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On the sad anniversary of the great Eddie Guererro’s death, do you think the industry of professional wrestling overall has really learned how to take better care of its wrestlers?
I honestly do, at least in WWE's case. They have cut out a lot of harmful things that guys used to do. They have the Wellness Policy. Yes, tours like the ones the talent just did are brutal, but I think WWE definitely does more to protect the talent now than they did years ago.
Eddie Guerrero died 8 years ago today (November 13). Now I am simply a fan and have never met any of the wrestlers in person, but I tend to believe that if Eddie was still alive today, the Benoit tragedy would never have occurred. Do you agree or disagree, and was Benoit a different person after Eddie's death?
I don't think Eddie would have been in the Benoit home when he snapped so he couldn't have stopped it. Benoit had grown increasingly more paranoid at the end of his life.
Could WWE be intentionally driving down PPV buyrates with the lousy build(s) over the last several months to provide internal and stockholder support for the Network? Meaning, on an upcoming conference call, Vince says something like, "Pay per view revenues have declined so dramatically that we feel by hosting our monthly PPV on the WWE network, we will make up the lost PPV revenue through Network subscriptions, which are at a lower price point, and will increase volume and therefore revenue."
Nope, that isn't it. The McMahons control the vast majority of the stock so they don't have to get approval from anyone. And honestly, they don't want the stock price to ever go down. No I put the blame on the PPVs where it belongs, with bad creative.
The Damien Sandow vs Cena cash in vid is the most disliked vid on the WWE youtube channel. Cena's following match on Smackdown, comments were blocked for the first few days. When Daniel Bryan was taken out of the main event, I personally haven't seen anyone on any social media platform happy about it. The WWE pushes social media every 5 minutes (Twitter, Youtube, WWE app, etc.). So I'm curious why do they ignore or delete majority of the comments about criticizing who they are pushing or current storylines? Especially when ratings are dropping?
That is a really good question. The answer, sadly, is that Vince wants you to like what he wants you to like. You would think that he and WWE would take advantage of the feedback that social media gives him but at the end of the day his opinion is what really matters to him.
TNA has so many great wrestlers. But, what they are putting on TV is so bad. Cmon. EC3 and 2 stringbeans they found in the parking lot...Gail Kim vs some girl with no experience...lame Joseph Park segments? Who wants to watch this crap.
Over a million people every week!
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