2. Live Event Producer
An interesting suitor would be entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment. The combination of Live Nation, concert promoter, and Ticketmaster, ticket sales company, already sells WWE tickets for their live events. In recent years, Live Nation has acted as a promoter to many of the biggest touring acts (often where their deals don't actually include the copyright for the artist's future recordings). Live Nation, a publicly traded company with a market cap of 4.65B (about twice of WWE's 2.32B), has extensive knowledge and experience in promoting shows across the world. They'd be excellent partners with the WWE and could hopefully streamline arena booking costs, transportation charges and shore up their international presence. Live events are worth more than $110M, and in 2013 hit their peak in more than a decade. While WWE popularity is not near the high-point in the Attitude era, where wrestling has averaging more than 11,000 people/show, WWE has grown their live events business through increasing ticket prices and running more shows (WWE annually runs 100+ more shows than during 1999-2001). With an exceptional understanding of promoting live events, running merchandising and world class reach, Live Nation would make a valuable partner for WWE's future growth.