10 Clues That WWE Network Has Been A MAJOR Error

8. They Are Considering Selling Back WrestleMania To Television And/or Pay-Per-View

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This was always destined to pop back up, and equally just as likely to p*ss a lot of people off.

Since Daniel Bryan's glorious night in New Orleans in 2014, if a fan has been able to access the WWE Network, they've been able to watch WrestleMania for the princely sum of one month's subscription. Or, and this has always been damning, free if it's the one month a year they want to pay attention and can be bothered to set up a new email address.

'The Show Of Shows' is no smaller in stature or prestige and feels largely immovable as the industry's 'Grandest Stage', so the company could well get away with lifting it from the service, but it becomes the first time in its six-year history that a launch promise may well be broken for a fast-track to cash.

Fox could spend big on the year's largest event to have the television rights and could well promote the advertising space as Super Bowl-adjacent. But how exactly would this go down with the hardcore subscriber base? WWE may be gambling on not giving a sh*t...again.

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