WWE announces they've had their all-time best financial quarter in history

[Karamellion]

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

WCW went out of business because they spent too much money. They used to pay guys millions of dollars who weren't even working. I think it was Macho Man's brother who made like a half a mil a year and wasn't even a wrestler anymore.

And they let guys like Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan control the booking. Those dudes hate smarks

And Ted Turner sold his company to AOL/Time Warner, who did not want to be in the wrestling business.

If Ted Turner (who loved wrestling) kept his company, WCW would exist to this day

Also, how in the hell is making David Arquette your champion and bringing in Master P and Vince Russo, smark booking?

If anything, when the WCW was "smark booking" in '96-'98, they were the best wrestling show in history with the luchadors, japanese wrestlers, guys like Jericho, Malenko, Benoit, etc. . .having a major role on TOP of guys like Hogan, Flair, Goldberg, DDP, and Sting.

If they had stayed "smark" instead of trying to out celebrity the WWF with Karl Malone, Jay Leno, Dennis Rodman, Master P, David Arquette, they might have stuck around.

They were catering to smarks in 99-01 by the boat load. The amount of reboots, mentions of backstage politics and everything else damn sure wasn't for the casuals.

It's not what broke them, but it's a contributing factor.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

They were catering to smarks in 99-01 by the boat load. The amount of reboots, mentions of backstage politics and everything else damn sure wasn't for the casuals.

It's not what broke them, but it's a contributing factor.

Still though, they'd be around today if Turner could've found some way to control it.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I'm sure this is equivalent to those participation streaming numbers

 

[Momentum]

They're super tight-lipped about the profits, though.

They're publicly traded. Just go on WWE Investor and you can see everything.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

WCW went out of business because they spent too much money. They used to pay guys millions of dollars who weren't even working. I think it was Macho Man's brother who made like a half a mil a year and wasn't even a wrestler anymore.

And they let guys like Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan control the booking. Those dudes hate smarks

And Ted Turner sold his company to AOL/Time Warner, who did not want to be in the wrestling business.

If Ted Turner (who loved wrestling) kept his company, WCW would exist to this day

Also, how in the hell is making David Arquette your champion and bringing in Master P and Vince Russo, smark booking?

If anything, when the WCW was "smark booking" in '96-'98, they were the best wrestling show in history with the luchadors, japanese wrestlers, guys like Jericho, Malenko, Benoit, etc. . .having a major role on TOP of guys like Hogan, Flair, Goldberg, DDP, and Sting.

If they had stayed "smark" instead of trying to out celebrity the WWF with Karl Malone, Jay Leno, Dennis Rodman, Master P, David Arquette, they might have stuck around.

Hell they paid one of them No Limit nikkas like six figures for a developmental deal and then never used him at all

The biggest thing that killed WCW, like you said, was Time Warner. WCW lost money for all but 3 years in its existence under Turner, but he kept them around because he felt indebted to the wrestling business since that was a major factor in TBS being established. But all Time Warner cared about was the bottom line, and then when Jamie Kellner decided he wanted no wrestling on TNT, the company was completely worthless.

If WCW never got cancelled, they probably would've been sold to Fusient and then have been more or less where TNA was for a while because they'd definitely have to dump a lot of major contracts without the Time Warner pockets.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

They were catering to smarks in 99-01 by the boat load. The amount of reboots, mentions of backstage politics and everything else damn sure wasn't for the casuals.

It's not what broke them, but it's a contributing factor.

C'mon now, that went BEYOND smark booking and isn't at all what the discussion is around. That was some fourth wall bullshyt that went above the casual fans heads, and then the smarks themselves thought it was illogical nonsense.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Hell they paid one of them No Limit nikkas like six figures for a developmental deal and then never used him at all

Swoll

 

[8WON6]

who posted that photo of smackdown half empty the other day talkin bout Jinder was a hinder?

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

They were catering to smarks in 99-01 by the boat load. The amount of reboots, mentions of backstage politics and everything else damn sure wasn't for the casuals.

It's not what broke them, but it's a contributing factor.

Dude, you think bringing in Vince Russo and David Arquette was for smarks?

Making fun of Jim Ross?

The 183rd incarnation of the NWO?

Letting Kevin Nash (king anti-smark) run things?

If they were appealing to smarks, they probably would've never let guys like Malenko, Jericho, Guerrero, Benoit, and dudes like that end up in the WWE.

Those would've been the dudes running shyt.

Hell they paid one of them No Limit nikkas like six figures for a developmental deal and then never used him at all

The biggest thing that killed WCW, like you said, was Time Warner. WCW lost money for all but 3 years in its existence under Turner, but he kept them around because he felt indebted to the wrestling business since that was a major factor in TBS being established. But all Time Warner cared about was the bottom line, and then when Jamie Kellner decided he wanted no wrestling on TNT, the company was completely worthless.

If WCW never got cancelled, they probably would've been sold to Fusient and then have been more or less where TNA was for a while because they'd definitely have to dump a lot of major contracts without the Time Warner pockets.

Dude, they gave Ernest "The Cat" Miller a million dollar contrat

C'mon now, that went BEYOND smark booking and isn't at all what the discussion is around. That was some fourth wall bullshyt that went above the casual fans heads, and then the smarks themselves thought it was illogical nonsense.

Exactly.