Are AEW Wrestlers Misclassified? | POST x Wrestlenomics
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston examine the subject of independent contractors in pro wrestling following the suit filed by Kevin Kelly and The Tates.
Pollock and Thurston welcome lawyer Stephen New to discuss the lawsuit filed by Kevin Kelly & The Tates against AEW, Tony Khan & Ian Riccaboni, and the argument of whether AEW talents are misclassified as independent contractors.
Plus: How well Mr. McMahon performed in its first week on Netflix, SmackDown vs. Fox, what the move to CW means for NXT, and the countdown continues for AEW’s media rights announcement(s).
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Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” Ben Tramer”
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| 0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from Ressonomics is up next and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-Russland. |
| 0:08.0 | Thank you and good afternoon everyone. |
| 0:12.0 | But we can't ignore the math, okay? |
| 0:15.0 | We can't ignore the data. |
| 0:17.0 | Go on Google Trend, type in your name, then type in mine. |
| 0:21.0 | You're a straight line. I'm a pyramid. |
| 0:24.0 | I like the very direct question on that. |
| 0:26.0 | Television ratings, downward spiral, fire rates, plummeting. |
| 0:31.0 | The time is now to turn the math around. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Pollack and Thurston. |
| 0:40.0 | We are live on this. Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Pollock and Thurston. |
| 0:43.8 | We are live on this Wednesday, October the 2nd, the five year anniversary of AEW dynamite. |
| 0:51.0 | Yes. |
| 0:52.0 | The beginning of the Wednesday Night War. I have the The Warner |
| 0:55.6 | Brothers Discovery Press Room on auto refresh. They have announced that |
| 0:59.2 | Cardia Brown has signed an exclusive deal with the Food Network, New Deal, that has been announced |
| 1:07.0 | today, in fact, October 2nd, 2024. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, we are, we're going to be finding out what else is cooking in the Warner Brothers Discovery Press |
| 1:15.8 | release playbook today. |
| 1:17.9 | It seems that we are, how close are we? |
| 1:20.8 | Are we, are they about to spike the ball in the end zone is that the |
| 1:24.4 | analogy that would be most appropriate for this we might be into the tunnel at |
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