Paid Members WeeAl Posted April 8, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 8, 2018 6 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: Setting up a post-WM feud between Alicia and Rousey maybe? Jesus what a fucking shambles that would be if it were to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DootDootDoot Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 6 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: Setting up a post-WM feud between Alicia and Rousey maybe? That was probably Alicia's aim ... the fact that this was released the The S*n makes me take this with the biggest pinch of salt though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 07/04/2018 at 12:44 PM, Pier Six Brawler said: Pro-Wrestling IS pretend MMA. If it's not, what else is it? It's called wrestling, but you can also punch and kick. Which is MMA. I think some people are so in the wrestling bubble that they forget this. How do you explain what pro-wrestling is to a layman without just saying that it's pretend fighting? Pro Wrestling is more pretend Tekken than it is pretend MMA. Seriously, the fact that I have zero interest in MMA but still watch wrestling should quite clearly tell you there's plenty in wrestling that's got nothing to do with it pretending to be MMA. If everyone's character in wrestling was coming out to a Biggie tune, thanking god, microdosing shrooms and pretending to hate people at a press conference I wouldn't bother with it. MMA does nothing for me. I like costumes and pyro and shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members eugenespeed Posted April 8, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 8, 2018 World of Sport wrestler Mick McMichael has died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted April 8, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 8, 2018 28 minutes ago, Gay as FOOK said: If everyone's character in wrestling was coming out to a Biggie tune, thanking god, microdosing shrooms and kicking fuck out of buses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Alicia Fox has been pulled from the Battle Royal, not too long til she’s out the door I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 42 minutes ago, TildeGuy~! said: Alicia Fox has been pulled from the Battle Royal, not too long til she’s out the door I reckon. Its her own fault, how dumb do you have to be to get into a drunken argument on the eve of the biggest show of the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUM Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 WWE has hit over 2 million Network subscribers. 1.8million of which are paid. $18million per month income for content they had lying around doing nothing. Anyone know roughly how much they were taking in from PPV's each month before the Network had them all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted April 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 9 hours ago, FUM said: $18million per month income for content they had lying around doing nothing. Not quite that simple, they've had to pretty much re-edit everything, which has resulted in loads of production hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted April 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 That's pretty impressive. Be interesting to see how that compares to the PPV model they had before. Obviously they've fucked the dog over Mania and maybe Rumble but they must be making a killing in the months where Backlash or Extreme Rules were doing 10 buys and three downloads on Napster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I remember a time not long after the Network where it seemed like hitting a million was a struggle, so credit where it's due. I can't imagine it's down to a few extra Culture Shock with Corey Graves either. Or the classic content that we all signed up for four years ago. Though we may hum and haw about the up and down quality of the near constant PPVs these days, their content batter philosophy of fresh matches at weird times all year is clearly paying off. I feel like you've got a million core subs there, and another million beaten into submission. Fair fucks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted April 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 10 hours ago, FUM said: WWE has hit over 2 million Network subscribers. 1.8million of which are paid. $18million per month income for content they had lying around doing nothing. Anyone know roughly how much they were taking in from PPV's each month before the Network had them all? Do you have a clue what last years 'Mania number was? Still impressive they're got to the 2M mark, with the majority paying for it. I wonder how much of an impact Rousey had on the number? Just going by the buzz in the media, it looks like a ton of MMA fans and media watched her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FailedPromoter Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, ColinBollocks said: Do you have a clue what last years 'Mania number was? Post-Mania 33 conference mentioned theNetwork had 1.959 million total subs - 1.661 million paid. The yearly average will be the interesting number to see how many they can retain now with a star like Rousey in the fold. Their fourth quarter 2017 earnings report had the average amount of subscribers at 1.48 million paid, with ab average for the full year of 1.53 million paid subscribers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted April 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 Cheers for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WeeAl Posted April 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 (edited) It's worth remembering that there were several extra promotions included in the paid number for this year's 'Mania that they didn't have running last year. Last year they had the whole 'sign up for free' thing which added people to the unpaid section. I'm sure at certain points leading up to Mania that there were many people offered this again. However there were also promotions of three months for a total of $9.99 and a promotion of $1.99 a month for three months at certain points leading up to 'Mania. The whole idea of which was to artificially inflate the 'Paid' subscribers in order to get over 2M subscribers, to look strong to investors ahead of the TV contract negotiations. Which is working, considering the stock price is huge at the moment, so it was the right idea if they get the TV deal they want. But even the income of the network per month is a lot lower than $18M, and the profit is said to be below 20% of that. Meaning the Network is still less profitable than the last year before they switched from the PPV model (2013 I think). It's more about being ahead of the curve really, which they probably are. The Network is an incredible service, which I pay for every month as it's a bargain and there aren't many of those in the entertainment industry these days. However, I've no doubt about it that WWE are being robbed blind and that there would be much more money in having 900k-1M regular subscribers but if they had kept Rumble, Mania and SummerSlam as $65 PPV's. The goose is cooked on being able to go back to that though, which is a benefit to all of our pockets. Edited April 10, 2018 by WeeAl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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