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Joshiuary Wrasslin |OT| The Year of the Shining Star
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I think it would have been fine. It's cheap and for people who are interested in non-live programming. Slash the price to 5.99 and just use old footage, nothing live, and its fine to keep up AND doesn't eat your big revenue source from PPV orders.
Takeovers didn't exist pre-network - they could absolutely sell the shit out of those now at $30. $60 gets you the Takeover and the main roster PPV that weekend. That sounds like the best plan to me.
Yeah, for those ten you can get a different streaming service with more diverse and probably better content.
That sounds like a Vince move.
It means they'll take advantage of their opportunities that other companies don't have.
I don't think you could have gotten the Network to be a success at all if it's just a tape library, but then you'd have to look at what "success" means in that context.
As far as Takeovers go, I could see that. I have friends with the Network that wouldn't make that crossover though, because that's $30 for something they could only see once, and wouldn't even be there live.
But who knows, maybe they've got the dedicated fanbase for that to work.
Its a big, tough, complicated question and unfortunately two people who would know are no longer with WWE so we can't see for sure, hah.
Pluto TV has a 24/7 TNA channel. There's somewhere for everyone...
Wow, Vince is basically slapping a big 'for sale' sign on the network, or at least its assets. That's got to make investors sweat.
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I doubt it. They can probably get more for that content than whatever the Network brings in.
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Dave talking about Thatcher. Says WWE has wanted him for five years since he wrestled Hero WM Weekend in San Jose. He's had an open offer to sign since then. Thatcher badly wanted to sign on somewhere in Japan but has never gotten any offers. So he decided to just call it on that and sign with WWE finally.
Shame there is no regular Battlarts or FUTEN around. That is where he would have fit in.
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I would have liked to see him get some looks after he and WALTER worked Sekimoto and Sawa at the EVOLVE show
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Should have showed them his guns and opened the gates like he was US Admiral Matthew C. Perry, brother.
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El P is whatever. But I'd much rather have Thatcher in terms of fit in NJPW.
Me too but if it's one or the other it's Thatcher (it's not, it's a false dichotomy)
So many people New Japan could have had but drug their heels on or didn't want, it is after all, a Japanese promotion first
Wasn't the story that New Japan finally offered Riddle a full-time deal but WWE immediately countered? I remember Meltzer said that when he signed.
Sure I'm curious if he was on their radar. They are going after Zayne real hard. Thatcher is a mystery
Didn't they offer him a deal but Gabe steered him to wwe
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Yes, but NJPW had the opportunity to bring him in six months earlier before WWE offered him. He was announced and scheduled for World Tag League but Bushiroad execs killed those plans.
That whole "nothing stopping us from doing other kinds of transactions with the network" line makes me think these jackasses are going to at least try to be the exclusive sellers of these PPVs before involving other services like DAZN and Peacock. Telling people who have been paying $10 a month for six years that they now have to buy $60 PPVs again is some Darth Vader and Lando Calrissian shit. This deal keeps getting worse all the time.
At least moving it to another service for PPVs would have disguised it a little.
I hope that if one of the things that happens is the sale of the tape library that it gets broken up and not sold lock, stock and barrel. Different services could be better curators of segments of the library.
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I really doubt they do it that way. The library WWE owns has its value in its capacity and relative completeness.
So looks like the Network is gonna dieeee or be majorly split up
Wonder if they'll kill the massive archive.
Wonder if they'll kill the massive archive.
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Maybe not. Some are speculating they are going to sell the Network tech and personal data to a third-party, then license the content for it out to that party. So the Network itself wouldn't die, but it would be under new ownership and that owner would be paying WWE for the content.
damn, I enjoyed the network for background noise as I could just throw a random show at any point in time
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