Speaking on the Something to Wrestle With podcast, JBL commented on the current state of WWE under the TKO banner and how its audience compares to that of UFC.
On Karl Anderson’s comments that WWE is now “TKO”:
“I completely agree. Yeah, I completely agree. I go back, and it’s completely different… And I feel the same way that, you know, guys would come in to WWE when I was there and it got hot with Steve and Rock, and they’d say the same thing that I’m saying now, ‘This isn’t wrestling, this is completely different’… It’s different. It’s completely different. I go back now, it’s a complete different company. Hardly anybody there. It’s very corporate, but they’re printing money. I’d take it every day of the week.”
On WWE and UFC crossover appeal:
“I’d be interested to see how many crossover fans you actually have… I think both companies, internally, don’t think it’s as big a crossover… When we had the Monday Night Wars… we realized that it was actually two separate audiences that were watching, which is hard to believe… They think the same thing right now is that it’s almost two separate audiences with UFC and WWE.”
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