a good thing for WWE being back on free TV again, if they can capitalize on it. Another thing is the demographics, audience size doesn't matter nearly as much as demographics. Do a google search for wrestling advertising demographics. The industry thinks pretty poorly of the wrestling audience. Something like NHL hockey would draw less viewers but command similar or higher advertising rates. Why the fuck do you think that is?

>horrible botch filled matches
>shitty storylines
>shitty characters
>women/manlet main eventers
how can anyone watch this shit every week?

How come we never see +1s +3s and +7s? Those make up a large amount of viewers. Also Hulu must pull in some numbers.

This is getting depressing.

I just want wrestling (WWE included) to be good and enjoyable.

This.

Look at the ads they have on the network. IIt's all bright colors and big childlike letters set to some inane pop-rap song. Music that doesn't suit the medium at all and is used to pull in a demographic that doesnt care about wrestling anyways. It's pretty much marketed to women and to pre-teens now. The actual wrestling fans, being 15-45 year old males who grew up on grungier, sleazier content set to nu-metal have completely been alienated. They don't want Stridex pimple cream as their sponsor, they want Mattel and they''re fine sanitizing the product to something so safe and bland that a middle aged housewife is happy to let her kid watch it.

The worst part is that unlike the Golden Era or New Generation, WWE is too snarky and thinks it's too cool to commit to the campiness and color, meaning its just half assed and bland as shit for the lowest common denominator.

yeah because when i think of workrate, I think Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre and The Miz in a triple threat match, and I think about Alicia Fox having a match at all.

In what world did Benoit and Eddie look like regular guys? By the time they won the belts they were both monstrously roided to the gills, far bigger than Roman or Elias or Jinder or any "big dude" on the roster today

>15-45 year old males who grew up on grungier, sleazier content set to nu-metal have completely been alienated
>meaning its just half assed and bland as shit for the lowest common denominator

Your definition of what the lowest common denominator varies wildly from that of the advertisers. At some point in the future it won't matter as much but as long as they are in bed with companies like Comcast and Fox it's going to be a problem.

It's absolutely staggering how many people used to watch wrestling and where we are now.

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Some further thoughts, be careful what you wish for, dumbass smarks. The attitude era wasn't what it was just because it was edgy and sleazy. You can cry for politically incorrect content all day long but if you cry too hard you might end up with some Vince Russo type shit. You can't just send some wrestlers out throwing up middle fingers emulating stone cold, put some tits on the screen, but not have quality writing to go along with it.

And in the lowest rated segment.

If we're talking advertisers and networks wrestling fans are going to be the 'lowest common denominator' no matter what. That's a fact that probably still keeps Vince up at night, he can make fucktons of money but he'll never change the perception, it was still there even in the hottest period in company history.

Why are women so shit at wrestling?

the first stage is denial

Billing it like they did during the days when it aired alongside Saturday morning cartoons is a better strategy for them than getting saddled with wall to wall Stacker 2 and Five Hour Energy ads until the end of time. It might piss us off but it makes the Comcast guys the type of money they want. There are (completely unverified) rumors around that suggest Fox wants edgier content. I wouldn't hold my breath. Vince really has these guys by the balls. They can dictate how his content should go so they can try to pull the kind of advertising they want. But he sets the rate he gets paid per year regardless of what they make off advertising. He saw an opportunity when he launched the WWE Network. He made the Comcast guys piss their pants. He was able to ask for more money on account of having his own platform he could take his content to at any time. I'm sure that's the plan for the future. They might be braindead retards when it comes to producing the type of content we like to see but they're always two steps ahead on the business side. Cable TV as we know it is rapidly dying and streaming isn't "the future" anymore it's firmly rooted in the present. They still have deals with providers worldwide though that are making them assloads of money and they keep getting the execs in the US to mark out and give them more money. Until that stops the shit continues.

>(completely unverified) rumors around that suggest Fox
Not user you are answering to, just someone driving by.
I'd never ever put any kind of weight to any such rumours. Those rumours are only and only wishful thinking of someone, that someone reports as something some source told him and in the end it is nothing, because FOX bought exactly what SDL was last year.
The same thing. Nothing about edgier stuff. Also. WWE tries "edgy" from time to time. And they are laughed at by their audience. Because they are shit at it. It doesn't work anymore.

Raw and Smackdown will never move to the network. New fans aren’t made behind a pay wall. Why do you think all these E fags are still all over Youtube or do at least one free podcast a week.

If at some point they can make more money putting it behind their own paywall and possibly putting advertisements on it themselves rather than tricking someone into paying to put it behind theirs they will. It's already behind a paywall. The Fox deal will change that slightly and introduce the possibility to bring in new fans but that's not what they care about. They care about making more money.

Also.
You are very much mistaken in other things you are writing.
>He saw an opportunity when he launched the WWE Network. He made the Comcast guys piss their pants. He was able to ask for more money on account of having his own platform he could take his content to at any time.
This cannot be further from the truth.
WWE Network hurt his money making ability when he launched it, because the TV networks he was talking to were angry at him because he pulled wool over their eyes.
Network was hurting him at first. And he cannot take his content on Network at any time. That would hurt him too much and would make him WAY LESS money. Network is nice stable source of income that completely neutralized volatile PPV market and needing draws in main events, otherwise you won't get the buys.
And it is the other way around. TV people are holding Vince by the balls. But they recognize that wrestling had (operative word, had) a lot of very dedicated fanbase that clicks on everything.
And wrestling is from view of TVs impeverious to DVRs, similar to real sports.

The show isn’t good enough to justify the negative social consequences of being a WWE fan. Most of the current fans are guys who’ve reached that age where they don’t care about being cool anymore, but people younger than 30 are staying the fuck away from it.

>And he cannot take his content on Network at any time. That would hurt him too much and would make him WAY LESS money.
I think you're missing the big picture here. Right now that would make him less money than he could command from the marks desperately trying to cling to their dying revenue source. At some point it won't though. In some parts of the world the WWE Network operates as a premium subscription channel you can buy from a cable or satellite provider. See: every provider in Canada, Astro in Malaysia, OSN in the Middle East. There's no reason that couldn't be done elsewhere too. The WWE would undoubtedly be making a lot of money taking a cut from every one of those subs. Not the same as they're making now from working these fools in the industry, but definitely enough to grow, continue, thrive, etc... Also IT DOESN'T MATTER that the cable industry got shocked when he launched the network and some threw hissy fits. They still paid him the biggest amount he ever made from them after that. The same can be said about every deal after that. Who's winning and who's losing here? The numbers in the OP should give you a clue. 200+ million a year for each show FOR THAT. Tell me again how they have him by the balls...

>You can cry for politically incorrect content all day long but if you cry too hard you might end up with some Vince Russo type shit.

You say this like it's a bad thing Jim.

You really don't know your timeline, do you?
Vince surprised the execs when he launched the network in 2014 and he got way less money than was expected and he tanked his stock value.
That was in 2014.
Now people are used to streaming services and don't see them as harmful as they did before. So now, he was able to get those deals, in early 2018 and after WM he was (or rather Michelle Wilson, vice-president of WWE) able to close the deal with both NBCU (RAW) and FOX (SDL) for the record amounts of money.
The thing is that they bough live programming for dirt cheap. He is not the one who is milking the marks. They are milking him. Producing any other form of content for 52 weeks a year would have cost these two networks much more than the money they are paying him. Especially the content that would get the viewer numbers WWE's progamming was getting when the deals were signed.

Someone that takes his ball and goes home.

BASED

BURN IT DOWN
BURN IT DOWN
BURN IT DOWN
BURN IT DOWN
BURN IT DOWN

WWE WILL DIE IN OUR LIFE TIME

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>people continue to think Fox doesn't have safeguards in their deal in case of dwindling ratings

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>Guy who got exposed as a hack in WCW 19 years ago
>Guy who spent over a decade on and off writing complete fucking garbage on TNA
>Guy who is now reduced to promoting himself and begging for a job on the wrestling section of a Siberian herb picking forum

user.......

that's called FS1

>Trying to put the blame of Seth, Becky, Roman, Jinder, AJ, Corbin, Rhonda, etc

WWE doesn't make stars, there's too much television in a week, the stories and characters largely suck, and nothing matters week-to-week because Vince does everything by the seat of his pants.

>Seth was the highest drawing segment!

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This.
There is only one person to blame for this.
And no, I don't think anything can help WWE at this point. They have lost the goodwill. It will take a long time until they recover it back.
And it's not that they do not push big guys or something like that or that there is not enough funy skits or promos, as someone will try to tell you. it's because all of those things they do is bad. And there is too much good stuff you can spend your time watching and you do not have to watch live, you can wait until the next day, log into your favorite board/news site/take a look at your favorite influencer and see if something was worth it.
And yes, because EVERYONE can be on internet it means that everyone can do this.

wait a minute. did they plummet or FUCKING PLUMMET?