AEW has done a very poor job of managing expectations IMO
TNA was a dumpster fire from the word go, the leftovers of the shitty ass WWA promotion that they failed with in Australia. It's always been a second rate promotion, that had it's brief shining moment of legit greatness around 2005.
Lol they are reportedly offering "WCW level contracts" for entry level talent.
No, so shitting on the idea that it will be the #2 promotion is also pretty unfounded, considering the pretty low bar that's out there. They're already further along than where I thought they would be at this point.
Yeah I agree. This board is fairly liberal but the majority of the wwe fanbase is probably pro-trump and probably sees nothing wrong with anything Hulk said
I mean, yeah people will still cheer him. It'll probably get a little bump in ratings.
Is there anything to back that up? Their biggest demographic has always been white males
Really booking is all that matters here. If they can make AEW a must-watch program, they'll do fine.
Stone Cold getting busted in 2019 would be different. Also Hogan is the worst even by wrestling standards with all the shit he pulled
The crowds cheered Ultimate Warrior, who once advocated killing all the gay people, still cheer HHH, who once told a black guy that "people like you don't get to be champion," pop insane for Stone Cold despite his domestic violence charges and let the company off the hook for running a PPV in a violent dictatorship that had recently had a journalist contract murdered. Wrestling fans in general are #fickle. That doesn't mean "reddit," that's all wrestling fandoms.
And I know we're just a shitty little subsection of the internet, but WrassleEra here is pretty diverse and aggressively progressive.
NXT isn't profitable because they don't have a TV deal. It's not set up to be profitable on it's own. At the end of the day it's still a farm system for the WWE on the business side.
WWE fans as a general proposition don't vote, but the most right-wing segment of the audience is the old people who don't attend shows
I was around for much of the Mean Gene era and I don't really associate Gene with Flair at least on-camera.
To clarify I never said star power didn't matter, just that it doesn't matter much if the booking of said star power is complete shit. WCW, TNA, and current WWE is literal proof of that.
They aren't getting Goldberg. Like, seriously. And Jericho isn't gonna sign long-term anywhere because he's a fossil.
What they should do: run a WWE-24-style in memoriam piece and have Hogan appear in it out-of-kayfabe in the same manner he did in HBO's Andre documentary, along with Vince and others who were influenced by Gene.
The most perfect guy to do it would've been Macho Man but y'know!
I'd love to believe this but I'm highly suspicious. I dont think Hogan gets many boos. I'm sure there will be some but not enough to really send the message to Vince that we don't want him around
