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2010 1 Oba & Ono vs Mashimo & Suruga, Futen May 30th 2 Ikeda & Oba vs Hashi & Mashimo, FUTEN October 24th 3 Sasaki vs Akiyama, NOAH April 10th 4 Sasaki vs Shiozaki, NOAH July 24th 5 Ikeda vs Ono, Futen September 26th 6 Nakamura vs Goto, New Japan April 4th 6 Hashi vs Hyugaji, Futen May 30th 8 Nagai vs Ono 9 Sugiura vs Takayama, NOAH July 10th 10 Usuda & Hikaru Sato vs Mashimo & Yamamoto 11 Sato vs Togo, DDT November 28th 12 Sekimoto vs Takanashi, DDT April 4th 13 Akiyama & KENTA vs Nagata & Taguchi, NOAH July 24th 14 Marufuji vs Kanemoto, New Japan March 5th 15 Marufuji vs Liger, New Japan April 4th 15 Togo vs Billy Ken Kid, Osaka Pro February 11th 17 Sugiura vs Morishima, NOAH December 5th 17 Suwama vs Funaki, All Japan October 24th 19 Nakamura vs Takayama, New Japan January 4th 20 Marufuji vs Devitt, New Japan January 30th 21 Devitt & Taguchi vs Ibushi & Omega, New Japan October 11th 22 Togo vs Hyugaji Michinoku Pro December 16th 23 Ikeda vs Moriyama, Futen June 27th 24 Sugiura vs Shiozaki, NOAH September 26th 25 Akiyama vs Sugiura, NOAH May 2nd 26 Tenryu vs Tiger Mask, Real Japan March 18th 27 Shingo vs Hulk, Dragon Gate July 11th 28 KENTA vs Aoki, NOAH August 22nd 28 T. Sasaki & Kobayashi vs Sekimoto & Y. Sasaki 30 Marufuji vs KENTA, NOAH June 6th 30 Vader/Scorpio/Jesse vs Fujinami/Honda/Hashi 32 Sekimoto vs Okabayashi 6-man, BJPW September 19th 33 Sekimoto vs Ibushi, DDT May 4th 33 YAMATO & Shingo vs Mochizuki & Fujii, Dragon Gate August 5th 35 Kong vs Satomura, SENDAI April 9th 35 Futen 6-man 37 Kasai & Numazawa vs Sekimoto & Y. Sasaki 38 Kojima vs Tanahashi, New Japan August 15th 39 Doi vs Yamato, Dragon Gate March 22nd 40 KENTA & Aoki vs Strong & Edwards, NOAH October 30th 41 YAMATO vs Mochizuki, Dragon Gate May 13th 41 Nagai vs Otsuka 43 Takayama & Sano vs Hero & Claudio, NOAH December 5th 44 Liger vs Casas, New Japan May 3rd 44 Hidaka & Sawa vs Usuda & Yoshikawa, Battlarts February 7th 44 Sekimoto & Y. Sasaki vs T. Sasaki & Miyamoto 47 Negro Navarro vs Solar, Ultimo Dragon Produce, July 19th 48 Nagata vs Shiozaki, New Japan August 10th 49 Tanahashi vs Shiozaki, New Japan January 4th 50 Mashimo vs Oba, Futen June 27th

2011 1 Togo vs Antonio Honda, DDT January 30th 2 Nakamura vs Suzuki, NJ August 14th 3 Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Hama & Soya, Big Japan April 28th 4 Suwama vs Akiyama, All Japan October 23rd 5 Kanemoto vs Hayato, New Japan May 26th 6 Sasaki vs Sugiura, NOAH November 14th 7 Sasaki vs Sugiura, NOAH July 23rd 8 Suzuki vs Nakajima, NOAH March 5th 9 Takayama vs KENTA, NOAH January 15th 10 Tanahashi vs Yano, NJ August 13th 11 Tanahashi vs Goto, New Japan June 18th 12 Shiozaki, Sugiura & Taniguchi vs No Mercy, September 11th 13 Kowloon vs Sekigun elimination match, MPro June 5th 14 Tanahashi vs Nagata, New Japan April 3rd 14 Tanaka vs Honma, New Japan December 23rd 16 Mochizuki vs Tozawa, Dragon Gate October 13th 17 Sugiura vs Shiozaki, NOAH July 10th 18 Nagai vs Suruga, Futen January 30th 18 Tanaka & Hidaka vs Usuda & Yamamoto, Battlarts November 5th 20 Shingo vs Tozawa, Dragon Gate July 17th 21 Tanahashi vs Naito, New Japan October 10th 22 Nagata vs Ishii, New Japan November 12th 23 Shiozaki vs KENTA, NOAH November 27th 24 Nakamura vs Tenzan, NJ August 5th 24 Togo vs Ibushi, DDT March 27th 26 Togo vs Gedo, DDT June 30th 27 Ibushi vs Taguchi, New Japan June 10th 28 Akiyama vs Nakajima, NOAH July 10th 29 Sugiura vs KENTA, NOAH October 10th 30 Saito & Horiguchi vs Mochizuki & Fujii, Dragon Gate 31 Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Suwama & T. Soya, Big Japan 31 Team BJW vs Suwama & T. Soya, All Japan November 19th 33 Ishikawa vs Ikeda, Battlarts November 5th 33 Sasaki vs Sugiura 6-man, NOAH August 24th 35 Sanada & Soya vs Sekimoto & Okabayashi, All Japan March 21st 36 Ishikawa vs Sawa, Battlarts June 19th 37 Satomura & Kagetsu vs Takahashi & Yoshiko, Sendai Girls 38 Hidaka vs Ito, Zero1 March 6th 39 Sasaki vs KENTA, NOAH November 8th 40 Ono vs Moriyama, Futen January 30th 41 Sanada & Soya vs Sekimoto & Okabayashi, All Japan 41 Suwama vs Nagata, All Japan April 9th 43 Tanahashi vs Nakamura, New Japan September 19th 43 Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Kasai & Numazawa, Big Japan 45 Nakamura vs Naito, NJ August 14th 46 Pac & Dragon Kid vs CIMA & Ricochet, Dragon Gate July 17th 46 Ishikawa & Hideki Suzuki vs Ikeda & ST2, Battlarts February 27th 48 Minoru vs Kondo, All Japan March 21st 48 Team Doi vs Team Gamma, Dragon Gate November 19th 50 Mochizuki vs Kanda, Dragon Gate June 19th 50 Shiozaki vs Morishima 50 Sekimoto vs Y. Sasaki 6-man, Big Japan June 27th

Ditch ought to have them all. He sometimes sent me copies of the final spreadsheets because I helped him set up the ballots. I'll post what I have, but it may not be comprehensive.

You forgot to multiple by ten. If they had 8 million annual subscribers at $10/month, they'd be getting 960M. They're hoping to get at least $96M this year from the Network (800k subscribers).

In Robert Routh's time machine back to 1999.

Latest thing today was the Forbes' piece about Vince McMahon/WWE: http://www.forbes.com/sites/msolomon/2014/03/26/vince-mcmahons-over-the-top-move-why-the-billionaire-ceo-is-betting-big-on-the-new-wwe-network/ I wrote about my host of comments/corrections on my blog: http://indeedwrestling.blogspot.com/2014/03/fact-checking-forbes-piece-on-vince.html (they don't separate int'l/domestic, dish network is carrying WM, emerging market numbers are wacky, robert routh's 6-8 million subscriber numbers seem wild, etc.) Regarding TV Rights fees: That's the second time I've heard specific numbers for what they would have received. The "Vince walked away" story was covered by the LA Times back in January.

I definitely would agree that WWE seems to be releasing less guys. Think about guys like Big Zeke or Evan Bourne (or JTG) that are still hanging around despite being off TV for ages. I haven't run the numbers to confirm, but that's certainly my impression.

This week we'll have Bix join the show. We'll talk Discrimination Lawsuits, Ultimate Warrior Shenanigans, St. Louis payoffs, WCW Payroll and more. It'll be Saturday (3/29) at 1 PM EST/Noon Central for at least one hour (hopefully two if people are calling in and we still have stuff to talk about!) I think we can have multiple callers via BlogTalkRadio, so we'll be able to take some callers too. Looking forward to the show!

Last week's Wrestling Observer mentions the idea of WGN as a bidder: It's an interesting idea but I just don't think WWE would take the risk unless WGN was pouring money into a truck at far above the competitor's rates.

Yeah, I've bought issues through the website before. You can view it online as well as download a big ol' PDF.

Great show went two hours: Wow. TWO HOURS of ‪#‎Wrestlenomics‬ radio including 5 callers (thanks Ken Hesser, Joe Gagne, Pete Thornton, David Parker and Ryan Clingman) from all around the civilized world (and New Jersey). We talked WWE Rookie analysis, Worst Feuds, TV Negotiations, John Cena's LIES~! and Villano payroll. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/indeedwrestling/2014/03/22/rookies-mookies-and-wookies Hope to do it again next week!

You're right on with those points! The pictures were added by my editor after the fact. I emailed him to explain that TWC and TW are different companies and asked him to update the Fox with a more general blurb including points about EPL and Big Ten. We'll see if anything happens with that. Sadly, after it gets "published", I can't adjust it anymore.

This morning, I wrote up my thoughts on the five alleged contenders for the WWE TV contract (NBCU, Viacom, Fox, AMC and Turner) in this new WhatCulture article: http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwe-analysing-5-networks-wwe-negotiating-tv-rights.php

I do like the idea of quietly pulling Wrestlemania off the Network and back to PPV by next year. It basically generates an increase in overall revenue without changing the monthly price.

Someone on Bloomberg had a similar idea: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-16/wwe-free-for-all-awaits-if-found-sets-sale-real-m-a.html Includes some Analyst quotes.

Maybe on a minor level but WrestleMania basically is the top seller each year next t crazy popular compilation sets.

In my WhatCulture piece about hypothetically who'd want to buy WWE if they somehow were able to be acquired (Vince controls class B shares so hostile takeover is impossible) I threw in a couple charts about what stations are owned by each : http://whatculture.com/wwe/5-companies-want-buy-wwe.php

Episode Two of #wrestlenomics radio is done. This was a spur-of-the-moment live call-in show where I talked about WWE Network, WWE Financials, WWE TV Negotations, ideas for possible WWE suitors, ways to keep the WWE stock strong, my interaction with investment banks/hedge funds asking about WWE and lots more. It was like a sprint so I talked and talked and talked and had David Parker on and talked and talked and then hung up. Hopefully, there's some good content in there and it's not so frantic that it's unlistenable. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/indeedwrestling/2014/03/15/the-beginning-of-something-special link to latest articles at http://www.tinyurl.com/wrestlenomics http://www.blogtalkradio.com/indeedwrestling/2014/03/15/the-beginning-of-something-special.mp3

This past weekend, I talked with Alex Goff for 45 minutes on the OWW (www.onlineworldofwrestling.com) podcast. The mp3 is up at https://www.clickwrestle.com/sites/default/files/mp3s/oww_radio_215_Chris%20Harrington.mp3 I sound like I'm underwater, but we had a pretty good chat about the WWE Network, the future of streaming media and other tidbits. https://www.clickwrestle.com/content/podcast-episode/oww-radio-christopher-harrington

I've taken to just using the main event listed by the ProWrestlingHistory spreadsheet: http://prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/eventinfo.xls

I looked at 248 WWE/WWF PPVs (excluding Wrestlemania) that I had buy estimates/star ratings averages for. Here I've broken them into 25 nearly equally sized groups: 3.18 to 3.63 star average: 288,009 buys (10 PPVs) 2.95 to 3.09 star average: 331,667 buys (10 PPVs) 2.82 to 2.95 star average: 308,667 buys (10 PPVs) 2.70 to 2.80 star average: 259,407 buys (10 PPVs) 2.63 to 2.70 star average: 276,381 buys (10 PPVs) 2.56 to 2.63 star average: 283,600 buys (10 PPVs) 2.50 to 2.54 star average: 325,637 buys (10 PPVs) 2.46 to 2.50 star average: 323,600 buys (10 PPVs) 2.39 to 2.46 star average: 377,288 buys (10 PPVs) 2.34 to 2.39 star average: 271,862 buys (10 PPVs) 2.31 to 2.34 star average: 305,000 buys (10 PPVs) 2.25 to 2.31 star average: 343,368 buys (10 PPVs) 2.21 to 2.25 star average: 353,252 buys (10 PPVs) 2.15 to 2.21 star average: 278,164 buys (10 PPVs) 2.08 to 2.14 star average: 316,723 buys (10 PPVs) 2.04 to 2.08 star average: 276,675 buys (10 PPVs) 1.94 to 2.03 star average: 226,000 buys (10 PPVs) 1.85 to 1.93 star average: 388,555 buys (10 PPVs) 1.79 to 1.85 star average: 331,743 buys (10 PPVs) 1.72 to 1.78 star average: 277,218 buys (10 PPVs) 1.61 to 1.69 star average: 251,773 buys (10 PPVs) 1.46 to 1.57 star average: 242,917 buys (10 PPVs) 1.21 to 1.43 star average: 283,808 buys (10 PPVs) 1.03 to 1.21 star average: 353,544 buys (9 PPVs) 0.71 to 1.03 star average: 314,951 buys (9 PPVs) There's really no correlation that I can see. (r-squared on almost any group I did was basically zero.)

In terms of original material, there's everything Dave written in the Observer. Almost every issue in the past few months has talked about the WWE Network and/or the WWE Finances. Here's some other original articles that I've relied on heavily for new information. While almost daily I look for new material, and I'm still discovering articles that I've missed (such as the AdAgeone) that provide good insight on the chasm between TV/Advertising executives and WWE/Investors. My list of other Good Reading Material regarding the Domestic TV Rights Negotiations: Bonnie Hammer 10/9/2001 CNN: Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi Forbes: Power Women #61: Bonnie Hammer 12/19/2011 NYTimes: The Queen of Cable TV Other WWE 3/29/2009 Variety: Men migrate to WWE programming 2/19/2014 Variety: Dish Stops Offering WWE’s PPVs Before New Network Launch 2/20/2014 Variety: WWE Has No Plans to Exit Film Business 2/23/2014 USAToday: WWE looks to break its own mold with new network NBCU Overhaul 10/15/2013 Variety: NBCUniversal Sets Radical Overhaul of Advertising Sales Operations 10/24/2013 Variety: Steve Burke’s Reshaping of NBCU’s Top Ranks Unsettles Staff WWE TV Rights 11/1/2013 Forbes: WWE's Hidden Gem (Chris Bevilacqua talks up WWE) 1/24/2014 NYPost: NBCUniversal, out to keep WWE, mulls Hall of Fame 1/29/2014 Hollywood Reporter: WWE, BSkyB Extend U.K. TV Deal 2/18/2014 LA Times: WWE shopping 'Raw,' 'Smackdown' and other TV properties (mentions that WWE had hired Bevilacqua) 2/18/2014 Variety: WWE’s ‘Raw,’ ‘SmackDown’ Could Find New Homes as Negotiating Window with NBCU Expires 2/19/2014 AdAge: WWE Will Struggle to Position Itself as Live Sports 2/24/2014 SEC: WWE 2013 Annual Report 2/25/2014 Motley Fool: Why WWE Might Not Get the TV Deal it Wants 3/7/2014 Bloomberg Businessweek: WWE Expects New Cable-TV Deal by Early May, CFO Barrios Says

I had a twitter exchange with an analyst yesterday that I'll share here:

Thanks for posting my article John. I'm supposed to talk to another investor this afternoon about WWE so I will be curious whether they can give me some insight on why they think the stock has ballooned in recent months - particularly if there was any chatter in the investor channels that I haven't seen. If anyone cares, here's all the articles I've written in the past three weeks about the WWE Network and/or WWE Financials and/or WWE Stock price: 2/20/2014 WhatCulture: 10 Controversies of the WWE Network 2/23/2014 F4W/WO: 2013 WWE Financials Examined Wrestlenomics-style 2/24/2014 Voices of Wrestling: WWE 2013 & PPV Breakdown 2/25/2014 Voices of Wrestling: WWE Network Launch Day Estimation 2/27/2014 WhatCulture: WWE Network Launch: All your Key Questions Answered 3/03/2014 F4W/WO: WWE Network 7 Days Later 3/05/2014 Whatculture: 14 WWE Network Risks That WWE Worries About 3/05/2014 Whatculture: WWE’s Current 15 Year Stock High Is Tied To Their Domestic TV Future 3/07/2014 Voices of Wrestling: The Mystery of the Soaring Stock Price 3/10/2014 Whatculture: 10 Ways WWE Can Maintain Their Current Business Success

In recent years, home entertainment revenues have declined as a result of several factors, including consumers shifting to digital formats, subscription rental services and discount rental kiosks; general domestic and international economic conditions; increasing competition for consumer discretionary time and spending; piracy; and the maturation of the standard definition DVD format. In response to these declines, WWE is customizing its content and promotion to make the product more compelling for consumers. 2008: WrestleMania XXIV, which shipped approximately 326,000 gross units. 2007: WrestleMania XXIII, which shipped approximately 367,000 gross units. T2006: WrestleMania XXII, which shipped approximately 425,000 gross units, representing our largest selling DVD release in our history. FY2006: WrestleMania 21 was our best-selling DVD of all-time. Additionally, WrestleMania: The Complete Anthology box set, a release including the first 21 years of WrestleMania with a $279.95 suggested retail price, and sets of the WrestleMania Anthology broken into 5 year series, accounted for $7.2 million of total gross domestic revenues. FY2005: The Rise & Fall of ECW, which chronicled the history of Extreme Championship Wrestling, and Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story. FY2004: The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection & The Monday Night War & WrestleMania XX. These three titles sold a total of approximately 335,000 units in fiscal 2004. In addition, we gained distribution in one large retailer in 2004, thereby increasing sales.