Wrestlenomics: 2021’s biggest stories in wrestling business
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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo look back on the biggest stories in the wrestling business of the year.
2021 was the year of Nick Khan and Tony Khan (no relation), both of whom gained influence in the industry. WWE president Nick Khan sold U.S. WWE Network rights to Peacock. The former CAA agent made numerous other licensing deals as WWE revamped its talent development vision. Meanwhile, AEW CEO Tony Khan led All Elite Wrestling to overcome NXT in the Wednesday Night War. “TK” signed CM Punk and Bryan Danielson as Dynamite’s 18-49 rating inched closer to Raw.
Plus:
- What can Yellowstone and Succession teach us about the wrestling business?
- Most viewed YouTube videos of the week
- Pro Wrestling Tees data breach
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of RESTLONOMICS radio. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Bran at Thurson Broadcasting live and on-demand from Buffalo, New York, where today is Sunday, |
| 0:10.3 | December 26th, 2021. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm joined from my immediate south, the every man, of RESTLONOMICS, Priscalo. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello, it's great to be here, and we have a huge show for you, as we're going to kind of talk about the biggest stories of 2021, |
| 0:26.7 | and that's going to actually include WB and Peacock, making the agreement that they did. |
| 0:31.4 | The return to live touring is at the end of a ring of honor. |
| 0:35.0 | The return of St. Impunk to professional wrestling and signing with AEW, Christina Salem, |
| 0:41.4 | resigning from her position, and the end of the Wednesday night were much more, |
| 0:45.6 | also the launch NXT 2.0 Plus. |
| 0:47.9 | We're going to discuss, can the wrestling business learn something from succession and Yellowstone? |
| 0:53.3 | And much more here on this December 26th edition. |
| 0:57.5 | Have you started watching succession? |
| 0:59.0 | I believe you expressed some plans, intention, watch succession? |
| 1:03.3 | I haven't got to yet, but I have started watching Yellowstone. |
| 1:06.3 | Really? |
| 1:07.2 | Yes. |
| 1:08.2 | What do you think of this? |
| 1:09.2 | Mostly because the prequel really caught my interest, but I feel like I have to watch the regular show before I watch the prequel. |
| 1:14.4 | What is the prequel? |
| 1:15.7 | It's called 1883, and it's really good. |
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