WWE Moves WrestleMania to Saudi Arabia | Pollock & Thurston

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover a massive week of news in wrestling, MMA, and sports media. The main story is WWE announcing that WrestleMania will be held in Saudi Arabia, with U.K. journalist Robert Jackman joining the show to break down the logistics and impact of the move.

We also dive into:

Independent promoters reacting to WWE’s Saudi Arabia strategy
ESPN’s media call ahead of Wrestlepalooza
Mark Shapiro’s comments at the Goldman Sachs Conference
TKO announcing $1 billion in share repurchases
Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford viewership numbers on Netflix
Dana White sparring with the media
Paramount & Skydance preparing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
CMLL Aniversario card streaming on Triller TV
Legal updates across the industry

#UFC #WWE #AEW #TKO #MMA #ProWrestling #CombatSports

Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer

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0:00.0	This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a raw,
0:06.3	rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions
0:11.1	and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door.
0:17.9	Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle.
0:24.6	Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins.
0:28.7	Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here.
0:31.6	All I do is simply put the math in my favor.
0:35.6	We agree that Brandon and John do good work.
0:38.8	The reason is simple wrestling
0:41.2	economics. I've been
0:43.1	told the Netflix numbers.
0:45.6	I've been told the metrics a little bit
0:47.5	probably five different times. I still don't get it.
0:49.8	There were respectable
0:51.0	wrestling journalists who needed answers.
0:54.0	Thank you very much, members of the media.
0:56.1	I hope you all go to hell.
0:58.1	How about we pop a number right here, right now?
1:06.6	A whole part of the show, ma'am.
1:10.6	Welcome to Pollock and Thurston for Wednesday, September the 17th, as we go into a big head-to-head weekend as the WWE goes up against college football.
1:22.8	I am John Pollock from Post Wrestling, joined by Russellnomick' own Brandon Thurston, the man who is breaking news and writing opinion pieces at a feverish clip that you can find all across the wrestling world.
1:38.2	How are you, Brandon?
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