10 Things That Would Happen If WWE Put An End To Scripted Promos
8. WWE Would Save Money
At last word, there are approximately 37 Creative Writers under WWE's employ, and they all work both main roster shows in this quasi-post-brand split era. According to Glassdoor, a WWE Creative Writer earns between $69,175-$74,302 per year, the mean average of which is $71,738.5.
$71,738.5 x 37 = $2,654,324.5.
WWE's Creative Writing budget, therefore, is approximately $2,654,325.5. It costs WWE a multi-million dollar fee to blast the product with a cold and painful shower of total and utter sh*t. It costs WWE a multi-million dollar fee to turn off the audience and stifle an unhappy roster of talent. All Elite Wrestling's recruitment and marketing budget costs $2,654,325.5 of Vince McMahon's money.
In one of several developments that is nigh-on impossible to parse, over recent years, WWE, flush with the riyal it lures in front of Independent talent it has no intent on even using, like Joey Ryan, has undertaken various cost-cutting measures, the most unpopular of which is the absence of pyrotechnics on television and B-level pay-per-views. The Saudi Arabia shows do feature pyro, but then, they are the equivalent to or perhaps exceed WrestleMania.
The big-time spectacle of pyro, or a relentless stream of total diarrhoea?