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Smackdown moving to FOX


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If it continues to be live it would make them change their house show schedule, I think they will go back to taping it.

 

I wonder if FOX will cancel it out of nowhere like they do with all their shows.

 

It can become a procedural with no meanungful week to week connectivity.

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My guess would be that all it would do, schedule wise, is change the Friday live show into a live SD. They might take the Tuesday live shows off the table, but the rights increase will more than cover a Tuesday night house show. That would leave both shows as traveling Friday-Monday, save the international tours.

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Yeah, I changed my mind. After reading the deal is for 5 years/1 billion, it's has to continue to be live, no way they give that much money for a taped show.

 

 

Vince can't write/book a compelling wrestling show to safe his life nowadays, but he continues to show he's the GOAT promoter. Dude got that Saudi money and now this.

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Eh. He just lucked into an environment which was impossibly advantageous? That he couldn't get more during the last round of negotiations was embarrassing. This is a massive success but he didn't create the situation. He just kept a steady ship that could benefit from it.

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Yeah, live sports are in a bubble right now. They were going to clean up on this TV deal. The problem for them and all of the other sports leagues is what they do when the TV money starts drying up in the next decade. The NFL in particular is going to get fucked when that happens because they've refused to embrace technology.

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This is a massive success but he didn't create the situation. He just kept a steady ship that could benefit from it.

 

This is pretty important and I think deserving of quite a bit of credit. I haven't been a fan of much of the main roster creative over the last 18 months, but he built a model that grew to and could sustain business at this level while never letting creative fall to a point that it imperiled the business as a going concern.

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This is a massive success but he didn't create the situation. He just kept a steady ship that could benefit from it.

 

This is pretty important and I think deserving of quite a bit of credit. I haven't been a fan of much of the main roster creative over the last 18 months, but he built a model that grew to and could sustain business at this level while never letting creative fall to a point that it imperiled the business as a going concern.

 

 

Agreed. He basically kept creating new sources of income so that when one fell off, it didn't hurt them massively. And then it reached a point were it's almost impossible for business to suffer much no matter how bad the booking/writing gets.

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