Wrestlingdesires
09-25-2018, 08:21 PM
Former WWE executive Bruce Prichard recently took to his podcast, Something To Wrestle, and touched on Ring Of Honor selling out Madison Square Garden for an April show in 2019. Prichard said Vince McMahon is probably ?hurt pretty bad? about the ordeal, and revenue focus shifting from house shows to broadcast deals. Here are the highlights:
How he thinks Vince McMahon feels about ROH selling out MSG:
?I think there is a big part of him that is probably hurt pretty bad, just thinking about the tradition of his grandfather and his father promoting in The Garden,? Prichard said. ?But at the same time, the Vince McMahon of today has grown a lot too, and sees it as, alright, it is a part of growing. It is a part of progression and we will have a new home and move on.?
Revenue focus shifting from house shows to broadcast deals:
?As far as revenue for the company, when we started getting big television rights that was when it started to change,? Prichard said. ?As well as when we started to have competition from WCW then we realized that we had to change the product and we had to compete, which we had to do it on television. We were being paid for that, in addition to the house shows, you are getting a television rights fee, which was when it started to change.?
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How he thinks Vince McMahon feels about ROH selling out MSG:
?I think there is a big part of him that is probably hurt pretty bad, just thinking about the tradition of his grandfather and his father promoting in The Garden,? Prichard said. ?But at the same time, the Vince McMahon of today has grown a lot too, and sees it as, alright, it is a part of growing. It is a part of progression and we will have a new home and move on.?
Revenue focus shifting from house shows to broadcast deals:
?As far as revenue for the company, when we started getting big television rights that was when it started to change,? Prichard said. ?As well as when we started to have competition from WCW then we realized that we had to change the product and we had to compete, which we had to do it on television. We were being paid for that, in addition to the house shows, you are getting a television rights fee, which was when it started to change.?
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