The NFL will all the time be king, at the very least in the USA, as evidenced by the 127.7 million viewers it garnered for Tremendous Bowl LIX.
WWE believes it may be an in depth second by surpassing each sporting/leisure property within the nation.
The wrestling firm’s lofty objectives had been outlined by its Chief Content material Officer, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, after the success of Saturday’s Elimination Chamber in Toronto, Canada.
“We’re trying to take over. We’re wanting to do that as huge as humanly potential,” Levesque mentioned in his post-show news conference. “We wish to be greater than different sports activities on the market. I am not speaking concerning the NFL as a result of we will not contact them, however, like, for every little thing else on the market, it is truthful recreation.”
Levesque confused that WWE isn’t competing with different wrestling corporations, similar to AEW and TNA, however as an alternative with sports activities, music, motion pictures and different types of reside leisure.
“No matter type of reside leisure on the market, we’re gonna go and surpass, and we’ll,” he declared, earlier than calling WWE the “best type of reside leisure, bar none.”
Followers who packed into Rogers Centre Saturday evening wouldn’t contest Levesque’s tall claims. The 40,000-strong crowd witnessed John Cena turn heel for the primary time in his 20-year profession, strolling away totally entertained by the flip of occasions. The present ended with Cena aligning himself with Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and rapper Travis Scott as a part of an evil faction of megastars.
Johnson and Scott are anticipated to be in Cena’s nook at subsequent month’s WrestleMania 41, the place the latter will face Cody Rhodes in the primary occasion. The 2-night occasion has bought almost 100,000 tickets, per WrestleTix, and is anticipated to shatter a number of attendance information in mild of Cena and Johnson’s involvement.
