10 Things WWE Are Secretly Telling Fans About Their Future
1. BOOM!
For several years, discerning fans assumed it would take a Steve Austin/Rock megastar to create a new period of prosperity for WWE akin to the manner the organisation exploded back into the zeitgeist in the late-1990s. Some hoped against hope that one of their nearest rivals would stumble on an idea as good as the New World Order to force them into it.
All along, it was everything that WWE weren't doing that helped them enter unparalleled climbs as part of this tonally different "boom".
The want for wrestling outside of Stamford was great enough for indie companies to thrive again, New Japan to find desperate viewers looking for something resembling what they once loved, and fans-turned-wrestlers to reimagine their careers outside of company walls. WWE got in bed with so many organisations (or at least, appealed to their biggest stars to bolster NXT) because those organisations had found a way to exist in the first place.
Vince McMahon had stayed one step behind the curve just long enough for the curve to show itself and open up for him to yet again do what he does best - make money from something he's completely in denial about.
Long may this contemporary boom last - the prospect of this version of WWE pulling itself out of genuine financial trouble as the 1997 version had to isn't at all appealing.