WWE

“Well, we sent the bad letter to Sam. Like stop using the UFC and the WWE and so on.”

“So if we do that now, I think it can be as big or bigger than the UFC and the WWE and they're big.”

“When you leave WWE, whether you've been there for a long time or, you know, if you've been, had any level of success, you are so well suited to do just about anything”

“I have a saying in what I do right now, as long as the bad guy, the heel, is justified somewhere in his mind that what he is doing is right, that leads to the best heel, right?”

“I don't know that we necessarily lead society, WWE. I wouldn't want to think that, but I think we reflect it.”

“We don't write the shows based on that'll be a great match. We write it on the stories that we can create, the protagonist, the antagonist, how does that work with each other, telling stories that can resonate with people that maybe they've experienced in thei…”

“I would say we're much more akin to, like, the Marvel universe where you're planning out long-term where the movies fit and how they go with all the characters than we are, you know, direct MMA.”

“We have probably one of the most robust medical programs in athletics so we're scanning constantly for everything you know, physically as well as head injuries, everything, right?”

“We have right around a billion social media followers across the globe.”

“Number one YouTube channel across all sports.”

“We then realized that over time, that's going to be a tech war. That we're not suited for. It's not what we do. We pulled out of that.”

“50% or more of our audience comes with a child, comes, comes with a family member. 40% of our fan base is women.”

“Today you have to sort of blend who you are real life with the character that you play and sort of blur this line of the fourth wall”

“There's no competition to UFC and there's no competition to WWE. Like, the number two MMA, you know, promotions, whether it's PFL, like Bellator, like these were companies that are literally on the brink of bankruptcy, and like, they're like, not just like in …”

“And of course, since then, they both signed major, major, like streaming deals way bigger than, you know, people thought they would sign like billion dollar a year plus streaming deals.”

“I mean, they owned everything. They owned the rights, you know, they owned all the licensing, they had royalties on all their gears, they bought their competitors, and despite him being a little bit of a crazy person brilliant execution, and we don't see that …”

“The whole thing is like, you have to understand what's going on in the tech press versus the tech community is like, it's WWE. It's wrestling. Like, what happens on the court is left. Is left in the ring and, you know, you can't be the fan that thinks it's rea…”

“People's mistrust, these types of things is largely driven by incentives, right? And the way that people have to write headlines and stories and make videos, which gets the clicks, which gets the money, right? Like it's all this WWE Politic that's going on rig…”

“Basically these two brands have over 95% market share in their market. This is total monopoly. More than Google has in the search market.”

“The 10th, the 10th most popular channel on all of YouTube is WWE.”

“WWE just cut off a 10 year, five billion dollar deal with Netflix just for one of their shows, which is kind of insane. It's going to go from USA Network To Netflix.”

“Prior to COVID, Vince McMahon over at the WWE, I think he put five hundred million of his own dollars into restarting the XFL.”

“What's the difference between, you know, CNN and the WWE? There's not much. They make up storylines for entertainment. And so like, you know, the, All these three letter acronyms, the NFL, same way. Storylines for entertainment. And like, if you say that the n…”

“And I think WWE ends up buying all of their competition. And so he might end up flipping it to them someday.”