WWE Champion Cody Rhodes believes promotions are sharing too much insider information

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“I’m in my head on some of the things as of late about every single piece of WWE right now, and every wrestling company, somebody needs to share and put it out there. And I think what’s going to happen is an overload of information to where fans just stop caring. Like, ‘I watch the show. I like the show. I like this guy. I don’t like that guy. I like her. I don’t need to know how many people were in the seats.’ It’s wild. I don’t know who’s keeping all of these records. But I’m getting tired of, what do we need this for? Who’s this for,” said Cody Rhodes on the What Do You Wanna Talk About podcast [H/T Wrestlingnews.co

Much like most promotions, WWE likes to promote its ticket sales, quarterly earnings, and more. For years now, WWE has taken time out for nearly each PLE to thank the crowd and announce the ticket sales of the night or weekend.

Rhodes’ comments come off weeks of negative press for the promotion, when it was revealed they’d cut dozens of WWE Superstars and approached many about restructuring to take up to 50% pay cuts. Around the same time, it was revealed that TKO execs had received massive pay raises.

WWE tasked with cutting millions from budget by TKO

Every April, usually right after WrestleMania, the company cuts a multitude of names all at once. It’s happened so often that some fans began dubbing it, “spring cleaning,” until April 15, 2020, known as “Black Wednesday,” when dozens of stars were cut at the height of the COVID pandemic.

Since then, the promotion has faced yearly backlash for these decisions, especially since they continue to tout record profits year in and year out. This year, though, WWE seems to have been ordered to do so.

Per Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez, TKO felt that the Superstars are doing way less in regards to house shows nowadays, and that was their justification for the cuts.

“Their justification is ‘things are very different now than when you signed this deal. Yes, we are asking you to take less money, but their argument is you’re doing significantly less now. You’re not doing four house shows a week; you’re not on the road four days a week paying for your transportation and your hotel,” said Bryan Alvarez of WOL.

Unfortunately, there could be more releases coming, and Alvarez even claimed there could be some who have already been cut that we’re currently unaware of.

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