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AEW Timeline: 2019 - Present | Pollock & Thurston

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston dissect the history of AEW as it heads into Double or Nothing, six years after the promotion’s first event.

John and Brandon discuss the company's highs and lows since its launch, the important moments in its history, the most impactful moves, and how it affected the professional wrestling industry.

Plus: WWE presents SNME & Battleground this weekend, Pollstar data on recent shows, AEW All Out in Toronto, Collision runs into technical issues, and NJPW financial notes. 

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

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0:10.5

your questions and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door.

0:18.8

Brandon Thurston from Wrestlingomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-wrestle.

0:27.0

Thank you, Lynn.

0:28.1

Good afternoon, everyone.

0:30.4

But we can't ignore the math, okay?

0:33.4

We can't ignore the data.

0:35.9

Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine.

0:39.8

You're a straight line.

0:41.1

I'm a pyramid.

0:42.4

I like the very direct question on that.

0:44.8

Television ratings, downward spiral, virate, plumbing it.

0:49.8

The time is now to turn the math around.

0:57.7

And Time is now to turn the math around. And we are here for another edition of Pollock and Thurston.

1:01.7

I am John Pollock alongside Brandon Thurston, who is joining us from a secret location.

1:06.5

And here we are for another week.

1:08.7

How are you, Brandon?

1:10.2

I'm fine.

1:14.4

I just wanted to start off by congratulating you on the, the victory of the Florida Panthers over the Toronto Maple Leafs this past. When did that happen? Sunday night.

1:20.3

Sunday night, yes. You know, I'm, you know, me and my fellow Floridians, you know, we were, I would love to say that we were at the edge of our seat, but we were,

1:27.9

we were very comfortable at the complete comfort of our seats by the second.

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