5 YRS AGO FLAGSHIP: Keller & Thurston: WWE Financials, state of WWE in COVID-19 era, Vince on conference call without co-presidents

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

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3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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In this week’s Flagship Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (4-23-2020), PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined by special guest Brandon Thurston from Wrestlenomics.com and the Wrestlenomics Podcast. Thurston has focused for years on WWE’s finances, and today was perhaps the most anticipated and consequential financial release day for WWE for a wide array of reasons. They discuss COVID-19 ramifications, key metrics on WrestleMania when it comes to WWE Network subscriptions and social media, WWE’s roster cutbacks and its impact on WWE’s finances, how Vince McMahon’s role on the Investors Conference call changed without longtime co-presidents Michelle Wilson and George Barrios, McMahon saying WWE might never be in the live event business again even after COVID-19 crisis passes, how an elimination of North American non-TV house shows could change WWE’s profitability and why some of the current data is deceptive, the magic cleaner Triple H referenced that is helping keep wrestlers safe from the coronavirus, and more. If you’ve been looking for an in-depth overview and understanding of WWE’s financial situation in the midst of the coronavirus and analysis of their framing of their current situation, Thurston provides over 90 minutes of insight and digestible explanations on where WWE stands and how the future looks.

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1:01.4	Five years ago this week on the flagship, I was joined by Brandon Thurston from Resslemics.
1:02.9	Thurston has focused for years on WWE's finances and the pro wrestling industry
1:07.4	statistics overall, all the metrics that decide or decipher what's working and what's
1:13.3	not, what's trending upward and downward. And WWE had their quarterly financial statement,
1:19.9	one of the most anticipated and consequential releases of financial information because of their
1:25.9	take on the ramifications of COVID,
1:29.2	including key metrics on WrestleMania when it came to WB network subscriptions
1:33.6	and social media.
1:34.9	Were fans panicking and canceling?
1:36.7	Were they watching more content and subscribing?
1:39.8	We also talked about WB roster cutbacks during COVID and its impact on WWB's finances.
1:45.6	How Vince McMahon's role on the investor conference call changed without longtime co-presidents, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios, as part of the call.
1:54.7	McMahon saying WM.B. might never be in the live event business again after the COVID-19 crisis passed.
2:01.7	Context on that.
2:03.2	Also, how an elimination of North American non-TV house shows could change WWE's profitability
2:07.8	and why some of the current data is deceptive, very much ahead of the curve here in terms
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