5 Companies That Would Want To Buy WWE

3. Crazy Billionaire

Vince McMahon deserves his match. When you examine the fifty most valuable Sports Franchises you'll quickly notice that more than three-quarters are owned/controlled by either individuals (25) or families (14). While WWE's revenue is still a few hundred million below the cut-off line (Oakland Raiders, $785M), one inflated television contract and extremely successful year of WWE Network could easily put WWE in the stratosphere of these real sports teams. There's a cast of other crazy billionaires (Mark Cuban, Donald Trump, Richard Bronson) that you could imagine sitting behind the WWE CEO desk. Perhaps another billionaire casino owners such as Sheldon Adelson or Steve Wynn (or his ex-wife Elaine Wynn) would upstage the UFC/Casino owners Fertitta Brothers by acquiring the WWE. Hopefully, if they chose to open a major WWE-style show in Vegas, they'd do much better than the sad showings from GLOW or AWA. And with the growing gambling mecca of Macau, it's possible that a casino owner might be the key for opening the doors to a huge Asian expansion for WWE. International business for WWE can swing hot to cold. While International TV Rights have continued to grow WWE's bottom line, live event revenue has cooled off in recent years. Perhaps breaking into some of the most promising new markets (including China) would involve selling a portion of the company to an international investor. Several years ago rival UFC sold 10% of the company to Abu Dhabi. There are many examples of eccentric millionaires running wrestling companies. Here in the US, the Carter Family (owners of Panda Energy) has held the controlling interest in TNA since 2002 with Dixie Carter at the helm. In Mexico, since 1980 Paco Alonso (Francisco Alonso Lutteroth) has controlled his family's promotion, CMLL. Famously in the 1990s, Herb Abrams (Universal Wrestling Federation)