CM Punk Apologizes for Saudi Arabia Comments | Pollock & Thurston
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover the past week involving CM Punk’s trip to Saudi Arabia, apology for past comments, and the backlash.
We go into the comments made in the past, how Punk addressed them at the kickoff event, the reaction online, and Thurston’s opinion piece from earlier this week.
Plus, Pollock & Thurston have exclusive details on the WWE Unreal series coming to Netflix, WWE & Vince McMahon file motions to stop the discovery phase for Janel Grant, Tony Khan discusses Q2 ratings and a return to Wembley Stadium in 2026.
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, |
| 0:06.2 | 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 Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-wrestling. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you, Ed. Good afternoon, everyone. |
| 0:29.2 | But we can't ignore the math, okay? |
| 0:32.3 | We can't ignore the data. |
| 0:34.7 | Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine. |
| 0:38.6 | You're a straight line. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm a pyramid. |
| 0:41.3 | I like the very direct question on that. |
| 0:43.6 | Television ratings, downward spiral. |
| 0:46.6 | Fire rates, plummeting. |
| 0:48.6 | The time is now to turn the math around. |
| 0:56.3 | And here we go on another edition of Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:00.6 | I am John Pollock, joined as always by Brandon Thurston. |
| 1:03.6 | Brandon, how are you doing? |
| 1:05.4 | I'm good. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm ready to celebrate a great, you know, moment in, that is a teachable moment in, uh, uh, transformation and, uh, contrition and, uh, submission. |
| 1:18.3 | Well, that's, that's very kind of you. Um, have you, has anyone been yelling at you in the front row to, to apologize for any of your actions this week, for any of your words? |
| 1:27.2 | Not in the front row. |
| 1:28.2 | Not from the front row, no. |
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