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I would like to see nxt put in primetime. Definitive numbers to see if a wrestling show can draw on 2018. Im inclined to say it would be as successful as airing a rerun of jacked but i love to give it its shot and it catch fire. Its possible that ive just been conditioned to believe wrestling shows dont have mass appeal. I dunno.
RoH has had an excellent wrestling product and it hasnt grown. If anything its shrank. TNA when they first hit spike had a red hot product. Never grew past a bery low ceiling.
I do think there's a future for wrestling but i think its online via things like twitch and YouTube. And streaming services like njpw world...im just uncertain about how large that audience can become. Its a new world though.
I think the first person to accurately weild streaming in wrestling will see big success. There is a healthy portion of the audience thats unsatisfied (though the unsatisfied portion pretends the satisfied portion either doesnt exist or is invalid somehow.)
I think with everything streaming will (and has) made niches more viable and that speaks to wrestling well as fans are very diverse as to their tastes...there actually might be an angle somewhere in that.
A variety show for wrestling. Amalgam of styles. Or maybe a weekly product that features a diff style each week in a cycle. I dunno. Spitballing.
Alls im saying is the future could look very different from what weve had up to this point. TV took the workers out of the carnivals. Streaming might make smaller studio productions like wcw world wide was produced more viable. Been watching a promotion out of china utilizing this method. Product isnt anything special but there's a core concept there that works on a fundamental level.
Anyways. New ideas could make money if executed well.
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