10 Clues That WWE Network Has Been A MAJOR Error
4. Live Attendances Are Still Diminishing
The pictures-of-empty-buildings trend on Twitter from the last few years was far from a modern phenomenon, but the alarming regularity and particular potency certainly was.
SmackDown WWE Championship programmes being performed to nobody in 2018 became a Stomping Grounds in 2019 that had to be shot as a three-sided venue thanks to the almost total lack of punters on one side of the building. These were representative of new and changing times, with cash-poor customers choosing against an evening at the wrestling when it came to using what little disposable income they had.
House shows are a regular pressing concern, with all sorts of changes and tweaks ongoing to try and stop the bleeding, but there's no more naked a reflection on fleeting interest than a noticeable lack of a*ses in seats. The WWE Network - a vehicle to tease a tenner from pockets and enhance financial and emotional investment in the product - has triggered an upturn in these fortunes but presided over an unsolvable problem.