Why are you so dense when it comes to discussing anything related to viewership.
And what part of WWE spending years courting a younger fan base with Cena ended up them failing to convert them into a new tv core base for the future do you not understand. They were leaving en masse while Cena was still there, not just after, because WWE was doing a terrible job keeping them invested for the long term.
Besides trying to shove Reigns into a Cena mold instead of letting him develop into his own thing, that lack of a bridge created by the Cena era contributed just as much to Reigns' struggles in becoming the next mega star for WWE.
WWE being massively profitable these days has a lot more to do with the changes in the TV industry and WWE marketing themselves as a sport than anything they've actually done. WCW had a similar mentality of ignoring all their real problems because they were making record profits only to crash hard when that bubble burst.
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