10 Reasons MMA/Wrestling Crossover Trend Is "Best For Business"

4. A Second Option Provides Career Alternatives For Fighters

Here's something that's extremely hard to do: Fighting at a high level in MMA into your forties. Very few fighters have done it. Yet forty isn't retirement age, not even close, and only the top guys really make enough money to retire early. What then do they do? Some will have the option of coaching, or opening their own gyms, but that's not for everything. Someone, a chosen few, will get cushy office jobs from the UFC. Even fewer will go into broadcasting. The option of the WWE and other wrestling companies means MMA fighters have a shot at a second career. Now, that sounds like it's best for the fighters, and not best for business, right? Not so fast. Having a pool of willing workers with experience in front of crowds and martial arts training is not a bad thing when you're trying to push the whole reality era angle out from the PG-13 era, as Triple H seems to be doing. Willing, conditioned athletes who will push their bodies to the limit is exactly what the WWE and other wrestling outfits need.