Big Data + Panel Wreaks Havoc on WWE & AEW | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston unpack the effect Big Data + Panel is having on the professional wrestling industry, and a blistering response from CW on the new methodology.
Topics this week include:
- Big Data + Panel reporting by Brandon Thurston, including CW’s response
- Comparisons using the old and new methods for WWE & AEW
- Significant updates in the WWE shareholder lawsuit
- Vince McMahon’s phone given back by the feds
- AJ Lee and Stephanie McMahon discuss equal
- Lucha Libre AAA signs TV deal in Latin America
- Tony Khan on the length of AEW’s pay-per-view
- Netflix sees spike for John Cena’s Final Raw
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. |
| 0:17.7 | 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. |
| 0:28.5 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.4 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.4 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.6 | The reason is simple wrestling |
| 0:41.0 | economics. I've been |
| 0:42.9 | told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.4 | I've been told the metrics a little bit. |
| 0:47.3 | Probably five different times. I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.6 | There were respectable |
| 0:50.7 | wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:55.9 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.9 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.4 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:09.1 | Welcome to Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:11.1 | I am John Pollock of Post Wrestling, joined by Mr. Public Documents. |
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