Vince back on board, WWE sale coming soon / WWE funeral thread

[Deezy]

The sheer vitriol from a co dependent manchild.

 

[Smart Marx]

Dumbest take of the day....can't even get ROH a TV deal.

I agree this post right here that you’re making right now is the dumbest take of the day.

AEW and ROH are not the same company. Tony Khan and AEW have like three television shows on two of the largest cable companies in the country and they’re still negotiating for possibly more programming.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I agree this post right here that you’re making right now is the dumbest take of the day.

AEW and ROH are not the same company. Tony Khan and AEW have like three television shows on two of the largest cable companies in the country and they’re still negotiating for possibly more programming.

I mean, easy counter point to him

NXT didn't get a tv deal until YEARS in either

 

[Deezy]

I agree this post right here that you’re making right now is the dumbest take of the day.

AEW and ROH are not the same company. Tony Khan and AEW have like three television shows on two of the largest cable companies in the country and they’re still negotiating for possibly more programming.

He was talking about Tony Khan just swooping in and taking WWE's TV deals.....like that's how it works.

Read carefully.

 

[Roy Mustang]

Plus didn't TK shop it to only TNT?

 

[Comrade Khan]

Plus didn't TK shop it to only TNT?

according to him, yes, he didn't explore other networks out of loyalty to TNT/TBS, which makes sense on a tv contract renewal year. Tony is very safe when it comes to this stuff from what I noticed. same with expansion and booking new venues. slow and steady.

I'm sure he's disappointed roh didnt get tv off the go as that's a good revenue stream for him, but I do think it was a bit of a long shot. I don't think any other wrestling show is gettinga major tv deal anywhere right now period either outside wwe/aew

 

[Smart Marx]

The thing about WWE potentially dying is it would be a terrible day for the wrestling world and for wrestling history in general but I don’t think it would be catastrophic and I actually think in the long run after the wounds healed it would lead to a healthier landscape overall. WWE for the longest time had such a stranglehold on the main stream US audience that it was almost impossible for anyone else even come in and break in TNA came close when it got on Spike TV but even then they couldn’t really maintain a solid number to stay. It took almost 2 decades later after the death of WCW set up for AEW to finally start getting a strong ratings hold on to television shows and near WCW record pay-per-view buys.

When WCW died there was indeed a large chunk of wrestling fans that tuned out and never came back. It’s hard to say how likely that were to occur again if WWE folded. I do think there are people that only watch WWE, but I also don’t think there are as many casual fans as there were back in 2001. I feel like another company could potentially win some of those diehards over if they had a similar look and feel to WWE. Potentially Freddie Prinze Jr’s.

AEW would also definitely take a significant portion of the fans that don’t want to just stop watching wrestling since it’s already mainstream and accessible. That’s the main barrier for most I feel. They don’t want to track down indies. They want it on a cable channel they have access to it. Easy.

I definitely believe the vacuum of WWE dying would open up the space for at least one new challenger to fill the void, but I actually think this could even lead to a new top three. The deals WWE would leave behind would probably be split up by the next two rising feds looking to make a name for themselves.

Impact could even theoretically make a resurgence.

The main thing though is if someone can build buzz around a new project, have a roster ready to go people want to see and have PPV and TV lined up before launch, someone could easily follow in AEW’s footsteps with the new space WWE left behind, imo.

 

[Deezy]

LOL "so we tried shopping it around"....to one store....they didn't want it "well we tried".

 

[Smart Marx]

LOL "so we tried shopping it around"....to one store....they didn't want it "well we tried".

Yeah he didn’t want to piss off his largest business partner that’s currently hosting all of his programming for AEW. Shocker.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

The thing about WWE potentially dying is it would be a terrible day for the wrestling world and for wrestling history in general but I don’t think it would be catastrophic and I actually think in the long run after the wounds healed it would lead to a healthier landscape overall. WWE for the longest time had such a stranglehold on the main stream US audience that it was almost impossible for anyone else even come in and break in TNA came close when it got on Spike TV but even then they couldn’t really maintain a solid number to stay. It took almost 2 decades later after the death of WCW set up for AEW to finally start getting a strong ratings hold on to television shows and near WCW record pay-per-view buys.

When WCW died there was indeed a large chunk of wrestling fans that tuned out and never came back. It’s hard to say how likely that were to occur again if WWE folded. I do think there are people that only watch WWE, but I also don’t think there are as many casual fans as there were back in 2001. I feel like another company could potentially win some of those diehards over if they had a similar look and feel to WWE. Potentially Freddie Prinze

AEW would also definitely take a significant portion of the fans that don’t want to just stop watching wrestling since it’s already mainstream and accessible. That’s the main barrier for most I feel. They don’t want to track down indies. They want it on a cable channel they have access to it. Easy.

I definitely believe the vacuum of WWE dying would open up the space for at least one new challenger to fill the void, but I actually think this could even lead to a new top three. The deals WWE would leave behind would probably be split up by the next two rising feds looking to make a name for themselves.

Impact could even theoretically make a resurgence.

The main thing though is if someone can build buzz around a new project, have a roster ready to go people want to see and have PPV and TV lined up before launch, someone could easily follow in AEW’s footsteps with the new space WWE left behind, imo.

Yeah this is definitely true. I remember back in the day I didn’t keep up much with TNA when it was on weekly PPV, and tried to keep up with it once it was on one of them old Fox Sports channels, but the time was weird if I remember. Once it was on Spike and I could easily watch it and follow along, I became a weekly viewer.

 

[Deezy]

Yeah he didn’t want to piss off his largest business partner that’s currently hosting all of his programming for AEW. Shocker.

And WWE signed off a show for another network not under the NBCU umbrella.....


They still Pepsi?

 

[Smart Marx]

And WWE signed off a show for another network not under the NBCU umbrella.....


They still Pepsi?

I’m not arguing any Pepsi or Coke drama that you’re involved with someone else. All I know is Tony is thinking with his head and making sure that negotiations for his next contract AEW goes smoothly. Why rock the boat for a brand which could potentially still die in the coming years. His vision for ROH might not pan out. This isn’t like with Vince McMahon where SmackDown has already been on 1 million different homes.

 

[Alexa]

It amazes me how well people can google things, lmao

 

[Deezy]

I’m not arguing any Pepsi or Coke drama that you’re involved with someone else. All I know is Tony is thinking with his head and making sure that negotiations for his next contract AEW goes smoothly. Why rock the boat for a brand which could potentially still die in the coming years. His vision for ROH might not pan out. This isn’t like with Vince McMahon where SmackDown has already been on 1 million different homes.

So shopping Saturday Nights Mainevent to NBC when USA and them were not even affiliated and WWF was small time wasn't rocking the boat?

LOL have some balls TK.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

What the wrestling business really needs is a viable third alternative tbh. WWE and AEW are the big two but I'm hard pressed to really say with any imagination that Impact!, MLW, GCW, ROH (with or without Tony Khan's fortune), or god forbid NWA are "reasonable" alternatives when they are extremely niche and are on smaller networks, or no networks.

Would be great to have a third company on a major network, be that CBS or ABC or some other affiliate.