Breaking: WWE signs deal with Fox Sports - Order WrestleMania 36 for $60
 

(or you could just pay $10 for the Network or do a free trial...)


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fox signs WWE deal. It will offer &quot;WrestleMania&quot; for $59.99 this weekend via Fox Sports apps and website; bring back its weekly studio show; and carry 22 hours of library footage starting with Royal Rumble 2020 tonight. SBD's story: <a href="https://t.co/0RPsuxF0fi">https://t.co/0RPsuxF0fi</a></p>&mdash; John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1244961936132968448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sean Ross Sapp reporting FITE TV now offering a WrestleMania stream for $60 as well.

no

I wonder if this will be the new model going forward after WM. FS1 will be airing the KickOff shows now as well.

Would you spend $60 a month for WWE ppvs? I know I wouldn't.

Who's desperate here? WWE or FOX?

Hell no.

I wouldn't pay $9.99

Combination of both, but I can see this being more desperation by Fox. ESPN has begun to show Wrestlemania on Sunday nights since the Coronavirus shut things down. I can see Fox believing that a deal is imminent between ESPN and WWE and trying to do whatever they can to stop it.

I got the cricket 3 months free deal for letting my 6 year long day 1 network membership lapse

Kinda feel bad but, I dont see them having anything on the network new worth $30 between now and June.

It's good for WWE and FITE especially. I'm sure more people will order on fight than you'd expect.

why would they, they are stupid af if they do

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Kind of dumb to even order from them considering its still way cheaper on the Network.

Maybe if Mania got pulled from the Network it would make more sense but then WWE would be viewed as being a very greedy company during these difficult times.

I'm not going to watch, but it's a smart move by them. People will order it that way. They're still figuring streaming services out, and lots of people want to streamline without too much commitment. Yeah, the WWE Network's free now, but people are going to weary about signing up and being pinged with costs later.

i bet they will pull it next year, and would have pulled it this year, if they had a reg mania this year.

so how many people are not able to get the network, i guess people with crap internet in the area.

Yeah can see that definitely be the case next year.

An extra year is more than enough time to work out the monetary issues between WWE and interested parties. Plus not have it feel like it was a rushed decision because of the timing of Vince's reveal announcement.

watching impact on twitch right now, an there is so many people gaming on twitch internet is lagging like hell. i fear wrestlemania will freeze all night

It's not like you gotta watch it live

My first thought was “Why the fuck would people order it that way?” But then I realized WWE has basically survived off of milking money out of people who find the shit they’ve produced for the past couple decades to be compelling so... Nothing makes sense. Fuck it.

Now I just need to find these people and sell them some $10 bills for $60. I will put Trump’s picture over Hamilton’s to sweeten the deal.

WM won't be on the network next year...nor will the other top PPVs.

Meltzer speculated that if this year's Mania does a very low buy rate, its going to really sour FOX's views on WWE since they were the only one to really bite on WWE's offer for Mania.

Also seems Vince is currently asking for over $150 million as the basis for any future PPV streaming deal to be made.

I'm sure FOX knows what they are getting. SmackDown is performing well for them. They'll obviously know that there is a free option somewhere. I don't think anyone is going to be panicking.