WWE Ring Boy Lawsuit Continues: Judge Says Case Will Proceed to Discovery | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover the latest developments in the WWE Ring Boy lawsuit, as a judge rules that most of the plaintiffs’ claims will proceed to discovery.
They also discuss John Cena’s final match and the business impact it generated, along with Mick Foley publicly cutting ties with WWE over Donald Trump.
Topics this week include:
- Warner Bros. Discovery’s board is approving Netflix’s bid and rejecting Paramount
- Judge allows the WWE Ring Boy lawsuit to move forward on most claims
- John Cena’s final match and its business implications
- Mick Foley ends his relationship with WWE over Donald Trump
- Nick Khan set to be deposed in the WWE shareholder lawsuit
- Nielsen Gauge ratings for November
- WWE Raw on Netflix viewership
- WWE SmackDown and AEW Collision ratings analysis
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. |
| 0:17.7 | Brandon Thurston from Wrestlingomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle. |
| 0:24.3 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.5 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.4 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.4 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.6 | The reason is simple wrestling |
| 0:41.0 | economics. I've been |
| 0:42.8 | told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.4 | I've been told the metrics a little bit. |
| 0:47.3 | Probably five different times. I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.5 | There were respectable |
| 0:50.7 | wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:55.9 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.9 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.3 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:09.4 | Welcome to Pollock and Thurston, your co-production of Post Wrestling and Russellnomics. |
| 1:15.4 | Here we are on Wednesday, December the 17th. |
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