CG: Is WWE A Predetermined Winner?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
WWE stock is up over 5X in the last three years, making it one of the better performing stocks on the market. With sports licensing fees surging, the company recently negotiated a new deal that should position the company to thrive over the next several years. Dan “Pretty Boy” Kline and Nick “Hundred Dollar Man” Sciple break down how the company makes money, recent criticism surrounding the company, and the company’s future on this week’s episode.
Stay tuned till the end to hear our Mount Rushmore of the greatest wrestlers of all time, our favorite highlights from Sunday’s Wrestlemania, and more!
Stocks Mentioned: WWE, FOX, FOXA, CMCSA
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is Tuesday, April 9th, and we're talking WWE. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host Nick Saipoll, and today I'm joined in studio of a Molly Fool contributor Dan Klein. |
| 0:13.4 | Dan Klein how you doing? |
| 0:14.4 | I don't know is now when I cut a 90 second promo about how I'm gonna beat you? |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah I mean you could you know Dan might be turning heel today folks. |
| 0:20.6 | Listen up brother. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah we're talking about wrestling. |
| 0:24.0 | Dan, WrestleMania just happened on Sunday. |
| 0:27.0 | What was your takeaway from that event? |
| 0:29.0 | That no television show should be five and a half hours long. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah. There were too many emotional... show should be five and a half hours long. |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah, there were too many emotional peaks. |
| 0:35.9 | So like usually at WrestleMania, you built to one underdog, finally has his day, holding |
| 0:42.1 | the championship up. They had like six of those. |
| 0:44.6 | So by the time they got to the main event, I was exhausted. |
| 0:48.8 | Like, and admittedly I'd been watching most of it on my phone in a bar at the hotel I'm staying in and then on my laptop in my hotel room |
| 0:57.0 | which is not the most pleasant way to watch television. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, Dan, I didn't quite get the full experience of W. W. I was in Montreal |
| 1:05.1 | Canada for a friend's bachelor party of the weekend. Did catch the last couple |
| 1:08.2 | hours of the show. I tell you what the Triple H Batista match I thought was |
| 1:12.2 | incredible good job kind of working the different body parts and things like that I thought was a great example of good |
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