That Crowder guy is a little pussy. Watch him debate Joe Rogan on marijuana and come apart at the seams like the little bitch, chicken shit, big talk when he's in the driver's seat conservative he is.

The Crockett Cup never came close to bombing that bad and it wasn't 1% of what WM is globally now. Jim Crockett can't be compared to Vince. JCP never would have folded if they never left the South. Trying to go national and terrible accounting/spending habits did.

The thing about watching at home is you're not sitting in a shitty Stadium chair for 7 hours in sweltering heat after an already exhausting weekend. If, and I'm almost positive this is true, 30 000 out of towners come to see WM, they'd stay two days and that alone would pack a stadium with the local crowds.

WWE has Axxess, HOF, NXT, WM, Raw and SD in Orlando, in addition to Wrestlecon and about 8 other wrestling events, which is why I always am so intimidated to try to go to WM and figure everything out. The two day WM would just let them make even more money via Axxess and everything else, plus give their network more content. I think it's inevitable that it will happen because everyone was bitching about the length this year... everyone. From Twitter to Meltzer to Auston, even to JR. And if it stays one day with a shorter show, people are gonna be bitching that x guy doesn't get a match. The logical thing is they need to make WM a legit wrestling festival. It already is, actually. They just need to restructure.

From my interpretation of Mania weekend, out of towners who travel from across the globe to WM as their vacation fill up all the non-WM venues (HOF, Raw, SD, NXT) by default. So, the only thing they actually have to worry about is two nights in a stadium and I don't think adding one show to a slightly smaller stadium is an issue. It can't be done tomorrow, but the fact is there are tens of thousands who travel just for Mania, they're not gonna worry about two nights. For WWE, it's not gonna cost them much more to run two nights. Axxess gets to be another day, more time to do everything, better shows. Everyone wins.

I don't necessarily want it to go to two days... I just think they're gonna do it for the betterment of everything.

I haven't got to see my show yet - but I can't wait until late August.

The tour has went so far exactly as I expected and as it should. The shows are huge, chock full of great tunes. There's not much use swapping out GNR songs. The core list is just too good. I didn't think we'd get new music, I didn't think we wouldn't either... I was more indifferent to the new music. I really want new music, but like, let's slow down. These guys gotta have a giant reunion tour and we all know Axl doesn't rush. It's pretty expected if we do get a new song, it's gonna be debuted on Jimmy Fallon or a blockbuster flick, not at a random show.

I wish they'd put The Seeker on in the middle of the set so it can be a piss break song. At this point, Coma is the song I'm gonna jet out and take a piss for because I'll catch the best part at the tail end. I would piss during Duff's song, but it'll be too short.

Without Hulk Hogan, WWF would have still exploded beyond belief, maybe not quite to the heights Hogan brought, but still very, very high. It's one of those "what if" scenarios there's really no answer. What if Pong hadn't existed, or had sucked? Would video games have imploded? I doubt it. What if the first book sucked? Well it probably did, but there's been many more. Without Hulk, there's no "x", but guys like Undertaker, HBK (ugh), The Rock and Stone Cold did come along and WWF managed to make more money with them. That's the thing about wrestling - no one is bigger than wrestling. Not even the Hulkster, brother.

The facts of the matter are in 1984 WWF through offering the Briscos lifelong jobs, got them to sell their stake in Georgia, which sent a tidal wave down, obliterating the major territory that had airing nationwide on TBS. This was lost to WWF and Georgia was off TBS. It drew poorly in the ratings and Vince actually sold the time slot to JCP for a huge profit. If memory serves me right, he did the same to get on USA by buying out the Blanchard territory, and he began paying stations just to carry wrestling. Being the only game in town and with a lot of regional territories losing major TV saw him become incredibly exposed. He couldn't lose when no other promotions could have major TV, and he could run 3 shows a night from the syndicated/national TV programs.

Vince, being based out of New York, had the hugest territory with the biggest markets and his finger on the pulse. And with that said, PPV absolutely was a huge factor in his dominance, it made JCP PPVs in the 80s, essentially, non-existent, along with JCP mismanagement, created a perfect storm for him to wipe them off the map. And when WWF got on NBC for SNMEs, good night Irene!

AWA, Memphis, JCP, Florida, Mid-South, basically there were about 15 major territories in the USA that'd sell 5000+ seats per night (and for major cards in the 70s/early 80s, they'd have to have shows in outdoor domes, even in "small" territories), every night. So wrestling was really big, much bigger than a lot of people fathom in comparison to how big it is now, even with the current global reach of WWE.

I have watched thousands of hours of wrestling shoot interviews and I've never heard of the Kerry von Erich thing before. I highly doubt Kerry would want to go when he faced Ric Flair in front of like 45 000 people in 1984 in his dad's own territory. Plus, Kerry had major drug problems and never jumped to WWF until WCCW had totally died after all the von Erich tragedies. I'd like to know where that anecdote came from because that is an interesting one! It's really too bad about Kerry.

Looks like you're trying to be both a dick and a vag, playa.