Professional Wrestling Discussion

>Watch Lucha Tube today starting at 2:30pm EST / 7:30pm BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo

>What's on today?

• ^{Best Two Out Of Three Falls Tag Team Match} Ares el Guerrero & Guerrero Espacial vs. Centella Roja & Vega
  
• ^{Best Two Out Of Three Falls Six Man Tag Team Match} El Hijo del Signo, Fuerza Chicana & Police Man vs. Flyer, Millenium & Pegasso
  
• ^{Best Two Out Of Three Falls Six Man Tag Team Match} Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa & Stuka Jr. vs. Hechicero, Polvora & Universo 2000 Jr.
  
• ^{Best Two Out Of Three Falls Six Man Tag Team Match} Dragon Lee, El Soberano Jr. & Valiente vs. La Peste Negra (Felino & Mr. Niebla) & Euforia
  
• ^{Best Two Out Of Three Falls Six Man Tag Team Match} El Terrible, Marco Corleone & Rey Bucanero vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia & Gran Guerrero) & Diamante Azul
  

>Indie Tube airs on Thursdays at 4pm EDT / 9pm BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo showcasing matches and shows from the indie wrestling scene in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, and more!
>Limitless Wrestling The Road airs weekly on Wednesday at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube 3 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo3
>Championship Wrestling From Hollywood airs weekly on Thursdays at 9pm EDT / 2am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Fridays at 2pm EDT / 7pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>OVW TV also airs weekly on Thursdays at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Fridays at 1pm EDT / 6pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>Reality of Wrestling also airs weekly on Thursdays at 11pm EDT / 4am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Fridays at 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>VOD and live events are shown in the tubes as well so keep an eye on /wooo/ for information on those as they're scheduled and updated in the "Upcoming Events" section on /wooo/tube and #woootubeschedule on Discord.

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>MLW Underground and Pulp Fusion (since Fusion is on hiatus) airs on Mondays at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo. Replays air on Tuesdays at 11:30am EDT / 4:30am BST in /wooo/tube.
>When in season, NWA Powerrr airs on Tuesdays at 6:05pm EDT / 11:05pm BST in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2.
>Impact! airs on Tuesdays at 8pm EDT / 1am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>Impact Xplosion also airs on Tuesdays before Impact! at 7:50pm EDT / 12:50am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 12:20pm EDT / 5:20pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>Impact After Shock also airs on Tuesdays after Impact! at 10pm EDT / 3am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays on Wednesdays at 2pm EDT / 7pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>ROH Wrestling also airs on Tuesdays at 10:30pm EDT / 3:30am BST in /wooo/tube. Replays air on Wednesdays at 11:30am EDT / 4:30pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>AEW Dark airs on Tuesdays at 7pm EDT / 12am BST in /wooo/tube 2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2. Replays air on Wednesdays at 6:30pm EDT / 11:30pm BST in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo and /wooo/alt - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt.
>AEW Dynamite also airs on Wednesdays at 8pm EDT / 1am BST in /wooo/tube and /wooo/alt. Replays air on Thursdays at 2pm EDT / 7pm BST in /wooo/tube.
>AEW, Impact, MLW, NWA, and ROH live events will be shown when scheduled in the tubes.

>All Elite Wrestling

>Impact Wrestling

> For a number of reasons, as it turns out, the pandemic was the greatest thing for WWE’s business as they posted the most profitable quarter in their history. It’s not that they overcome the pain of the pandemic. They outright benefitted from it, with more consumer product sales, higher network numbers and the real difference maker, far lower costs to produce television.

> Profits quadrupled in the quarter, blowing away all estimates, due to saving $51.6 million in media costs. The vast majority of those savings was the lower cost of producing television the way they do it now in the Performance Center, no longer running live, and taping multiple shows on successive days as opposed to live Monday, Wednesday and Friday in different parts of the country with far more wrestlers, production people and costs.

> For one, taping two weeks had a time for each show, and taping shows on successive days, saved travel costs greatly. Producing a show in a small building greatly cut down on the production budget, not to mention the fewer production people and costs that were already lower were cut almost in half from there by generally taping two shows at a time. Plus there was savings on uplinks by no longer doing any shows actually live, as even when taped the same day, they never actually went live. The second positive was a huge increase in subscribers to the WWE Network. The number was 195,000 above what would have been normally expected as of 6/30.

> There are a number of factors involved here. One is that WrestleMania had so many people subscribing for free as compared to the past few years, that many of them didn’t cancel and stayed on as paying subscribers. Another reason, arguably the most important because ESPN’s PPV numbers for UFC were so much higher than previously, and AEW also set records in PPV, is that with sports bars are closed, and people are no longer getting together in large numbers for PPV parties. Thus, if you have let’s say five people watching a WWE show together, now maybe you’d have one or two, and if the others wanted to watch, they’d buy the WWE Network when they wouldn’t have needed to in the past.

> In addition, the WWE Network changed with two other factors. The free month gimmick where you could watch the PPV, and then cancel, has been dropped. There are no more free months. While they now have a free tier, the PPV shows and a lot of the programming is not available on that free tier. Plus with that free tier, that you don’t even have to sign up for, more people are exposed to an aspect of the WWE Network. The free tier constantly promotes the paid tier, where the most attractive content resides, like the PPVs, Undertaker’s Last Ride, and other new and old footage.

> All of this has led to more people becoming new subscribers, at least short-term. Total views of at least one minute of different programming on the network were up 55 percent from last year even though the subscriber average number for the quarter was down 1.6 percent due to the gains coming late in the quarter.

> For what it’s worth, when Vince McMahon was asked about the increase, he passed to Jayar Donland, who had none of those answers aside from the new free tier. “There are a few things going on,” he said. “I am not going to touch of anything specific on the free version. But obviously, launching that is a contributor. But I just think, in general, our promotion across our platforms. We are doing new things across the digital and social ecosystem, as well as with our TV partners. You would have been able to sample content on ESPN or FS 1 driving back to the network.”

> It should be noted that the ESPN shows were before WrestleMania, and WrestleMania paid was the lowest for any WrestleMania in several years, so that has to be largely ruled out as a key factor.

> “We talked about some of the compelling content we have had, everything from Undertaker’s Last Ride, and we are an attraction business,” said Donlan. “ I think we have had some really fanta…

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