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Business Wars
Wondery
4.6 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
WWE might have thwarted WCW’s effort to claim the pro wrestling crown, but after 20 years of unchallenged supremacy, a new competitor has entered the ring. Bankrolled by a billionaire sports owner and airing weekly on TNT, All Elite Wrestling is, in many ways, the second coming of WCW.
But have they learned the lessons of their dearly departed predecessor? And how will Vince McMahon respond to this new threat to his kingdom?
We’re joined by former WWE writer and comedian Matt McCarthy to discuss this new wrestling war and what WWE will look like without Vince McMahon at the helm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. |
| 0:37.0 | Vince McMahon's Brash Aggressive Management Style helped the WWF now known as WWE, |
| 0:43.0 | Fanned Off a Well-Funded Challenge from Ted Turner's WCW back in the 1990s. |
| 0:48.0 | For almost two decades after the end of that fight, WWE was the undisputed worldwide leader in what McMahon refers to as sports entertainment. |
| 0:58.0 | But the wrestling industry was too lucrative to remain a one-horse town for long. |
| 1:02.0 | Billionaire Tony Khan's new company All Elite Wrestling aims to do what Turner's WCW never quite could. |
| 1:09.0 | Become a sustainable, profitable long-term alternative to WWE. |
| 1:14.0 | So far, so good. All Elite Wrestling is routinely one of the top rated shows on cable TV. |
| 1:20.0 | They have big stars and deep pockets to wage a protracted war with the McMahon family. |
| 1:26.0 | For more, we're talking with Matt McCarthy, he's a comedian, former writer for WWE, and the host of the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. |
| 1:34.0 | We'll talk about how WWE has grown even larger thanks to the explosion in TV rights fees, |
| 1:40.0 | who's in line to succeed Vince McMahon at the top of the company. |
| 1:44.0 | And if All Elite Wrestling poses a real threat to WWE's dominance, all that's coming up next. |
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| 2:21.0 | It's a weekly show where we deep dive into the most talked about cases like the Delphi murders, |
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| 2:30.0 | Go listen to Redhanded right now on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:42.0 | Matt McCarthy, welcome to Business Wars. |
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