AEW’s Public Funding & Attendance in Texas | SmackDown Viewership Plummets | Pollock & Thurston

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss the public funding and attendance figures from AEW All In Texas and react to SmackDown’s all-time low viewership.

Thurston discusses his reporting on AEW All In Texas and the records he has received from the Government concerning the July 11 event at Globe Life Field.

SmackDown falls to an all-time viewership figure under the new Big Data + Panel model, and we explain why this is concerning.

Topics this week include:

Government records reveal AEW All In Texas attendance and public funding
WWE SmackDown hits an all-time low under new ratings model
Ari Emanuel and Stephanie McMahon to be deposed in shareholder suit
Hulk Hogan’s estate files petition, potential lawsuit coming up
WWE and AEW market-to-market comparisons in September
Raw viewership data from Netflix
TKO to report Q3 earnings on November 5

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 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-restle.
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.
1:09.8	Hello, everybody.
1:11.3	It is John Pollack and Brandon Thurston.
1:14.4	Joining us today will be Paul Leveck to break down big data and panel.
1:18.6	Are those numbers going to make any more sense to him?
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