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Toyota took 26 years to become profitable, Amazon 9 years, Facebook 5 years, FedEx 5 years, Walmart 6 years, ESPN 6 years, Spotify 12 years, Uber 12 years, Twitter 12 years, Dropbox 14 years, Tesla 17 years, Turner Broadcasting System 12 years
 

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Looks like they got the AEW schedule this month
I know a lot of the talent was on the European tour they ran like 5 shows in a week, so this is a good cooldown
I guess this is their "offseason" if there ever was one
 

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This doesn't mean they are getting rid of domestic Live Events, they are just likely slowing them down because it's closer to the end of the year, so Holidays are a factor and they have many more planned for the International market, can't run your talent into the ground. Plus SuperShows are a Raw/SD combo card.

I'm sure they will pick back up at the beginning of the year for their Road to RR/WM season.
Considering how hot they are, this is probably smart because by early 2025 a lot of markets will be waiting for them to buy tickets for their shows. Even more so when its WM season.
 

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Cornette and others on staff around then have said the WWF nearly going out of business like people on the outside think for whatever reason is false.

They were leaner years and Vince offered never guaranteed money like WCW but they weren't in danger of going way. Similar time frame Vince gave Bret the largest contract in wrestling history, decided he didn't want Bret at that price and told him to go back to WCW and play them against WWF again. Point is nobody actually knows WWF's financials, only thing we have to go on are stories about copy paper in the office while Vince flew in expensive jets and spent hundreds on haircuts. But it's documented he's told wrestlers to use us to get more money from them, you are right with that.

But Vince was looking out more for his own business model than strategically plotting against WCW imo. For the same reason he didn't buy Flair, NWO etc when he bought WCW. They would've been making more than Rock & Austin and he would've lost control of the salary scale so he let Turner pay them out

Now, you're talking about somebody that doesn't have much concept of money because he's spent someone else's his whole life. Otherwise the thing would've been shut down by now, businesses don't go 5 years without profit unless you have more money than sense. Can't really checkmate him that way.
Look at Ted Turner, He understood the concept of money yet his competitive streak overrode his common sense. Letting Bischoff use his checkbook to sign average at best mid-carders to 6 figure contracts is one of the big reasons why they're not around today. Tony is doing the same thing and you see he's worse off than he was when they started the company. HHH signing all these people Vince released to create an "unpredictable atmosphere" was financially irresponsible, especially since only one of them have been worth the re-signing and that's Chelsea. If he's just waiting out contracts because he doesn't have the balls to fire these people, then he is never beating the TK clone allegations.:mjlol:
 

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Look at Ted Turner, He understood the concept of money yet his competitive streak overrode his common sense. Letting Bischoff use his checkbook to sign average at best mid-carders to 6 figure contracts is one of the big reasons why they're not around today. Tony is doing the same thing and you see he's worse off than he was when they started the company. HHH signing all these people Vince released to create an "unpredictable atmosphere" was financially irresponsible, especially since only one of them have been worth the re-signing and that's Chelsea. If he's just waiting out contracts because he doesn't have the balls to fire these people, then he is never beating the TK clone allegations.:mjlol:
AEW is bringing in more revenue than they ever have.
 

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Toyota took 26 years to become profitable, Amazon 9 years, Facebook 5 years, FedEx 5 years, Walmart 6 years, ESPN 6 years, Spotify 12 years, Uber 12 years, Twitter 12 years, Dropbox 14 years, Tesla 17 years, Turner Broadcasting System 12 years
What exactly am I supposed to do with this information?
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This doesn't mean they are getting rid of domestic Live Events, they are just likely slowing them down because it's closer to the end of the year, so Holidays are a factor and they have many more planned for the International market, can't run your talent into the ground. Plus SuperShows are a Raw/SD combo card.

I'm sure they will pick back up at the beginning of the year for their Road to RR/WM season.
There’s allegedly been talk for a long while now about reducing or even eventually getting rid of house shows
 

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This doesn't mean they are getting rid of domestic Live Events, they are just likely slowing them down because it's closer to the end of the year, so Holidays are a factor and they have many more planned for the International market, can't run your talent into the ground. Plus SuperShows are a Raw/SD combo card.

I'm sure they will pick back up at the beginning of the year for their Road to RR/WM season.
They would never get rid of domestic live events
They will always be a necessity
Not every talent is a veteran with years of experience and there's quite a few that need the reps on the house show circuit
Also good for people to try out some different ideas in the ring without it needing to be on TV
It would be too expensive to only run shows outside the US, which is why even with how much they've been doing events overseas this year the great majority are still in the US
 
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