Failed wwe India tour
By Scott Keith on January 21, 2018
Hey Scott,
After reading the recent Jindel Mahal win as 2017 Gooker award winner, I was thinking about how the WWE’s planned ‘tour’ of India slowly dwindled down from several shows to two shows to just one (with the inevitable Triple H win over Jinder). Regardless of Jinder’s ‘importance’ to the tour, it left me wondering why WWE was unable to draw sufficient interest in a tour.
TNA seemed to be popular despite only have Sonjay Dutt, to the point that they even had Ring Ka King, an India specific wrestling show with some of their talent, and even toured there a few times. So why was TNA able to gain a foothold in the country where wwe could not? Was it because the TNA numbers were sufficient for them justify it; where as those numbers would count as a significant loss for wwe? Or is TNA somehow more popular there?
I’d like to hear your thoughts.
TNA is also weirdly popular in the UK, so it just goes to show that different markets are DIFFERENT. It's a lesson that WWE seems to have trouble grasping. The failure of WWE in India (and China) mostly seems to stem from them trying to charge ticket prices, and streaming prices, in markets that won't support them. China in particular is just not going to pay money for the WWE Network, and it's been a similar struggle in India. The recent "tour" of India couldn't even sell out two shows at ticket prices that aren't much more than the standard house show tours here, so the lesson is that they just ain't gonna pay for the product.
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