The WWE PPV event occurs on Sunday, March 10 at 7 PM Eastern and can be entitled WWE Fastlane 2019. You can view it on the WWE Network as is true for all live events. Seriously, the WWE Network is worth the price of entry for your NXT programming alone.
As if you had evidence that the pro wrestling company has shifted completely from the way it used to be consider this–because I write this we’re one week from bell period of WWE Fastlane 2019 and there are just four games supported for your card. There is every reason to think that over the subsequent 7 days a number of other matches will be added to the occasion and it’ll likely wind up with 8 or 9 (give or take a few). This would be unthinkable to not only an’old school’ wrestling promoter but Vince McMahon and the WWE just a couple of decades back.
For decades the conventional wisdom was straightforward: TV was utilized to set up angles to get folks into arena seats and afterwards to get PPV purchases. Any promoter–such as Vince McMahon himself or for that matter his father Vincent J. McMahon–would be apoplectic if there was a week to go before a big series and/or PPV event and the card was only half booked. The common practice was to possess the card more or less’set in stone’ at least a few weeks prior to a major event so the TV product may change focus from placing up feuds and angles to promoting the games on the card as’must see’.
Professional wrestling exists in a universe that is different. If you would like to get semantically correct the’pay per view’ show does not exist any more–at least in the USA. Instead of putting $49.95 or whatever in your cable bill for the big WWE cards they are streamed live on the WWE Network. The metric has gone from purchase rates to network subscriptions. For example, in 2018 that the WWE Network included a half million readers throughout the run up to Wrestlemania. Obviously the $64,000 question is how many of these viewers remained busy paying subscribers. The WWE often runs’prices’ before they report quarterly earnings to pump up the subscriber amounts. This is no different than the community TV’sweeps week’ or for that matter another publicly held firm. All of them do things to portray their business in the most favorable light when reporting earnings.
The pro wrestling firm could be due for some more changes–at least as it pertains to the WWE. Their financial priority is no more PPVs or perhaps WWE Network subscriptions. Last year, they signed prices with USA and Fox worth a combined $2.2 billion to $2.4 billion over 5 years from October 2018 to September 2024. This big cash was mostly for rights to broadcast Raw and Smackdown. At some stage logic suggests that the WWE would love to set their most significant matches in their main stage–and the one with the most financial upside. Not long after they signed the deal I’ve supposed that the Notion of the’major pro wrestling show’ (call it a PPV or whatever) could go the way of jobbers in masks and blading on TV:
Will the conventional format of the pro wrestling merchandise change dramatically? Depending on the numbers at play it’ll need to. Historically, television proved to be a promotional car to get people to visit the Atlanta City Auditorium, the Columbia Township Auditorium, Olympic Auditorium, etc. . watch the live events. Hence the propensity toward wrestling shows throughout the 1970’s heavy on’squash matches’, promos and angles. Throughout the’Monday Night Wars’ between WCW and WWE during the late 1990’s, TV evaluations became an important metric–possibly *the* most important metric–but the basic dynamic of the product stayed the same. There were more aggressive matches on tv but the promotions were at a continuous’build’ toward the next PPV event. Over the past almost two decades tv has continued to rise in value and large matches, title changes, etc. have become more commonplace. In spite of new platforms such as the WWE Network the exact same assumption has been date–there might be more* significant things on TV but the focal point stays the’Big 4′ PPV occasions and specifically Wrestlemania. Now, however, this can be as much due to’tradition’ as anything else.
So what’s next? I’d like to think that there’s still a place for’big events’ with piled cards but at a certain point this may go by the wayside with the most significant matches only interspersed with the rest of the weekly television programming. However it plays out, these are interesting times for the work of professional wrestling.
We’re already seeing changes in how what we’ll euphemistically call’PPV events’ are booked and encouraged. Rather than the booking being planned well in advance we will see several matches’come together’ on WWE programming this week. These seismic modifications are on balance a fantastic thing. I can now subscribe right to NJPW World and also the majority of the other major Japanese promotions and get a ridiculous number of archived and live content. When I first began watching Japanese wrestling it was a matter of investing or purchasing videotapes meaning that even the most ardent enthusiast was weeks if not months behind the actual product. From top to base the caliber of the pro wrestling product around the globe is probably better than it’s ever been.
For the time being, we will still call it the WWE’s second’PPV occasion’. Listed below are the betting odds for WWE Fastlane 2019 with the four confirmed games and a couple of other’rumors’ which have been making the rounds:
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