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WWE Backlash in Lyon, France | POST x Wrestlenomics

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover all the latest stories including the WWE going to France for Backlash this weekend.

The two chat about the report that Comcast is preparing a massive bid for NBA rights, AEW Revolution grosses over $1 million in Greensboro, The Wrap has a scathing profile on Dwayne Johnson, we analyze the arguments regarding the NDA between Janel Grant and Vince McMahon, and VICE announces four-part series “Who Killed WCW?”

Plus, reporter Félix Gouty joins us to discuss WWE holding back-to-back shows in France this weekend.


Reading:

- Nearly Twenty Years of French Wrestling History Surrounds Backlash France

- AEW Revolution 2024 grossed $1 million in ticket sales, public records confirm

- NBC Prepares $2.5-Billion-a-Year Bid to Pluck NBA Rights From TNT

- Seven Bucks To Produce ‘Who Killed WCW?’ Docuseries For Vice TV

- ‘Red One’ Down: How Dwayne Johnson’s Tardiness Led to a $250 Million Runaway Production


Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” Ben Tramer”


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0:00.0

Brandon Thurston from Rouslonomics is up next and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post- Wrestling.

0:09.0

Thank you, Lynn. Good afternoon everyone.

0:12.0

But we can't ignore the math, okay?

0:15.0

We can't ignore the data.

0:18.0

Go on Google Trend type in your name, then type in mine.

0:22.0

You're a straight line. I'm a

0:23.8

I'm a pyramid.

0:24.8

I like the very direct question on that.

0:27.0

Television ratings, downward spiral,

0:30.0

fire rates, plummeting.

0:32.1

The time is now to turn the math around.

0:35.0

Hello everybody, it's John Pollack and Brandon Thurston with you live for another

0:46.7

edition of Pollock and Thurston and Brandon we got the answer to a very obvious

0:52.3

question why was CMpunk drafted ahead of Drew

0:54.7

McIntyre during Monday's draft as Phil Brooks himself said on live television?

0:58.8

It's simple wrestling economics. Did he say that? Oh, he did.

1:04.0

Are we going to have like a version two of that intro song then?

1:07.0

Because you know, I'm sure people are always pointing out to you that there is.

1:11.0

It has definitely, I feel we have carved out a specific area of the wrestling media lane

1:17.1

whenever something like wrestling economics is uttered in a promo people do think of us and future I will have to do a V2 of this intro at some

1:25.4

point because it's constantly updating itself I'm waiting for like MGF to come

1:29.5

back to AW and can cite maybe the the decline in live event viewership and maybe cite

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