Daniel McConnell

Yeah.

Like you're making serious money.

I just want to delve into your deep, deep technology.

In the late 90s, early 2000s, there was what was known as the Attitude Era, when the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin was in his pomp.

And it was all, they ramped it up in terms of their aggression.

Like, they ramped up the sexuality of it.

Like, I mean, there was, you know, nudity.

There was, like, they really were pushing the boundaries of what they could achieve.

And then, obviously, as part of the corporatization of the company, they brought it back to a PG kind of...

they wanted to appeal to a much broader demographic.

And that obviously raised tensions because there were those who obviously yearned for that more extreme element of it or that kind of wilder image.

But that was of its time.

But you're now seeing it has come through that transition where there was concerns around

attendances, you know, has it naturally just run out of steam given the fact that it had seen off all its major rivals, WCW had gone, they had bought it out, you know, WWE stands alone almost kind of on a global sense and certainly in a US sense at that level.

So was it kind of hitting its natural sort of plateau?

But what you do see is like, and this is the interesting thing, is that Seamus is not the only Irish star.

I mean, there are others, Becky Lynch, there's Finn Balor, there are a number of other Irish stars in the mix who are really competing at that highest level in WWE, which was, I suppose, unheard of in our day.

We always yearned for the idea of an Irish superstar, but feared that it would be a kind of a diddly-eye kind of class and patty kind of...

Yeah, so they try.

So, I mean, obviously there's a limited Irish wrestling scene here.