Welcome to Wrestling Inside the Ropes with James Stewart.

I'm the best.

I'm the best in the world.

I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company and I've been vilified and hated since that day.

And Mike Sarge Riley.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but you're trespassing of private property.

When you walk through here, through these ropes, you're in my yard.

Bad things happen in my yard.

Wrestling inside the ropes.

So Mike Riley, Sarge, I open up this week's show with a question to you.

What's more important, the live crowd reaction or the incoming money from t-shirt and advertisers?

Give me the latter.

Don't you think money, money, money?

That is the most important thing in the world.

That's what turns the globe round and round.

Okay.

Vince McMahon, the WWE, all of his lieutenants.

Yeah, I mean, they want a crowd reaction.

They want to see what the crowd thinks and so forth and all that stuff but in the end jimmy it's what sells the merchandise

what puts people in the seats what you know generates your revenue for your uh your w dwee network

your paper view sales all of that stuff.

Money is the top name of the game. Hands down. Crowd reaction for me, but for a business standpoint, money, money. So it's, I think it's clear that the W, W. W.W.E's answer to my question is, it's money. And the W. universe live crowd reactions be damned to answer my my question is it's money and the WWE universe live crowd reactions be damned.

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