AEW Forbidden Door, WWE ESPN Move | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Neal Flanagan and Brandon Thurston discuss AEW’s Forbidden Door event and press conference, WWE PLE starting on ESPN DTC streaming earlier than originally announced, plus recent legal developments.
Also:
- WWE’s PLEs moving to ESPN DTC and reworked NBCU deal
- Notes from the Forbidden Door post-show press conference
- Dr. Carlon Colker briefly discloses Janel Grant’s medical records before the filings were sealed
- Kevin Foote v. AEW case in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Vince McMahon’s traffic case and next court date
- Latest WWE and AEW ratings, including SmackDown’s cable performance and Raw on Netflix
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a raw, |
| 0:06.3 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.6 | Brandon Thurston from Wrestlingomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-rest. |
| 0:24.3 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.4 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.3 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.4 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.5 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:42.5 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.4 | I've been told the metrics a little bit, |
| 0:47.3 | probably five different times. |
| 0:48.2 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.5 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you very much members of the media. |
| 0:55.8 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.8 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.3 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Pollock and Thurston, where there is no |
| 1:13.2 | John Pollock today. |
| 1:14.7 | And today, we have renamed this program, Flanagan and Thurston, because I'm joined by |
| 1:21.4 | Neil Flanagan in place for John who is out today. |
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