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WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, wants to legalize betting on its wrestling matches—which—Spoiler Alert!—are as carefully scripted and choreographed as a performance of Swan Lake.
CNBC reports that WWE is working with an accounting firm to assure state gambling commissions that the winners of their matches on RAW, Smackdown, and Wrestlemania, featuring the likes of Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio, Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa, can be concealed until the match is actually...performed.
Sports leagues used to shun gambling. But now they see it as--I'll use some corporate language here--a new source of revenue-enhancement.
The WWE calls itself an entertainment company, not a sports league. This report made me wonder if other entertainment enterprises might now ponder bringing legalized betting into their operations for "enhanced revenue."
A Shakespeare in the Park company could offer odds this summer on who'll slip the last blade into Julius Caesar.
"I got Cassius at 2 to 1!"
WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, wants to legalize betting on its wrestling matches—which—Spoiler Alert!—are as carefully scripted and choreographed as a performance of Swan Lake.
CNBC reports that WWE is working with an accounting firm to assure state gambling commissions that the winners of their matches on RAW, Smackdown, and Wrestlemania, featuring the likes of Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio, Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa, can be concealed until the match is actually...performed.
Sports leagues used to shun gambling. But now they see it as--I'll use some corporate language here--a new source of revenue-enhancement.
The WWE calls itself an entertainment company, not a sports league. This report made me wonder if other entertainment enterprises might now ponder bringing legalized betting into their operations for "enhanced revenue."
A Shakespeare in the Park company could offer odds this summer on who'll slip the last blade into Julius Caesar.
"I got Cassius at 2 to 1!"
Opinion: Betting on theater
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Wrestling
Gambling
Posted >1 y ago
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