Wrestlenomics: The business of Wrestlemania 38
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🗓️ 3 April 2022
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
More than 65,000 fans were in attendance for Night 1 of Wrestlemania. WWE, as always, announced a bigger number. Brandon Thurston is joined by Jesse Collings, who subs in for Chris Gullo this week, to discuss WWE president Nick Khan’s recent media appearances leading up to Wrestlemania.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the same way with us. It's a meritocracy. So if you're at the top of the card, you know, |
| 0:15.0 | hey, maybe you have a bigger dressing room than the person at the bottom of the card. But everyone has the same opportunity to earn their way there. |
| 0:22.0 | It's so vindicated, man. It's so vindicated to go from just nowhere on the card and no desire to have me and no priority. And that's not a knock on anybody. |
| 0:35.0 | And to go out in the fricking wilderness and try everything I could to make noise and change our business and pro wrestling and sports entertainment, whatever the F you want to call it, and just, |
| 0:43.0 | I felt like they appreciated it and I appreciate them. |
| 0:48.0 | We're looking to sell over 100,000 seats for capacity of over 100,000 on Saturday and on Sunday without jinks and we're on track to do it. |
| 1:04.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce tonight's attendance here at AT&T Stadium for WrestleMania Saturday, |
| 1:15.0 | 77,899! |
| 1:29.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Russellomics Radio. I'm Brandon Thurston broadcasting live and on demand from Buffalo, New York for today is Sunday. |
| 1:39.0 | WrestleMania Sunday, it's not just any Sunday. Yesterday was WrestleMania Saturday. |
| 1:44.0 | Maybe for that was WrestleMania Smackdown. Today is Sunday April the 3rd, 2022. And Chris Gullo is away. He is in Dallas. He is in Arlington. |
| 1:59.0 | He is, I think attending WrestleMania tonight. I am joined instead by Jesse Collins, who writes for Voices of Wrestling, writes for Wrestling Ink, like getting all that right, Jesse. |
| 2:15.0 | Yes, so far the two publications that I write for. Yes, but you're also a real like journalist. |
| 2:20.0 | Yes, the two publications I write about wrestling for. I do not foray into it in my shoot job as a real journalist and not a fake wrestling journalist. |
| 2:30.0 | Where are you joining us from today? I am in my apartment in Beast, Arlington, Massachusetts about five miles outside Boston. |
| 2:40.0 | Have you attended Beyond Wrestling events before? |
| 2:44.0 | I did go to one of their shows in Worcester, you were not there. |
| 2:48.0 | Okay, was that an uncharted territory? I can't remember. Was that the white eagle? |
| 2:56.0 | Something like that. |
| 2:58.0 | Anyway, I don't know. Layla Hersh was on the card. Yes, it was at white eagles. It was at white eagles. Were they taped out of Worcester? |
| 3:05.0 | Well, anyway, today we are going to talk about WrestleMania attendance, Nikon's, media tour. He did at least two media appearances. |
| 3:16.0 | So I guess we'll start with what's probably on everybody's mind the most who's tuning in right now is WrestleMania attendance. |
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