Big Data + Panel Wreaks Havoc on WWE & AEW | Pollock & Thurston

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4.8 • 1.1K 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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