{"id":616244,"date":"2026-04-20T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616244\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:40:19","slug":"internal-displeasure-on-how-espns-advertising-hurt-wrestlemania-in-ring-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616244\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Displeasure On How ESPN&#8217;s Advertising Hurt WrestleMania In-Ring Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringsidenews.com\/wwe-wrestlemania-42-night-two-results-highlights-key-moments-april-19-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WrestleMania 42\u2019s second night<\/a> was a big night, but the first night had a few people thinking critically about advertisements. ESPN didn\u2019t do WWE any favors when it came to how many ads they put into the show. <\/p>\n<p>Sean Ross Sapp reported on Fightful Select that the reception from an in-ring perspective for night one was not strong from those the outlet spoke to. The sentiment echoed \u201cthat of the constant ads causing ring time to go down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WrestleMania has a lot of eyes on it, and it is a prime sport for advertising. That beign said, some people within the company think that they went a bit overboard this year. <\/p>\n<p>There was a time when Vince McMahon didn\u2019t sell that many ads during WrestleMania. Now, every piece of the set is up for a sponsorship with TKO\u2019s leadership. <\/p>\n<p>We will have to see if ESPN tones down the advertisements. They packed every Disney second into WrestleMania that they could on the ESPN Unlimited app with a ton of persistence. Only time will tell what happens as the partnership continues.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your take on WrestleMania, especially the ad breaks? Do you believe that this hurt the show of shows? Let us know what you think in the comments section! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WrestleMania 42\u2019s second night was a big night, but the first night had a few people thinking critically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,108237],"class_list":["post-616244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wwe-wrestlemania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}