Uncut Essential

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Should the government break up the WWE Monopoly?

It should as they hardly ever use any of the footage from WCW, AWA, NWA and other Promotions on various discs. They
have only used WCW footage for the following DVDs: WWE Presents the Monday Night War/Starrcade: The essential
Collection and the rise and fall of WCW. The AWA was shown on only one: The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA. NWA
footage is only shown on WWE Classics on Demand. I like everyone am tired of not having the choices we had in the 90's
when WCW/ECW/WWF were competing against each other. The WCW footage needs to be sold to Eric Bischoff who
could then release the uncut PPVs on boxed sets and well as monday nitro.

The government should only break up a monopoly when that monopoly is creating insurmountable barriers for other people to compete.

For example, if I own the only oil company in the U.S., and I control all the oil wells, and I have exclusive rights with all the gas stations - it's incredibly difficult for anyone else to get in the game. Meaning I can charge whatever I feel like.

Those barriers really don't exist for WWE. If a network thinks it would be profitable to pick up another league and run that TV show - that's pretty much trivial for them to do. No harder than starting any new sitcom or reality show, really.

Really, the reason we have fewer choices than we do in the '90s is that the marketplace won't support it. People want to watch one league - the "main" league - and not enough people will broaden their horizons enough to watch all the other leagues. It's the same reason the XFL couldn't compete against the NFL, really.