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What is with the lengthy entrances now on WWE? My main example is Jey Uso. I think he’s a great talent but his entrance takes so long to even get to the ring. Once there, he “runs it back” and goes on for another couple minutes. Roman Reigns is another example. What are your thoughts? To me it detracts from the amount of actual wrestling on a timed broadcast.
That’s the point I think The more time that they can spend giving you the “experience” that’s less time that people have to take bumps. TV shows are a balance between wrestling and the experience for WWE. To be fair, they understand that to a lot of fans the in-ring part of wrestling is not the primary draw for those people.
What advice would you give any WWE talent who wants to leave? To wait out the rest of their contract so they won't have to risked being rejected for asking for their release?
I have always been someone who feels that when you sign a contract, you honor the contract unless the other side violates it. If I realized I made a mistake by signing with WWE it would be because I didn’t like how I was being used. I would probably just not say much of anything, collect my money and invest it until they released me. It’s not like there are a ton of options for me anyway. The plus side is that if I wasn’t being used, my body wouldn’t be getting as beaten up as it would be otherwise.
With SNME now exclusively on Peacock do you think it will be better than when it was previously on NBC? Less time constraints, not as rushed, no cutting off of the show, and maybe less commercials, or at least better planned commercial spots. Almost PLE light.
It should be, for all of the reasons that you mentioned. Will it be? We will find out on Saturday.
Hey, can I be the daily "WWE too expensive" mailbag person today?
Sure! It’s a valid subject, for sure.
Joking aside, there seems to be a disconnect going on, because despite the number of complaints you hear from the IWC about WWE ticket prices, there's still 10K+ showing up to RAW and Smackdown most every week. Survivor Series has already sold 30K+ with nothing announced other than "War Games will happen at this event." Clearly somebody is buying tickets at those prices; if it's not "internet wrestling fans" then who?
First off, I take everything that the IWC, whatever the hell that is, says with a grain of salt. They are the same people that say dopey stuff like, “AEW will put WWE out of business”. They are loud and often really wrong. With that said, I look at data. I look at what WWE is drawing this time in a building vs. last time. It’s almost always lower, sometimes fairly significantly. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t fans there and with the higher ticket costs they are making up for the loss of people from the last time that they ran in the city. As long as they can do that, they are fine. Time will tell. As for who are buying the tickets? In many cases it’s people who don’t mind paying top dollar. In some others, it’s people who are buying at the last minutes for a much better price, be it through WWE dropping the price or getting a deal on the resale market.
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