The Business of WrestleMania 42 | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover TKO’s takeover of Las Vegas for WrestleMania, and all the business notes stemming from the event.
Plus: An ESPN reporter is denied WrestleMania credentials, Mark Shapiro’s testimony regarding Vince McMahon’s role in TKO, WWE moving forward with June show in Saudi Arabia, and understanding the percentage of revenues paid to WWE talent.
00:00:00 Start
00:04:38 WrestleMania 42 business figures, site fee, attendance, and ESPN audience
00:21:19 ESPN reporter denied credentials
00:39:44 TKO releases its proxy statement
00:46:07 Mark Shapiro’s testimony regarding Vince McMahon in TKO
00:54:17 WWE talent paid about 15% of revenue in 2022
00:56:17 Hearing held on the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act
01:05:04 Saudi Arabia's PIF divesting from LIV Golf
01:06:39 Night of Champions is going to Saudi Arabia
01:09:34 Mark Shapiro speaks at the University of Alabama
01:18:17 Triller shuts down AEW Plus
01:19:40 Super Chat - AEW running a big weekend in 2027
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. |
| 0:11.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.7 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:25.2 | I've been told the |
| 0:26.6 | Netflix numbers. I've been told |
| 0:28.6 | the metrics a little bit. Probably five different |
| 0:30.7 | times. I still don't get it. |
| 0:32.2 | There were respectable wrestling |
| 0:34.3 | journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:36.5 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:38.5 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:40.5 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:49.0 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:51.5 | And welcome everybody to the post-Ressomania edition of Pollock and Thurston. It is John Pollock |
| 0:57.0 | and Brandon Thurston coming at you with a loaded edition of the show. We have WrestleMania to discuss. |
| 1:04.4 | We have testimonies to parse. We have audio from a classroom speech at the University of Alabama to discuss from |
| 1:14.9 | Mark Shapiro. We know percentages of revenue. WWE is paying out to its talent as of 2022. |
| 1:21.6 | So much to get through. How are you, Brandon? I'm fine. How are you? |
| 1:26.9 | Well, it's, it's been a quiet week to know what we were going to fill this show with. |
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