WWE announced last week that WrestleMania 43 will be taking place for the first time in Saudi Arabia. This news has garnered a lot of attention from the entire wrestling world. Former WWE Superstar and current TNA star Matt Hardy shared his thoughts on the announcement.
While speaking on the latest episode of the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy shared that, considering the magnitude of this decision, WWE has to ensure that the creative work on the show is good, and if not, things could be problematic.
“Well, they damn sure better make sure the creative is as good as possible, that they have a bunch of compelling, enthralling storylines and characters that people are going to pay top dollar to see. Because if they don’t, it would certainly be problematic…As of right now, there isn’t any worry. I don’t, I don’t, I feel like fans are, are so into what WWE is doing currently, they’re, they’re willing to pay top dollar to attend these events…
“It’s going to be really interesting to follow the dissension and the nascence of WWE as they, as I said before, I feel like there’s a part of them that has become such a mainstream, a mainstream act in many, many ways. It is going to be interesting to see how high they can descend, and if this becomes a problem for them in the future, down the road, a couple of years from now, whatever, two, three years from now, how long can they keep up this momentum? It’s going to be, it’s going to be an interesting follow.” [H/T WrestlingNews.co]
Matt Hardy on how Vince McMahon wanted to make the most profit as possible
“I feel like Vince wanted to make as much money as he could possibly make, but I don’t feel like he wasn’t as layered as these people. When they bring a WWE event anywhere, as you said, they wanted to do, seen his last event in Boston. Initially, that was the mindset. And obviously, the people who are there and are the biggest John Cena fans, and I’m sure John himself. He would love to go out on that. I don’t know. I would love to go out in Raleigh or Fayetteville or Charlotte or whatever. And I’m sure John would have loved to have done that as well. And it didn’t work out. But at the end of the day, it ends up being because Washington was paying them more money, apparently…”
TKO is making more profit in WWE than Vince McMahon ever did, claims Matt Hardy
Matt Hardy mentioned that he feels Vince McMahon was more family-oriented and wanted parents to bring their kids to the shows. He is also convinced that TKO is doing everything in their power to maximize their profits with WWE.
“I feel like Vince was a little more family-oriented when it came to those events. He wanted people to bring their kids out. And I don’t think he tried to take them for everything they could possibly pay. I think he tried to charge what he thought was fair, and he wanted to fill the house up.
“And he did want parents to bring their kids. And even when they changed the thing from the Attitude Era after they got out there and then kind of went back to a PG product that was to attract kids, because they know, whenever you have kids that demand, they want to come out and they love WWE and they want to see their favorite superstars, and that means the parents have to come with them too. So he obviously had a strategy there. I think these guys TKO is much more focused just on maximizing the profit and optimizing it to the highest level,” Matt Hardy said.
What are your thoughts on WrestleMania 43 taking place in Saudi Arabia?
