Are the cruiserweights a cost-cutting measure?

[vinnysimmo]

I had a thought about the Cruiserweights.
Have they been bourght back as a cost-cutting measure?
Suddenly hiring all these UK midgets that could probably be persuaded to work for next to nothing is a much cheaper way to fill your undercard than having the likes of Ryback or Cody Rhodes tied to multi-year five-figure contracts. It seem to me that this is a situation kinda like when WCW started importing dozens of identikit luchadors.
Anyone reckon this theory has legs?

[Bub (BLM)]

Not really. They aren't being used to flesh out the main roster midcard, they're being kept separate. Plus with the addition of 205 live, they're actually an additional cost if anything.

[Deleted]

Don't see how they would be. They probably work cheaper than everyone else but they're still needing to be paid for doing TV twice, sometimes three times a week, they're still a ton of extra people, and they're producing a separate show for them that isn't making a dime in return.

[Perd]

I was going to say no, but your use of italics convinced me.

[Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop]

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

[rnrk supports BLM]

Naturally. They eat less food, and they can pack them into smaller, economy-class seats on the plane.

[Deleted]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

[Thunderbolt]

I think the only way 205 live could become cost efficient is if they replace all the UK and American midgets with Christian's Malaysian slaves, who will work for free to please their benevolent master.

[Talent Name]

Jun 17, 2017 18:54:52 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

That's why he was fired, to big to pay

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

I don't see how they could be

[BlackoutCreature]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

Do you really think Vince McMahon doesn't?

[DASH 243✅]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

Vince: this is great we can fit the whole roster in a vw bug!

[thegame415]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

Well, Big Show has that ironclad contract.

[Hit Girl]

No, I think they genuinely want to push a different style of wrestling, but unfortunately WWE writers don't know how to create compelling characters and stories for their biggest stars, let alone their cruiserweights.

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

[vinnysimmo]

Jun 17, 2017 18:42:10 GMT -5 Perd said:

I was going to say no, but your use of italics convinced me.

Thank you! Welcome aboard.

[vinnysimmo]

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

You can't think that the likes of Noam Dar and Richie Swan get paid as much as some of the high profile people who have left in the last year or so? If we are comparing say... Ryback to say... Grand Metallic, then effectively, yes WWE are paying people by the inch. I reckon that generally, the new cruiserweights are on avarage being paid less than the avarage heavyweight.

[________ has left the building]

A cost cutting measure is a Future Endeavored party. The cruiserweights aren't breaking the bank for WWE with their current contracts nor taking jobs away from others since the 'E been on the biggest hiring spree since their national expansion push.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Jun 18, 2017 5:45:51 GMT -5 vinnysimmo said:

Jun 17, 2017 18:43:43 GMT -5 Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop said:

Does the OP think that WWE pays people by the inch?

You can't think that the likes of Noam Dar and Richie Swan get paid as much as some of the high profile people who have left in the last year or so? If we are comparing say... Ryback to say... Grand Metallic, then effectively, yes WWE are paying people by the inch. I reckon that generally, the new cruiserweights are on avarage being paid less than the avarage heavyweight.

Ryback wasn't that high profile or got hired on a big contract right off the gate, he ended up with the pay he did through being in the company for multiple years. Guys like him and Cody didn't get cut and replaced with their Mexican non-union equivalents, they willingly left the company unhappy with their directions. Maybe if they hired one or two small dudes to replace them, fine, but without really making huge cuts in their roster and hiring on an entire division's worth of people I really don't see how it would be even remotely cost effective.

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Jun 17, 2017 17:17:17 GMT -5 vinnysimmo said:

I had a thought about the Cruiserweights.
Have they been bourght back as a cost-cutting measure?
Suddenly hiring all these UK midgets that could probably be persuaded to work for next to nothing is a much cheaper way to fill your undercard than having the likes of Ryback or Cody Rhodes tied to multi-year five-figure contracts. It seem to me that this is a situation kinda like when WCW started importing dozens of identikit luchadors.
Anyone reckon this theory has legs?

Just like the cruiserweight division, the problem wasn't who WCW booked but how they booked htem.

A lot of the UK and Cruiserweight guys are fascinating, dynamic performers who have worked super interesting stuff in other places but WWE uses them in breathtakingly terrible ways.