– After making the list last year, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon failed to make the Forbes list of billionaires for 2015 due to WWE stock woes. The Hartford Courant has an article up today that mentions Connecticut has 16 billionaires, but McMahon is not one of them. You can check out the article at Courant.com.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels recently spoke to The Christian Post to promote his new book, “Shawn Michaels: Wrestling for my Life.” During the interview, Michaels explained why he feels WWE becoming a PG-product has made the company more profitable. Below is an excerpt.
“It was very successful and lucrative for the guys in it at that time but when wrestling first went sort of mainstream so to speak in the 80s, with Hulk Hogan in it, that was certainly more PG than it was Attitude Era. I would say that way back when in the 50s when it was again on at primetime it was the Gorgeous George era, it was more, certainly more realistic but it wasn’t Attitude Era. People talk about the Attitude Era as if it was some kind of longstanding, it was a four-year run out of a line of work that’s been around for fifty-plus years. I would always have to say that ultimately everything is done more for the bottom line of making a profit. WWE is more profitable if it appeals to more people.”
You can check out the complete interview at ChristianPost.com.
