1) Vince McMahon’s Plan For Upcoming WWE PPV Events
The Money in the Bank PPV was much shorter than what WWE fans are used to. The show ran for about 2 hours and 23 minutes (not including the kickoff show). WWE PPV events running under 3 hours these days are extremely rare.
According to WrestlingNews.co, Vince is planning to keep PPV events short until they are able to have fans in the building. Here is an excerpt from the site:
The pay-per-view ended just before 10:30 pm eastern. Vince McMahon wanted a shorter show and the plan is for pay-per-view times to be shorter until they can get fans back in the arenas.
The runtime for the show is listed as 2:23, which would make it one of the shortest pay-per-view events in several years. There were a couple of UK pay-per-views in the 2000s that were shorter. If you exclude those shows, you would have to go back to the In Your House shows from the mid-90s to find a pay-per-view with a shorter runtime. Up until July 1997, the In Your House pay-per-view events all ran under 2 hours.
My Take:
- I can’t lie, I am thrilled about this. Money in the Bank was the perfect length and didn’t feel like it was dragging on. With empty arena shows, it makes a lot of sense to keep them as short as possible.
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