Why? Boxing is far more. UFC is far more.

Not sure your point but in the Wednesday night wars on TNT/USA, it was NXT that had the huge lead-in and AEW that didn't, and that was reflected in the ratings usually for the first 3-5 minutes and by that point the lead-in advantge no longer mattered.

Live attendance and PPV to me is the best indication of how hot the promotion is. Ratings as compared to everything else on television is more important financially because TV is where the money comes from.

Reduce costs PPV have historically been a business flop. People see it as something worth skipping. Such a difference that in the 90s when WWE stopped reduced cost PPVs and made them full price, they went from heavy losses to profitability

He understood it but didn't talk it much, used an interpreter when negotiating.

It's my job to learn streaming vs. television and how it varies in key markets.

Yes.

Can't argue the facts, play a fake narrative card.

Depends on the country. Lots of places it isn't big and it'll be a decline. Others it'll be an increase.

Can heavily recommend Adam Hills BBC podcast on the life and death of Bruiser Brody. An enormous, chaotic human being with an utterly insane story. Really well told with some great input from the likes of Dave Meltzer and Conrad the Mortgage Guy

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…

Funny story. Yes I talked with him on it. When I was younger, my two sportswriting heroes were Deford & Ostler.

Smackdown isn't getting close to the same numbers in its new home. Everyone knows that.

I used both.

Maybe first in Dallas, not first.

Jose Gonzalez used the name Manuel Cruz in the early 70s

Correct

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Knowledge is as well.

No idea. Guys were doing the body slapping for punches and knee lifts in the 60s. Not sure about the 50s. Thigh slap for kicks I recall Shibuya and that's 60s or earlier.