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cepptember nineteen ninety eight and boss it's time to say goodbye to the war games as we know it. It is. I mean really last

week was the time to say goodbye to war games as we know it. A lot of goodby is coming up I think. Yeah I think so too. A lot more than hellos. A lot more than Hellos.

So, uh, still, as we documented in part one,

salad days for World Championship Wrestling, despite all the disorganization

and the underorganization and the

underwhelming nature of the product.

Estimated average attendance is up 20% almost from the prior September.

Average gate is up 30%. They're up 43.5% in television ratings compared to September of 97.

Geez. It is just incredible how they're printing money at this point. The Fall Braw Show itself

saw a 32% jump year over year in the buy rate of the show and a 70% increase in the overall event revenue from fall brawl.

Remember fall brawl 97 was a decidedly underwhelming number

kind of like a total outlier for the rest of 97.

So that makes for a very favorable comp if you will.

Oh sure.

We're talking 1.74 million in pay-per-view revenue for the 97 show and 3.1-1-1-1-mill.

A year later.

Wow. 11,528 paid sellout in Winston-Salem for the 1998 fall

braw which was a $2018,000 gate, a 0.7 buy rate and the conditions are perfect for deep, deep dissatisfaction.

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