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Fox reaches agreement to air WWE's 'SmackDown Live' (Update: 5 Years, 1 Billion Dollars)
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To be honest they can do quite a lot even without PG-14, it just needs their creative team to not suck ass
Wrestlers still have to agree to sign. I think you are being a tad too pessimistic. If anything, the last month has shown that there is a ton of money to be made on wrestling outside WWE. WWE has been buying up talent for the last three years and I think there is a good argument that the non-WWE wrestling is the best it has been in 20 years.
FOX GOT WORKED!
AJ Styles vs Nakamura on FOX the dream match!
YOU SOLD OUT TO DISNEY and that's a shoot!
AJ Styles vs Nakamura on FOX the dream match!
A heel representative from "The Network"!.
YOU SOLD OUT TO DISNEY and that's a shoot!
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I just realized that Fox killed a lot of their original series recently since now they don't have 2 hours to fill on primetime every week starting Oct 2019
WWE could absolutely offer everyone on the All-In card money that would be insanely stupid to turn down.
Every last one of them.
I'd be very surprised if Kenny Omega wasn't in WWE within 2 years if not sooner.
But they could do that now. Like who honestly do they not have the money to sign right now?
WWE's also a publicly-traded company, so just signing a bunch of people out of spite because you can won't be looked on favorably.
It's also good for business for wrestlers to be able to work outside WWE, make money, build up name value, and gain experience so that everyone isn't trained from the ground up by WWE.
I remember vividly having a discussion in wrassle gaf were multiple posters were insisting USA was going to drop WWE because "ratings are down". Never mind that RAW and Smackdown were the top rated shows on the network by a massive factor, they were going to be dropped. Ratings are down!
Colin also works at Fox Sports 1 and values not being fired immediately
They'll probably keep the Smackdown name for brand purposes
Wow, stunned.
- Bring back pyro.
- Less house shows/more time off for everyone.
- Top wrestlers get PAID w/out the need of merch.
- Don't need to pimp out free network trials. Make NXT the backbone with PPV's. Can easily raise the price to $15. Even a measly 2mil subscribers would make them bank.
- LOL @ everyone who saw WWE dead within the next couple of years.
- Bring back pyro.
- Less house shows/more time off for everyone.
- Top wrestlers get PAID w/out the need of merch.
- Don't need to pimp out free network trials. Make NXT the backbone with PPV's. Can easily raise the price to $15. Even a measly 2mil subscribers would make them bank.
- LOL @ everyone who saw WWE dead within the next couple of years.
I go back and forth on if they should change the name. It's been established for almost 2 decades at this point, but it is a really stupid/juvenille name that probably deserves to be left in the past
They would do backflips if they had a "measly" 2 million network subscriptions
I wish I could have bet the day of WM34 that he's in the opening match of WM35, but alas, couldn't find a casino in New Orleans taking that one.
It's so weird, as a fan of the product I really don't get it. Smackdown is no where near worth that much for any amount of years the way they use their time on the show. Soooo much filler and undercard matches that go no where.
Wrestlers who have signed in the last 18 months, but fans swear must be miserable, have stated they're more than happening collecting the paycheck they are
Hulu carries Fox shows, so very likely yes
Fox is one of the owners of Hulu. It would be surprising if they took Smackdown off of the service they own
Also, not sure if this is news or not (I'm on the East coast)
From a creative Viewpoint this absolutely sucks. The WWE has been terrible for the last several years and the only hope from fans was that the shity TV ratings would hopefully force them to change their ways, but now that they got all that TV money prepare for five more years of shity programming.
36, gotta do that year of NXT and learn to work the hard camera.
WWE on FOX
There's your new name. Rock hasn't been around in a big enough capacity for Smackdown to have any meaning for ages. Have some big robot CG wrestlers hit each other in the opening and away we go!
There's your new name. Rock hasn't been around in a big enough capacity for Smackdown to have any meaning for ages. Have some big robot CG wrestlers hit each other in the opening and away we go!
Fox's Hulu stake is among the assets that they're selling, while their network channel is not.
So here's how this is gonna go.
Da Big Dawg is gonna beat Brock soon. He's gonna headline WM35 after that. And then he will be traded to Smackdown next year because they're going to want to start things off in late 2019 with a bang on Fox. That way peeps can pretend the show actually means something, and you can't do that with the second rate stars that are on the show currently.
Finally, after he takes the WWE title in the main event of WM36, he'll go back to Raw with it sometime in 2020.
Da Big Dawg is gonna beat Brock soon. He's gonna headline WM35 after that. And then he will be traded to Smackdown next year because they're going to want to start things off in late 2019 with a bang on Fox. That way peeps can pretend the show actually means something, and you can't do that with the second rate stars that are on the show currently.
Finally, after he takes the WWE title in the main event of WM36, he'll go back to Raw with it sometime in 2020.
The first sensible post in this thread!
*shakes hand*
But for real, WWE has no need to change the name of the show at this point.
Yeah, but now WWE can offer the type of money that guys just physically cannot turn down, and it'd be a drop in the bucket for them.
Even as a kid when I watched wrestling with my dad
we only watched RAW
smackdown was some weak shit I never even gave a chance
we only watched RAW
smackdown was some weak shit I never even gave a chance
Vince must be one hell of a negotiator im excited to see how the first smackdown on fox goes i bet wwe goes all out and puts on a great show and then we go back to normal.
I guess I just don't see how this changes their equation at all. Like is Kenny Omega worth a million dollars? Maybe if NJPW starts gaining a foothold in the US (which would require a much better television deal than it has now), but I don't think WWE really views the NJPW as competition.
He probably always was
They initially wanted everything, USA had to blow the roof off to keep RAW period. What WWE's pitching is what networks want right now
And a guaranteed consistent ratings basement with potential to go through the roof. Consistent advertising for a show you know will have viewers is solid for Fox
Hopefully Smackdown stays live and doesnt get shoved to fs1.
I wish the nba and nhl would go back to broadcast tv. Theyre the only reason i need cable/a streaming service now