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The thing is they don't want stars leaving, so they don't have stars. They don't have stars though, so their product fucking sucks. At the end of the day, I honestly believe Vince would rather have people swallow a shitty product he has complete control over and put little effort into than one that is a lot hotter, but is inevitably going to cool and means that those revenue streams are going to dramatically alter.
He's found a base that he can pedal to FOX and NBC and rake in millions upon millions of dollars for because he's lucky television is dying. He's got a monopoly, so no one is going to turn over and watch anything else, so he can get the best talent in the world to play paddy-cake on television and that will be the only supply for those with demand.
Unless competition comes along, the best we can hope for in terms of a content quality upgrade is that Vince gets bored and decides he wants to publicize his boutique and premium properties. NXT has got a good chance of becoming this, in my opinion. If the deal with FOX comes to fruition, then it might become the "top shelf" brand of WWE wrestling. I don't like everything in NXT, but it's got more "wrestling" than sports entertainment. And maybe Vince gets bored and decides he wants an "old-school" territory somewhere on his network, where he can play by his own rules and viewing discretion is advised. If Vince decides he wants to become Disney, there might be a chance of things changing. Other than that, we just have to hope some people in ivory towers decide that they could make a shit-ton of money off wrestling because Vince's product sucks and he's raking it in just because there is no one else on that level. Then Vince might start trying because he might need to.
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