Select Answers: Politicians at WWE, International Crowds, Will WWE Buy TNA?

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Hot take: The unique crowd chants that made international WWE shows special are losing their charm since U.S. fans started copying them. Thoughts?

I don't know about that. I think that any time you go somewhere that doesn't get wrestling as much, you're naturally going to encounter a hotter crowd. Right now, WWE is able to get a big site fee, sell tickets, go to different markets, and it helps keep their United States markets hot. That's cooling down a little bit now.

Do you believe wwe will buy tna outright

I don't. TKO hadn't been in asset acquisition mode in years. When Zuffa bought Strikeforce, PRIDE, WFA, etc, that was all before. When WWE bought WCW, ECW, all the libraries, that was prior to the TKO merger as well. What would the be buying? There's no TV time slot, and WWE can just get those on their own. There are almost no contracts they'd need to buy. TNA rents most of their equipment. It's the IP and the library. Then what? What are they doing with libraries these days? They go on Youtube. I don't think it would bode well for antitrust lawsuits in the future, either.

Does HHH/WWE know that there is a very high chance (I would say almost certainly) that anyone shown from the current administration will get boo’d in DC if they actually show up to SNME on Dec 13

I'm not sure how they can see the general responses to them becoming more political and not know. I actually don't hear about politics being discussed backstage openly as much anymore. It was really prevalent during the pandemic. But there's no way that they don't know at this point. I ask regularly about the connections and it's just one of those things that nobody feels comfortable talking about.