Vince McMahon salary revealed!!

WWE billionaire chairman Vince McMahon

Money, It is what the Mr.McMahon character is all about. Over the past few years WWE fans have begged for Vince McMahon to step down as CEO due to disgruntled fans being unhappy with the product.

From WWE's latest report to the SEC,due to it being revealed online, it doesn't look like Vince McMahon's power in WWE is going away anytime soon. McMahon owns 41% of WWE shares and 81% of voting power, due to his shares being class B shares rather than class A, which gives him 10 times more voting power.

It also revealed his 2018 salary, in which he earned 5 million dollars for the year 2018, so he is earning plenty of money per year and still has the most power out of anyone in WWE, unfortunately for WWE fans, he will not be stepping away anytime soon.

The Man's Twitter game is SAVAGE!

WWE Superstar Becky Lynch's savage twitter game

The MAN Becky Lynch, who is scheduled for a Wrestlemania main event against Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey has a very impressive twitter game.
When Becky Lynch got arrested on last week's episode of RAW, she put up this tweet the day after. A photo of 'The Shawshank Redemption' with herself photoshopped in the right hand corner, talking about how she got locked up in prison for a night and that 'bitches are going to pay'.
This is part of the reason why Becky Lynch became such a huge superstar in 2019, she connects with the fans and resonates with the audience. She is being compared to a female version of Stone Cold Steve Austin which, is a massive compliment, and can be understood when WWE is has been pitting her against authority figures the past few weeks, much like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
She continues to tweet new, funny material on Twitter each week that(her) fans can connect with, which helps her become a bigger star.
WWE has even capitalised on this, they have released a new Becky Lynch t-shirt with her 'mugshots' from prison on it, becoming a hot seller instantly, due to her huge popularity.
She keeps getting huge responses from fans on social media with that particular tweet about prison getting 24K likes, which is alot more than most other WWE superstars get.
Whatever happens, she is going to be one of three female competitors, which will be the first in history, to main event WWE's biggest show of the year Wrestlemania, if she keeps putting these funny, resonating tweets up each week, she will have no shortage of people chanting for her name at Wrestlemania.

Dana Warrior JOINS Creative Team at WWE

Ultimate Warrior's Widow Dana Warrior, big philanthropist

Dana Warrior, The Ultimate Warrior's widow, is reported to have joined the WWE Creative Writing Team.

Dana has been a critical part of WWE's philnathropic efforts since 2014, since her husband( the late Ultimate Warrior) got inducted into the Hall of Fame.The news has been corroborated by both Pro Wrestling Sheet and Whatculture, two online wrestling news sources. This is a positive step as she is a female, and WWE seem to have no female members in the creative team other than Stephanie McMahon.

 What does this mean? well to give my opinion, I think this will be a major positive step going forward due to WWE's renewed effort these past few years to present female performers the same as male performer and the equivelant to them, having only recently crowned womens tag team champions.

This will be great going forward for women especially because she can understand women, unlike the male WWE Creative Writers and she might be able to continue pushing the boundaries of WWE's 'Women's Evolution' to a product where we see women main eventing shows more often.

 

Roman Reigns cancer defeat gets HUGE Social Media response!

WWE Wrestler Roman Reigns, who vacacted the WWE Universal title in October due to cancer

WWE has been struggling as of late, with sagging tv ratings and a lack of stars due to injury, WWE needed some good news, and we got that news with last night's edition of Monday night Raw.

Back in October 2018 Roman Reigns announced his Leukemia had returned and he was taking a leave of absence to go and fight it. That was all we heard from Roman Reigns, until last night.

Roman Reigns announced that, for the second time, he has beat Leukemia and he is returning to the ring soon. WWE's replay of this clip on twitter has got 12 thousand retweets and 39.7 thousand likes. A lot of people were delighted with this news and made it known on twitter. John Cena was one of the most high profile people tweeting about this, retweeing the tweet and telling Roman his time is 'Most certainly NOW!'. Sami Zayn simply tweeted.' Man, it's really great to see Roman Reigns again'.A lot more WWE superstars tweeted their delight that WWE's current top star is not only returning to the ring, but has beaten Leukemia for a second time.

A lot of mainstream online news outlets picked up the news story as well with sites like Unilad,BBC,Irish Sun,CNN, USA Today and IGN all announcing the story that Roman Reigns is returning to wrestling.

Whether this means Roman will lead to an increase in the ratings is uncertain, but he has helped capture alot of online mainstream coverage due to his real life fight and win against Leaukemia.

WWE Roman Reigns return gets HUGE social media response!!!

Vince McMahon proud of his top star coming back to the company to have a big announcement

WWE has always been known for a strong social media presence and using online media to further WWE's storylines and to get viewers to watch their television products. Vince McMahon(owner of WWE) announced via Twitter that Roman Reigns( The guy who they were positioning the company around till his Leukemia came back last year) will be addressing the status of his Leukemia on Monday Night Raw. This, seemingly, is the latest, in a number of tactics WWE is using to try get their TV ratings up, being the lowest they have been in 24 years. With their viewers at an all time low of just over 2 Million TV viewers for Monday Night Raw compared to back in 2000 when they were regularly getting over 6 million viewers week in, week out. WWE's ratings have been declining steadily the past few years, with a 3 hour product, stale storylines and no long term storylines, it is no wonder the viewership is dwindling, however when WWE Smackdown Live( their Tuesday night show) moves to FOX in September this year, they will be expecting a minimum of 3 million viewers per week, while at this current time, they struggle to stay at 2 million. 

Will this lead to Raw getting more viewers and fixing their ratings problem? who knows, but based on the social media response(Over 10 thousand retweets and 47 thousand favourites) it sure looks like people are paying attention.

WWE Brings back Bruce Prichard?!!?

Bruce Prichard, otherwise known as  Brother Love, is back in the WWE fold

One of the major woes these past few months has been WWE's creative decisions. After suffering their lowest television rating since 1996 back in December, WWE's McMahon family came back to television to promise a 'new era' to WWE fans and hit the reset button on alot of WWE's storylines including the fact they got rid of automatic rematches.

Despite this, WWE's ratings have continued to drop to a point where, last week, WWE hit the reset button again, and called up 4 of their top stars from their developmental territory NXT, debuting Ricochet, Johnny Gargano, Tommassa Ciampa and Aleister Black to freshen up the product.

To keep this freshening creative process going, WWE(according to online media reports) has re-hired Bruce Prichard to work on the creative team, whether this will lead to better received product is anyone's guess, it looks like WWE is in desperation mode to try make their product better, whether Prichard is out of touch or still has some creative genius in him remains to be seen, we will have to tune in to the product over the coming weeks to see if anything gets better.

AEW Sells out Double or Nothing in 4 minutes

AEW, All Elite Wrestling, a WWE rival sold out

Last year Cody Rhodes, with the help of fellow wrestlers the Young Bucks( Nick and Matt Jackson) sold out a 10 thousand seater arena in September for their smash hit event 'All In'. Since then, they have announced the creation of a new wrestling company funded by the billionaire Khan family called All Elite Wrestling(AEW).

When AEW Double or Nothing tickets went on general sale online on 13th February 2019, people did not expect them to sell out, or at least not to sell out as quickly as they did. They sold out their 12 thousand seat MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas in the online sale, in 4 minutes.

This is monumental news for AEW as it shows that there is a high demand for their wrestling product, even if AEW has not put on one show yet. The hype and momentum for AEW is sky high at the minute and if Double or Nothing proves to be a success, both critically and commercially, we can expect they will get a bigger venue for their next event after Double or Nothing, due to the quick sellouts and high demand.