10 Bold Predictions For WWE In 2018
8. The WWE Network Price Goes Up
Vince McMahon looks set to spend a lot of money in 2018. A recent report had him selling around $100million in WWE shares "primarily to fund a separate entity from the Company, Alpha Entertainment LLC...established to explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football."
Keen apparently to see if there's any new life in a horse beaten long to death, McMahon's interest in toppling the NFL apparently hasn't dissipated in the 15+ years he's had to contemplate the mammoth financial and emotional resources lost to another one of his extra-curricular gambles.
Back then, his league's collapse mirrored WWE's own fall from grace as a mainstream sweetheart. It was from late-2001 onwards that he required the most dedicated loyalty from his habitual fanbase, and those dark days may once again be upon the 'Universe' if and when Alpha Entertainment circles the drain with the rest of his comical over-indulgences.
Ultimately, the thing actually working is a benefit to everybody. McMahon's long been touted as the reason for every dated cliche and trope WWE still adheres to - the further he gets away from the product in his latter days, the more chance there is of the winds of permanent change finally blowing through. Here's to the URXFL 2.0! Here's to a bigger overdraft if it sinks.