Posted By James Walsh on 09/10/20


Last week, former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang took issue with WWE’s new edict about third party platforms.

Yang spoke with Chris Van Vilet to further discuss his thoughts about this topic.

“This story is dead real,” Yang said. “There are a lot of effective storylines that melded real-life and fiction. I think it could work because the fan’s know and they’re smart. I think that’s one reason that fans love AEW – because they know the talent are taken care of. You can tell it has nothing to do with the bottom line anymore. The McMahons have made so much money and they’re wasting all of this money buying football leagues. The XFL failed again, so it’s like if you’re a wrestler and WWE says, ‘We can’t afford you; you’re fired’ it’s kind of like, ‘Yeah, you can afford me if you could afford to lose millions on that debacle.’

“The affordability factor doesn’t apply to WWE like it applies to other firms,” Yang continued. “If you look at AEW, it feels like their economics are real. WWE is a public company and McMahon is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but spends it on all this dumb stuff. The company is worth $3.3 billion. If your company is worth $3.3 billion and the way the treat their workers is just shameful. You could have made an argument in the past upon cost, but now you cant. It’s just plain f–king greed at this point.”

Yang also stated that WWE being worth billions of dollars yet doesn’t provide benefits to is employees is “shameful”.

 

 

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