gee I don't know. yeah, why don't they do that? That would be so cool! The smarks would seethe. I would love it!

>>19589365
we know you would vince

>>19588559
Because look how the tranny smark masses react to Logan Paul

>>19588559
Because WWE is a completely different company than WWF was back in the 90s.
WWF was a privately-owned corporation. In the 2000s it took its stock public and started having to answer to shareholders. As part of TKO, it still answers to shareholders. Shareholders tend to be risk adverse and favor profits above all else, especially quality if that quality doesn't raise the bottom line (and it usually doesn't - commercials are more profitable than content).
Steroid abuse is a major liability. And having thots run around limits marketability to the younger aged demographic because if it's too naughty then parents won't let them watch. Hence what you get instead is a heavily commercialized, heavily watered down product designed to be viewable by as many people as possible without anything that would risk offending them and push them away.
WWE is never going back to what it once was.

>>19589440
gay

>>19589481
Yeah it is.
Worst part is that they ain't going anywhere because they have the money and market share to snatch up the bulk of the talent in the industry - wrestlers and non-wrestlers.

>>19588559
There were 5 actual draws in WWE in the late 90s and the rest were coasting in on that shit
The draws were Stone Cold, The Rock, Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love
The rest were coasting in on it, nobody ever bought a ticket for Val Venis or Tiger Ali Singh or even Sable
80IQ antismarks are even dumber than 80IQ smarks

>>19589640
Austin, Sable, Foley and Rock are the only top draws. in that order.

>>19589440
It's not the shareholders. What do you think? They have meetings every week with their shareholders about the product? LOL The shareholders only care about one thing: PROFIT. All publicly traded companies are beholden to Israel, and the finance firms they run like Blackrock, which manipulate and subvert the world through ESG score, basically using China's social manipulation model, through capitalism, since they are different sides of the same jewish coin

>>19590288
That's not what I'm saying. The shareholders aren't sitting around saying, "Hey, please water down the wrestling."
But the board of directors' main priority is maximizing profits for investors. Full stop. That necessitates squeezing out as much profit as possible out of the product while keeping it as accessible to as many people as possible. The pressure to conform to these expectations flows downstream.
I don't enjoy watching WWE. But it's about the most optimized-for-profits wrestling company you'll ever see.

>>19589640
Sable and Lita were bigger draws than Foley. That's a fact. The tits of the Attitude Era literally won the ratings war. Not flash in the pan, fluke, sliding into Bret's spot, Bone Old Seethe Autism, and certainly not spot monkey Foley, or completely bland Undercarder. Austin literally proved he wasn't a draw, when Hollywood Dimes Hogan wasnt rebuilding the entire wrestling audience with millions of casuals, they didn't give a rats ass about Austin once nWo died off or before it, and once Hogan came to WWE, he pushed Austin down the card at Mania. Like, it's already right there in front of everyone's face. All the evidence needed. Austin was also riding coattails. First Hogan's drawing power to the entire industry, then Bret's, then Tyson's, then Vince, then Rock's. Then when there was no one left to carry him, he was done.

>>19590330
You're looking at it like a money mark, and Im trying to educate you to how it really works. WWE is literally LEAVING money on the table by not marketing to things that would be more profitable in ticket sales, ratings, merch, toys, etc, because they are forced to maintain a certain image, (which is influenced by banks, not stockholders, and not profits) because they will make BACK END money/profits from investors instead. But that money is all a smokeshow to manipulate their stock price and work the stockholders into a shoot (which is why Im saying that aspect of their decision making is irrelevant).
The majority of these record high revenue comes from media licensing rights, which they use to entice investors, but half the money earned from those deals goes back to the company buying rights, because WWE will buy ad time on those streaming networks, and do promotional stuff, or even create cheaply produced extra content for the streaming providers (shows that loss money on paper, but are actually just giving the money back to the networks). It's a very elaborate SCAM, where if investors saw the sale of tickets (which is also being frauded by counting staff and charity tickets in the numbers), empty arenas, piss poor ratings (also frauded by paying people to boost view counts and social media interaction), they'd think the company is a failure. But it's not because if you play the ESG game, you get rewarded with all the stolen, embezzled, and laundered money that these huge firms control and use to get all these companies in line to sell a particular message that THEY APPROVE. Not shareholders, not fans, and not even the people running WWE.

>>19589440
>And having thots run around

Have you not watched in years? A major part of WWE and NXT now is scantily clad women with generic "crazy bitch" gimmicks running around acting like crazy bitches. A women's champ has a Satanic gimmick and basically wears a thong revealing more of her ass than anyone in TV history outside of HBO and such. She does a move named after Satan where she humps someone's head into the mat with her butt in the air. NXT commentator Booker T would pretend to have an orgasm when she did it. It's sleaze upon sleaze.

>>19590469
And didn't Cody say "Hey Rock, go fuck yourself!" or something? Didn't Rock beat Cody senseless and make him bleed? How is this "watered down"?

>>19590469
>Have you not watched in years?

Really haven't watched regularly in some time. It's fine for what it is when I tune in but the sheer commercialization is too much for me (I'm spoiled by Jap wrestling, which I also watch fairly infrequently - not riveting stuff by any stretch these days but I'm happy to pay not to have ads shoved in my face).