[molson]

I'll have to dig up the video later but there was this Hollywood producer who did a kickstarter campaign to get money for the first season of his "revolutionary" wrestling show. The video promoting it was nauseatingly arrogant. He said stuff like, "this wrestling promotion will have well-developed storylines with beginnings, middles, and ends...what an amazing concept! It will be just like the popular television shows you enjoy like Dexter and Breaking Bad! Donate to this campaign and let's finally take wrestling back from the people who don't understand how to do it!"

The whole thing really connected with the enormous number of people who think there's been 2 or 3 good years of wrestling since 1992 and everything else has sucked, but who for some reason are still really huge fans. He exceeded his donation goal and raised 6 figures very quickly. Then he hired a lot of the top indy talent and filmed "something" - there was a trailer released that had very good production values. People still gush over this trailer as something so amazing and revolutionary, even though it's just some highlights of guys wrestling. But that's that last anybody ever heard of this producer. A lot of people though, were so wrapped up in his "vision" (which was never developed beyond yelling about "beginnings, middles and ends") that they still defend him to this day and say he couldn't do the project and had to keep everyone's money because he had a nervous breakdown or something. What's more likely is that he didn't know how to do a wrestling show and gave up, or here just was smart enough to know how to tap into that delusional fan-base and steal their money.

Even if the guy wasn't a scammer and was able to put together a coherent 8 episode season or whatever, could he have done the same thing over 110ish TV/PPV shows a year? 160 if you count Main Event? And draw several million people for every TV show and several hundred thousand paying $50 for every PPV? While dealing with injuries/talent defections/etc?