{"id":40635,"date":"2013-03-30T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wv.cloudaccess.host\/?p=40635"},"modified":"2013-03-30T17:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T17:41:42","slug":"wwe-expected-to-lose-money-booking-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestleview.com\/wwe-news\/40635-wwe-expected-to-lose-money-booking-madison-square-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE expected to lose money booking Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE is expected to be losing a &#8220;ton of money even with a sellout crowd&#8221; by booking Madison Square Garden for the Class of 2013 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony on 4\/6 according to a new report by Dave Meltzer. Booking Madison Square Garden was described as more &#8220;symbolism&#8221; and something that Triple H reportedly pushed hard for. While many assumed Bruno Sammartino was a big reason for booking the arena, WWE had already closed the deal before they had a deal in place with Sammartino.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\">The Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE is expected to be losing a &#8220;ton of money even with a sellout crowd&#8221; by booking Madison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40253,41985,11492,39941,10506,41984,41983,40092,135,40093,112,39840,63,10258],"class_list":{"0":"post-40635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwe-news","7":"tag-bob-backlund","8":"tag-booking","9":"tag-bruno-sammartino","10":"tag-class-of-2013","11":"tag-hall-of-fame","12":"tag-lose-money","13":"tag-losing-money","14":"tag-madison-square-garden","15":"tag-mick-foley","16":"tag-msg","17":"tag-triple-h","18":"tag-wrestlemania-29","19":"tag-wwe","20":"tag-wwe-hall-of-fame","21":"cs-entry","22":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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