WrestleMania Week Business Breakdown | Pollock & Thurston
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss WrestleMania Week business and Nick Khan's media interviews this week.
Pollock and Thurston go through expected attendance and revenue, how Las Vegas landed the event, and a historical look at WWE’s business across closed circuit, PPV, WWE Network, and Peacock eras.
Plus: Nick Khan on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Paul Levesque on how his booking philosophy is different from Vince McMahon, Levesque’s praise for Donald Trump, SBJ’s profile on WWE executive Chris Legentil, Ryan Nemeth lawsuit against AEW moves to private arbitration, Forbidden Door set for O2 in London, and more.
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Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a |
| 0:05.8 | raw, rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, |
| 0:10.5 | your questions and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:18.4 | Brandon Thurston from WrestleMania is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from Post Wrestling. |
| 0:26.5 | Thank you, Ed. Good afternoon, everyone. |
| 0:29.9 | But we can't ignore the math, okay? |
| 0:32.9 | We can't ignore the data. |
| 0:35.3 | Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine. |
| 0:39.3 | You're a straight line. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm a pyramid. |
| 0:41.9 | I like the very direct question on that. |
| 0:44.3 | Television ratings, downward spiral. |
| 0:47.3 | Fire rates, plummeting. |
| 0:48.9 | The time is now to turn the math around. |
| 0:57.1 | It is the |
| 0:58.6 | WrestleMania week edition of Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:02.2 | I am John Pollock in Toronto this weekend, |
| 1:05.2 | joined by Brandon Thurston, |
| 1:06.9 | who will be in Buffalo this weekend, |
| 1:09.1 | as we will be following from miles away as the |
| 1:13.7 | WWE stages. |
| 1:15.0 | It's multi-night affair. |
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