WWE just gotta accept it’s not 2023/2024 anymore and book venues accordingly.
Ideally, a Back to Basics and “Let’s just do Pro Wrestling” reset/rebuild would be perfect right now, but they’re not even positioned to do it.
Nick Khan is a hustler that swindles different platforms into overpaying WWE to broadcast on their channels/services, but these places don’t have a prayer of making their money back on WWE, ESPN in particular, so the amount of ads on these big events increases by the year, making it harder and harder to produce quality major events. Between that and brand synergy cameos from actors and athletes and the company is in no mans land. Too deep in to reverse course but also not on a winning road either.
The boom’s done, and no Cena retirement of Bloodline rerun patchwork will reverse it. But they’re also being fed by ESPN and are beholden to the things that come with that.
It’s like a declining team that is not championship level, with a lot of bad contracts and no draft capital or ability to move the bad deals.
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