WWE PLEs Moving to ESPN, Brock Lesnar Returns | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston react to the news that ESPN has secured WWE’s premium live event package in the U.S. beginning in 2026.
John & Brandon go over the details, what this means for the consumer, and specific factors to pay attention to.
They also cover WWE’s controversial decision to bring back Brock Lesnar after the former champion was named in the lawsuit filed by Janel Grant.
We will break down the allegations against Lesnar in the complaint, including whether he’s accused of committing a crime, and provide a comprehensive timeline of events related to the case. The episode also explores WWE’s decision to cancel post-PLE press conferences, coming just as Lesnar is reintroduced.
Also on the show:
- Paul Levesque and Cody Rhodes respond to questions about Vince McMahon
- Levesque’s visit to the White House
- Netflix viewership figures for WWE: Unreal
- SummerSlam attendance at MetLife Stadium
- AEW’s refusal to unseal redacted info in the Christopher Dispensa case
- TKO’s Q2 earnings call preview
- Update on Peacock’s subscriber growth
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a |
| 0:05.8 | raw, rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your |
| 0:10.7 | questions and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.8 | Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-rest. |
| 0:24.4 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.6 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.5 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.5 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. The reason |
| 0:39.5 | is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:42.6 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.5 | I've been told the metrics a little bit. |
| 0:47.4 | Probably five different times. I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.6 | There were respectable wrestling |
| 0:51.8 | journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:56.0 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.9 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.4 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.6 | Welcome everybody to Pollock and Thurstonston 2.0, the new era. |
| 1:13.9 | It's a new season. |
| 1:15.1 | It's a new season. |
| 1:16.1 | It's a premiere. |
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