ESPN drops WWE letter grades | Pollock & Thurston
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss their reporting on ESPN's decision to remove letter grades from its WWE reviews and the relationship between the two.
Plus, AEW launches a streaming/FAST service, NXT Stand & Deliver to stream on YouTube, and UFC releases its card for the White House.
00:00:00 Start
00:01:58 ESPN dropped WWE letter grades from reviews after WWE pushback, according to multiple sources
00:28:27 AEW Revolution media call
00:31:57 MyAEW streaming service
00:43:44 NXT Stand & Deliver on YouTube
00:47:18 Saturday Night's Main Event in Ft. Wayne
00:57:00 What is TKO's long-term strategy for WWE?
01:02:55 TV viewership, including UFC on CBS
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle. |
| 0:07.2 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:11.4 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:14.2 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:18.3 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:21.4 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:25.4 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:28.3 | I've been told the metrics a little bit, |
| 0:30.2 | probably five different times. |
| 0:31.2 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:32.4 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:38.7 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:40.7 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:49.2 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:51.7 | Welcome, everyone to Pollack and Thurston, an exciting edition of the show |
| 0:58.0 | here on Wednesday, March the 12th. And for those of you that are joining us live on YouTube, |
| 1:05.0 | you can see this wonderful set design by Brandon Thurston, which, if I do dare, I would give this an A plus. |
| 1:13.7 | Would you give it a letter grade? |
| 1:15.1 | I would absolutely. |
| 1:16.5 | I would really prefer, I'm not asking you not to do letter grades. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm just telling you, I would prefer that you didn't. |
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