Wrestle Kingdom 20 Success | WWE Holiday Tour | Pollock & Thurston
POST Wrestling
POST Wrestling
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover the success of Wrestle Kingdom 20, how WWE’s holiday tour performed, and Netflix strikes a deal for WWE’s library.
Plus, POST Wrestling’s Karen Peterson speaks about the significance of Wrestle Kingdom, Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement, the debut of Aaron Wolf, the TV-Asahi broadcast, and Saya Kamitani’s breakout year.
Topics this week include:
- Wrestle Kingdom 20 & New Year Dash figures
- Netflix strikes a deal for the WWE PLEs
- WWE Holiday Tour attendance down despite record gates
- Judge denies WWE motion in lawsuit over injury
- Dr. Carlon Colker appeals a court order
- Dana White’s court hearing on Tuesday
- Latest TV and streaming figures
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 Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-rest. |
| 0:24.2 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.4 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.2 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.3 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.4 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:42.4 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.3 | I've been told the metrics a little bit, probably five different times. |
| 0:48.2 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.4 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:53.6 | Thank you very much members of the media. |
| 0:55.7 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.7 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.3 | A whole part of the show, man. |
| 1:07.7 | And hello, everyone. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome to Pollock and Thurston for another week. It is the post-Ressel Kingdom edition of the show. We were going to do a match-by-match rundown, but I told Brandon, I think, I don't know full of time for a full review of the show, but we will talk about some of the high points. We had to cut that. We had to cut that down. So no match review. Wanted some of Brandon's thoughts on the Rambo, but that will have to be saved for another day. But we will be joined a little later on by Karen Peterson of post-wrestling. She is going to be chatting with us a bit about Russell Kingdom and the past couple of days for New Japan and the year ahead. We have a lot of |
| 1:45.7 | legal updates. We have several lawsuits to discuss. We have several hearings to mention. And of course, |
| 1:54.1 | we got charts. We've got holiday tour charts, courtesy of the WrestleMania's team. |
| 2:02.6 | I even submitted a filing this week, |
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