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WWE Loses $350 Million, Is Vince Mcmahon losing his business and creative Touch?

WWE Lose $350 Million, Is Vince losing his Touch? This blog is inspired by Pro Wrestling Report and their conversation on Pro Wrestling Report Primetime regarding WWE business please see video below. As always all views expressed here are my own I'm not a "wrestling expert" and I don't proclaim to be one I am a wrestling fan with an opinion and my opinion is expressed below please read and enjoy Thanks :) @jon422002 Business Touch Over the last week  Vince McMahon lost over $350 million dollars due to investors in WWE (as WWE is a public traded company) losing confidence in McMahon following release of WWE Network subscribers numbers which reportedly are well below what was promised to investors. Also add in a new announcement of a TV for rights for WWE programming in USA being considerably less what WWE Promised investors also.WWE signed a Deal with NBCU for a 25% rise in TV rights, however this was not enough to please investors and WWE share price pl...

State of WWE - 5 Months into 2014

  State of WWE - 5 Months into 2014 Instead of doing a half year progress report like many others do I thought I would buck the trend, be different and a bit out of the box and do a WWE 5 month 2014 progress report, my opinion and what I think the state of the WWE is up to May 2014. below are the top stories for each month with my opinion on what took place January 2014 CM Punk From Royal Rumble to Going Home WWE kicked off 2014 in fine fashion with one of my favourite pay per views of year the royal rumble. I am a huge fan of the rumble and have been since I was a child. 2014 ppv offering was a mixed bag it was highlighted by the return of Batista to the royal rumble match (a match he would eventually win. Also CM Punk went from number 1 in the rumble and was eventually eliminated by Kane to came to ringside and eliminated CM Punk before chokeslamming him through the announce table. We would not know this at the time but this turned about to b...