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THE K SHAPED ECONOMY HITTING WRESTLING FANS, SANDMAN’S LAST MATCH, WHAT’S LEFT OF THE OLD WWE NETWORK AND MORE

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Michael Cole said that Raw’s crowd in Cleveland was over 10,000 when they used to draw more than that.  If they get to say, 8,000, will they stop announcing the number or just lie?

My guess would be that they would say something like, “it’s another sell out crowd”.  When Cole said that it caught me too.  It pointed out how much attendance has gone down as ticket prices have gone up.  But as long as revenue goes up, that is what TKO cares about.

Do you think the need to sell tickets will limit surprises?  I knew that there is no way that Ivy Nile or Lyra would win and get in the Elimination Chamber.

To a degree, probably so.  WWE wants the biggest names in the Chamber match to hopefully sell tickets.  As mentioned above, the price of seats has made it harder and harder for fans to buy them.  We are in a K shaped economy, where people at the bottom are having a harder time than they did in the past.  High ticket prices are a harder purchase for them.

Best guess—will the WWE Network ever find a home?

I would guess it will be YouTube.  All that’s really left of the Network is old footage.  If there was a paying market for that, content, I think WWE would have found it by now.  Watching old wrestling content is a very, very niche market.

Would love to hear your thoughts on The Invisible Man being The Sandman's last opponent.

I groaned when I heard it.  It will probably be played for comedy (at least I hope that it will).  But the flip side is that Sandman is, I believe, 62 years old.  If he had a real, Sandman-like match, it could be hazardous to his health.  At least he will get a payday.

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