Economic Snapshot: How Can World Wrestling Entertainment Put Profit Loss in a Sleeper Hold?

By Minyanville Staff May 15, 2009 3:55 pm

Our unscientific poll.



Even the Hulkster himself will tell you: Famed wrestling organization WWE (WWE) -- formerly WWF -- is on the ropes. Waning interest, a partial symptom of this steep downturn, has the organization pinned, and profits have declined precipitously - up to 47% for the quarter.

But all hope is not lost for chairman Vince McMahon and his band of merry grapplers. Here’s how Minyanville readers think the WWE can put profit loss in a sleeper hold.

How Can World Wrestling Entertainment
Put Profit Loss in a Sleeper Hold?

 
Ask The Million Dollar Man for a capital injection.
 

 

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Urge wrestlers to stop busting through walls and causing thousands of dollars in damages.

 
Bake sale.
 
Drug tests are costly. Continue to not do them.
 

 

 

Public service announcements warning fans to resist the exotic appeal of Mexican wrestling.
 
Increase league’s commercial viability by introducing self-healing mutant wrestlers, giant green ogre wrestlers and bespectacled 10-year-old wizard wrestlers.
 

 

 
           
 
 
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