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Wrestlenomics: WWE Q2 2022 results; NXT UK shutdown

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

WWE's Board's investigation into wrongdoing by Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and the company culture is "substantially complete". The NXT UK brand is being discontinued as WWE announces it will launch NXT Europe in 2023.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo talk about those stories and more.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of WrestleLomux Radio. I'm Brandon Thurston broadcasting live and on demand from Buffalo Newark where today is Sunday, August 21st, 2022.

0:12.0

We are joined here in the fourth week of the post-Vinsic Man era. Chris Gullos microphone is already rumbling and bumbling.

0:22.0

It's moved a little closer. That's all. We're good. We'll be good. It is. Yeah, it's a beautiful Sunday morning here after a rain in Buffalo overnight, which is great because my grapes. I didn't talk to you about the sprint in my grapes.

0:35.0

Thank you.

0:36.0

Are almost ready. Like, I know we have ready, ready, ready for what?

0:39.0

To be picked and eaten.

0:41.0

Oh, wow.

0:42.0

I'm growing conchore grapes and Niagara green grapes and Niagara green grapes.

0:46.0

Yes, and they both are species. Yeah, that's a type of grape. What is it in the land?

0:52.0

No idea.

0:55.0

But yeah, so it's a beautiful, beautiful end of the summer here is only a few weeks left in summer in Buffalo.

1:03.0

And my grapes are almost ready. I know we have a couple listeners that they want to know about the garden update.

1:09.0

We were discussing off air a potential business strategy around higher tier certainly garden updates will be a part of that.

1:18.0

For all the hard cores out there who are far down the funnel. So anyway, what do you want to talk about today? What should we talk about?

1:27.0

Yeah, so it's a jam packed edition. A couple big stories this week. Of course, the Q2 results for WWE are out and we'll have highlights from the press conference.

1:37.0

And the results that came out from that and kind of break down that a little bit further what that means for business with attendance and peacock.

1:45.0

Apparently, a WrestleMania.

1:48.0

39 Borka ticket sales record will get into that in a more detail. We will discuss the Wall Street Journal at finally reporting on the events with man Donald Trump connection with the $5 million.

2:01.0

G1 climax was a few days ago and a big story. There is no more NXT UK. It's NXT Europe next year. And there was a lot of releases that encompass that and we'll talk TV right to is the big 10 got a historic $1 billion deal.

2:17.0

Okay, so firstly, how can people get in on the conversation? They can actually click the little dollar sign under where they can ask a question and put any dollar amount you see fit.

2:27.0

We will ask your questions as they see fit throughout the conversation today.

2:32.0

Okay, so WWE had its Q2 earnings call on Tuesday after much anticipation and waiting about, was WWE going to get Vince McMahon's financial payments in order so they could update the unrequited payments to make them recorded payments.

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