Former WWE star Maven: “Vince McMahon knew that the everyday family was where his bread was buttered”

While speaking to TMZ.com, former WWE star Maven said the following in regards to ticket prices increasing for WWE events…

“It’s one of the things that angers me the most. You can say what you want about Vince McMahon. Vince knew that the everyday family was where his bread was buttered. He knew that in order to create generational fans, he was going to have to make his product accessible—accessible on a weekly basis, accessible on a monthly basis, at an affordable rate.”

“I remember the day when, you know, guys would be scrounging together. You know, you’d bring six to eight people together—’Here, I got $12’—and then you could buy the pay-per-view. It’s not like that anymore. I remember also going to my first show when I was, I think, seven years old. I asked my dad how much that cost. He told me it was about $300 for everything—the tickets, the parking, the food, everything. $300 for everybody. That was his whole investment in that. Right now, you’re not even getting one good ticket for that. They’re pricing out loyal fans, and wrestling isn’t the only one doing it. Football’s doing it. Baseball’s doing it. I used to work for the Brooklyn Nets, and they encouraged us to sell to corporations. ‘Don’t call families, because they’re not the ones.’ Yeah. They’re like, ‘Our courtside tickets run $150,000.’ Regular people don’t have that kind of money as disposable income. Corporations do. And it’s sad. It’s sad that we live in that society. But I’m a firm believer that the answer to every question is money.”