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zero business planning god bless them. their episodes were super expensive and they didn't charge for tickets. they created all these characters to copywrite and never made merch for a single one of them.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:09:20 No.7229137 Report

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>>7228699
It is a fucking travesty. Greatest wrestling creative in history.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:26:32 No.7229402 Report

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>>7229121
>they created all these characters to copywrite and never made merch for a single one of them.
there were a few things
I'm trying to find a picture of their mexican glass candles, I'm pretty sure they made a Mil Muertes one
But it was few and far between and usually LU merch was just the brand name (I bought a regular Lucha Underground t shirt) or was of names not owned by LU like Pentagon Jr and Rey Misterio.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:27:41 No.7229423 Report

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it's such a simple and obvious concept for success in hindsight. why hasn't it been replicated?

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:30:55 No.7229489 Report

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>>7228699
They were on a really crappy channel that almost no one got

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:34:00 No.7229562 Report

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>>7229423
it failed because of the hiatuses between season tapings and the airings
during those hiatuses results would leak (Sexy Star winning the title, which got fans pissed off for months before it finally aired and was a nothing burger) and during those hiatuses wrestlers would make the dirt sheets about leaving the company (Prince Puma, Johnny Mundo)

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:36:00 No.7229597 Report

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>>7229423
Matt Hardy kinda took the concept with the cinematic matches, or was that before LU?

And WWE and AEW have had a few cinematic matches that were kino. It’s really a brilliant concept

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:36:52 No.7229611 Report

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>>7228699
Flippy shit is never a draw

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:37:16 No.7229615 Report

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>>7228699
This is the only smart thing that I ever fell for that was actually good.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:38:17 No.7229633 Report

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>>7229615
Smark*

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:47:17 No.7229788 Report

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Because it was on a nothing channel and creative went to shit halfway into season 2

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:55:22 No.7229908 Report

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>>7228699
actual answer is that LU was intended to be the cornerstone of el rey but the network didn't expand quickly enough. still the best wrestling product of the last 20 years and a vision of studio wrestling done outside the WWE model

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 02:59:50 No.7229990 Report

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>>7229597
>Matt Hardy kinda took the concept with the cinematic matches, or was that before LU?
After LU

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 03:56:44 No.7230670 Report

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>>7229597
it's just natural. look at darby's short film kind of stuff, with the excellent lighting and stuff. that might give wrestling a new leash.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 03:57:54 No.7230681 Report

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>heavily edited wrestling matches on a weekly basis
no ty

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 03:59:04 No.7230695 Report

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>>7229908
I'm not saying they were the messiahs of wrestling but it was definitely different from WWE which is all it needed to be. It is fine to have different flavors of wrestling on tv so that everyone is gets what they want.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 04:11:39 No.7230818 Report

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>>7228699
They were on a weird premium cable network and refused to partner with a streaming service until they were already dead, which lead to Netflix immediately dropping them after a couple months despite pushing Glow heavily at the same time.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 05:47:00 No.7231619 Report

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>>7228699
World wasn't ready for it

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 05:48:46 No.7231631 Report

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>>7230695
i like that they did studio wrestling but managed to capture the energy of an ecw-type crowd. i think a lot of wrestling promotions could thrive right now if they were able to shake the "must do live shows must tour" model. there's so much room for so many different kinds of promotions and instead all we get is progressively shittier versions of vince's "northeast territory except it's the entire planet"

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Anonymous Tue 13 Sep 2022 05:51:49 No.7231643 Report

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>>7230818
amazon prime only began streaming a few months before the first season of LU aired, it's not like they had a mature streaming ecosystem to deal with. plus the show was created by the guys who owned the network

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