#3 It comes as a genuine surprise to me that Vince McMahon not only recognized that he had made a mistake, but that he also apologized to somebody who worked for him.
You all hating to much on him without him no Wrestling would nerver be what it is today he did so much great things nerver see that in the comments just hate people love to hate someone how doing better in Live
The WWE restaurant club thing would be a good idea if they opened them outside of the US. Not everyone wants to sign up to the network and it would become more of a social thing, like going to watch the football game at the bar with friends, you could take your friends to watch Wrestlemania in a social setting without needing to fly to the US and see it in person. Have them show old shows and maybe backstage content 24/7 and serve WWE food and drinks. I'm sure someone with a modicum knowledge of marketing and business can turn a profit from that. Maybe do a deal with a brewery, they fund the bars and you sell their beer exclusively and market it for them on the shows. It wouldn't be that hard to do, surely.
India might be a potential huge market for foreign companies but Indians don't seem to be interested in wrestling. not even football (soccer) became popular for Indians. and India was a British colony for 200+ years. so yeah, not everything really sticks the wall. India and China aren't interested in soccer or wrestling.
@@LevisH21You actually got it wrong. Indians do love wrestling, can't say the same about football (Soccer). The only issue with WWE is that they cannot sell their franchise at normal prices here. They need to provide discounts. But considering the customer base here (1.4 billion), even if they sell 1 T-shit for $10 and assuming they sell it to 1% of the indian population which is around 14 million, they make huge money. During the Attitude era, almost every school student here had a debate on who was better "The Rock vs. Stone Cold". Things went bad for WWE since the Cena era. Even though kids today love wresiling, the fanbase for WWE has dwindled as they stopped putting out good content.
@@JohnDoe-dw3hj Not sure about that, during the Attitude Era, even 10-year olds here in India could recognize and cheer for mid-carders like Scotty2Hotty, Rikishi, Bradshaw, Farooq and so on. Even Mid-carders got solid promo segments and TV time and most of the time, they entertained as he'll. But today, we'd be lucky to see 2 midcarders cut great promos or put on good shows. Script writers writing for wrestlers has killed their creativity. Heck, people thought Cena is a great promo worker, I was like - Dude cuts great promos, but compared to the wrestlers during 1998-2002, Cena's promos were average at best. That's how low the bar is. Hell, even Dwayne Johnson promos Suck today.
Been to WWF New York multiple times back in the Attitude Era. It was nice atmosphere, love the merch, food & drinks were great at first but after 2001 things started getting bland & wasnt the same. Still props to Vinnie for starting a wrestling restaurant cuz it pursuaded wrestlers to start their own like Lisa Marie(Victoria/Tara)
@@reasonali They could do in similar way how Nickelodeon partner with well established buildings when they had a hotel partnership instead of Nickelodeon creating their own hotel which caused troubles down the road. Like WWE should do a partnership with an already established restaurant/bar to host WWE events.
They could have easily earned revenues if they sold it via franchise system like a sports bar, where wwf / wwe theme designed were used like tables made looked like rings with a grand entrance style entry gate, and drinks named after wwe superstars and a live telecast of wwe shows.
Fun fact, WWE are STILL doing NFTs. If you receive those notification emails of WWE regarding future events, etc, they’ll often promote their new NFTs that are still coming out
@@inc2000glw disagree there , were plenty bright spots in the early 2010s you shouldn’t sleep on ; but with that being said still as the decade went on the official death of the WWE inevitably happened
Cena’s SummerSlam 2021 gear (particularly the shirt) is one of my favorites. Had it been sold individually for the normal price I would’ve definitely got it. The $1,000 for that whole bundle just was not worth it to me.
I honestly think the Jinder Mahal experiment could have possibly worked had they pushed him as a babyface. When he's just being himself, he's a very likable person. I think one of the worst things about modern wrestling is the lack of genuin personalities. There's far too many people trying to play fictional characters. Nothing is organic anymore.
They should've really built him up first because he was a jobber part of 3MB for a good few years. Suddenly slingshotting him to the main title was a bad move especially since he didn't even have a credible finisher at the time he won it.
@@zeospark9715 If he would have been a babyface, it wouldn't have needed much build. That would have been the shocking "Kid beat Razor" moment.... I don't think anyone has a credible finisher anymore since everyone kicks out of everything multiple times a match.
@@zeospark9715 he was hit in india, I am from India who hell pulls out title off ur most lived and admired superhero when ur are target the huge audience from where he belongs, wwe viewership rose to heights after the great khali, and then jinder, the problem with wwe is it makes giants look like bunnies means what the hell. But later recently they did superstar spectacal which was hit. The biggest problem i observe wwe did to target indian audience is they have partnered with shitty Bollywood character writers and promoters who themselves steal majority of script from Hollywood and translate them to local language and make a movie. They have hired those baboons. Definitely wwes marketing advisor are bunch of babboons who have no idea about india wrestling tradition at all. That why they hired shitty Bollywood script writers they are bound to fail it india. Also thiers a tendency with indians customers they aren't consistent bcoz they don't ha e much of disposable income.
the problem with that is for years he's been booked as a comedy character and a jobber, so for him to jump as a WWE title contender in a matter of weeks made no sense.
@@megamanxhunter The definitely done it way too fast. It could have still worked if he were a babyface. I mean look at Orange Cassidy. He's an absurd comedy act that should be a heel job guy instead of a rising babyface star, and he's the drizzling shits in the ring on top of that. People love him for reasons beyond my understanding though, so why wouldn't the people have accepted Jinder?
Other WWE Flops - The infamous Brawl for All in the Attitude era - Raw Underground which was basically a modern version of the Brawl for All - Random guest hosts for Raw in 2009 - WWE Saturday Morning Slam - WWE's version of ECW - The XFL - Mr. McMahon's Million Dollar Mania segment
Laurinaitis also hired the wrong one-legged wrestler instead of Zach Gowen. Vince chewed him out in front of the poor guy's face. Zach was then hired for real by a red-faced Big Johnny...
The old XFL was basically wrestling on a gridiron. The players had names on their jerseys that would not have been out of place in a wrestling promotion.
The WBF was a complete work. Vince started it just so he could sign Lex Luger to a contract because he was convinced he could make him the next Hulk Hogan, lol. Luger was either still under contract with WCW or he was under a non-compete, I can't remember which. Either way, he couldn't appear anywhere in a wrestling capacity, but he could appear as a bodybuilder.
It feels like wrestlelamia have a ton of ideas for what to put in A ranking video so they scrap a few to put them in the Intro to shrink it to just 10.
Raw roulette was an amazing concept I remember the Stacy Keibler vs Trish Stratus paddle on a pole match on Raw that match was awesome the Divas Era During The Ruthless aggression era is an iconic time period and it needs to be talked about more often.
@@ThePeoplesVictor your comment is one way, dude was showing respect, you tried to make him look bad. I don't think it worked. Think before you speak... or in this case type
@@aaronlumley7458 Apologies, but for someone to opine that the Paddle on a pole match doesn't get enough recognition for its contribution to the wrestling business only lends me to come to that obvious concensus. By definition incels need love too, so no hate here boys.
I don’t think the Laptop Raw manager was a flop. I truly enjoyed it then because it was unpredictable. You’ll just hear the tone in the middle of a match and Micheal cole gotta read it out loud 😄
Just out of curiosity how many times has WWE tried to secure a market in india? Cuz I remember them doing this all the way back to just before the attitude era
I am from India and belive me it is wwe's biggest market but they don't know how to do buisness here back in 2017 the ticket prices were so high that many fans couldn't afford that so they didn't sold out the arena but somehow if they make some good strategies then they can do good buisness here too and btw guys like cena, taker might help in that coz these two are the most famous wrestlers here.
WWE in India could've been a more sucessful if they for once decides not to give Indian fans a middle finger. Like throughout the promotion they promised John Cena then suddenly replaced him with Roman Reigns. I know fans in India love Reigns too but fan following of John was much bigger than Reigns even the casuals who don't watch WWE in India knows who John Cena is.
The biggest mistake wwe has done is they have partnered with shitty Bollywood promotion companies who just think indian wwe fans like dancing and saying shitty Bollywood movie dialogues. Wwe please if you want wwe to be successful in india get away from Bollywood. And get in touch with real wrestlers yeah they might not know good English and might be good at in ring skills or skills with mic. But even brick lensar isn't good with mike. If you are eager to find you find tonnes of paul heyman. Get away from Bollywood asap.
@@Hilda1204 bruh you can not be serious. It’s an iconic Mario cover so of course John Cena had one. I don’t think they care that Punk had a shirt like him
The XFL you know something isn't meant to be when it failed Twice. Once because Vince didn't know how to run a Football Company, & Second because of a Pandemic.
@@jcc3333 I'll never forget the time I tuned in out of curiosity n saw this girl with a BABY gimmick ( baby bottle, pacifier, jammies, the whole lot ) n thought "Yea, no way! This S*** is not for me." Might as well have Barney the Dinosaur show up.
Another thing that failed miserably was when WWE had that Raw special host thing. Every episode of Raw had a special guest host. That thing went on way longer than it should have.
Regarding Indian expansion: maybe if you didn’t say to an Asian person that they “all rook the same” like it was still the 40’s, maybe it would have gone over better!
Wasn't it Brock who made it so Jinder lost the title to AJ. Brock didn't wanna face him at surviver series. He likes working with the smaller guys, plus the matchs Brock had with AJ and Bryan... 🔥
The Jinder Mahal experiment wasn't the first time WWE tried to break into the wrestling market in India. A few years earlier, Vince put the WWE championship on Great Khali for the same reason with similar results. By the time Khali got to WWE, his knees had given out due to his size, and he could barely move around in the ring.
Yeah I remember hearing that there was an autograph signing at an event that Mahal was at and NO ONE stood in his line. It's sad to hear because a heard he's a really nice and humble guy in real life. But if a guy has been built as a jobber for the past few years suddenly becomes WWE champion, no one is going to take him seriously
Raw dark was actually made in 2018. The Juniors Division is basically the well acknowledged Cruiserweight division and a WWE restaurant would've been cool tbh should restart that again I feel like
Here's my list 10. Raw Dark 9. NXT Kids 8. Vince Russos's comeback 7. Stand Up For WWE 6. John Cena NFT 5. Raw Underground 4. Brawl For All 3. Juniors Division 2. WWE Studios 1. The New Generation Era
IIRC, Stand Up for WWE was tied to one of Linda McMahon's senate campaigns. She was being criticized for various stories WWE had put out over the year, so Vince tried to use Stand Up as a way to counter that. When she lost, there went the campaign.
What about "The Brawl For All", a Russo idea where a lot of wrestlers got injured, and WWE ended up with someone winning it that they had no intention of pushing.
It's funny that the Brawl for All actually had the side effect of getting Bat Gunn and Steve Williams over in Japan where they went after. Since Japan's connection between legit MMA and pro wrestling is much tighter they love their shoot fighters and mega tough guys over there so they saw the brawl for All and went "we gotta get ourselves some of them" Dan Severn also went back to Japan too after. the Brawl for All was just a concept for the wrong pro wrestling culture. in Japan it'd have absolutely worked.
Ok maybe it would've been smart for Vince to explain that he wasn't making a literal junior division. Then again, now I see why Johnny Ace got fired (among other reasons)
NFTs being number one doesn’t surprise me at all. NFTs are a big time scam that corporations are currently pandering towards. WWE would’ve made twice the money of the NFT bundle packages if they just sold the shirt on the WWE Shop.
I was fine with Mahal as champion. He had a great look, was decent on the mic, and was also alright in the ring. IMO (and I know opinions are like buttholes), he was the victim of some bad booking. Once he became champion, he was still treated like a joke. As soon as he won the title, they should have had him drop the Singh Brothers (violently), and they should have allowed him to destroy a couple of credible mid-card guys. They could (and should) have played him off as a more serious heel. They could have done much more to distance him from his 3MB character, and to make him believable, but they didn't.
it was from a terrible WWE Films comedy he did called Knucklehead. I remember it's trailer was all over the beginnings of WWE DVDs from it's around it's release...
Weird that NFT's were the bridge too far for all the marks that buy John Cena merch. Cena, whose character is one part Superman, one part bully, and another part merch selling shill could not hock that crap... Beautiful.
@@trewilliams8411 You are probably not aware of his rapper phase, a lot of that quick wit put downs and force of personality is still in there when he wants to verbally batter someone.
Number 10 is a surprise that it didn't happened since it isn't different to Saturday Morning Slam on the CW in the early 2010s. I do wish it went through.
I thought u were going to talk about raw roulette because u showed it at the beginning and it was one of my favorite segments on raw because u didn't know what matches were gonna happen and now a days they hype their matches up way too much in my opinion
