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Mike the Goon
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Post by ridge on Dec 29, 2006 1:21:56 GMT -5
If he sold out every show he went to and ran 10 shows a week, I can kind of see where he would have the money to pay off the wrestlers. But how expensive was it to buy every wrestling show in the country, and actually lose money (because he was paying the TV stations to air his wrestling) by doing so? And let's not forget all the promotions he was buying at the time. Those couldn't have been cheap either. I really wish I could get a look at Vinces financial books and see how he managed to pull all of that off.
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Post by romafan87 on Dec 29, 2006 1:50:54 GMT -5
If he sold out every show he went to and ran 10 shows a week, I can kind of see where he would have the money to pay off the wrestlers. But how expensive was it to buy every wrestling show in the country, and actually lose money (because he was paying the TV stations to air his wrestling) by doing so? And let's not forget all the promotions he was buying at the time. Those couldn't have been cheap either. I really wish I could get a look at Vinces financial books and see how he managed to pull all of that off. He never bought promotions outright, only stripped them of the top level talent. From there, he would begin syndicating his TV in those networks where he stripped the talent from. For instance, for the sake of argument, he took Billy Jack Haynes, Dynamite Kid, Piper, Valentine, and Buddy Rose from Oregon. Now, those guys had also wrestled elsewhere, but because Vince had them, he could now run shows in Oregon with these guys on the card and they would draw, and his syndicated TV show could outdraw the local show because it has exactly the same talent that now appears with the WWF. And because each talent had made stopovers elsewhere, he was able to slowly pull parts of the audience from places like Georgia, Mid-South, and WCCW. It wouldn't have taken a whole lot of start up money, as someone had mentioned, because he would pay these guys by the gate. The only thing it would take was balls and the lack of fear that he was breaking decade old unspoken rules about crossing territory boundaries. If some of the mergers would have succeeded a bit more, AWA/WCCW, the NWA, it would have been really interesting to see what would have happened. However, Vince had the advantage that there was only one ego to please as opposed to many different territory owners. -Ian
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