It’s likely that most WWE stars will wrestle significantly fewer matches each year, which will preserve their bodies but may also result in inexperienced stars taking longer to develop into top-tier performers.
Though decreasing the amount of matches its superstars participate in each year should improve the injury rate and extend the careers of its superstars, it also prevents those stars from gaining the valuable in-ring experience that comes along with working live event matches. While that’s good news for WWE in that it will presumably allow the company to cut back on its touring schedule and the vast expenses that come along with it, the reduction in the number of live events is really a mixed bag for its superstars. That most recent move-WWE Network hopping over to Peacock in a $1 billion dollar deal-is the latest dagger in the heart of its traditional live event model.
Those blockbuster contracts virtually guaranteed WWE’s future profitability for the next several years, and as the company continues to produce more and more content, its latest mega-deal has rendered live events even more unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.
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WWE’s lucrative TV deals for Raw and SmackDown, inked in 2018, were really the first two steps toward its typical live events becoming obsolete.