Vince is out of touch and more or less out of his mind. His plan to bring in new viewers is apparently to try and convince everyone it's not wrestling and then to outdo hollywood at their own game. Honestly I think we might be better off letting Triple H run things. Sure he might rewrite history to make himself the greatest wrestler that ever set foot in the ring, there might be a giant gold statue of him and maybe name the hall of fame after himself but aside from that he'd probably do a great job.
From a creative perspective as afraid as I am of Triple H's biases at this point I think he'd easily do a better job running WWE than Vince. Triple H's ideas at least seem to be more modern and not so outdated and he respects the business and its history above all else. Vince wanted Drew Carey in the HOF. Triple h wanted Abdullah The Butcher. Nuff said.
I think Vince can still contribute to WWE better than anyone when it comes to the business side and general promotion. Nobody has a vision of grandness and spectacle like Vince McMahon. He knows how to close deals and he at least understands the importance of media exposure and promotion. Thats always been big with him even if its a new medium.
But when it comes to the minute details of creative Vince has no clue what he's doing anymore. And really even when WWE was at its peaks he always listened to other peoples opinion on those things. People like Pat Patterson. It was always Vince's call when it was time to make a final decision but he had people working for him to give him some informed options. And he was willing to hire people like that.
Now he's surrounded himself with so many yes men and no talents that he doesn't even seem to bother to listen to other peoples input like he used to. With no Cornettes or Heymans or Pattersons there full time to offer Vince an alternate view its just becoming a really bad case of creative tunnel vision.
He's let his power and his ego cloud any sense of questioning himself and there's nobody around to put things in perspective for him. He's living in his own world where he makes the rules and his perspective is totally skewed. Thats only going to hurt WWE in the long run.
again you do not know that - obviously it is at mania due to it being a potential iconic one for the ages match, and that is the place to do it - you do not know how often he will appear till then or if he will have some matches before then (as valuable practice) you are not presenting facts as you claim, but just your own speculation as facts and at the same time branding my speculation as wrong
maybe its got more press in america, i was just saying from my experience over here very few people knew he had come back
I would also like to see wrestlemanias numbers as I know at least 4 people who ordered it who otherwise wouldnt just because he was there
More and more people are ordering Wrestlemania in groups so if anything buyrates may be lower.
The FACT is he has to promote Fast Five and he has another movie he wants to do soon. Thats not my opinion but a fact. News JUST broke about yet another movie hes interested in. FACT. The FACT is he can't take HUGE chunks out of his Hollywood schedule to wrestle or even appear semi regularly. His chances of getting hurt go UP the more he wrestles. The FACT is the studios will not be happy if a star they signed gets injured wrestling and has to have surgery and rehab for 4-6 months.
You tell me if the Rock gets injured wrestling and he's set to star in a film what the hell are the studios going to do? Can they even insure him for a film if he's wrestling semi regularly? I'd imagine it would get harder to do that the more he puts his body at risk in the ring. Studios dump TENS of MILLIONS of dollars into film productions. Thats a FACT. Not an opinion. Do you think they are HAPPY to risk their leading man?
As for Rocks appearance...lets use some common sense here. Do you REALLY think he's going to ignore money thats FIVE or TEN times more than what WWE can pay him to do something thats less physically dangerous than wrestling. If studios offer the Rock nice deals for movies that have long shooting schedules and are in other parts of the world there is no way he can do that AND come back to WWE for a few months out of the year. Its just not physically possible even IF he wanted to do both.
As long as Hollywood makes Rock offers we aren't going to see back more than a few times out off the year. And he's leaving right now to work on one movie and then to promote Fast Five.
The Rock worked HARD to make it in Hollywood and he still wants to make a bigger name for himself. He's not going to throw that away. That means he's going to have to make some heavy commitments sometimes. That doesn't leave room for him to come back to WWE a few months out of the year going forward. I can see him continuing to make one or two appearances a year after his match with Cena..but beyond that? I REALLY doubt it.
