VINCE WON! From the August 20th WOR.
https://vocaroo.com/1k73FYxugOo1>8:12 - “Let’s face it: A year ago right now, they (AEW) were on the verge of beating RAW. And they did a few weeks in September, and their house show business in Q4 beat WWE’s, so they were in the hunt and it was very exciting to see this 2 year old company beating a company that’s 13 times as big. And now, the way the trajectory is going, it was like “oh, these guys are rising and WWE is falling every year,” and then it stopped. And now the situation is reversed. It’s AEW that’s falling and WWE that’s really doing great.”>9:36 - “They (AEW) were never at the level WCW was, it was way more popular, but they were on the rise. And they were being competitive, and they didn’t need Hulk Hogan and all those guys to do it. And then things happened and WWE went up, and when that happened with WCW, we saw WCW just frickin’ collapse.”>13:20 - "The upswing in WWE started with Vince. Yes, yes absolutely. It really started after WrestleMania. That was really when I really started seeing the difference, in the sense that, all of a sudden the um... you know AEW did great business in Los Angeles, you know, and Detroit obviously, um, and-and-and they were good all around, but WWE did start growing, um, after Wrestlemania. Whatever it was that was the period, it was not the Vince McMahon scandal, which uh... the Vince McMahon scandal was a giant thing for television ratings for sure, but the fact is there were signs under Vince McMahon. I've told people this and they don't want to hear it, but it was-it was stuff under Vince."> 27:57 - “The USA network will completely collapse if they lose RAW, so the value of RAW to USA is very, very high. And there’s other people that want RAW. Everybody wants RAW. WWE is a very valuable franchise right now, they’re gonna get a big, big increase in rights fees when that deal comes up, and they’ll be far more profitable.” 