Men and women lie. Numbers do not. For numbers are facts, and they do not care how we feel about it. They help us measure to see how good people, or products are.
Unlike other athletic contests as amateur wrestling professional wrestling cannot be measured the same way in terms of win-lost records, because it is an exhibition and not a competition. Before amateur wrestling took off from elementary to the Olympics there was legit professional wrestling. Guys like Martin “Farmer” Burns, and Frank Gotch were legit wrestlers in the late 1890s to early 1900s. They would take on anybody at anytime, and they would wrestle at places like fairs, carnivals, and circuses. They would wrestle whomever from the crowd for money, but when nobody would took their challenge they would have one of their students in the crowd that would wrestle them in an exhibition. They would put on show, which is what professional wrestling is today.
Well with professional wrestling not having a legit win-lost column how is it measured to determine it’s value in mainstream? Well like with other entertainment, and sports leagues they have to generate revenue. In other words they have to make money, because it’s a business. Universal Studios, Disney, NFL, NBA, Viacom, Warner, and the WWE are all businesses. For no matter how many championships a team wins their leagues still look at attendance records, arena/stadium revenue, merchandise sells, and tv ratings. In order for sports leagues to get to the NFL level, they have to satisfy networks, and video streamers with high viewership. To video streamers that translates to subscribers, so they can influence investors to buy stock to generate revenue. The WWE, that is the face of professional wrestling, is a public trading company. Therefore they have to generate high amounts of revenue, so people can invest in the company for a high return.
This page of A Top Guys will focus on the numbers of professional wrestling to provide objective views of the industry.
WwE Plays Chess While Other Promotions Still Play Connect 4
What sets WWE apart from other wrestling promotions is that they’re still looking to do big things with other companies as Amazon and Netflix. Both companies are into video streaming as Peacock TV. For there are rumors going on that WWE could move both their shows Raw and Smackdown to Netflix. That company has over 200 million paid subscribers worldwide, and with recent high volume cancellations I think they look at WWE’S over 1 billion social media followers as a way to fill their loses. With Amazon WWE with Mattel is launching their new action figures over at Amazon Live. For when WWE gets close to the end of their current agreements with Universal ( USA and PeacockTV), and Fox there will be a high biddings with networks, and video streamers to be distributors for their content. For while companies as AEW, and Impact still on that cable distribution plan the WWE is looking on how they can get more people to watch their promotion with video streaming.
NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 2023 Disappointing Numbers
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom may have been exciting to some wrestling fans, but that show delivered disappointing numbers. They had under 27,000 in attendance, and it did a buyrate for PPV under a 91,000. There number of attendance represented about 0.17% of last year’s WWE WrestleMania attendance.
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