WWE will be out of cash in 24 months

[Killer Instinct]

Hire more wrestlers. To me it seems like they have even less wrestlers on the rosters compared to just four or even three years ago.

I agree with a lot on your list but they don't even utilize the talent they have now, breh.
And I'm just referring to the guys on the main roster. That's discounting the talent in NXT that's toiled away in developmental for five years.
Some of them don't even get used there.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I agree with a lot on your lists but they don't even utilize the talent they have now, breh.
And I'm just referring to the guys on the main roster. That's discounting the talent in NXT that's toiled away in developmental for five years.
Some of them don't even get used there.

Agreed. I need to add this to the list. It seems back during the Ruthless Aggression era most of the talent from low card all the way to maineventers were used. And the roster was MUCH bigger back then mind you. And with a lot of star power. There was no sole "face of the business" like there is now.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Agreed. I need to add this to the list. It seems back during the Ruthless Aggression era most of the talent from low card all the way to maineventers were used. And the roster was MUCH bigger back then mind you. And with a lot of star power. There was no sole "face of the business" like there is now.

You ain't never lied.
I watch Armageddonon the Network from like '00 or so and a couple of old RAWS from around the same time.
The writers actually fleshed out the undercard characters and made fans semi give a damn about them.
Val Venis and The Godfather were more over in that span than 95% of the current roster.
I repeat, Val Venis was more over in 99 - '00 than 95% of the current roster.
That's incredible.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

You ain't never lied.
I watch Armageddonon the Network from like '00 or so and a couple of old RAWS from around the same time.
The writers actually fleshed out the undercard characters and made fans semi give a damn about them.
Val Venis and The Godfather were more over in that span than 95% of the current roster.
I repeat, Val Venis was more over in 99 - '00 than 95% of the current roster.
That's incredible.

Hell freaking EUGENE was probably more over than half the roster today. I ain't kidding...

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

1. How would firing Bryan help? They lost subs and people rioted when he got eliminated in the Rumble. So that means if they fire him theyll make more money right? Fire the most over wrestler in the company and think itll save the business brehs.
   
2. Booking is shyt but WWE has a lower ceiling now than ever. And a reasonably high floor too. Thats one of the reasons why booking doesnt really matter for their business all that much. Ratings are gonna hover within a standard deviation of their average for a long time. I dont see another boom period ever happening again..no matter what. Its never going to get back to the Wars era of ratings. Its just not.
3. Stockholders musta been laughing their ass off at the stupid network unveiling thing. They used former wrestlers to promote the future and were giving away their biggest non-gate revenue streams for 10 bucks a month. It was clear as day that the best was behind the company and stock going up was just pump and dump speculation.
4. They could have charged 10 dollars a month for membership..then a certain amount per event/program with some being free. Keep the major PPVs off the network or charge slightly less if bought through the network to cut out the middleman. They just threw that in there for nothing basically. They could have capitalized and charged like 2 bucks for every old PPV in the vault, like an extra dollar or two a month to watch NXT etc and made a shyt ton of cash also.
5. Their TV deal is the biggest dough (safe assumption with ticket sales too)..but they market mainly to kids who have no money to spend or need permission from parents to spend.

So many dumb things. They will stay afloat but they gotta destroy a bit to re-structure and rebuild if they wanna be more profitable. Cutting dividends is gonna be a nightmare for them if they dont also change some things within the network to make money back.

 

[dh86]

WWE changed their plans last year to appeal to the goatface neckbeards. Those people did not buy the network or cancelled it soon as Bryan was legitimately injured. fukk them, him, and any smark who doesn't like it. They need to go.

This company had to switch plans from having the belt on one of the leading actors from last years film of the year, for bingo hall Daniel Bryan.

The goat face neck beard geeks that complain online are the same people at the arena the same people that they're relying on to get the Network and keep WWE afloat. The internet is everywhere. Batista being 4th billing in a movie while being part time champ wouldn't have did shyt for WWE

 

[Pesci]

When they brought in that rapping cac waving his hand in front of his face with cut off jean shorts i was done

 

[Pesci]

Making the decision to allow people to get the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, and Summerslam for $30 was dumb, but ultimately I think the problems run a lot deeper than the bungling of the network. If you believe CM Punk, the storylines for everyone other than Cena are basically being written on (at best) a month-to-month basis. Think back to the year 2000, when they had a writer that planned out every character's story for that entire year (something he was mocked for). Sure, some of it sucked, but a lot of it still stands up well today. As someone who got back into wrestling about two years ago, it just seems like feuds are basically being set up at random. The in-ring quality is fine, but I don't give a flying fukk about Usos vs. Goldust and Stardust for the 50th time.

Even terrible characters like Val Venis at least had a story.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Making the decision to allow people to get the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, and Summerslam for $30 was dumb, but ultimately I think the problems run a lot deeper than the bungling of the network. If you believe CM Punk, the storylines for everyone other than Cena are basically being written on (at best) a month-to-month basis. Think back to the year 2000, when they had a writer that planned out every character's story for that entire year (something he was mocked for). Sure, some of it sucked, but a lot of it still stands up well today. As someone who got back into wrestling about two years ago, it just seems like feuds are basically being set up at random. The in-ring quality is fine, but I don't give a flying fukk about Usos vs. Goldust and Stardust for the 50th time.

Even terrible characters like Val Venis at least had a story.

This is true but it doesnt really matter. The only way long-term booking = more money is if new viewers watch long term. If a person who hasnt watched wrestling in a while, or perhaps never before, decides to tune into a Raw..how are they going to know the difference? They masquerade all their short term shyt with a million video recaps and replays every Raw and Smackdown so I dont see how someone who hasnt already been watching for a while would discern between the two. There is something to be said about viewer retention vs new viewer gain and I dont think the E sees enough reward in investing in too many long term plots when an injury or fukk up could de-rail the whole thing since their ratings have still been good in comparison to other shows. They should have contingency plans in place so they can evolve storylines if needed but they are too lazy or inept.

Its more about quality booking than just long-term booking but, with that said, long-term booking shouldnt really be as overlooked as it is.

 

[Love Sosa]

Maybe if WWE would change shyt up... I watch the product today sometimes and besides a few wrestlers, everything is basically the same as it was in 2009. 2009 was fukking six years ago. If you look back in time at old WWF and compare 1993 to 1999, a six year difference, EVERYTHING was completely different. SuperCena has been main eventing for ten straight years now Personally I feel like the company is so big now that they're too worried about other shyt than just putting on a good show. Plus the company is public so they have to tiptoe around a bunch of random things because of sponsors and whatnot. Yall I watched WWF every day from like '96 to around '09. I loved this shyt. I haven't really watched since then. I've not seen a full episode of Raw or Smackdown. I still keep up sort of via internet and whatnot but it's not like it was at all. What I can tell is that The Rock, CM Punk, and Brock Lesnar are the things I've seen in the past five years that have captivated my interest and made me love the shyt again somewhat. Except now Punk is gone and Rock isn't really there. It's not about being "PG". WWE was PG all the way up to '97 and still managed to be good.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Hell freaking EUGENE was probably more over than half the roster today. I ain't kidding...

Wasn't that the special ed character that always caught the beats from Hunter?

I'm so glad I missed out on that.
Vince has no shame.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Maybe if WWE would change shyt up... I watch the product today sometimes and besides a few wrestlers, everything is basically the same as it was in 2009. 2009 was fukking six years ago. If you look back in time at old WWF and compare 1993 to 1999, a six year difference, EVERYTHING was completely different. SuperCena has been main eventing for ten straight years now Personally I feel like the company is so big now that they're too worried about other shyt than just putting on a good show. Plus the company is public so they have to tiptoe around a bunch of random things because of sponsors and whatnot. Yall I watched WWF every day from like '96 to around '09. I loved this shyt. I haven't really watched since then. I've not seen a full episode of Raw or Smackdown. I still keep up sort of via internet and whatnot but it's not like it was at all. What I can tell is that The Rock, CM Punk, and Brock Lesnar are the things I've seen in the past five years that have captivated my interest and made me love the shyt again somewhat. Except now Punk is gone and Rock isn't really there. It's not about being "PG". WWE was PG all the way up to '97 and still managed to be good.

Yeah when kayfabe was NEVER broken, there were fewer other options on TV and basically no internet...and also WWF had about 3 so so years leading up to 97

 

[KatieGotAzzHairs]

Wasn't that the special ed character that always caught the beats from Hunter?

I'm so glad I missed out on that.
Vince has no shame.

The most majestic thing about Eugene was that he was played by Nick Dinsmore who at the time was the best wrestler in developmental. So they took their best in ring prospect by faaaaaaaar and made him a bumbling lackwit.

 

[ejthompson23]

fukk them...they watered down wrestling to a kids show...I still got a copy of here comes the pain on PS2...

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

how did this turn into a daniel bryan discussion