How did WWE get a stadium built in four weeks? | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss the rapid construction in Saudi Arabia of a stadium to house the Royal Rumble.
Plus: Vince & Linda McMahon oppose John Does remaining anonymous in the ringboy suit, Triller’s finances & more.
Topics this week include:
- John & Brandon discuss the process of having a stadium built in Saudi Arabia and questions regarding the labor utilized for WWE’s return to Riyadh
- Vince & Linda McMahon oppose ring boys’ anonymity
- Triller disclosure sheds light on AEW & BKFC ties
- TNA Impact’s second week on AMC
- Paramount+ touts the success of UFC 324
- TV viewership stats
Additional reading:
- Nobody Wants to Work in These Situations”: A Decade of Exploitation on The Riyadh Metro Project (Amnesty International)
- What Is the Kafala System? (Council on Foreign Relations)
- Modern Slavery in Saudi Arabia (Walk Free)
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. |
| 0:07.0 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:11.1 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:14.0 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:18.0 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.2 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. I've been told the Netflix numbers. I've been told the metrics a little bit. Probably five different times. I still won't get it. There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:39.5 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:44.3 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:50.5 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:56.1 | Here we are with another edition of Pollock and Thurston. It is John Pollock, |
| 1:03.3 | joined as always by Brandon Thurston. And we are in the, uh, the throes of a polar vortex here in Toronto. We are here in the, uh, the aftermath of some, uh, 50 some odd centimeters of snow |
| 1:10.2 | that, uh, descended upon Toronto. |
| 1:13.0 | WWE, not batting, not even blinking as they roared into town and put 15,000 people |
| 1:19.7 | in the Scotia Bank Arena despite all of this snow. |
| 1:22.7 | How are you doing, Brandon? |
| 1:24.1 | It's terrible out there. |
| 1:26.0 | It's not snowing at the moment. It's very cold. It's very cold in my home |
| 1:30.1 | at this time. And I had to park like around the corner, like two blocks away because there is, |
| 1:39.3 | there are parking spots available, but some of them are just in, you know, buried in several inches. |
| 1:45.9 | I use inches here in the United States of snow. And it's, it's bad. My car was in, like, |
| 1:52.8 | there was just the outline of a vehicle that I presumed for two days, my vehicle was underneath |
| 1:59.6 | the snow, like literally could not see any of it. |
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