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Originally Posted by Tom
Shirley you jest~!
I am not sure about racing, but WRESTLING is thriving!
This is the new golden age.
WWE, AEW, Impact, NWA, ROH, NewJapan
Pretty much every day of the week, and they, too, doing it without fans.
Although one is more believable than the other....  |
Wrestling's dead, man.
In 1983, 10 different promotions in the US drew 10,000 fans or more for an event. In 2020, with a lot more technology and 50 million new people, only 2 promotions could achieve it.
Raw's averaging under 2 million viewers, AEW and NXT combined can't hit 1.5 million. ROH has been dead since the MSG show and Impact is so low on the totem pole, it's not even worth discussing. I don't even think NWA has come close to making a profit yet. WWE's getting tons of money due to tv deals, but it's less people spending more.
New Japan is doing good, but Japan and Mexico are different beasts than the US. NJPW is still way down from its peak in the 90's and every name Japanese promotion has been sold to someone else in the last decade. With Mexico, it's part of the culture and the local arena's are a lot of the heart and soul of it, but CMLL is having to rely on foreign visitors which is not good at all.
