WrestleMania 41, WWE Acquires AAA | Pollock & Thurston

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston go through the success of WrestleMania 41 as WWE promotes the biggest weekend in its history.

They discuss WWE’s released business metrics, Netflix stats, the reception for the two-night event, Paul Levesque’s speech at the Hall of Fame, and many other topics from Las Vegas.

The major news on Saturday included WWE announcing its acquisition of Lucha Libre AAA, and we are joined by The Cubs Fan from Luchablog to discuss the major ramifications this deal could represent, the details that are known, the many questions following this news, and how it will affect CMLL.

Plus: Dwayne Johnson on The Pat McAfee Show, WWE Unreal on Netflix, Orlando secures funding for bids, ROH moves dates & more.

Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel.
0:07.2	Are you ready for a new adventure?
0:11.0	Merhabah passengers, this is your captain speaking.
0:13.6	Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.
0:26.2	Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. This month at Post Wrestling Cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind to
0:31.9	raw, rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your
0:36.8	questions and answers,
0:38.0	as well as feedback. Post Wrestling Cafe.com. $6 gets you in the door.
0:44.8	Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack
0:50.3	from Post Wrestling.
0:53.1	Thank you, Ed.
0:55.5	Good afternoon, everyone.
0:58.7	But we can't ignore the math, okay?
1:01.3	We can't ignore the data.
1:05.7	Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine.
1:06.9	You're a straight line.
1:07.9	I'm a pyramid.
1:10.4	I like the very direct question on that.
1:15.5	Television ratings, downward spiral, fire rates, plumbing it.
1:18.5	The time is now to turn the math around.
1:24.9	And hello, everybody.
1:45.8	Welcome to the post-Resslemania edition of Pollock and Thurston. We are not going to be going through night one and night two, the highlights of which, yes, that is right, the froth after WrestleMania. Thank you, sir. And Brandon is here with us coming off of a very impactful weekend in the history of professional wrestling. We have acquisitions. We have scathing comments. We have mainstream media interview appearances.
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