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President of Freedonia
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WWE reportedly close to being sold to Endeavor
Would be turning WWE and UFC into a combined, publicly traded company
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#2 |
I am the cheese
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*ahem*
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the heartbreak king
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what is the "endeavor/ufc playbook?"
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Large Marge sent me
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Better than the Saudis.
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Clicking around, sounds like Endeavor is only buying 51% of the company.
Wouldn't be surprised if Vince won't let it go and he's got the other 49%. |
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#7 |
I am the cheese
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#8 |
One Bunghole To Give
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This should be....interesting.
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Will this change anything about the WWE at all?
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Gonna laugh when we get a bunch of tweetz tomorrow about "plans change" though.
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Large Marge sent me
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Can't wait for a real Forbidden Door PPV where Punk fights Jon Jones and Bart Gunn fights Tito Ortiz.
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President of Freedonia
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I am the cheese
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Quote:
https://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=139462 |
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#14 |
king of sucks
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time to bring swagger back
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Too bad his bucket hat is All Elite and cant jump ship with him.
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Immediate assumption people are making is that you won’t be able to get “premium live events” for the nominal cost of a Peacock/Network sub anymore. With UFC you need to pay to be an ESPN+ subscriber AND pay for the big events.
But who knows what it says in the NBC/Peacock contract. Might be a while before we get to this point. |
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#17 |
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yeah they would want the ppv back
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#18 |
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YAHAR BACK IN BUSINESS MATEYS
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I don’t think they’re going to bring PPV back. WWE might try and dabble in it anyway, but I think their streaming model is one that is working big for them. Why buck it? WWE and UFC can have different models. There’s also international business to worry about.
If they’re technically the same company (which I find weird), I can see them amalgamating some office jobs after a while. Do you need two executive Vice Presidents of…Live Events, for example? |
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The more interesting thing is the television rights. Selling now was the goal because a buyer like Comcast would then own the shows. Now Endeavor is going to have to still try and get good rights deals for Raw and Smackdown, which I doubt they have the ability to. |
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#21 |
king of sucks
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yeah the big 3 will go back to ppv while the others will stay on streaming
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#22 |
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How pissed is Tiny Khan going to be when Vince and Dana White are laughing at what a fucking dork he is at a Board Meeting?
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#23 |
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He won't be because this is obviously a long term play where the merger is finalized and then it's revealed endeavor has been sold to the Khan's and the Jaguars/Fullham teams will also be controlled by this new super company called (Wrath of)Khan Inc.
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#24 |
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One of the first thing TK does afterwards is announce he is expanding the WWE HoF into the Pro Wrestling HoF, and the first member is Vince with TK presenting. Vince then comes up the stage and TK welcomes him to the new HoF and then gets a crazy smirk on his face and yells "YOOOUUU'RRREEEE FFFFIIIIIRRRRRRRREEEEDDDDD" and has security escort Vince out of the building.
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#25 |
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LOL come on, Tiny would have a 0% chance of NOT trying to hug Vince
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#26 |
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Ok he hugs him and then he fires him, fine.
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Trickster Demon
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My guess is a lot of office staff would be viewed as redundant between UFC and WWE and would get cut.
I am curious to see how UFC fans would feel about Vince 'fake fighting' McMahon being a massive shareholder of UFC. |
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WWE is WAY better than Slapfights though, so probably ok with it by comparison.
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#30 |
Trickster Demon
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Ariel Helwani about to get banned from WWE by Endeavor
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Appreciating the fact that the setup is different depending on location but what do you get other than a load of ancillary shows if you take PLEs off the network? That said, it was something I had listed in my response to a “Fix WWE” thread that I wrote but never posted 3 years ago: premium events (Rumble/Mania/SummerSlam/Survivor Series) become quarterly PPV exclusives with the other 8 monthly specials being included in the subscription.
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#33 |
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Well the announcement has been made. UFC and WWE to merge and be traded on the NYSE under the symbol "TKO".
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Spammy Certified
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#35 |
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Brawl for all 2 incoming
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#36 |
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Brawl For All actually a good name for a joint WWE/UFC show
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TKO…interesting.
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#38 |
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![]() PICTURED: Dana White and Vince McMahon celebrate merger |
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#39 |
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Is that another fake Vince with moustache pic?
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