The Natural Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Useful recap of everything that's gone down: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopus Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 SRS is still saying nothing is confirmed and some of his sources don’t believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Sean Ross Sapp is reiterating that nobody with WWE has confirmed it yet and there are some that "have even said they don't believe it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Between this and the Wizards of the Coast fucking with the D&D Open Gaming License my hobbies are getting put through the ringer. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Just now, jaedmc said: Between this and the Wizards of the Coast fucking with the D&D Open Gaming License my hobbies are getting put through the ringer. Yeah, I kept meaning to ask you about that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 And regarding LIV, they don't have Bryson, so that keeps me happy for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 so it'll either be Saudi ownership or shoddy journalism? THANK YOU, I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK, TIP YOUR WAITER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Idiot King Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 So, say this happens, what are the immediate impacts of this in terms of the product itself, speaking amorally? Not saying any of this is good, at all, for any reason, just speculating about what it might mean in terms of what is actually getting put on television, if anything. I'd assume like most things when purchased by evil enterprises, not much will change on the consumer end of things and people will more or less keep on watching the thing they already love. They've been holding their Super Shows for years now, and it has only helped their bottom line, unfortunately. Are American television conglomerates really above doing business with the Saudis if McMahon serves as their American face? They're our allies in the Middle East after all! Modernizing more every day! And it isn't as though it's gonna say, "WWE RAW Brought To You By The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia!" at the top of the show every week. I agree that there are certain talents who will walk or at least try to (Sami, mainly, is who I am thinking here), but I'd imagine most stay. It doesn't strike me that the Saudi Investment Fund would really want much control over the day-to-day decision making or the material being presented, probably leaving it up to Vince and Co, and would ultimately still be catering to an American audience, so I don't see a lot of what's being speculated about (the women's division, for instance) changing even a little. More likely, there are another huge swath of firings, and everything reverts to pre-HHH/Steph status quo, no? Austin Theory rocketing back up the card! If nothing else, it will certainly make all the rah-rah-USA-USA stuff HILARIOUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Yeah, I am holding off on this. It is a mult-billion international transaction. Involving a controversial foreign country’s wealth fund. I really don’t think wrestling reporters are plugged in enough beyond hearing something from a wrestler who hears it from somebody. Maybe I am completely wrong but there is a huge difference in the quality of reporting from wrestling newz sites and major financial publications or media trade press. Another factor here, and this is something I am going to need to research - I have no idea what kind of approvals (if any) that a foreign sovereign wealth fund needs to take a publicly traded company private. A lot of countries have these types of national sovereign wealth funds. Fun fact: The biggest in the world is Norway’s (unless China’s took the lead since they are close in size.) The Saudis invest a lot of money in the US stock market but not to some insane degree. The Saudi wealth fund buying any well known publicly traded company and taking it private is a huge fucking story so that is why I am hesitant to believe any wrestling reporting. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 1 minute ago, Craig H said: And regarding LIV, they don't have Bryson, so that keeps me happy for now. uhh - they do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I wonder what will happen with the women's division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Just now, ChesterCopperpot said: uhh - they do Well fuck everything then. This is what happens when LIV holds only a few events and gets no coverage. Go back to PGA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Just now, GuerrillaMonsoon said: I wonder what will happen with the women's division. Reduced in size and lycra body suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 2 minutes ago, GuerrillaMonsoon said: I wonder what will happen with the women's division. We gonna have about 3 or 4 Madusa belt in the trash can moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Dog said: 9/11 20 years of Tribute to the Troops Saudi Arabia Fill in whatever words you feel best fit between those clauses. "World Wrestling Entertainment has been compromised to a permanent end" Edited January 11 by Dolphman 3000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Great Justice Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 If the Saudis have purchased WWE and are toxic to key US media distributors, this lines up very interestingly with AEW’s rights renewal doesn’t it? Like not to be sensationalist but AEW on Monday nights on USA could be in play. Some of these potential ramifications are wild. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 8 minutes ago, Craig H said: Yeah, I kept meaning to ask you about that... If the Saudi part of this story is untrue, then it's still a pretty tight race for dumbest money grab while fucking the fans. But if WWE gets sold to folks who were fantasy booking Yokozuna a spot in a Royal Rumble, despite him being dead for... a while... then WWE win by a country mile. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Not sure if this has been posted Conrad Thompson: I Heard Nick Khan's Deal Pays Him More Than A Year Of AEW TV Deal If He Helps WWE Sale Quote "I've been saying on this program for a while that WWE was going to sell. You know why I said that? Because I knew. Remember when Nick Khan first joined WWE? When he joined, he was an agent. I happen to have some friends who need representation like that. My friend was represented by the same company that Nick Khan was sort of running. When my friend sees that this guy who runs this big agency is now going to WWE, he thought, 'what the fuck this doesn't make any sense.' He called his contact, 'What's up with Nick going (to WWE)?' He said, this is years ago, [Nick] has a deal with Vince where his contract gets a big payday when he helps facilitate a sale. He told me the number, I won't say the number because that's talking about someone's money and that's not cool, but let's say this, it's more than AEW's TV contract is for a year. It's a lot. I've heard back channel, before Mean Gene [Gene Okerlund] passed, he said, 'I heard from...' I won't say who he heard from, 'when the stock gets to so and so...' this has been brewing for a while," Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 2 minutes ago, For Great Justice said: If the Saudis have purchased WWE and are toxic to key US media distributors, this lines up very interestingly with AEW’s rights renewal doesn’t it? Like not to be sensationalist but AEW on Monday nights on USA could be in play. Some of these potential ramifications are wild. or it sinks the entire industry and fucks over AEW despite their hopes and wishes? USA is probably much much much more likely to put another night of Law & Order SVU on their network than another wrestling promotion if the WWE is gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 2 minutes ago, jaedmc said: If the Saudi part of this story is untrue, then it's still a pretty tight race for dumbest money grab while fucking the fans. But if WWE gets sold to folks who were fantasy booking Yokozuna a spot in a Royal Rumble, despite him being dead for... a while... then WWE win by a country mile. The contract signing needs to take place on the USS Intrepid 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Fuck this once great company. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I just popped in to say that I heard about this today. I don’t know what I can say. My opinion hasn’t changed since the last thread. I also heard about Billy Graham. Ugh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Usually where there's smoke there's fire but I'm going to wait until a credible source confirms everything before going on the warpath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 9 minutes ago, jaedmc said: If the Saudi part of this story is untrue, then it's still a pretty tight race for dumbest money grab while fucking the fans. But if WWE gets sold to folks who were fantasy booking Yokozuna a spot in a Royal Rumble, despite him being dead for... a while... then WWE win by a country mile. Why not dress up one of his thousand relatives in wrestling up as him and just pretend it's Yokozuna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 A lot of the PIF investment projects mentioned in Wikipedia mention stakes as opposed to 100% ownership. The rules might be a bit different for things going from public to private. I'm sorta skeptical that the PIF would go 100% in on the WWE when their game mainly involves buying lots of points in Live Nation, Boeing, Citigroup, Facebook, Disney, Bank of America, BP, Uber, EA, Activision, Nintendo, Twitter, and so on. Anyways, I wonder if the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran has any good arenas for house shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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