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Count Your Days TKO
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On this Ten Minute Touchdown with the Queens, we talk about TKO and the mess they have made.
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Introduction to the Queen's Ring Podcast
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Speaker
Welcome to Queen's Ring Podcast, where we celebrate the past, the present, and the future of professional wrestling. We're your hosts, Charity and Keri, your go-to do-work for life in the squared circle.
TKO's Influence on WWE
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Speaker
And on today's episode, we have a 10-minute touchdown about what's going on in the wrestling world right now as far as TKO. So as we've been seeing on just every social media platform, as we know, TKO,
00:00:30
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is part of WWE or took over WWE everybody has been going off about what changes they're making one there was some post about them trying to re-go over Roman Reigns contract lower his funds well yeah that's crazy but also to be fair he's not champ right now yeah He's not champion. He's not even there most of the time. So so everybody was talking about that.
WrestleMania Relocation and Price Concerns
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Speaker
What else? The whole WrestleMania being taken from north New Orleans. And then supposedly there was word of Saudi Arabia. There was word of these other places. Yeah. And then now it's Vegas.
00:01:18
Speaker
Again. Which, come on now. We know every year it's always a different location. why are we going back knowing y'all's prices are going to up the booty hole like they were last year yeah I feel like they that's exactly why they went back because I mean yeah they could have jacked prices in lawrence and i blame y'all because y'all bought all that shit so now they can see that they can sell out and add on stuff y'all are paying to you're not like you're paying to go to the shows you're paying to go to Wrestlemania but you're also paying to go to the after parties
00:01:52
Speaker
with some of the champions you're paying to meet them at these meet and greets you're paying to like blah blah blah like and they're also like not just like normal meet and greets like they used to be like back in the day like they're like y'all are charging so much just for a picture and a signature that sam the after party itself was like 400 four hundred or like $800 or something like that.
00:02:17
Speaker
Yeah. You think I'm paying $800, $400 per person just to be at an after
High Prices and Celebrity Focus in TKO Strategy
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party? And on top of that, they have, what is it, like the WrestleMania world or whatever they can pay for as well. Yeah.
00:02:29
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So I'm like, they're just adding on things and you guys are just buying them. so And how do y'all pay for this? It's a good question. I would love to know that too. But yeah, having TKO, I feel like is,
00:02:44
Speaker
not great no like the prices of everything is insane front row prices for normal shows are insane like and like the pay-per-views like clearly you're they want like specific people in the front row yeah like clearly because now we're seeing more like celebrities yeah like this isn't it's just weird to just have a bunch of celebrities in the front row yeah instead of like i don't know fans tko does not care they don't care just want the money i was like what is courtney kardashian doing at money in the bank like yeah i was like yeah and my girl it's literally every episode too that they're panning to the audience and there's some random celebrity i'm not saying that celebrities can't be there clearly they can yeah anybody could a sport event but i'm saying that it's a
00:03:37
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It rarely happened back in the day.
Advertisements in WWE Events
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and not you It's like every show you're going to the audience to show that there's a celebrity there. Yeah. And then to have like advertisement on ladders.
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and there I saw a picture yesterday. There was Slim Jim on the table. that Yeah, yeah. And the ladder was Fireball. was Fireball. I was very confused. Yeah.
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and They're just money hungry and quite frankly the content is is not that great either. We were discussing like I haven't watched wrestling in like weeks, months probably.
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think the last thing I, whatever was after Wrestlemania, that was the last pay-per-view I watched. Like, nothing's, like, grabbing my attention. And I'm kind of just like, over just the nothingness of it, to be honest. Like, nothing nothing has my attention.
00:04:31
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think the last thing that really had my attention was literally the
Critique on WWE's Current Content
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bloodline. So, I know.
00:04:37
Speaker
And that was a good little bit of ago. Yeah. But, I don't know. And then, Jey Uso was in. Which, I've seen people.
00:04:48
Speaker
I don't know, bro. People were like that he was injured from the Logan Paul thing, so they had to give it to somebody, so it might as well have been Gunther. No. It literally would have been anybody else.
00:05:00
Speaker
Like, the guy can wrestle, but he has no aura. really Yeah. So now we give it back to him. You could have literally just had Seth cash in, if that's the case, if Jay was actually injured. Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:12
Speaker
You could have just had him cash in. know some people were kind of probably expecting to cash in that night, but were also disappointed that you did it. cause For the ones that's not Gunther fans. Gunther fans are like going crazy right now. Yeah, well.
00:05:26
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No, mean... Well.
00:05:29
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I feel like this is going to be crazy to say right now. I'm not going to say it. Just say it. I feel like product-wise and taking the company higher...
Management Styles of Triple H vs Vince McMahon
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Triple H has been doing a good job. You know, there's ah there's definitely a lot more positivity vibes that you feel like the wrestlers are happy with their jobs. Yeah.
00:05:53
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However, one thing about Vince McMahon... Uh-oh, Carrie's saying this, you guys....was that he cared about the fans.
00:06:05
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Yeah. The product that he was giving someone. Yeah. You didn't see ah thousand advertisements everywhere. Yeah, there were celebrities, but there was like they were mostly at big-time shows. They're like, they're here. Cool.
00:06:19
Speaker
We don't care. They're not getting... I don't know. just feel like he... That's the one thing that lacks right now is that it doesn't have that feel. I don't know.
00:06:32
Speaker
Fuck Vince McMahon, but I'm just saying that. He cared about the product he was giving fans, so... One good thing about them. Probably the only. Yeah.
00:06:43
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But no, i used to like come home because I typically get off and then get home around 530. So WWE has already started. So i'm trying to hurry up get home. Excited to watch. And like these like you said, these past few weeks, which I've tuned in, but not really tuned in. You know you what I'm saying?
00:07:01
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Like it's on, but then like you, it does something. They do something to like make me fall like, oh, not paying attention anymore. And then it's just on. Yeah. Like, honestly, the last thing I watched was WWE Evolve.
00:07:16
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And they're kind of doing some pretty good things. They have Wesley on there, Natalia on there. So, I've been tuning into Evolve.
00:07:28
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I don't know. I've just been seeing this stuff, like, on just online. Because I just can't be bothered to watch right now. and that's tragic bro yeah i'm just gonna keep on pissing me off so get it together and y'all stop buying them expensive behind
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them because y'all making them yeah y'all gonna make them keep on raising them raising the prices of that and all the other chefs making them add random You know what? You guys can go hang out with Jey Uso at this amusement park. $7,000. Like, sir.
00:08:07
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Crazy. It is really, really crazy.
Event Pricing Over the Years
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Definitely power hungry because why is SummerSlam now two nights? It doesn't need to be. It's not WrestleMania. Exactly. Like, you just want money, bro.
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And somebody's talking about their tickets running about $40,000. $40,000, wow. Mm-hmm. forty thou wow
00:08:26
Speaker
All because Cardi hosting and being two nights. Yeah. Because you guys money hungry, bro. We don't need that. Money hungry hoes.
00:08:37
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We need one two-night event. Like, that's what made WrestleMania so fun. You're doing up all these things and it's like, that's not WrestleMania. And also, stop bringing us to Saudi Arabia, bitch.
00:08:51
Speaker
So what is that?
00:08:56
Speaker
There you have it. No, I was telling... I forgot who I was talking I was talking to somebody. Like, whenever I went... It was three of us. I took my two oldest niece and nephew and myself whenever they were in Dallas to WrestleMania.
00:09:11
Speaker
All three of our tickets weren't even more than $400 for Hall of Fame night. And then maybe... Maybe... a little bit over 500 i don't even think it's that either but for like kind of the side part um so cold came so he rode his four-wheeler to that side we were on that side and it wasn't even that expensive even like the little resting world things it wasn't that bad and that was a few years ago a lot changed so quickly feel like yeah because we went to smackdown in
00:09:44
Speaker
September, Damien Priest held my hand. Anyways, and... He did indeed, okay, so... We went, and then we wanted to go again when they came in April. But the pricing of the seats were crazy. Because, like, we picked, like, one something. The same area.
00:10:01
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for the And one in September. and it was, like, the same area. And we were by the places where the wrestlers would walk back. So they were walking back and forth but while we were seeing all these people. was like, what?
00:10:12
Speaker
Yeah, it was only 100 or something. And then we come back, which I'm like, okay. I was telling Carrie, maybe this is just because WrestleMania week. Yeah. That they bumped it up. But it was almost, well, actually it was over $200 more than what we paid for. yeah Just a few months ago.
00:10:27
Speaker
It was crazy. Last year, September. But, yeah. This was like February, huh? Or March, I mean. Something like that. We don't know.
00:10:38
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We don't know what's going to happen.
TKO's Financial Stability and Business Choices
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This is just quick rant. da but Are you guys liking what they're doing with TKO? Or do you guys kind of agree with us?
00:10:50
Speaker
Yeah, i feel like I feel like they gotta go, bro. And I also heard that they're bankrupt. So why would you buy such a big company knowing you can't afford to keep it running now you gotta do all this crazy stuff.
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But whatever. That's crazy. ah Rusty bitches.
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Carrie. this
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Rusty, rusty spoons. But I think that is going to conclude our 10-minute touchdown. It sure is.
Engagement with Listeners
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Charity, where can the people find you? You can find me on Instagram and TikTok at livinglavishwithlonnie. And you can find me on Instagram and TikTok at carrievicious.com.
00:11:44
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