Guest Retro Rob Report post Posted July 27, 2003 If the WWE were on one of the Big 4, odds are their ratings wouldn't have sunk as far as they have because of numerous reasons. There would be a greater audience, more advertising, more income, different people watching how the product is coming off, and they would have no choice but to listen to their audience. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RavishingRickRudo Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Disagreed. If the WWE had given the product they gave us for the past 2 1/2 years on one of the big 4, they would have been off the air by now. That "huge audience" would have hugely turned it off by now thus inflating the rate of decline and the rate of decline for the WWE already has been HUGE, they wouldn't have survived. USA was thinking about getting rid of the WWE at one point in time and Vince was near folding in the mid-90's. Vince would never listen to his audience anyways. He has already shown this on two major occasions (early-mid 90's, early 00's). Vince is Vince, that will never change. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest whatitistoburn Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Disagreed. If the WWE had given the product they gave us for the past 2 1/2 years on one of the big 4, they would have been off the air by now. Who is to say if they were on one of the big 4 they'd be giving us the same product. If they were in a position to advertise better on a stronger network that could provide real hype for different storylines, characters, matches, ect ect they might have gone in a completely different direction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RavishingRickRudo Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Vince is still in control. Vince would never give up control. Things would be going the way Vince would want it to. Vince would probably still do the XFL, the XFL would still bomb, Vince would still go insane from the public embarrassment and still hold on to the old formula that made him successful in the first place dispite it being out-dated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Retro Rob Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Hypothetically speak, If WWE was on the Big 4 and Vince had control, I think Vince would know that more effort needs to be put in this way the company could survive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest C-Bacon Report post Posted July 28, 2003 i perfer THIS interview from Hot Newz: SIGN IDEAZ! Kane burnt my other sign! Eddie stole all my good sign ideas! Yep, that's all the sign ideas, because it's now time for the interview you've all been waiting for with teh man who founded the WWF Mister Vincent Kirk McMahon! Me: OMG it's Vince! Vince: Good evening to you. Me: I've interviewed a lot of top WWE superstars, and Brad Shaw, but I was most scared of interviewing you because I know you sometimes go crazy and start threateneing interviewers. Vince: Well quite frankly, that's because a lot of the people who interview me are imbeciles. But if you are respectful and DON'T INTERRUPT ME PAL, then I think that quite frankly we should get along well. Me: Okay! Let's start by talking about your troubled childhood. Vince: Well quite frankly I think I had the most trouble childhood of anyone in the world, much more troubled that Ted Turner's, for example. We were very poor, in fact for a time our family lived in a cardboard box. My father was a very harsh and cruel man, he would work 23 hours each day, come home, set fire to our box then spend the remaing hour beating me with his shoes. But I think that treatement is what made me the man I am today. Me: So is that why you had incest with Stephanie? Vince: What!? WHAT!? How dare you! YOU MAKE ME SICK. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR BUSINESS, I SHOULD SLAP YOU IN THE FACE, PAL! Me: But you said you deflowered her! Vince: That was just a storyline, damn it! Me: Okay. Vince: DON'T INTERRUPT ME! What did I tell you about interrupting me? Me: Sorry. Finish what you were saying Vince: Okay, I'm finished. Me: ... Vince: You know, technically, Stephanie's breasts aren't actually the fruits of my overactive loins, although I did pay for them... Me: OMG! Vince: What? Sorry, just thinking out loud. Next question. Me: Is it really necessary for you to keep doing storylines where you're sleeping with sexy young women? Vince: Yes, damn it! I'm a poweful man, of cousre sexy young big titted blond women are going to want to have sexy with me! Quite frankly, I don't think we do enough of those storylines. And yes, when Linda was in a coma, it was neceassary for me to really stick my tongue down Trish's throat in front of her and to put my hand up her skirt. Just for realism. We were acting! Me: LOL, I would have done the same thing. Vince: And yeah, I may have suggested that I'd give her a huge push and pay rise if she did sexual favours for me, but that was just a joke! And she turned me down anyway. Bitch. Me: ... Vince: Next question. Me: Is it true that Triple H uses his relationship with Stephanie to avoid doing jobs? Vince: Quite frankly, that's a big fat steaming pile of bullcrap! Okay, so HHH and Steph live with me and Linda in our palacial mansion, and yes, HHH is always giving me booking ideas over breakfast, lunch and dinner, but that doesn't influence me at all. The reason why Triple H hasn't lost his world title is because there's nobody good enough to replace him as the world champion. Me: So HHH is superior to the rest? Vince: If you want to put it like that, yes. Me: So when he said "Booker's kind of people" dont deserve to be champion, he was right? Blacks are inferior to Triple H. Vince: Yes, exactly. I MEAN NO! NO! STOP PUTTING WORDS INTO MY MOUTH, YOU HUCKSTER. When he said "your type of people" he meant former dub ya see dub ya stars, that's all! Nothing racial, damn it! Me: So why did HHH say "dance for me, boy!"? Vince: Err...he meant...because dub ya see dub ya used to have those Nitro girls who danced! That's all it was! Me: What do you say to critics who would say that the WWE sucks now the ratings are down? Vince: I don't listen to the critics at all. Those people are so negative. They are a cancer on this business. If they stopped thinking about things and QUESTIONING MY BRILLIANCE DAMN IT, they'd be able to enjoy our shows like normal people. Those critics must love really sad lives. I bet none of them of had sex with a beautiful woman, unlike me! Me: So if you saw one of those critics walking down the street what would you say to them? Vince: I wouldn't ackowlege their existance. Or maybe I would, actually. Maybe I'd put my finger to their chest and say "Now look here, pal, our show is as good as ever, damn it! I chew people like you up and spit you out for breakfast? Do you want a fight? Do you? No, of course not, you're just a stinking coward who hides behind words. I hope you DIE." Then I'd muss up their hair and walk away. Me: That would show them! So why do you always push big men like Big Show and Albert even though everyone hates them. Vince: Quite frankly, our research shows that our viewers WANT to see big men like Show and the big bad A-Train. Me: What research? Vince: Well, the only person's opinion I trush enough is my own. So I'll stand in front of the mirror and say "Self, which wrestlers would you like to see more of?" Then my mirror self will say "Big men like Big Show and that hairy Prince Albert!" You can't argue with findings like that. Me: And now the biggest question of them all, why did you screw Bret, dood? Vince: Well quite frankly I would suggest that Bret screwed Bret, quite frankly. He should have done the time honored tradition and put over Shaw right in the middle of that very ring. Okay, so he had reasonable creative control in his contract, but nobody uses that! Except HHH, but he's EARNED it. Bret earned nothing, I MADE him a star. Before I came along, he was wrasslin' in front of 15 people in steamy bingo halls in Antartica. And quite frankly I also had it on good authority that Bret was going to show up on Nitro with the belt the next night. Me: Really? What good authority? Vince: Well, I stood in front of the mirror and said "Self, do you think Bret will show up on Nitro with the belt tomorrow" and the mirror said... Me: Okay, I get the idea. Vince: DON'T YOU DARE INTERRUPT ME PAL, I'LL SLAP THOSE PAPERS OUT OF YOUR HAND AND THROW DOWN THIS MUG OF COFFEE, DAMN IT. Me: Sorry. Vince: Okay, now I'm done. Me: Finally, do you have any advice for Coach to improve his commentating mad skills? Vince: As a matter of fact, quite frankly I do. He has to sounds more excited! Act like everything he sees is UNBELIEVABLE! And whenever someone goes for a pin he should say "One, two, three, it's over! It is over...no it's not over!" Quite frankly I would suggest that if he does that he'll be well on his way to replacing ugly old JR permanently. Me: Thanx for your time! (Vince got up and mussed up my hair. Interview over!) I'll be bizzack at some point in the futare with another hizzot update as my skedule permits it doodz! credit: http://www.geocities.com/vassie316/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
