REALLY short term , perhaps . Nothing will offset the huge increase in food prices we ' ll see after another few years of drought in California and the US Midwest . <| sep |> One thing that you ' re not right about is the NWA shows . The first ever PPV that the NWA ran was Starrcade 1987 . That night they faced opposition in an infamous coup from Vince McMahon with his first ever Survivor Series show . Prior to that , the WWF had already run four payperview events the first three WrestleMania shows , and the Wrestling Classic event in 1985 . Prior to November 1987 , the NWA had not run a payperview show . The prior Starrcades were shown on closed circuit , however . The larger point here is that McMahon is generally considered the king of PPV in terms of the world of wrestling . He ' s the one that took the initial gamble with the WrestleMania event , and the existence of the Survivor Series is largely due to Vince ' s stubbornness in thinking that the PPV was his ' territory ' so to speak .