>>12510453All good points anon, but just based on what we can see, I don't know how they could be anywhere close this year.
For all the memeing, we know that the video game was a big failure. The speed at which they've given up on it suggests that they're just keen to write it off and move on. It didn't appear in any sales charts for any console, and the steam numbers speak for themselves.
We know the roster is enormous, and that anyone ex-WWE/each recent new toy has been given a huge contract. Ospreay is said to be getting 7 figures, so you have to assume White is getting similar. Fuck knows how much he's had to pay Edge to get him over there, but it'll be a lot. They've got 100+ people on the books. Even Matt Hardy has said he's getting paid more than he's ever received in his life.
Again, memeing aside, their attendance is in the toilet. He's running half empty arenas for every TV taping, despite heavy discounting in almost every market. We know that Wembley was heavily papered and, given that he was caught lying about the overall attendance, you can't really trust his other claims about PPV buys and the overall gate etc. The rumour persists that he buys up a lot of his own tickets for these big shows, then floods the secondary market with cheap seats.
They're in the last year of their current TV deal, so there isn't any extra money coming from that yet. Pretty sure Tony himself said that Collision didn't change the current deal.
They abandoned the house show idea after that proved unsuccessful and arenas were mostly empty.
Again, all speculation as we don't have their accounts, but I just don't see where the returns are coming from this year, to get them anywhere close to a profit.
