 I went to check my email on yahoo and I saw this on yahoo news and I said I absolutely must react and see if I agree so this is three reasons the WWE is doomed let's see if they're on point huge week for the WWE and it's about time stock up 20% after they announced they finally surpassed 1 million users subscribers to their network and they had some real rumble controversy a lot of insider stuff Brian the barber saws he joins me with three reasons why Vince McMahon's baby is still doomed so if the stock's up 20% well rumble's got a lot of chatter out there there's some heat there's some excitement I like the app which is always a good sign for a company and yahoo say Vince is doomed why well I'm dropping the body slam on here and WWE first of all they recently reached out 1 million mark they had a promo in November they're having another promo in February ahead of WrestleMania so essentially they've invested zillions of dollars to acquire free emails and I think these people are churning off but ultimately there's a couple long term problems here one is age and talent Hulkster might be 65 years old Ric Flair might be 120 so as those people which are still on camera and driving that connection with a lot of the millenials a lot of the baby boomers age they get off camera while you watch this program because the kids come in I have done some research on this I had a 10 year old boy up just for the sole purpose of watching wrestling with me or something and now that he has I realized he likes the young guys and I like the old guys well that's how that works it's a circle of life right I just I just feel so the connections to kids these days to see our Roman Reigns are not as strong as and we were growing up when we were growing up let's say if you're under the age of 50 you saw programming every week on live TV you got connected with it was the only cool thing on TV right now your WV is competing with a lot a lot of eyeballs okay and so you say aging talent you say the new guys no one likes the new guys and I think a lot of injuries I watch WWE I watch Raw I watch SmackDown I watch these papers I feel they're taking a lot of risks and a lot of these uncalculated risks to get keep the guest keep the matches non-repetitive right are going to lead it injuries one big one has been Daniel Bryan it was out for almost I believe a year if you're most popular wrestlers not on camera you're losing eyeballs but even analytically if you don't want to think about these things they have more their attendance is way down their ticket prices are under pressure that's for an analytical perspective that's very worry okay so from an analytical perspective but the point your third point is that Vincent Manis all they got which to me is the greatest selling point no one has lived their gimmick in the business sense or any sense like Vince McMahon the guy's been way ahead of his time I think the WWE Network is going over the top in a really creative way they've substituted out the pay-per-view model where you take your cable box and you pay people to straight online subs somebody's gonna be doing that HBO is trying to knock that off there are a lot of companies trying to do this Vince McMahon's the only one with the squash to go ahead and do it himself is not having this man on your side a good thing well let's think about if it's been that were dropped dead today who steps in is it triple H he's been leading the creative team is it Stephanie man we don't know I don't think that succession plan has been very articulated to Wall Street ultimately everything you see on TV each week is the byproduct of this man who remains very in the trenches we tweak and if you pull it out like a Starbucks if you pull Howard Schultz out of the trenches what happens to the company in longer term and I don't know we'll die Brian it's when those people take over they've been running them the company has been kind of churning along it's the circus if you just kind of give a Vince exception in the stock itself if you look at it just on cash flows you look at just kind of what they do as a traveling little troop all the time first you come to the inclusion of trades and discount it should be private because it's got this McMahon lunacy discount attached to it which we can argue about all day but but really this is not a company that's very expensive on the stock side it was last year in the 30s but they're trying a lot of experimental stuff and they've got huge margins it seems like a buy story well proof to me I think that the net the company's proof to me that they can acquire viewers for the network without giving things away from free and I think their turn rate is very high the chair is basically people that come on and drop off after their free trial they need to show me that they're making money on that but secondarily they need to get their live attendance back up and push through higher ticket prices not just in the US but also globally and I'm worried about those things are not happening all right he says it's not happening I say it is two guys who definitely will both watch WrestleMania arguing about the WWE did we confer you you're gonna check out you're gonna short the stock running let us know in the space down below all righty so what I want to do here is I want to read the accompanying article okay I did not include the video because I couldn't snatch it off the website but so it has been a good week for the WWE subscriptions for their online streaming networks are past the one million mark and the stock surge 20% but all is not well in Vince McMahon's kingdom according to Brian the barber sozees of Beluce Capital Advisors so he says that the key one million mark only came because of the free promos not proven ability to attract paying customers so he has three reasons the WWE is still doomed but yahoo finances Jake Mackie remains unconvinced check out their verbal throwdown which is what we just saw now gonna go over cuz good it says a little bit in detail those three reasons all right so it's aging talent Hulk Hogan 61 Ric Flair 65 both have recently been brought back in front of the camera in an attempt to bring back the over 30 set of the WWE fold well no I don't know about that I think they're a just nostalgia act and yet doesn't get us to watch but I don't think if we didn't watch it would bring us back solidly because they're only on once in a while you know but so he points out that they will continue to age and have to end their own camera days when that happens which is pretty much now anyway the key over 30 demographic will stop watching since they don't connect to the new set of WWE superstars we we don't connect to a lot of them already yes yahoo's finances Jeff Mackie disagrees arguing that WWE is programming for both people like him and his 10-year-old son he likes the young guys and I like the old guys it's a circle of life so see unrelenting as the title belt match argues back that in this new media landscape WWE is no longer the only cool thing there that there is for preteen boys that's true right now WWE is competing with a lot of eyeballs well they say they don't have any competition correct injuries they're taking a lot of risks to I guess keep the matches non-repetitive so they argues those risks could lead to injuries in fact they already have one big one which has been Daniel Bryan talked about this in the veil you know he's been out for almost a year your most popular guys and on camera gonna lose eyeballs I don't know how much eyeballs they lost because of him being out but I do know that Brian did leave lose a little bit of steam but as soon as he came back I mean man let me tell you something when I was at the Royal rumble those yes chance were just as loud as I remember them being when I was at WrestleMania what 28 that night at the Raw when we had left and they were just shit man look anyway those injuries maybe a part of the reason attendance is to go down the last is Vince McMahon I says Mackie says WWE CEO Vince McMahon in the leagues biggest is the league's biggest asset as a wrestler promoter announcer and more McMahon is seen as the heart and soul of the Empire he's the gatekeeper I knew that don't nothing get on TV unless it goes through him from what I understand so to those says that makes him a huge liability it's true he's a genius and he's his own worst enemy all at the same time if this big man were to drop dead today who's to step in wrestler turn executive man executive Paul Levesque better known as Triple H is running creative would he step in big man's daughter would she step in ultimately everything you see on TV is what make you know isn't McMahon's that's true so what you think watch the video then through the article was slightly more detailed in certain sections but pretty much so the video said do you think that it's still doomed I personally don't think that it's doomed one thing with them is that they've always made new superstars let me tell you something I never thought that they will come back when I mean after the Golden Age the first Golden Hogan Warriors Savage I never thought they would ever come back I thought it was dead dead product and then all of a sudden attitude there oh my god these new superstars are being born new wrestlers we got Stone Cold Steve Austin you got the rock and so on and so forth is just like whoa I never thought it would happen again then they had another minor surge with Brock and John Cena you know that area you know the ruthless aggression era and you know but it wasn't as big you know it wasn't as big as the attitude there or the 80s you know Golden Era so you know and it really hasn't hit and something's not right right now I don't think the aging talent has anything to do with it but it is part of it in that guys like Hogan flair undertaker rock you know these are guys that are nostalgia acts these are guys that are part-timers these are guys that you know even brought you know they come in from time to time but they're such a huge hit the ratings probably spike but they're not their long term and I really don't know if I mean well it's it's been shown that the current guys can't or have not at least shown the ability or maybe it's just the booking you know so what what I'm saying is what they're doing with their current roster is not meeting or beating what they did in the 80s and in the 90s it's not you know I mean so and then they got the injuries you know Daniel Brian did get hurt you know and he does have a point with that because now that I think about it with Reigns being hurt and he was out he lost a lot of fucking steam and he just came back at the wrong he came back and then you know he had lost steam and then what Brian being introduced again he just lost I mean you know the crowd turn on and you know and then he's making dick comments and you know he's not ready he's not you know and then Vince yeah so I mean I think you have three legitimate points of the aging talent one you know the whole Hogan and Ric Flair thing it's it's not we don't even all of us know that we're not counting on Flair or Hogan to make us watch every week because they're only on once in a fucking while once in a fucking while but I wouldn't say aging talent but I would say Nostalgia acts you know like they're bigger biggest stars only Chris Jericho you know got you know they only come back once in a while and we know that they're going to be gone they're not going to be with us you know for a long run and you know it's just you know the fact that they don't have talent that can you know run run things without Nostalgia acts coming in you know like for example back when you had the rock Kurt angle Stone Cold Steve Austin Chris Jericho the undertaker back when you had all those guys right there in that era if Hogan came in hey he would have been a great addition but he wouldn't have been like oh yo Hogan's gone you know I mean you know like when you find out the rock is good you're like you're not gonna be on the night I'm watching guys I know that don't even watch wrestling call me like you know the rock so yeah I know I watch every week I know he's gonna be on but they tune in the casual watcher viewer which is what they say the only thing they care about tune in to watch them so anyway you know back then they wouldn't have needed Nostalgia acts and now they need them that's the fucking problem I recovered the injuries you know slowing down rains and Brian and we already I could talk all day till I puke coat hangers about Vince being not out of touch I mean like I said he's the genius that built the place that gave us so much at the same time he shoots himself in the foot plus there's that argument also when you look at the attitude there that they would have never made those changes unless they were forced to good competition makes you better and right now I wish there was competition that made them better unfortunately their best competition right now is NXT and they own NXT so it's not competition it's just another one of their product that they're not pushing mainstream yet they need to because triple H is doing a damn good job with that post comments down below let me know what you think about this article press the like button subscribe