Vince McMahon was pricing tickets on family and not maximizing prices." - TKO's Mark Shapiro

[jadillac]

We need them to separate shyt. One man booking 3-4 shows a week between Raw, SD, PLEs, AAA, etc.

Its no way any booker could handle that without getting burnt out. He need to pass some of that shyt off like Vince did with the original brand split.

But he knows that doing that makes him expendable.

I mean, personally I think there's enough COMPETENT talent now to legitimately have 2 brands again

Put bookers on RAW another on SD(really should change the show name IMO) and go from there.

Actually, if they did 2 ppvs per month again, I'd probably pay for that new espn platform

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

TKO is the threat and his fault while the influence of Saudi is Vince fault

Saudi's were coming regardless. Why because until recently (last few years) they were playing catch up to UAE and Qatar as tourist destination and entertainment/sports hosts. They've taken on and evolved UAE and Qatar's blueprint and done it on steroids and taken it on the road with the boxing. Vince saw the play before everyone else did about working with Saudi.

Hot Take (don't know if this has been mentioned before) but I think part of the appeal for Endeavour taking over WWE was the relationship with $audi. Long and short even if WWE only relationship with Saudi was just a tour date under Vince. The moment he sold to the company TKO would of ended up working with Saudi.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Also TKO don't know shyt about professional wrestling. Some may have assumed that wrestling would adopt some of MMA's realism...but that's an oxymoron, wrestlers aren't beating each other for real like it's UFC.


McMahon family selling the product to them is basically from trash to another trash. All TKO worked with are MMA fighters where formula is very simple: two fighters have a bit of trash talk and they beat each other. And MMA has been on a steady downhill for a while so there you go...one company dragging down both major entertainment products.

What Endeavour figured out that you get the 2 biggest Global Travelling Road shows under 1 roof and pimp them out to the highest bidder to host the events. And then they can mark up the prices to the overseas audiences as a special attraction. And now with TKO's involvement in Boxing they are going for the monopoly. I wouldn't be surprised if Matchroom Sports (Barry and Eddie Hearn) its Boxing business ended up under TKO as well.