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WHY WWE FAILED TO MOVED INTO CHINA

Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:01:47 No.9691806 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>9691815 >>9691953 >>9693270

So Zeda Zhang did an interview where she talked about WWE’s failed push into China.

https://411mania.com/wrestling/zeda-zhang-on-why-wwes-push-into-china-failed-wwe-not-understanding-the-culture/

>Speaking on the Pro and Bro Wrestling Podcast, Zeda Zhang explained why WWE’s attempts to expand into China failed. Zhang was a big part of WWE’s attempt to court a Chinese audience as part of their international expansion, which included signing the likes of Tian Bing, Zhao Xia, Yifeng, and Big Boa in 2017. Zhang signed with WWE in January of that year and was debuted on NXT in May and got some exposure. However, Zhang recalled that the attempt to gain a foothold in China failed and she, Bing and others were released in 2018.

>You can check out the highlights below, ad well as the full video:

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:03:18 No.9691815 Report

Quoted By: >>9691821 >>9693060

>>9691806
>On being released from her contract:

>“Talking to staff there who, you know, handled the behind the scenes stuff. They always say, ‘At the end of the day it’s a business.’ And if they feel like they can’t use you for something or the timing, the market, stuff that you can’t even control, they have to release you. Because it’s like, more money they have to spend, you know. It comes down to that. Because literally, I see the trend. It makes sense.”

>On being brought in early for the China expansion:

>“So the reason why they pulled me in so early, six months early, was because the Chinese were coming. And because I’m Chinese, they wanted to push me with them. But they were trying to get into China at the time, it didn’t work so well. So next thing you know, when we first got there, the first first six months were amazing. Like, we had our own camera crew, they filmed us for promos all the time. We were the only people that had our own camera crew that would film us for content to push to China. And then next thing you know — because hey went on tour over there, it didn’t go over so well — our camera crew is gone. We don’t get any attention, no one’s paying attention to us.”

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:04:20 No.9691821 Report

Quoted By: >>9691833 >>9691983 >>9693044

>>9691815
>On why WWE couldn’t break into China:

>“So it’s really — WWE is trying to get into China because they’re trying to copy [the] NBA and their success over there. But the problem is, they don’t know the culture very well, and there is — like, you’ve got to think about Chinese history with their kung fu and stuff. And when they’re watching wrestling, the style just doesn’t really fit what they like. They feel like, they say ‘It’s too fake.’ You know, they don’t like how it is.

>“And when they had their show out there, I guess because it wasn’t TV [taping]s there were a lot of people who were like not trying very hard when they were wrestling. So literally, someone would kick someone and they would be this far away [a long distance]. And so even the fans that were there, they were saying s**t like, ‘Oh, this is so fake, what the f**k?’ You know, they were saying stuff like that. And it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing for the Chinese talent that actually got to go over there. They said they went there, they invited their family and their friends. And then having to sit there and hear their own friends and family and all the Chinese audience talk s**t about it, it was very embarrassing for them to be there.”

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:05:30 No.9691833 Report

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>>9691821
>On the Chinese talent not performing on the show:

>“It’s that and also China is very prideful of their culture and their country. And so they want to show something that has more than just a Chinese face. And at the time, none of the Chinese people wrestled there, because they were new too. They had just started [at the Performance Center]. So no one actually got and wrestled there … basically it didn’t go as well as they had wanted.”

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:06:54 No.9691839 Report

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>>9691833
>On the cultural problems:

>“WWE doesn’t understand the culture that much. And they hired this person to run WWE China, and they literally only had to deal with one show out of the whole damn year. They just had to work on marketing and promoting one show out of the whole year. They did not do a good job. And there was literally no media coverage. The only media coverage was like some smalltime bulls**t media coverage that’s there.

>“And also the Chinese government in general. The guy, the president there [Xi Jinping], he doesn’t like pro wrestling. He doesn’t like WWE, because from what he remembers it — because they used to have WWE in China back in the day. But it was during the Attitude Era. And they’re just like, ‘Oh, this is way too sexual, too whatever.’ They’re very conservative. So he was like, ‘No, we don’t want sex and all this stuff, and cussing.’ So in his mind, he sees it as [that]. Even though it’s changed, he still doesn’t want that.”

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:29:04 No.9691953 Report

Quoted By: >>9692007

>>9691806
China is a dirty shithole. WWE doesn't need it.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:34:35 No.9691983 Report

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>>9691821
>they don’t know the culture very well, and there is — like, you’ve got to think about Chinese history with their kung fu and stuff.
top kek

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 12:38:53 No.9692007 Report

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>>9691953
They were planning a NXT brand in China along with some other countries but yeah I honestly couldn’t picture it myself.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 14:52:28 No.9693044 Report

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>>9691821
based China recognizes the slop the sloppy shop slops into edrones' troughs who then slurp it up like the little droniE piggiEs they are

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 14:54:11 No.9693060 Report

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>>9691815
>At the end of the day it’s a business. And if they feel like they can’t use you for something or the timing, the market, stuff that you can’t even control, they have to release you. Because it’s like, more money they have to spend, you know. It comes down to that. Because literally, I see the trend. It makes sense
Women moment

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 14:56:35 No.9693077 Report

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AEW reminds me of china, because their roster has a billion people.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Apr 2023 15:16:27 No.9693270 Report

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>>9691806
Any women they have that are anywhere near as hot as Xia Li should be removed from China. Then the shithole of a country should be fucking nuked into the ground

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