Instances where Cokeboy and the WWE BURNED MONEY

[THE 101]

One thing I always think of is the fact that in the company's hottest ever period they barely ran any stadium or big arena shows.

They had a couple of Raw's at the Georgia Dome and the Sky Dome, but other than Mania 17, they didn't do any PPV shows at a big venue. These muthafukkas could've ran football stadiums for all the major PPVs during the attitude era.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Super cena. Missed out on so many potential main eventers. This is the biggest one post attitude era.

This singlehandedly made me stop watching.

Killed a great faction in Nexus.
Sheamus, Ryback, Mark Henry... shyt remember R Truth and the whole Little Jimmy feud when Truth was fukking OVER. shyt killed it for me watching these guys ve built up just to lose in the end

 

[DaylitoJames]

fukking up the Nexus storyline Cena did not need to beat them at Summerslam

 

[DANJ!]

Some of these I can agree with, but some others, bruh... Mike Awesome wasn't printin no money in 2001

Far as the Invasion and not spending money to get these guys who were basically waiting out their Time Warner contracts and bein paid big time just to chill at home... I'd like to imagine Goldberg or Kevin Nash woulda been down to wrestle instead but let's be real... they probably weren't even WATCHIN the shyt let alone wantin to come back so soon.

Some of these things surely dropped the ball creatively, but I dont know if they made much of a difference when it came to money. Matt Hardy was super over in 05, but whether he beats Edge or not, I doubt he makes a big diff when it comes to merch or tickets.

Vince's biggest financial fukkups were those non-wrestling ventures that flopped hard... I don't know how he even thought some of that shyt was gonna be big business, especially the WBF.

 

[methodz]

fukking up Ryback

Ending the streak

Having Hhh go over Sting instead of booking Sting vs Taker

STILL not booking Lashley vs Lesnar

The world's only Ryback fan posts on the coli?

 

[Silkk]

The world's only Ryback fan posts on the coli?

Ryback was over af and should have beat Punk

 

[Silkk]

This is likely 99% on Brock being done.

Wym? Brock is about his money, He ain’t done

 

[Jello Biafra]

I think the biggest burned money fukk up was in Vince not running with the kayfabe of Shane running WCW as a "separate company". They could've created the illusion of competition while running it like they do the brand split right now.

 

[NoMorePie]

Ryback was over af and should have beat Punk

He was over as hell but I think he should have went over to smackdown and beat big show for the world title. A shellshock or whatever the move was called to win the title in front of 70k people would have been a moment.

 

[Reality Check]

Ryback was over af and should have beat Punk

Gold Van Damberg would have been the biggest flop champ they ever had.

 

[Silkk]

He was over as hell but I think he should have went over to smackdown and beat big show for the world title. A shellshock or whatever the move was called to win the title in front of 70k people would have been a moment.

Nah, He needed to beat the top guy. It’s reason why Rock wanted Punk and not big show.

Gold Van Damberg would have been the biggest flop champ they ever had.

Great Khali
Jinder Mahal
Jack Swagger
Miz
Kofi
Etc.

 

[DaHNIC82]

Some of these I can agree with, but some others, bruh... Mike Awesome wasn't printin no money in 2001

Far as the Invasion and not spending money to get these guys who were basically waiting out their Time Warner contracts and bein paid big time just to chill at home... I'd like to imagine Goldberg or Kevin Nash woulda been down to wrestle instead but let's be real... they probably weren't even WATCHIN the shyt let alone wantin to come back so soon.

Some of these things surely dropped the ball creatively, but I dont know if they made much of a difference when it came to money. Matt Hardy was super over in 05, but whether he beats Edge or not, I doubt he makes a big diff when it comes to merch or tickets.

Vince's biggest financial fukkups were those non-wrestling ventures that flopped hard... I don't know how he even thought some of that shyt was gonna be big business, especially the WBF.

I gotta respectfully disagree on the Matt Hardy Never Die champ... His name in 05 was as big as CM Punks in 2011... The matchup at Summerslam straight cooled him off badly..

 

[DaHNIC82]

Having Booker T lose to half ass pedegree in Mania 19

 

[Alfred0Santana]

Had he broke open the check book to get all the top WCW guys during the Invasion, he’d be worth a whole lot more right now. They could’ve had about 5 years worth of storytelling with all the potential dream matchups.

Probably nothing will ever top this. How do you not see the flip side of the profit you would have made? Even if you decided to hold off on it and build it up and let those contracts expire. Vince had fans dream scenario fall in his lap and fukked it up

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Had he broke open the check book to get all the top WCW guys during the Invasion, he’d be worth a whole lot more right now. They could’ve had about 5 years worth of storytelling with all the potential dream matchups.

The inVasion PPV I think is one of their most ordered PPVs ever, whatever they would’ve spent on all the big WCW names would’ve made whatever he had to spend to get them back within months, easily. They sold that inVasion PPV with barely any name brand WCW talent and a match involving referees on the card and it made bank, imagine what they could’ve drawn with the likes of Goldberg and Sting on there. Cokeboy let his pride go before his business sense all 2001.