A trendy article in the current age is to look back to WCW and compare their downfall to one that WWE might yet have. This is a stupid comparison written purely to bait readers. WCW had the Fingerpoke of Doom, Starrcade '97, Vince Russo and the end of Goldberg's streak, yes. But not one of those "reasons" were why they went out of business. They went out of business because they lost their TV deal and they lost their TV deal because the pro-wrestling audience had flocked to a competitor who was putting out a vastly superior product. Paul Heyman is often quoted on the demise of ECW that the reason they went down was because they lost their distribution- TNN- to WWE. See a pattern emerging here? So long as WWE has distribution for their product, they're going to remain steady. However, TV is changing. The old-school channels are becoming outdated. On-demand services such as Hulu, Netflix and HBO Now are changing television. WWE is right to match this by launching the WWE Network. It's the future of television. The main problem for WWE is that their Network's content is limited and narrow compared to their rivals. For Netflix, HBO and Hulu are their new rivals. On the subject of the WWE Network...
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