MVP wonders if WWE‘s short-term goals could potentially hurt the company long-term. All Elite Wrestling‘s MVP was a recent guest on TMZ’s Inside The Ring. When asked about the recent hikes in WWE’s ticket prices, MVP noted it’s happening across all sports right now and questions if it’s a good idea to price out longtime […] The post MVP Questions WWE’s Decision To Maximize Profits By Pricing Out Longtime Fans appeared first on Wrestlezone.
MVP wonders if WWE‘s short-term goals could potentially hurt the company long-term.
All Elite Wrestling‘s MVP was a recent guest on TMZ’s Inside The Ring. When asked about the recent hikes in WWE’s ticket prices, MVP noted it’s happening across all sports right now and questions if it’s a good idea to price out longtime fans.
“I’m weighing my words here because I want to make sure I say this the right way. I think that there has been an emphasis on profit with the increasing corporatization of one side without regard for the fans who help make the company what it is. Sadly, I think that’s happened in not just wrestling.
“You look at the NFL, the NBA — once upon a time, you could take a family of four to an NBA game and now with the price hikes and the corporate suits, if you’re a father and you want to take your four boys out to an NBA game and you want to get them decent seats and four sodas and four popcorns, that’s a pretty substantial cut of your income.
MVP believes AEW is more focused on grassroots fandom
“I think that AEW, we are still very concerned about that grassroots fandom. At the end of the day, it’s all a business. Professional wrestling is a business. And you can have your artistry and your artistic take, but you can forget that it’s the wrestling business.
“If no one is buying tickets, if no one is tuning into your shows, if no one’s buying your pay-per-views, which even that model is going out the door, then there’s no place for you to do what you want to do. So, you got to remember the business aspect of things. However, I question maximizing profit to the point that you price out those grassroots fans who have been there from day one.” [H/T: Fightful]
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