Why the pro wrestling content space is as hot as ever

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Episode 484 of the Sports Media Podcast features Conrad Thompson, who has created an immensely successful set of wrestling podcasts including ones with Eric Bischoff, Bruce Prichard, John Layfield; Jeff Jarrett, Tony Schiavone and Jim Ross. In this podcast, Thompson offers insight about the growth of his podcast network; the advantage of begin a first mover in the space; how his podcasts are monetized; the lucrative business of putting on a wrestling podcast convention; why Jim Cornette and Brian Last have been successful podcasters; why Paul Heyman and Tony Khan are the white whale gets to host a podcast; being friends with Cody Rhodes; why wrestling wants to avoid politics; the John Cena heel turn; the Netflix and WWE partnership and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	At any given moment, there are up to 3,000 people in witness protection in the UK,
0:06.3	giving up their life for a new identity in a safe house.
0:10.6	But what happens when it all goes wrong?
0:15.2	Three shot, two male, one female.
0:17.5	And the detective inspector is Nile.
0:19.3	It's a safe house.
0:20.5	Sheltering, a protective witness and his family.
0:22.8	Who did this?
0:23.4	I am going to find out.
0:24.5	I promise.
0:25.3	Protection.
0:26.4	Coming soon on ITV1 and ITVX. Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.
0:43.3	I'm your host, Richard Dodge.
0:44.2	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:46.2	One guest on this episode, but this is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.
0:51.2	If you are someone who listens to wrestling podcasts, this is a very, very familiar name.
0:56.8	Conrad Thompson is one of the foremost wrestling podcasters in the country, perhaps the most
1:02.1	foremost.
1:03.2	He has a network of successful shows that include something to wrestle that is generally
1:10.1	with Bruce Pritchard, but is now with John Layfield
1:13.0	at the moment. I will ask Conrad to get an update on Bruce. My World, which is with Jeff Jarrett,
1:18.8	what happened when, which is with Tony Chivani, grilling JR. The JR there, of course, being
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