breaking media news this morning though and this is something that we have talked about recently

because we had a bunch of the wrestlers in come through here with bt and sound evan tiki and then

you had peter schwartz put the summer summer slam results in his 5 am update the other day uh playing

sound and highlights of that which was was interesting, and everything was over

here at MetLife Stadium.

So how about ESPN, spending more money, acquiring rights?

ESPN inks five-year deal with WWE's live premium events, including WrestleMania and Royal Rumble,

and they're going to be paying an average of $325 million per year

for five years

according to people familiar with the matter

so that is a massive amount of money

that's not exclusive because they still have a deal

WWE with

Peacock and USA Network and also Netflix.

But as far as the big ones, WrestleMania and Royal Rumble, ESPN,

will be putting them on their direct-to-consumer service starting in 2026.

Yeah, I'll tell you, this is a race to get live content.

Yeah. And what's interesting to me in this regard is is wwe bound by cba with its wrestlers or are they a part of the sag after union because they're

performers that is a great question and how are the how are the wrestlers going to benefit from this, or the performance, whatever you want to call them?

How are they going to, you know, basically hopefully make more money and have better pension benefits and long-term health care?

Because what they do is legitimately physical.

And we've seen so many wrestlers, you know, unfortunately die way too

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