Pro Wrestling News Report (November 5, 2025)

The Don Tony Show

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Here is your Pro Wrestling News Report for November 5, 2025. Running Time: 63 Minutes. Topics covered in this report include: Nick Khan (audio) defends and doubles down on WWE Ticket Prices dramatically increasing over past year DT discusses an interesting omission by Nick Khan when discussing WWE ticket sales and early 2026 International Tour WWE SmackDown 10/31/25, AEW Collision 11/1/25 and WWE RAW 10/27/25 score historically low ratings Interesting news about WWE terminating Ridge Holland' contract a month before expiration, costing him tens of thousands of dollars Cody Rhodes discusses The Rock and feels WWE has 'just scratched the surface with The Final Boss character'. Do you agree? Entertaining new Rusev interview leads to another mess on X involving Dave Meltzer; and this one is a doozy As Don Tony predicted for months, Wrestlenomics quietly discontinues their Quarter Hour wrestling ratings reports. A developing story that many hope will be swept under the rug - but it won't AEW' first ever book, 'This Book Is All Elite' is now available for immediate purchase John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL) believes Vince McMahon will release a 'raw' tell all book within a year or two Mina Shirakawa replaces Queen Aminata in Blood & Guts match due to injury Brian Cage suffers a major setback with his recovery from knee surgery NXT Gold Rush 2025: New matches added, latest news and rumors Mike Santana talks candid about members of TNA locker room very disgruntled about NXT wrestlers holding TNA Championships TNA secures multi-year deal with Claro Sports to bring exclusive TNA content across Central and South America Celebrating 25 Years Of Stratusfaction: Bodyscape Magazine publishes a special edition featuring Trish Stratus Chalotte Flair posts a workout video featuring an interesting choice in workout gear And so much more! 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0:00.0	We've increased prices appropriately with the marketplace.
0:04.4	That's for the PLEs, Raw Smackdown, Saturday night's main event, and every other
0:09.6	ticketed program at WWE has.
0:12.7	We remained bullish on it a couple of years ago when TKO was stood up.
0:16.8	One of the first things we collectively did was reduce the non-televised live events,
0:22.5	which created more scarcity in the marketplace for our televised events,
0:27.3	and our continued international expansion only furthered that.
0:32.2	So even in January, you'll see us on a European tour for Ron Smackdown,
0:38.9	leading into Royal Rumble,
0:41.0	which takes place in Saudi Arabia.
0:43.8	Tickets already on fire for that event.
0:48.7	And again, creates more scarcity in the United States, which is a good thing in terms of our overall games.
0:50.0	That was Nick Kahn, Wednesday afternoon.
0:53.6	They're in the TKO earnings call for the third quarter 2025.
0:57.4	And for you and I, what he said should not surprise us at all.
1:02.2	Obviously, that call is for the investors of TKO and the WWE, and they want to hear information
1:08.9	like that.
1:10.2	And again, what he said is really not surprising.
1:13.1	We know what has been going on with ticket prices.
1:16.2	But what annoyed me most about this whole earnings call?
1:20.5	Because they ran about an hour and they talked about a lot of things.
1:23.7	But when it comes to ticket prices, you know, when he focused on Saudi Arabia and said because of the
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