Will you still watch live events if Endeavor charges more?

[SirLucas]

My biggest concern with the merger is that pay-per-views/premium live events will no longer inclusive with the Peacock package. But instead, Endeavor may just do like UFC pay-per-view, where you have to subscribe to ESPN plus, then pay an additional fee to watch the pay per views. 

One of the things we may take for granted is that the WWE Network has not gone up in price since its launch in 2014. Even after the move to Peacock, there have been ways to get the programming even cheaper, such as subscribing to a lower-tier ad-supported package or prepaying annually for $99. 

Therefore, do you think they can put the genie back in the bottle if they tried? We are so accustomed to getting everything all-inclusive on one streaming package that I'd hate if they decided to return to an ala carte model. 

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

It's gonna depend on how much. Mostly because I remember buying UFC 200 and got burned so hard that I've been unwilling to buy a PPV since.

[polarbearpete]

Peacock deal isn’t up until 2026 so I’d imagine this will be a long ways off.

I would probably only pay for the larger events like Rumble, Summerslam and Mania.

[poodoojenkins]

I don't keep up all that regularly anyway, and only have Peacock for the back catalog and mainly the PPVs.

If I had to pay more, that would likely be the end of not only me watching PPVs, but probably the end of me being a subscriber at all, since that would cut out the biggest reason I even have it.

[papagiorgio]

I have an insanely low one year Peacock subscription price of $20.00 or something like that. I might be willing to go back to the WWE Network $9.99 a month type price, but that is about it. If it goes much higher, it is probably just Royal Rumbles and Wrestlemanias for me. I don't want to go back to the days of $50 plus PPVs each.

[salz4life]

If it's not inclusive.... I would probably only get Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania.... eventually, I would probably be done with pro wrestling as a whole.

[hashtagdaley/JudasDay]

Mania, SummerSlam, Rumble … maybe.

Everything else, no chance.

[Deleted]

Depends on how much but I really only watch the Rumble and Mania anymore.

[Jindrak Mark]

Apr 3, 2023 11:12:41 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

Mania, SummerSlam, Rumble … maybe.

Everything else, no chance.

Same. I'd buy Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania and maybe Summerslam/Survivor Series depending on the card.

The days of me paying for wrestling PPVs every month ended long ago and I don't plan on going back to it.

[Fade]

Depends how much we talking here. I haven’t ordered an AEW ppv since Full Gear 2021 and that was quite the penny, but I was willing to shill the cash before that cause it felt worth it.

Would I have paid $50 for this WM? Probably, yeah. More?..eh..

[thecrusherwi]

The $5 price tag is the about only reason I've kept up with WWE the last 5+ years. I can't imagine I'm alone in that.

I watch AEW every week and I still probably only buy about two of their PPVs a year, because that traditional PPV price point just feels obscenely high in the WWE Network/Peacock era. The days where I'm willing to pay more than like $10 a month to see a wrestling show are gone forever.