WWE: Nick Khan on WWE Being a Meritocracy, United States vs. Vince McMahon Showrunners, WWE Evil Ratings

Nick Khan Comments on WWE Being a “Meritocracy” but Everyone Has Same Opportunity to Earn Their Way to the Top

A recent episode of The Town podcast had WWE President Nick Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about WWE being a “meritocracy” but every WWE talent having the same opportunity to earn their way to the top of the company.

“Number one, everyone is treated humanly and everyone deserves to be treated that way. There are analogies with our company and other companies. Was Shaq treated better than any player on the team other than Kobe? Of course. That’s the way it is. Will Smith wasn’t grabbed and escorted out of the room (after slapping Chris Rock). Part of it was, people didn’t know what to do because they haven’t experienced it before, but part of it is that he’s Will Smith. Tough to have security grab him and toss him out of the building. It’s the same way with us. It’s a meritocracy. If you’re at the top of the card, maybe you have a bigger dressing room than the person at the bottom of the card, but everyone has the same opportunity to earn their way there. You’ve seen people that are not stars…..

The inner voice has to match the outer voice. It’s the same thing with our characters; Rock, John Cena, Stone Cold (Steve Austin), Roman Reigns, who they are now are we they are in real life just amplified. That tends to work best for us. When you miscast someone or you cast them non-character, it never works in the film business, or it rarely works in the film business.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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ShowRunners for “United States vs. Vince McMahon” Series Announced

As noted before, WWE is currently producing a new television drama series based on WWE Chairman Vince McMahon called “The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon.”

The Hollywood Reporter reported that the writers of the film Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, will be the writers and showrunners of this new McMahon television series project.

It was also reported that this new project still has yet to be attached to a television network partner.

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WWE Evil Ratings – March 28 & 29, 2022

This past Monday’s episode of WWE Evil drew 631,000 viewers, a 0.18 18-49 key demographic rating, and a #18 key demographic ranking on USA Network, according to ShowBuzz Daily. This episode focused on Roman Reigns.

This past Tuesday’s episode of WWE Evil drew 375,000 viewers, a 0.08 18-49 key demographic rating, and a #70 key demographic ranking on USA Network, according to ShowBuzz Daily. This episode focused on The Brothers of Destruction.