Their entire business is based on PPV revenues. Still, I fail to see the proof that MMA has significantly affected buyrates anymore than pro boxing has. Even Meltzer believes that Vengeance’s buyrate was affected by De La Hoya/Mayweather.

It is tenuous and, IMO, largely nonexistent, except in the minds of those who think Pancrase has something to do with the rise of MMA in the middle of this decade and want it so badly to be so that we get circle jerk writing of the same 4 dudes posting that view and then linking to each others articles. Pro Wrestling can blame its poor writing and scandals more than it can MMA for the problems it has right now.

I am begging you to tell me the history of pro-wrestling in relation to MMA, starting with the first UWF in 1984. I’ll be waiting with baited breath to hear your response.

I know the history of shootwrestling in Japan. The problem with endlessly reiterating this point over and over is that shootwrestling in Japan was watched by literally a couple hundred people in the US while it was going on. Attempts at putting UWFi shows on PPV failed miserably during the initial MMA boom back in the mid 1990s, and Pancrase on PPV didn’t do much better. It had no effect on the pro wrestling industry in America apart from influencing in a very, very, very tertiary way the NWO/WCW feud. I mean, really, are you going to argue that Kevin Nash was America’s Takada?

We know one thing is true: pro-wrestling fans love half-naked, sweaty guys in tights macking all over each other. And MMA certainly has no shortage of that.

With no mention of an edit whatsoever.

So for the hundreds if not thousands of people who have already read it, what now? Will they be informed of the doctored piece?

I doubt it.

C) What proof is there that the WWE’s revenue began falling due to UFC? Just in March of this year, I remember Dave Meltzer saying that wrestling seemed to be set for another boom period, as indicated by rising ratings and DVD sales. Is this about attempting to legitimize the value of pro wrestling through shadow participation in the rise of a real sport, or discussion about MMA causing pro wrestling to hit the skids?

UFC on PPV is a big enough threat that Linda McMahon has to address it at WWE quarterly conference calls. PPV is WWE’s cash cow. TV is not. Without PPV revenues, WWE’s financial model would be in serious trouble.

It is tenuous and, IMO, largely nonexistent, except in the minds of those who think Pancrase has something to do with the rise of MMA in the middle of this decade and want it so badly to be so that we get circle jerk writing of the same 4 dudes posting that view and then linking to each others articles. Pro Wrestling can blame its poor writing and scandals more than it can MMA for the problems it has right now.

I am begging you to tell me the history of pro-wrestling in relation to MMA, starting with the first UWF in 1984. I’ll be waiting with baited breath to hear your response.

“Jardine says he thinks the current way fighters are tested is fine: “I don’t think there’s a problem.”"

Freakin’ yikes.

A) How is Brock Lesnar a “draw”? He’s drawn nothing in MMA thus far.

B) What other choice did they have? The UFC was nothing before TUF1. They had been spinning their wheels for years and apart from Shamrock/Ortiz, gotten nowhere fast.

C) What proof is there that the WWE’s revenue began falling due to UFC? Just in March of this year, I remember Dave Meltzer saying that wrestling seemed to be set for another boom period, as indicated by rising ratings and DVD sales. Is this about attempting to legitimize the value of pro wrestling through shadow participation in the rise of a real sport, or discussion about MMA causing pro wrestling to hit the skids?

D) A pro wrestling program has seen neither large gains nor large losses even though they play the lead in for MMA. How is this? Shouldn’t MMA have buried TNA?

Again on ratings, it’s pay-per-view spending that matters here. You can say the link is tenuous, but I don’t see an opposing theory that makes sense.

It is tenuous and, IMO, largely nonexistent, except in the minds of those who think Pancrase has something to do with the rise of MMA in the middle of this decade and want it so badly to be so that we get circle jerk writing of the same 4 dudes posting that view and then linking to each others articles. Pro Wrestling can blame its poor writing and scandals more than it can MMA for the problems it has right now.