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WWE's 'Premiere Week' Ends On Low Note As #CancelWWENetwork Trends
Monday, October 7, 2019 - 3:30pm | 1029World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) saw its "premiere week" experience a series of highs and lows for the brand. Ratings Wins The company kicked off Sept. 30 with the season premiere of its long-running flagship show, "Monday Night Raw," on USA Network. The...
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The Most Dominant Two-Sport Athletes
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 12:38pm | 936Since Brock Lesnar successfully defended his WWE Universal Championship at SummerSlam, the question is just hanging out there for fans of wrestling theater: Will he return to cage fighting and take back his UFC title? Part of the WWE storyline involved comments Lesnar's people made that if he...
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John Cena, Brock Lesnar Give Detroit's Joe Louis Arena One Final Salute
Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 9:32am | 484"Your time is up; My time is now." On Saturday night, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) held the final event ever at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena, a building it has hosted events at since the late 1980s. The Red Wings closed out their final season at Joe Louis Arena back in April. The...
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Money In The Bank: The Most Successful WWE Superstars Of All Time
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 2:13pm | 624World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: WWE) holds a "Money in the Bank" event each year. Benzinga compiled a list of the 10 wrestlers with the highest net worth estimates, according to the website Celebrity Net Worth. No matter which performers come out on top, these 10 superstars have...
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Dana White Enters Vince McMahon's Territory: Does He Have A Chance In Hell?
Friday, November 18, 2016 - 1:24pm | 456UFC 205 in New York broke a number of attendance and sales records for both UFC and Madison Square Garden Co (NYSE: MSG). UFC 205 was the UFC’s first major event in New York after a ban on MMA was lifted in the state this year. While UFC in NYC may be a relatively new phenomenon, New York has...
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WWE Wants Rowdy Ronda Rousey Back In Its Ring
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 1:44pm | 339Ronda Rousey made a memorable appearance at Wrestlemania 31 in 2015. Vince McMahon would like her to do it again. UFC and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) might be closer to working together than ever before. "According to sources," Forbes reported, "WWE is...
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Brock Lesnar, WWE's Biggest Star, Is Returning To UFC For One Night
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 8:58am | 296Brock Lesnar is an American professional wrestler currently under contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE). Lesnar signed with the WWE in 2000 and made his television debut in March 2002. He left the WWE organization in 2004 to try out for the NFL and soon join the New...
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Watching Wrestlemania? Here Are The 10 Highest-Paid WWE Performers
Sunday, April 3, 2016 - 1:01pm | 294With World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE)’S Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, Texas, right around the corner this weekend, Forbes has released a new list of the company’s top-earning talent. All the performers get a cut of the Wrestlemania revenue and get a percentage of...
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WWE Network Hits 667K Subscribers In Six Weeks, But What Does The Future Hold?
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 4:21pm | 493The Undertaker's vaunted streak came to an end, but Vince McMahon may be chanting a familiar refrain. WWE (NYSE: WWE) announced on Monday that it's on-demand streaming network has reached 667,287 subscribers since launching on February 24. The announcement comes off the heels of the company's...