TNA’s deal with AMC | The Politics Behind Tanahashi vs. Okada | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston welcome Trish Speirs to discuss her excellent feature on the booking of Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement match and TNA’s new media rights deal with AMC.
Topics this week include:
- TNA inks multi-year deal with AMC
- The booking of Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement match
- WWE Raw falls outside the global top ten on Netflix
- An update on the Conor McGregor lawsuit
- AEW Dynamite ratings
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 |
| 0:05.8 | raw, rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your |
| 0:10.7 | questions and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.8 | Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle. |
| 0:24.4 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.6 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.5 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.5 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.7 | The reason is simple wrestling |
| 0:41.1 | economics. I've been |
| 0:43.0 | told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.5 | I've been told the metrics a little bit |
| 0:47.3 | probably five different times. I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.6 | There were respectable |
| 0:50.8 | wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:54.1 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:56.0 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.9 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.5 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.5 | And here we go. |
| 1:09.5 | It is John Pollock and Brandon Thurston. |
| 1:12.2 | We are just diving right into things. |
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