WWE PLE’s headed to ESPN starting in 2026

[VegetasHairline]

Will this mean the return of unique PLE sets

 

[Norrin Radd]

Will this mean the return of unique PLE sets

They only give pyro to like four people, there ain’t no way in hell they going out of their way to something like that

 

[Norrin Radd]

 

[Tommy Lee Jones]

These companies pay WWE all this money and then WWE doesn’t meet expectations. WWE keeps running the same play and burn bridges. Eventually they gonna burn them all. Who else is there besides Amazon at this point? Netflix cannot be happy with the numbers and eventually it’ll end up like fox. Then where do you go?

 

[horizon]

I'm retired from interacting with 99% of this board and really IWC as a whole. The only exception being pics threads. It's made viewing wrestling a lot better not being part of echo chambers or reading shyt daily by people with mental needs. But when I saw the news I had to come here and...y'all didn't disappoint

Wrestling fans have this innate ability, whether here, Reddit, Twitter, doesn't matter where, to be completely and totally wrong on anything and everything outside the bubble of wrestling. Including the business of wrestling. Then double down on the mental gymnastics and conclusions that only ever existed in their heads. It's like you all have opinions you think these company need to follow on TV weekly, now you know better than execs handling billion dollar grossing entities for a living. It isn't just a TKO, you all did the same thing with Vince.

This guy and a lot of the rest of you thinking you have one brain cell to offer Nick Khan about his handlings is wild. IWC said the Netflix deal was bad, they'll cancel the deal because of Vince, other shyt you came up with hyperventilating off scenarios you made up. Raw is consistently a top viewed program for Netflix. Let the IWC tell it, wrestling fans have been priced out, they're still selling out venues and hitting near sellouts. At the very least the shows are fuller than 2019 while costing more, while a depression is coming off of Trump. How can Nick Khan be wrong about so much and the IWC be right about it all, yet Nick's the one signing these billion dollar deals and the price structures so far are working, while IWC ain't been asked to sign shyt. They just keep waiting for the next boogeyman that'll "sink the ship". Thought that kind of shyt was supposed to stop with Vince...yeah

Anyway man, carry on. I just thought it was crazy reading comments here and elsewhere about things nobody outside Nick/Ari have the data or enough insight to be having opinions on, having opinions. Not even defending money hunger, if the shyt ain't for you cool then let them know and not watch. Let the ones that actually have an idea about 2030 in 2025 worry about what things look like in 5 years.

If things don't work they'll feel it. They seem to think they'll be fine and if I'm honest they most likely will be. People in the "just watching WWE" category on Netflix & Peacock are most likely few and between. This is aimed to hook more casuals by putting wrestling right next to real sports and further legitimize wrestling as sport instead of just the carnival with steel chairs. But until then when things stop working, take the rest of the summer off and kick your feet up tiger.

Glazer of the Year type shyt

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

These companies pay WWE all this money and then WWE doesn’t meet expectations. WWE keeps running the same play and burn bridges. Eventually they gonna burn them all. Who else is there besides Amazon at this point? Netflix cannot be happy with the numbers and eventually it’ll end up like fox. Then where do you go?

You're right about FOX. They were happy to get rid of WWE. I'm not sure that's the case with Peacock/USA. They've been a longtime partner of WWE and will continue to be the home of SD! and it's rumored that they might buy some cheaper wrestling.

Maybe if the Peacock numbers were amazing they would have matched but they just paid a ton for NBA rights so they probably felt that's enough. I saw someone report that Peacock took a "big hit" by not renewing and I can't see that being the case with NBA coming.

 

[DANJ!]

I don't think any of this is gonna sink them or really pose a problem, but I do feel like in 10-20 years, there's gonna be a documentary about all this shyt that's happening...

And not to be on the "Vince would have never done this" train cause we don't know that for sure, but there's a lot to be said that there's a clear difference in his connection to WWE and their connection to it. We may not have liked all his ideas, but he still had a personal connection to it. The people running it now only see it and treat it as something to make money off of- they're not involved in creative, or working with the talent, or any of that shyt at all. That's why it's easier for them to just slap 7-Eleven and Dude Wipes in the middle of the ring, and raise ticket prices like crazy, and break contracts with New Orleans because they wanna repeat the money they made in Vegas for Mania. Now to me the $30 a month ain't that big a deal because that's like the same as a DoorDash order Matter fact, it's the same price a PPV was in 2000. It's not breaking the bank or nothin', it's just highly exploitative and really taking advantage of the way WWE got hot again. All these changes they're making may slap them in the face when all of this cools off.

 

[bear27]

Bit 6 certs
6 figure on here

No?


All bullshyt drunk joking aside

They can't go back to a ppv model now
They have NOBODY bar creepy Bork that people will pay to see


Obviously have more technical people in ring etc etc

But nobody to sell ppvs




You'd not have bought ppvs even for roman as it wasa foregone conclusion for his run


What ppv sells even Cena v rocky one more time might sell for maniac but not really

After that who you got


Be honest what match makes you pay for ppv

 

[Shadow]

Will this mean the return of unique PLE sets

We had it good

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Summerslam cant even get something dope now

 

[Rell84shots]

IDK I think they should've kept the PLEs on Peacock even if they were offered 100mil less than ESPN to stay. I think this move will be disastrous for them like it has been for the UFC.

 

[DaylitoJames]

So SaudiMania won't be just a nickname TSC created but will be an actual event?

 

[CM_Burns]

Lol, all the celebration with Vince gone but TKO has made it soulless as fukk

 

[Pool_Shark]

How many years did "real sports" shyt on fake wrestling?

 

[Shadow]

How many years did "real sports" shyt on fake wrestling?

While secretly the players loved wrestling.