Observer Hall of Fame Ballots Revealed | TKO Q3 Preview | Pollock & Thurston

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston share their Observer Hall of Fame ballots and debate who should be inducted this year.

Plus: TKO prepares for its third-quarter earnings, analysis of AEW’s past quarter, Wrestle Kingdom 20 ticket update & a betting scandal rocks the UFC.

Topics this week include:

TKO to report Q3 earnings
AEW’s past quarter performance
Market-to-market comparisons for WWE & AEW
Updated attendance figure for Wrestle Kingdom 20
Japanese attendance trends
Paul Levesque on the All-In podcast
UFC betting scandal

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.
0:17.6	Brandon Thurston from Wrestlingomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-reclay.
0:24.3	Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins.
0:28.4	Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here.
0:31.3	All I do is simply put the math in my favor.
0:35.4	We agree that Brandon and John do good work.
0:38.5	The reason is simple wrestling economics.
0:42.5	I've been told the Netflix numbers.
0:45.4	I've been told the metrics a little bit,
0:47.3	probably five different times.
0:48.2	I still don't get it.
0:49.5	There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers.
0:54.0	Thank you very much members of the media.
0:55.8	I hope you all go to hell.
0:57.8	How about we pop a number right here, right now?
1:06.3	A whole part of the show, man.
1:08.0	And we are back, everybody.
1:09.7	It is John Pollock and Brandon Thurston, joined by many charts on today's show.
1:14.2	Let's get ready, folks.
1:15.3	It's going to be a banger.
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