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WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS HISTORY
Year Total Revenue Profit/Loss
1994-95 $87,352,00 -$4,431,000
1995-96 $85,815,000 $3,319,000
1996-97 $81,863,000 -$6,505,000
1997-98 $126,231,000 $8,446,000
1998-99 $251,474,000 $56,030,000
1999-00 $373,100,000 $68,973,000
2000-01 $456,043,000 $15,987,000*
2001-02 $409,622,000 $42,233,000**
2002-03 $374,364,000 -$19,455,000***
2003-04 $374,909,000 $48,192,000
2004-05 $366,431,000 $39,147,000****
2005-06 $400,051,000 $47,047,000*****
2006 (5/06 to 12/06) $262,937,000 $31,617,000
2007 $485,655,000 $52,137,000******
2008 $526,457,000 $45,416,000
2009 $471,161,000 $50,303,000
2010 $477,655,000 $53,452,000
2011 $483,921,000 $24,832,000*******
2012 $484,000,000 $31,400,000********
2013 $508,000,000 $2,800,000*********
2014 $542,600,000 -$30,100,000
2015 $658,768,000 $23,927,000
2016 $729,216,000 $33,725,000
Note: WWE operated on a fiscal year from May 1 to April 30 until changing to January 1 to December 31 in 2006. The 2006 numbers reflect the period from May 1 to December 31, or an eight month total
*Wrestling profits for the year were $84,981,000, but the WWF’s share of the 50% of the XFL losses was $68,994,000. Total XFL losses for 2001, the only season of the league, were $137,988,000, half of which were covered by NBC.
**Wrestling profit for the year was $42,948,000. Also figured in was a tax break of $4,638,000 for shutting down the XFL, offset by losses of $4,903,000 from operation of The World restaurant.
***Wrestling profits were $16,362,000; offset by $35,557,000 in losses due to the operation and closing of The World restaurant.
****Wrestling profits were $37,778,000; also figured in was a tax break of $1,369,000 for shutting down The World restaurant.
losing 6 million in 1996 and then making 56 million profit 2 years later
Austin really did save wrestling from Shawn Michaels
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yes we all knew diesel and hbgay were antidraws this isnt news
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>>2310786
its crazy that adjusted for inflation that 456,043,000 dollars in 2000-2001 is a bit more than 2016's profit, but wrestling and WWF has just nowhere near the cultural or social cache it once enjoyed. What was once a hip, edgy, popular company has been turned into a boring, lifeless cog in a bigger machine by the step-by-step number crunchers and corporate stooges where turning profit is the bottom line.
Sucks. For all the shit Hollywood and television and music get for being sell-out corporate junk, at least they produce interesting art once in awhile. WWE is just truly awful.
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Based no dimes Michaels trying to kill man drama so we all do something better in our lives
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Kek based diesel was a draw
Hbgay btfo
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>Daniel Cryan gave the WWE its worst year ever
Smarks btfo
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>>2310786
WWE didn't exist until 2002 though
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>>2310789
>456,043,000 dollars in 2000-2001 is a bit more than 2016's profit,
You meant revenue. 2000-2001 profit was 84,981,000 - adjusted for inflation in 2016 makes that $118,443,872.63 compared to 2016's $33,725,000.
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Good lord, HBGay must have gave Vince some amazing head to make up for that revenue loss
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>>2310797
i knew i shouldn't have tried to sound smart or interesting
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Finally can put to rest that Bret and Diesel were draws and Shawn Michaels was not. That diesel is not the lowest drawing wwf champ of all time. It is Shawn Michaels.
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>>2310786
Based Roman literally saving the WWE in 2015 and 2016
GOAT
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>>2310786
You guys talk about these numbers like you own the actual company
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>>2310810
Yeah, it's really autistic and comes across like these kids don't even like wrestling or the work put into it, and just want to pretend there's some kind of objective answer to questions nobody has.
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>>2310810
well if Shawn Michaels was the number one guy in 98-99 there would be no WWE left
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>>2310810
That's how Stamford Wives are.
They are literally children
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>>2310808
>Finally can put to rest that Bret and Diesel were draws and Shawn Michaels was not
>that Bret and Diesel were draws
>Diesel
>draws
Literally not one person with a functional brain has ever believed this
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>>2310814
That's why Taker took him out.
Based Taker
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>>2310808
They weren't draws just because they did better than a bigger anti-draw
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people unironically call HBK the GOAT
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