Never said it did. I'm just using common sense and looking at McMahon's past history of "branching out" and how he failed every single time he's tried it, again and again and again from the XFL to the WBF and beyond. McMahon knows one business and one business only, and that's professional wrestling. The more he deludes himself into thinking he can "branch out", the sadder it becomes. He should just be happy with his direct to DVD B-movies and the marginal profit he (sometimes) makes on them.
"Now looking to conquer other markets"...you say that like he hasn't been trying to do just that for 30 years and hasn't completely and utterly failed every single time.
Doesn't take a genius to see that Vince and the WWE are never going to be anything more than a wrestling company with several wrestling-related offshoots like direct-to-DVD movies starring wrestlers or music albums of wrestling theme music.
Sorry Vinnie Mac, but it ain't happenin'. You will always be a wrestling company, your fans will always be wrestling fans, and you will NEVER be taken seriously as anything other than a wrestling company. Ever.
The WWE is in one of the best positions it has ever been in. It's a publicly traded company, it has mainstream ACCEPTANCE (something it didn't have, even during the Attitude Era), and it has established itself as a business which can sustain nearly every situation.
And you're wrong about the WWE and their branching out. The wrestling business has branched out and done things no wrestling business had ever done before. They're promoting shows all over the world in a multitude of languages. They're offering programming which appeals to just about every type of person possible, no matter the age, sex, intelligence level or country. They have guys on day-time television all the time, they show up on all sorts of websites, IGN, ESPN, etc. The WWE is as well known and accepted as they've ever been, even if their ratings and PPV buys don't match what they did ten years ago.
Now, you're probably thinking, "yes, but that's still the wrestling business", and I grant you that's true, but what I'm talking about is entertainment business in general. Orchestrating what the WWE does, dealing with TV stations and PPV providers across the globe, booking event locations, working with all sorts of companies and organizations like they do is not a "wrestling" thing, it's an entertainment business thing. And McMahon has shown he can do that.
He's now going to leverage what the WWE has given him to branch out and build an entertainment empire. He's already in the movie business, he's already in the traveling entertainment business, he's already producing 5 hours of TV content each week...Vince McMahon understands how to provide entertainment.
Vince McMahon is no longer building a wrestling company, he's building an entertainment infrastructure. He wants to be known as THE #1 entertainment business in the world, and if you think about it, that spot is currently open.
Vince McMahon knows what he's doing. And while you may feel jilted as a "wrestling fan", McMahon knows that people are still going to pay his company money, and if he can build an entertainment infrastructure which will allow him to own the entertainment world like he does the wrestling world, then it will bring him more money than you or I could dream of.
So I stand by my statement of Vince doing what will make the most money.
