Thread: Did Vince help or hurt the wrestling industry?
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Old 12-18-2016, 11:59 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by road doggy dogg View Post
So what I'm reading is that Vince helped "WWE / the promotion" at the expense of "the industry".

Without WWE being the big dog in the yard, the "industry" as a whole would have floundered long ago. WWE kept pro wrestling relevant. Could you imagine in today's cultural landscape (if WWE ceased to exist) how well a glorified carnival act would go over with millennials? I don't think Dusty Rhodes could compete with Steph Curry on a bang-for-bucks ratio
Pure speculation. And one that works off the assumption that wrestling cant adapt with the times without vince, as if the product hadnt adapted and changed before he even got into the industry. It would have been different but there is no evidence to suggest it wouldn't have.

No one has yet to name an example of how the industry is better post vince outside of his company.
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