WWE & Indiana’s Multi-PLE Deal, WCW’s sale in 2001 | POST x Wrestlenomics
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POST Wrestling
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston look at WWE’s partnership with the state of Indiana, and the demise of World Championship Wrestling.
Up first, we speak with Mickey Shuey of the Indiana Business Journal on the WWE’s announcement of bringing multiple events to the state including WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam.
Then, David Bixenspan of Between the Sheets returns to chat about how the sale of WCW to the WWF was covered on the final episode of VICE’s “Who Killed WCW?”
Plus: AEW Forbidden Door on Long Island this weekend, gate figure for Double or Nothing, the impact of the NHL on WWE’s TV numbers & more.
RELATED:
- WCW sale drama (Between the Sheets)
- The truth about Jamie Kellner canceling WCW (Babyface v. Heel)
- Former Turner Broadcasting chairman Jamie Kellner dies at 77 (POST Wrestling)
- Indianapolis on deck to host major WWE events (Indiana Business Journal)
- AEW Double or Nothing 2024 drew $582,204 gate (Wrestlenomics)
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” Ben Tramer”
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| 0:00.0 | Amazing! there's up to 50% off the most popular brands of prescription glasses and |
| 0:13.8 | sunglasses there's even up to 50% off hearing aids up to 50% off in the |
| 0:18.7 | optical center sale don't wait bring the whole family and make the most of it. |
| 0:26.0 | Sale offers can't be combined with other current offers. |
| 0:28.0 | See in store for T's and C's. |
| 0:32.0 | Brandon Thurston from Russellouslonomics is up next and we're going to follow Brandon with |
| 0:36.3 | John Pollack from post wrestling. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you're a |
| 0:48.0 | But we can't ignore the math okay? We can't ignore the data Go on Google trends type in your name |
| 0:51.0 | They type in mine. |
| 0:52.6 | You're a straight line. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm a pyramid. |
| 0:55.4 | I like the very direct question on that. |
| 0:57.6 | Television ratings, downward spiral, |
| 1:00.6 | fire rate, plummeting. |
| 1:02.8 | The time is now to turn the math around. |
| 1:07.0 | And here we are with the June 26th edition of Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:15.8 | I am John Pollock reporting to you from Toronto while Brandon Thurston is live |
| 1:20.6 | at the scene of tonight's double taping at the Key Bank Center as AEW presents, |
| 1:26.2 | Dynamite immediately followed by Galatian going into Forbidden Door. |
| 1:30.1 | How are you? |
| 1:31.1 | I'm good, how are you? |
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